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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-04-04
THE FARMERS TARIFF.

Exports and Imports OF Fnfm Produce
Mckinley Duties to Humbug fatmsrs-
Enormous Exports Make Duties on Farm:
Gfodscts Worthless-Figures For Farm
ers Who Thhk.
The pretense that our farmers derive
any substantial benefit from the duties
on farm products is one of those cheap
est tricks of the protectionists. A few
cold facts and figures will expose the
shallowncss Of this attempt to gull the
farmers.
Uncle Jerry RuslS, the secretary Of
agriculture, applauded the increase of
the duties on farm products. lie re-
ferred to the incredsed prices prevail
ing for many farm products, and was so
simple as to claim that the Mckinley
duties had something to do with raising
prices. Pointing to these higher prices,
he said with confident simplicity: at
is impossible not to see the beneficial
influence of the tariff protection award
ed the farmer under the present law.
lie also professed to see that the "wise,
economic legislation already secured
hold out still brighter promise for the
future"
But how can any possible duties on
farm products help the farmer? We
send out of the country every year mill
lions of dollars worth of those products
over and above what we import. How
can duties In such cases affect the price
of the home product? Do the Mckin-
leyites take the farmer to be such fool
as not to be able to draw this evident
conclusion from the treasury reports of
our trade?
The farmer needs only to know what
Is In those reports, needs only to know
the figures showing our imports and
exports of farm produce in order to un-
derstand what an ill-disguised humbug
McKinley's so-called farmers tariff is.
Here is statement of our imports
and exports of the products for the tis-
cal year ended June 80, 1890, together
with the old duty and the Mckinley
duty in each:
Bar,ey-0ld duty 10 cents a bushel,
Mckinley duty 80 cents: imports, H.
$4,000 bushels; exports, 100000
bushels. -....
Corn--0ld duty 10 cents, Mckinley
duty Is cents; imports, 1895 bushels;
exports, lO1, 900, 900 bushels.
Oats-Old duty 10 cents, Mckinley
duty Is cents; imports, $1,000 bushels;
exports, IL, 900. 900 bushels.
Oat Meal-Old duty half cent per
pound, Mckinley duty cent per pound;
imports, 1860, 900 pounds; exports, 25,-
AGO, 900 pounds.
Wheat-Old duty 90 cents a bushel,
Mckinley duty 90 cents a bushel i'm
ports, $4,000 bushels; exports, 5+3sO,-
900 bushtls,
Fiour--Old duty 20 per cent, Mckin-
ley duty 20 per cent, imports, l,2l9
barrels exports, t2,2Si, 600 barrels.
Hsy-0ld duty 50 per ton, Mckinley
duty 81; imports, $4,000 tons; exports,
$4,000 tons,
Hops-Old duty 8 cents per pound,
Mckinley duty Is cents; imports, $780,
900 pounds; exports, 7,54o,0o0 pou'ids
lin 1880, imports, 100000 pounds; sx'
ports, 1s,5OO, 900 pounds)
Potatoes-Old duty 10 cents per bush.
Ell, Mckinley duty 25 cents; imports,
S,415,0OO bushels; exports, 100000
bushels. Dh e7
Apples-Old duty none, Mckinley
duty % cents per bushel, Imports, none
reported; exports, 453, barrels.
Dried apples-Old duty none, McKin
ley duty . cents u pound; imports, none
reported; exports, so,s0o, oOn pounds
Butter .Qid duty cents ~, poynd
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-04-04
A NEW FLORIDA INDUSTRY.


lhht STATE fan Bcaf SucatHn in the Pro-
duction of sisal Grass.
1t is stated by Special Agent Dodge,
of the agricultural department, that
Florida will in a short time be able to
furnish sisal grass in sufficient quanti-
ties to supply the American DEMAND
In the southern part Of Florida great
Interest is being taken IN the recent dis,
covery that the native sisal grass grown
there is of the same quality as that
grown in Eucatan. That grown in Yu.
catan is the kind now used to manufac.
ture binding Irvine, and that country
supplies the American market The
agricultural department is investigating
the matters and the samples secured from
Florida produce in some respects better
twiDc and rope than the foreign variety.
The Florida product is much easier to
hhhdle, and II is believed that with tho
same cultivation given the plant as in
Yucatan ii will soon prove an important
and profitable industry. The same
variety of this grass is grown in the
neigh hboring Bahama Islands, and the
prepared fiber of the wild plants was
recently sent to London and brought
higher price in the open market than
the Yueatan plant in the same stage Of
manufacture, The secretary of agri-
culture is very enthusiastic over the
matter, aud the southern Florida plant.
ers propose to experiment with tho
new industry
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-04-04
THE EUROPEAN PLAGUE
Alarming Spread of tho Dread Dis
ease La Grippe Everywhere.


