The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-03-17
NASBY ELUOIDATES THE TARIFF

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Stait of Kentucky, December IL,
ISS7.-Yisterday reserved the fol-
lerin dispatch
WASHINGTON, December II, 1887.
To tile p. III at tile Cross Roads -
In the interest uy Civil Service Re-
form the appointees NV the President
are expected to see that his utter
ances are endorsed. See to this p.
d. q. LAMONT.
A wink is ez good ez a nod to
blind hoss, and l immejitly called
meetin NV the dimocrisy at the old
meetin-house, and then set to work
reedin the message of His Eggslency,
and studying the pints which /
wanted to elaborate. l alluz like to
be prepared so ez to be effective. |
hate eoin off half-cocked.
The pint which struck me with the
greatest force wuz the assershun that
the present inikitus tariff forst the
opprest and sufferin people to pay
for goods above wat they shood, iist
the amount NV tariff levied, wich levy
went to build up oppressive monop-
olies; wlch is to say that on every
dollars wuth Nv English goods wich
we bot, we paid, adishnel to the
dollar, 40 or whatever per cent. the
inikitus tariff imposed. Eff it wuz
40 per cent, we paid for the dollars
wuth sI.4o, and ef so per cent, a
dollar and half, and so ON.
Ez teach best by illustrashen, the
mint | got this fact fixed in my
mind l preceded to arrange my illus
trashen.
hev Bustid, afore now, by not
bein fully prepared.
closed up the Office and stepped
out to Bascom' S to get a nip to stiddy
my mind which | took, paying him
for it. | am paying cash halt the
time now for my drinks, and actilly
paying suthin (ez little as possible),
on old account. Steppin out into
the street, who should l see comm
/
out NV Oppenheimer's clothing store
but Sim Gavitt, nigger which be-
longed to Squire Gavitt afore he wuz
robbed of him by Linkin, and wich
hez the gineral cast NV the Gavitt
feechers so mush so ez to produce
coolnis betwixt the old Square and
his wife yeers ago. Sim WAS drest
from top to toe in an enti moo SCOT
Nv cloze, hevin his old ones done up
very neetly in paper which he
kerried in his hand.
A ice struck me to wunst.
Sim" said |, would dollar in
doose you to cum to a meetin to-
night and wear them cloze?'
'Is you to speak?" he asked.
''Sartin," said |.
ga dollars purity cheap-make it
a dollar'n 'alf and it's a 60"
"And you will git up and come
torried and be talked at, when l call
yoo?"
YES
"Its go. Be on hand early,
ware them cloze."
''All rite, boss"
| The evening come, the horn was
footed, and the dimocrisy filed out
Nv Bascom's and filled the house to
overtlowing. red the message to
EN-, and seezin upon tae central iieer
in it that the consoomer wuz taxed
to fill the pockets NV the blotid
manoofactoorer, worked EN- I'D to a
fit NV desperashen, which WIZ singler
ez the cloze on the entire seekshun
Nv the dimerkractic party in that
meetln-house woodent hev invoiced
at that mint fifty dollars. However,
| have notist that the man whose sole
possesbun is a yaller dog, and whose
wife takes in washin to support him,
is the heftiest complainer wv the bur.
dens NV taxashen. | myself has dun
suthin toward settlin the nashnel
debt.
The time fur ny illustrashen wich
wuz to clench things he'd come 81
wish to make a practicle illustra-
shen," | sed. Il see Simeon Gavitt
in the awjence. with a moo SCOT Of
clotze on. Will Simeon step forred?'
Sim walked up, rather embarrassed
at being the best drest man in the
room.
'Yoo notis this suit of cloze, my
friends. | amt Just shoor wat the
tariff is on woolen goods, buttons,
theread and sich, but | will presoon
that it averages 90 per cent. EST.
matin the home valyoo NV the goods
at say $50, my friend Simeon wu1
: compelled to add to that SII. which
: hez run up the cost of the cloze
r maxim and all, to suthin like S32, the
/ difference between the cost to hin
f under the present infamous system
: and wat it wood be eff that SCOT hac
/ been admitted free of dooty, bein-'
! "Praps dat's so boss" spoke W
the cussid nigger, "de tariff, ez yol
S call it, may hev cost me all dat, bu
' the tack is ! only paid $40. so fur tn,
: entire outhtw
"Wat!" ejackilatid |.