Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-02-14
TALKS ON THE TARIFF.

NIueS al INSTRUCTIVE Carlu Calk this
morning:
D In reading during the late canvass
{ the article of ''Ingenor' on the cost of
buying abroad it brought very forcibly
to my mind what L witnessed in the
: State of Mississippi about the years
1885, 1886 and 1887. Cotton was sell
ing there from Is to Is cents. Negroes
| and Kentucky mules were in great de-
mand at high prices. Every acre of
cleared land was brought into requisi-
ton for the purpose of planting cotton,
; even to the taking down of garden
fences. Cotton being king at that time,
the putting in of corn was deemed of
little or no account, as it could be
bought, as they said, from the Hoosiers,
who came in those days from the coun-
try in their broad horns (1at boats laden
with corn and every manner of truck.
The following spring came with no corn
in their cribs. A financial panic was on
at about the same time, brought about
by Gen. Jackson's removal of the depos-
its from the United States banks and
his ''specie circular" The "HOosiers'
came with the Mississippi flood, as was
their custom, with their flats and barges
loaded down almost to sinking condi-
/ ton with corn and all manner of pro-
visions. To their joyful surprise, they
/ found the slow country" almost reduced
to corn famine. Wherever they land
ed their boats the planters and people
jumped on board, expecting to buy, as
heretofore, by giving their bills on their
commission merchants in New Orleans.
NO." said the boatmen. Drafts used
to be good before Jackson removed the
deposits, but not now." "But," said
the terror-stricken planter, 'what do you
ask for your corn, anyhow?' "Three
dollars barl in the ear-caSh," was the
oft-repeated reply, barrel of corn in
the ear being equal to bushel shelled.
What with Gen. Jackson's financial pol
icy and failure of majority of the
people in Mississippi to raise their own
corn, believing it cheaper to buy every
thing that they eat or used than to raise
their own, the poor people literally found
themselves between the upper and the
neither milestone.
The planters, and whoever had credit,
had to go to New Orleans and pledge
their growing crops, and, in many cases,
their plantations for just money enough
to feed their negroes and mules for the
time they were raising their crops. Be
fore the season ended cotton fell to and
10 cents, so that it was estimated that it
took the entire crop of cotton that year
to pay for the corn and provisions that
had been consumed in raising it.
Fortunately for the State, there were
some old conservative Wings there who
did not believe that it was cheap to
raise cotton only and buy corn and pork.
Some of those. planters occur to my mind
at this time. Among them Hon. VIM.
Eggleston of "Wanalaw" plantation,
Holmes county; Gen. 1. A. Quitman,
Charles H. Marshall and John A Bing-
ham of Natchez and Others Those gen
tlemen-as did others that constituted
the Whig party there-believed in and
followed the teachings of Daniel Web
ster, Henry Clay, John J. Crittenden of
Bell of Tennessee andSargeant
S. Prentiss of Mississippi, that it was
cheaper to raise your own than to buy
of strangers"
Let me here say word in honor of
the gentlemen 1 have named, as well as
the Whig party of Mississippi. They
were opposed to the Reputation of the
Union and Planters bank bonds, which
was advocated and carried, to the ever
lasting dishOnOr of the State, by the
Democratic party of the State, headed
by Jefferson Davis and Alex. G.. McNutt,
the then Governor of the State. All
honor, say, to such men as Eggleston,
Quitman and Marshall and the old Wing
party of Mississippi. l hope and trust
some day, not far distant, when some
citizen of Mississippi, if not the people
will lift at least the one
million of the bonds left by the philan-
-hrOpist, George Peabody, for the bene-
it and education of the children of the
State.
Now to return to my subject. 1 leave
t to your readers to apply what l have
written respecting ''the cost of buying
abroad corn at So per bushel, or raising
t, not to exceed 25 cents per buShel, at
home. Some may say, "buying manu-
'actured goods from abroad is a differ
mt thing" Not at all. Let free trade
,ome in and break up our industries,
hen see whether or not prices would not
ule very much as did the price of corn
when the people in Mississippi thought
t better to buy corn than raise it.
CoNGRESS has already voted for the
urrent Treasury year ending June 3Oth
he immense sum of S79, ,173,000 for pen
ions and yet Pension Commissioner
Black says that at least SSOOO,OOO more
re needed. Up to June 80, 1888, there
.ad hppO Maid in DRuSiOuS since 1881
'9S3.0S6, ,444, which added to the above
umS makes the amount that will be paid
o pensioners at the end of the fiscal year
II 1O50,OOOO0. Yet some people main
ain that Republics are ungrateful and
thers sigh for another war.
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ONO produced about as much pig iron
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nd some other leading iron States lost
round We can show Alabama and
ennessee thing or two yet in iron
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