Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1888-02-09

Thursday, February 8. 1885
Thousands of sacks of potatoe
are being brought from ROTTERDAM
to Chicago, which goes to sho'
That the later industry in this cou1
try is tagging. A tariff on later
must come-Dallas News.
Probably the trainers of the tart
laws thought that a moist sea pas
sage would rot them and destro
competition, and render protectio,
to the infant industry of 'tater rails
ing unnecessary. But they don
seem to rot 'erd- bit
lSee the joke p
SPEAKING of the tariff, Honest
John Sherman says that it is q
question between the diversified in
,dustries and that of a single (agri
oulturaD interest, with few black
smith and carpenter shops scattered
through the country" According
to this, the farmers with few scat
tering blacksmiths and carpenters
are Insignificant, trifing and incon-
siderable, and are not to be taken
Snto calculation in considering the
tariff. 1t is to be hoped that the
farmers, blacksmiths and carpenters
of Ohio will remember this champi-
on of the infant industries and cap
italistic monopolies at the polls.
SENATOR KENNA of West Virginia,
who is the youngest member in the
United States senate, made telling
speech on Friday in reply to "Hon-
est John Sherman's attack on the
presidents message. He drew the
mask boldly from his face and showed
up his duplicity and inconsistency,
not only on the tariff, but the hypoc-
Hisy of his plea for the laboring men,
by the record, which shows that he
was the author of the law allowing
pauper labor to be imported to this
country from Europe; that he oppos-
ed the law restricting Chinese i'm
migration, and that when he found
that he could not defeat it he made
a strong compromise plea for five
years limitation.
tHoNEsT' JoHN SHERMAN in 1881
said: Anything that viii beat
down that party (the democratic
party and build up our own is JUS
Si6able in morals and in law" 1t is
this way of thinking among other
leaders of it probably that has
made of that party. a putrid corpse
smelling rank to high heaven with
ITS rottenness. 1t is this way Of !
thinking that caused violence to be
done to the constitution, every
form of law to be disregarded, and
Ehe best men of the South to be dis
franchised and become the victims
of the hordes Of carpet-baggers and
in the effort to build up
Hhe republican party in this section
during reconstruction.
The condition of the congested
treasury, which has put the protec-
tionists on the defensive and driven
them to sore extremity in devising
ways and means to get rid of the
surplus, has given an impetus to in
7ventive genius and has developed
Fertility of resource simply wonder
ful. An Illinois congressman pro-
poses that good, big slice of the
surplus be appropriated to construct
ing air-ships for the purpose of
chasing the condor over the Andes,
and the st. Louis Post Dispatch
suggests that as our tariff and navi-
CATION laws have about driven the
American flag from the ocean, he
probably supposes that we might
manage to keep it afoat in the vast
empyrean above the reach of compe-
Ation from ''pauper labor"
SHOULD Blaine receive the repub-
Acan nomination again his two vol
umes of Twenty Years in Congress"
ought to furnish excellent campaign
literature to show up his duplicity,
artful lying and hypocritical cant.
The first volume, written before the
election of 1884 and intended as
bid for the votes of one or two
Southern states, speaks in laudato-
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