Bechhse of tho grip which prcymis
TO an alarming extent at Chicago, the
aeath rate is increasing and HE under
takers and coffin manufactI.ers have
hil they can do to keep i. with tho
rush OF business, The department of
health was notified of S04 deaths with.
IN the city limits last week. This is
about lOOmore than during any one week
OF the grip epidemic year ago. But this
weeks mortality will disclose n worse
condition of the public health If tho
second half corresponds with the first
half of the weeks death roll. La
grippe is epidemic in Indianapolis.
Ind, and the disease is more yirulept
than last season Several hundred
cases are rehagtcd and among the dan.
gerQusly u ssN Srof Ii. y. Worries, sunsr
intendepF Sf public instructions. Tho
disease is also prevalent in DUBUQUE,
Ia, and il is estimated that oOs
eases exist in that city, Maiiy deaths
have occurred. La grippe IS cpi:
demic in Lima, o., there being 4 large
number Of cases, several of whom ard
in a most alarming condition. Within
the past twenty-four hours no less than
half a doze.l men and women have been
stricken with the strange malaay whils
about their homes or on the street,
some Of them remaining unconscious
for hours. Several days AGO Nelson
Shade, prominent business man,
went up to Chicago ON business,
and Thursday his family was sum.
moncd to his bedside by TELEGRAM
that he was dYing from la grippe Ac.
cording TO Dir, Nagle of the New York
health department, there were two
deaths from la grippe during the last
twenty -four hours. This makes nine
deaths bf This nature reported during
tie present week. Mr.. Edison said that
II the present weather continues III,
grip will soon be thing of the past,
La grippe is also attacking cattle,
horses and other domestic animals in
some parts of the country.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-04-04
CARPET PRICES.

ssloKinley Prices" still Prevail For Brus-
sells Carpets -McKinIey's Duty on Wool
the Csuse-A Piece of stupid Protsc-
tioR.
The protedtioTIist papers have recently
been trying to make II appear that no
prices have been raised by the McKin.
ley tariff law. They even claim that
the 'free trade papers" have abandoned
the cry of Mckinley prices" and thus
practically confessed that the whole
thing was from the first a humbug,
gotten up last fall to influence the cleo
ton.
Whatever the 'free trade papers" may
leave unsaid, however, the trade papers
are supplying. These journals are de-
Voted Go business and not 70 politics,
but titey still print facts which show
that Mckinley prices" have not yet
disappeared. Ono of these journals, the
New York Carpet and Upholstery Trade
Review, has recently had something to
say Sn the subject of the increased
prices of Brussels carpets. This paper
represents the interest Of American
carpet manufacturers and as such iss1D
supporter of protection. What II says
therefore is free from the suspicion OF
being i''n the interest of foreign manu-
facturers'' or as being "an attempt to
break down Americafi Industries.
Here is what the Review saysi
Brussels manufacturers have been as brn
as rock on prices TINS season, ior ,he rea. faa
n huiira.s na' prsers n NAV @ tbnh the advance on
Brussels Is abnormal but such is not the
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-04-04
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The Latest Freak of MckinleyisIn.

The copyright law, which was passed
by congress just before adjournment.
contains one provision more extreme in
the line of protection than anything in
the wild measure known as the McKin-
ley tariff law.
In the tariff law only two things are
absolutely prohibited from coming into
the country. These are obscene books
and pictures and drugs or instruments
for producing abortion.
The prohibition of these is, of course,
proper enough; but now the copyright
law adds another to the list of prohibit.
ed articles. What is this which, of all
things in the world, is selected to go in
the same class with obscene books and
pictures and drugs and instruments for
producing abortion?
English books! In granting the En-,
glish author the benefit of copyright in
the United States the McKinleyites
compel him to have his book printed in
the United States from types set in the
United States or from plates made In
the United States from types set in the
United States! The only exception tC
this Chinese rule is that any person may
import one or two copies Of an rnglisf
book for his own use AL copyrighted
English books less than twenty year
old are absolutely prohibited from i'm
portation for purposes Of sale. The,
stand with things obscene and immoral
This wild freak of the McKinleyitei
was opposed by so sturdy a protection
list as Senator John Sherman. Iii
amendment allowing the importation o
copyrighted books upon payment of tn
Mckinley duty of twenty-eight per cen,
was passed by the senate but was re
jected by the rabid Mckinieyites OF tn
House, and Senator Sherman for thi
reason voted against the bill.
| Obscene books, immoral drugs an
implements, copyrighted English book
| what a clgssificatiol
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-04-04
WANTS FREE RAW MATERIALS.


