Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-09-19
TALKS ON THE TARIFF.

An excellent argument for protect
i've policy as specially adapted to the
United States occurs in Homer P. Dib-
dell's prize essay, which received the
first prize of $3.50 awarded by the Amer
lean Protective Tariff League for the
best essay by senior students of colleges
in the United Stotes. Mr.. DibdelPs
college is the University of Indiana
His special American argument is as
follows:
"With a perfect free trade" says
Cunningham, Growth of English In
dustry and Commerce." D. 4l0), sit
would probably be impossible for any
country to refrain from specializing,
while the country that was economically
strongest would certainly gain az the
expense of others, as it would have the
advantage in all the bargains of inter
national trade" That is, the country
which in some one or several branches
of production excelled all other cOun-
tries would in these gain over those
countries which were not favored with
special facilities of production. Eng
land, for instance, has facilities in many
lines of production for the greatest man.
ufacturing nation on the globe. She
can afford to sacrifice her other indus
tries to this. The United States has no
one industry, or branch of industry, suf-
ficiently more favored than that same
industry in other countries on which to
found powerful industrial nation, al
though for general development of all
her industries she has most favorable
conditions.
'"The conditions in England and the
United States are quite different, and
this difference suggests for each an in
dustrial policy unlike that of the other.
The United States produces the greater
part of her raw materials of manufae-
ture and somewhat more of food prod
ucts than she uses. The production of
raw materials with her is not a minor,
but an important industry. The raw
materials which we do not produce, and
which do not displace our American
products, should be admitted free"
THE ONLY HEN IN GEORGIA.
From the Warren Tribune
General Gibson rarely misses chance
to tell how the soldiers, in the first year
or two of the war, were forced to respect
Rebel property-ev Rebel chickens
and to live on stale Government rations
in land of fatneSs. He will never get
over the idea that that was not the way
to put down the Rebellion, and that no
success worth counting was achieved
until Rebel chickens and fence rails be-
came the common property of the SOL
diers. At Vienna the other day he told
with indignation of seeing after the bat
tie of Shiloh, eOlored man who bore
a Union Generals guaranty of his free
dom for services rendered our cause,
stripped of that guaranty, and, in the
presence of twenty thousand soldiers,
sent back to his master in Alabama
But the humorous side of the situation
seems to have made upon the old Gen
eral an impression as strong as the seri-
)us side. He says that down in Ala
1ama, after the country had been pick
ID pretty nearly bare of everything eat
lble, a citizen came to him, took him
toluCy GllC oIIlCGCSj
parted to him the information that he
lad a hen-probabfy the only one left
n the State sitting upon seven eggs,
md that said hen and eggs were in i'm
ninent danger of destruction, with con-
so far as edible. by the forces
lnder Gibson's command. And Gener-
j Gibson had said to him, 'sSir, that hen
nd those eggs shall be protected 1
will throw about them the whole power
# the American Union" And he put
guard over them and in due time six
f the eggs had Matched out, and the
en- and six small chickens had been left
o preserve the race of hens in Alabama
And when L went down there year or
wO ago." said General Gibson, 81 found
he whole country full of chickens, and
very one of them seemed to recognize
lie and greet me as his preserver, if not
is creator" ST