The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-02-16
WHAT BILL ARP SAYS
ABOUT FREE TRADE AND INTER-
NAL REVENUE.

Greek Answer to Knotty Questions.
You may talk about your broad
philosophy that knows no south, no
east, no west, but it is all talk. 1t
pretends to be eagle, but it is buzzard
and | always suspect man that talks
that way. A man is for himself and
his family first, his county next, and
then his State. His love weakens as
it spreads. We admire Mr.. Car
Isle and Mr.. Randall, and are sorry
they are so wide apart, but they have
got to yield some of their prejudices
for the sake of harmony. But we
hope they will make no such com
promises as New England wants-free
wool, but high protection on every
thing they make out of wool. That is
all very fine for them, but what will
Ohio and California and Texas cay to
it? While it would bring wool down
from twenty cents to twelve it would
not cl eapen our clothes nor our car
pets Who will raise sheep then?
Bu [ reckon don't know anything
about IT, can read all about this
tariff business until my head gets cad
dledy as ODE says. Here was the
duty n quisiine that raised such a
big row SIX Years ago, and Powers and
Weig .tman who were making it all,
sold i, for three dollars and fifty cents
an ounce and they told Congress that
if the protection was taken off they
would be ruined. Nevertheless it
was taken off and quinine dropped to
seventy-five cents an onnce and Pow
ers & Weightman built more factories
and bigger factories and their trade
increased from one million ounces a
year to six millions. The low price
placed quinine in reach of the poor
all over the nation.
| So i does not follow that removing
the duty will ruin sny business.
But on the other hand, look at cof-
fee and tea. There was duty that
brought us in a revenue of millions,
but the people howled for cheaper cof-
fee, and the revenue was taken off and
coffee and tea went right up and up
and up, and is so high now poor
man can hardly afford to drink it.
How is that? Why didn't coffee and
tea come down? / asked one of our
statesmen that question and he looked
wise and solemn and whispered
"damfno," which / didn't understand
and don't yet And that is about al
the answer l get when l get tangled
up on this tariff business and | go tc
the wise men with my troubles-dam
Ifno-damfno-Ir reckon its Greek, OF
Latin or Italian and would explain
things if 1 understood it.
But something must be done. Un
Gle Sam is getting too rich off of his
own people and that brings up the
whiskey business. 1 don't reckon
that anybody wants free whiskey, b ii
most every body wants the tax col
lected some other way. I'll bet the
Georgia legislature will find way tc
collect one dollar on every gallon tha
is made and consumed within he
borders; and they will have it in
spected too, so as to insure pure ar
ticle. We inspect guano and kero
sene oil, and why not whiskey? If
man will drink let him not have t.
drink poison. As Sam Jones says
if man has made up his mind to g
to the devil, let him 90 as decently a
possible. He needn't run his horse t
death ou the road, but let him tro
awhile, and pace awhile, and wall
awhile and sometimes stop under the
shade of a tree and rest.
This fact is, our people would rathe
collect the whiskey tax and pay it al
over to Uncle Sam than have it col
lected as it is now. Suppose Illinoi
can make it cheaper than Georgia
then Georgia wouldn't make it al
and we world get big revenue ou
of Illinois whiskey. TheIe is nothing
wrong about this, Is there? Suppos
Bart w county wouldn't allow 1t to b
! mad or sold within her limits, who's
/ business is that but ours? This whis
, key r~affic has settled down to locs
: ques i.nl ard now let congress pass
law 4uthortzi-g every community
J regulate or tax or abolish as it sees Fl
1000 years ago old Jonadab, the so
/ Rechab started local option an
/. made law and said "From this da
, and forever neither will | nor m
l household nor my descendants drin
l and wine or strong drink" and the
: kept the law three hundred years, an
: were still keeping it when last hear
Y from, and 'the Lord blessed them an
:. said There shall not fail man frol
t the house of Rechab to stand bef,r
3 me forever y
Y But why reduce the tariff on suga
i 1t is cheap enough now. Every pol
$ tician Is in favor of crippling or III
J settling the industries of the countr
S Both of the great parties declared th
e in their platforms. Then, let sug,
+ and rice alone, and don't cut t.
v heavy on wool. That is about all Il
d protection the farmers have got, ar
IS they have little enough. We don
It grow coffee nor tea, and why not pl
g the tax on again, and see if they won
s go down?
e Tax the fnery heavy-as heavy
o it will bear-the silks and >atins al
d fine carriages, and velvet carpets ar
It oil paintings and Jewelry and chan
If pagne and pate de fol gras' al
'e 'mardi gras' and scylla and charybd
If and every other fool thing that t
e poor do not need and can't buy. Ts
y the incomes of the rich and NAL
d their surplus wealth support the go
ernment, whether the Lord has bles