a Manufacturers Niews-Some Important
Words For the Farmer-"Export Dis
counts" Once More.
1t is an error to suppose that manfact-
urers are all protectionists. On the
contrary. large numbers of them are in
favor of the democratic programme of
free raw materials: and some even go
so far as 10 favor free trade, pure and
simple.
One prominent manufacturer who IA
yors free raw materials Is Mr.. A. b.
Farquhar. of York, Pa. He was for
tnerly republican protectionist, but
his bnsibess experience has long since
shown him the falsity of the protection
ist teaching, as applied to his branch OF
manufacturing. He is manufacturer
ri agricultural machinery and is able
to sell large part of his product in
foreign countries. competing there sue
ccssfully with the ''pauper labor"
which the protectionists claim we can
not beat in our own market
Mr. Farquhar has recently written a
brief letter to Col. Mcclure, of Phila-
delphia, in which he defines his attitude
to ,he tariff as manufacturer and
makes s6fne statements which are OF
the highest interests to farmers. Here
is his letter.
Ny Dear Colonel: OF the agricultural i'm
plenients used in South America, Mexico,
Australia ana sopth Africa, we now manu-.
facture a very argeproportion In the United
States. In some sections American impie.
ments and machinery are used almost cx-
eluslvcly; fully three-fourths of the plows
used IN South America and south Africa are
made in this country.
our implements for export must be sold at
very low prices, that il, at small profit to
the manufacturer; since we must compete
with England and Germany and are at some
disadvantage in ship transportation, and
yet greater disadvantage in the purchase of
much OF our necessary raw material.
The prices obtained for our Agricultural
implements sold abroad average from per
cent to Is per cent. less than what we get In
this country.
II we had free raw material we could not
he uudcrsold by any nation upon the earth
We have such pre-. eminent and indefcasibe
advantages here for uianufactur ng, with our
improved machinery, abundant lumber sup.
ply and better class of labor, that II We were
not at a disadvantage in the purchase of in.
dispensable raw material, we could not only
control the markets of the world, but afford
to sell implements and machinery consider.
ably cheaper to the American farmer
As | have several times had occasion to
observe, the manufacturer who is able to ex.
port his goods can have no use for protection
except to enable him to extort more money
from home purchasers than he is able to get
from those abroad.
Unnecessarily high prices on all his ma.
chinery, however, form only one of the heavy
burdens thrown upon the farmer by this tax
through the custom house under the guise
of protection Very respectfully,
4. ID BARQUHAR.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-04-04
CoLLApSEn.
Immense Stand-Pipe of Deflance's
Water Works
Goes Down, Crushing the Walls and Delug.
Ing the Bhilding-A House Swept
A~ay and Several Per-
SONS ihin-.d;

