The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-09-26

ator's advice and ''abandsa the farms
that their fathers cleared up out OF tho
wilderness and move 70 the towns and
90 TO manufacturing--go into some bust.
ness IN which they will be- protected in
stead Of being robbed" Mr.. sherman
tries 20 even things up by show ng thas
the city people are thriving and that
real estate in Cincinnati and Cleveland
has advanced rapidly. Then he brings
forward the well wCrn homo r'arket
theory, and suggests that the farm lands
in the neigh borhood Of manufacturing
ccnters have not deprecated
| Here IL Is that Mr.. Smith gets in his
work with great effect lie takes Wag.
ner County, . rich grcultural county.
close TO Canton and Mansfield. near 10
Cleveland and convenient to Pittsburgh.
! traversed by one OF the greatest rais
roads in the country. and yet right In
this county the recent valuation Of
farm lands show falling of OF nearly
s.. 00O. 600. Mr. sherman crawls out
Of an exceedingly small hole.
when hc tries to explain this
beautiful situation. by saying that there
is no large town actually within the
county. This Is new limitation upon
the home mar yet theory IL Is no long
or enough to be near big town; you
must be In the Same county after
awhile the same township with Il
New York City has no influence on
Brooklyn. and jersey City might as
well be in the SDudan.
But Mr. Smit ia tries IL again. Butler
County is almost within speaking dis
lance o. Cincinnati and Dayton; within
its own borders il has the stirring man
ufacturing towns Of Hamilton and Mid
dlctown. in both OF which towns real
estate has largely increased in value
during the last ten years The county Is
amply supplied with railroads. IL ia in
the great Miami valley. which is cele-
brated for its beauty AMI fertility. and
yet tho farming lands have fallen in
value, as shown by the Official valuations.
81. 063, 36- between 1850 and 1890 In tho
very township in which Middletown is
situated lands have deprecated to tho
extent Of sos. 200; and in the township
in which Hamilton is situated they
have deprecated to the extent OF $780,
$50.
So it is with every township in the
county.
The city Of Columbus. with a popula-
ton close on to 100000. Is the county
seat Of Franklin County. This county
II one OF the greatest corn-producing
counties OF the State. Columbus is an
important manufacturing and railroad
center and II is prosperous. substan-
tial, rapidly growing and wealthy city
But here. too. farm lands are worth less
by Si.lSs. 1856 than they were ten years
ago II does seem that Mr. smith has
made out his Ease; and tits likely that he
is speaking with great moderation when
he says:
When the IA r~p rs ARE published IL tho
vaiuat on ~ farm lansi-. IN prot hilty -
that |. v i'll D. f,,.ni that. Nv III Judgment
Of nearly no, sworn ON err. q ere has been
dsprc' iati"n in vsIu. II farm Ian Is of
more than SOl.COp.o0t
The truth i that grasshoppers, pota-
to-bugs, drought, RI ms. cyclones, frosts.
billiards and hay-fork swindlers. all
combined are not as disastrous in their
effects upon the farmer % is that sys-
tenn by which he has so long been hum
bugged, and which is called Protection
Knives and SworsIs~
There are some instructive things
by an inspection Of the cutlery
paragraph OF the metal schedule OF the
Tariff bill now in the Senate. Tho
duty. under the existing law. on pocket
knives OF all kinds is so per cent That
would seem to be high enough. but il
IS not as the following schedule OF the
new duties will show:
All kinds Of pocket and pen knives,
rrascrs. etc. valued At 80 cents and un.
der dozen-duty, u cents dozen and
80 per cent; valued az 80 cents TO $3.50
4 dozen-duty. 30 cents dozen and
30 per cent; valued at s1.50 to So 90 q
lozen-duty. 81 a dozen and 50 per cent;
valued az over S. a dozen-duty, s. =
iozcn and 30 per cent
Twelve cents dozen on knives worth
70 cents Is cqusva.ent TO a duty OF -
per cent. which. added to the so per
,cnt. raises the tariff tax on the cheap
st knives to "A per cent at the least
Knives worth 81 dozen are taxed 100
Der cent. and so through the schedule.
These things arc necessarics. and they
ire. for the most part used for pacific
md praiscworthy purposes
The next item in this paragraph in
ludes swords, sword blades and side
rms On these articles the duty OF IS
,er cent remains the same. very
beautiful poem. written BY James Shir-
cy. has this line:
come men with swords may reap their ned:
But the American farmers do not. ID
5 believed. belong to that class. Many
i them would not know what to dowlth
sword II they had one. So as they
lon't buy swords 70 any great extent. IL
vas useless to advance the duty. II il
we're put too high, the farmer would
amply swear of on swords
KNIVES, however. he must have; hence
up goes the duty.
Harr Nerve.
Mr.. Whitclaw Reid, our Minister 60