Nevada County picayune., 1888-02-01

fifty cents ton. Reduce that du- ty 10 three dollars and Birm;ng- ham could still make money. She says she can. Her furnaces wouldn't stop, nor wages he re- duced but little, and that little would be more than compensated when the laborer could buy his hat and his blankets aud his wooden shirt and his coat and his shoes and his mOlasses cheaper than he did before. Fake a slice ali round on the utcesSaricS of life, and if need br put it on the luxnries. The case of the sugar planter Is the hardest of all. for IL is buckle and tongue with him now. Sugar Is cheap, very cheap, fourteen pounds to the dollar. and molasscs is cheap, and yet the government collected last year fifty six million of dollars from the duty on impor- ted sugar and molasses. Just think of it. Twice as much as was col, lected on iron and steel, and ten times as much as was collected on wool and vet there are forty
 nine million people bowling for cheaper sugar. Let any man put the question to himself Suppose yon had your all invested ill a su- gar plantation and you could just barely live al the present low prl- ces, what would you think of a government that would crush you. What would you think of your member of congress who voted for such a measure. And right there Is the rub. The members of congress are going to stand by their cOnStituents-and they should. It's going to be polit cal long suffering work to harmon. ize on any bill. especially on the eve of another presidential elec- ton. Mir. Cleveland has shown more disregard of his personal in- terests than any president since the days Ot Andrew Jackson. New York is the pivotal state, the key as it were. and New York is for protection, and, MT. Cleveland might have judged aud bridged over this question antil the next election, but he won't fudge about anything. He is no dodger, and he will be re elected by the biggest mugwump party that ever was known. He will loose lots of high tariff democrats, but he will gain more from those republicans who are for tariff reform. The masses of the American people are on the tree trade line, for the masses are farmers and others who get no protection, and they are very jeal. ous of those who do, A farmer said to me the other day: "Why dou't Uncle sam pay me ten dol lars bounty on every bale of cotton l raise? He pays Joe Brown six dollars and a half on every ton of pig iron, and Pm just as good as Joe Brown.
 There is 40 sentiment about trade. The time was when there was il thriving wagonship at every cross road in the country. but our people had no internal protection against the north, and so north ern wagons came down and dried up these humble shops, and the workmen had 10 quit and try some other business. If a southern far. mer can buy d northern wagon tor sixty dollars he wont give his near est ueighbor sixty five. Our wives will buy smugsled lace or linen from an old Irish women for half the regular price if they can get it. Heard a hardware merchant ask a farmer if he wanted bull tongue blow for less than ten cents, and the farmer said: ''l es, 1 want it for a nickle if l can get it." Some Jews have just come to our town with d big lot of clothing that they say they got from a fire and the folks are just tiocking there to get a forty dollar coat for a dollar and a half. Our regular merchants are mad about it and want protection from all such in- terloperS, but they can't get ir.
 Everybody wants protection for himselfand his family. It Is same old prayer: "Oh, Lord, bless me and my wife, my son John and his wifc-us four an no more."
 Then there is the question about whatto do with this internal infer.