Sunday the immense stand-pipe Of
the Defiance, o., water works collapsed,
scattering wreck and taip on every
hand. The pipe was twcnty-four feet
in diameter and one hundred and fort "
five feet high, and at the time Of
the disaster lackad but twelve
feet of being full Five-eighth iron had
been used in the construction. Ji,ss
what caused the accident is matter Of
conjecture. The most plausible theory
advanced is this; There was large bio TX
Of lie in the pipe about two feet thick.
Although this ice had been. loose, it is
supposed that it became wedged ii soh,s
way 1and THUS increased the pressure, MS
the pumps We're at work VIXEN the pipe
burst. A telegraph operator named
Matthews, who was on the grounds, had
just made up his mind to climb to the
top of the pipe and take look at the
city, bht before he could reach it tho
pipe went down with crash that was
heard two miles away The result
of the ohtpOt-inr bf the immense body
of water in the pipe was s.attlihg, and
the marvel is that at least five lives
were not lost. The pump house is on
the banks of the Maumee river and at
least thirty feet below the base of the
stand-pipc. john killcan, the engineer,
and his brother, together with Ke''ehn'T
infant were in the pump house
when the mighty wave Of water
shot down upon them. The brick
walls Of the pump house fac
ing the stand.pire were smashed in
like paste-board and the entire building
deluged in flash, but, very strangely,
the two men and the baby escaped
with few scratches. On the bank
above the work of destruction was even
more complete. The engineers resi-
dence was dbout 100 feet away
from The stand-pip8, and when
struck by the water Was
crushed like an egg-shell. Mrs. John
Killean and her mother, Mrs. Almeda
Ohliger, were in the house, the former
being dangerously injured. Mrs. Kill
lean was found buried under the debris
of the wrecked building and was only
removed after cutting away much of
the timber that was piled iii
around her. A number of trees
in its track were swept away be-
fore the flood lost its force. A new
house, belonging to John Rowe located
about two hundred feet away from the
pipe, was swept from It's foundation and
badly wrecked. The force Of the water
was so great that the stone masonry az
the base of the pipe was cut as clear as
if it had been done with knife, while
a large pile Of iron pipe was scattered
over the grounds like SO much cord
wood.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-04-04
"a LITTLE NONSENSE"

Talk is cheap when you can seEd
it through a telephone at the rate of
ten cents an hour.-Texas Siftings.
Teacher-"Willie,s spell felt" Willie
--"F-e-l-t" Teacher-'Right. Jimmie,
what is felt?" Jimmie-"A lickin'."-
Epoch.
Tom Bigbee-"I say, Upson, what
would you do if you bad million?"
Upson Downes Nothing N. Y
Ledger.
A Polite Pupil.-"Johnny Green,
point out Africa on the map" John
"Please, ma am, it amt polite to point"
Yankee Blade
-"He resembles his wife strongly in
one respect" "What is that?" "She
thinks there is nobody like him in 'ho
world. "-Harper's Bazar
About Right.-Teacher-
to what race do the people of this coun.
try bclong?' Tommy with a prodigious
effort of the memory)-"To the eau
cussin race, maam."
"A Moral Lad,-Auntie-'I'm sure,
Tommy, that you are not so wicked as
to call your mother old woman"
Tommy-"No, ma'am, l call her old
lady. Yankee Blade.
1t Ought To Be.-Ransom docking
at his wife's new tea gown)-''I suppose
that is what you call fast color?"
Mrs Ransem-''Wcll, it's the same col
or you use in painting the town. Inter
Ocean.
Sympathetic Cousin-"Yes, it must
have been terrible disappointment
when Miss Golding refused you" Jack
Van Broken-"lt was crusher. | felt
exactly as though had been sentenced
to hard labor for life. Life.
-Millicent-''Why have you been
looking so intently at the clock?'
Geowge (gallantlyl-"You don't sup
pose feel boahed, do your Millicent
mo; wondered if you had pawned
your watch. ."-Fliegende Batter.
--Cumso-"lt seems queer to adver-
tise methods of suicide" Mrs. Cumso
What in the world do you mean2"
Cuuso-"Here is an advertisement
which says: Try pair Of our shoes,
and you will never wear another Shoe"
-Harper's Bazar
Husband, just married-"iou want
to know what like best? OF all things,
I like liver dumplings, sour-kraut and
blood sausages." Wife-"0, for shame,
Ad,lphl So prosaic and common!'
"Can l help it if such divine tasting
things have prosaic names?'-Fliegende
Blatter.
Not q Conquest.-Clara - Harry
proposed to me last night and accept
ed him." Helen (triumphantly)-"Why,
he proposed to me last week and re-
fused him." Clara (eoolly)-"Yes, 1
know IT, He told me he did il just for
practice. He knew you didn't care for
him, "-Boston Herald.
You may say what you please
observed Mr.. Oldboy, to friend; "but
the boys nowadays don't have the fun
their fathers did forty years ago. DO
you remember the time we tied four
dogs together, and attached articles OF
tinware to their tails9 1t was more
fun than a circus to see them go howl
ing down the street and" Enter
Oldboy's eight-year-old son, weeping:
"What's the matter. Willie?" why.
ma whipped me for tying a paper bag
over the cats head and making her spit
and claw like anything" "well, you
deserved it, and hope II will teach YOU
to be more kind TO dumb animals here
after"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-04-04

The grip scouige in Pittsburgh, Pa ,
is still holding on with deadly result
$ ne ~eventy-two funerals occurred
Sunday. and an equal number was post
pohed until Monday, there beng a
dearth Of hearscs and carriages. Ordi.
narily the death rate shows % per cent.
youths. Now, however, it shows % per
cent. aged, showing the dreaded disease
is more fatal with increasing years.
The grip in fatal eases runs into pneu-
monia with consequent sudden deaths.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-04-04
Death Of Gen. Jam,s Eklu

Gen, James A. Ellin, Of the L, &,
army, died in Louisville, Ky, Thurs
day. He was born in Pittsburgh in 1919
lie entered the army ns lieutenant coli
onel of the One IIundredth Pennsylvania
volunteers. He was member OF the
commission which tried Mrs Surratt,
and bore a prominent part in the funcr'
a, of Lincoln. lie was for many ycns
quartermaster of the government at
Jcffcrsonville, Ind
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-04-04
THE GRIP MICROBE.
'"ioaso physician Captures Some q
the Terrific ittIo I.It,,,,.


the Terrific Little Fellows.
DR.. W. NJ. Gentry, of Chicago, claims to
oe 'he possessorofam microbe fila grippe,
lhe hrst ever captured or ever heard of.
me little wigglef is imprisoned on tho
glass sides Of Dr. Geht,,y's big lnicrosv
cope, ana was Friday carefully INSPECT.
ed bS many scientific rye. Ever since
the grip nadc it, appearance yeaf
ago, the doctor said be has been an 4
sVllI-hunt for the microbes, Il
any existed. lie found that
thirty'foor years ago, and again
sixteen years ago, la grippe was epi,
demic among human beings, and seven.
teen years ago it attacked horses. caus.
ing the still remembered "epizootic. "
owing to the recurrence of the disease
Dr. Gentry was inclined to believe that
'he esrtsi at sueh intervals,
passed throrgh a stretch Of space
impregnated with what astrono
mers call ''star dust" The grid
microbes, as described by DR.. Gently,
are generally Of ronnd form, vary.
ing occasionally in outline, but always
distinctly marked by series of seven
lines surrounding them. Radiating
from these lines ARE other lines which,
IN the magnitied image, resemble fine,
irregular hairs Dr.. Gentry's time was
occupied in exhibiting tic microbes ia
brother physicians, and hi beginning
technical account of the discovery fol
the benelit Of the profession.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-04-04

The British steamer Sussex arrived
al San Francisco from Honolulu Mon
day morning, with a cnrgo of sugar.
All the tramp vessels are now In, and
between them they have brought over
twelve thousand tons of sugar. 1t is ex.
pected that quite n number of other SUI
gar ships will arrive soon, and thus beat
that clause of the Mckinley bill which
goes into effect on the 1st of April
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-04-04
hnother. Comet Discovered.

A Small; faifly bright comet, with a
tail fifteen miHutcs iunei #as discover
ed by Prof. Il. +. Barnard Sunday
night at the Lick Observatory. At
eight hours and thirty-four minutes its
position was right ascension; one hour
and ten minutes, ten seconds north; de-
clihation fuity'four degrees forty-eight
ifiinttes. Tie comet is moving rapidly
southwark, in the direction of the sun,
one degree day. This makes The fif.
teenth comet discovered by this observer.
It's present motion, however, will soon
carry y nnt "f sight in the ncighbor-
hood of the sun.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-04-04
Tramps will Fight shy of Delaware

The Delaware House passed Thurs
day the Senate bill, known as Judge
Balls tramp labor bill, and ii cnjy
awaits the speakers signature to be-
come law. II provides that all va
grants and yagabonds who come tramp
ing around Delaware may he arrested
and set to work for sixty days breaking
stone for mendirg roads. They are to
work eight hours day, and if rcfr0c-
tory put in solitary confinement on
bread and wntcr.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-04-04
OUR PRESIDENT
Bestows Gifts Upon Several Gallant En-

Bestows Gifts Upon several Gallant En-.
glish Officers.
President Harrison has, through the
American Legation in London. pre-
sented a gold watch and medals to tho
captain, mate and owner respectively
of the British ship Atlanta in
recognition of their services in res.
cuing the crew of the american YES
sci Spotless; n pair of marine glasses
md watch to the captain and mate OF
the British ship Deerhill for helping
the American schooner Angela to
avoid foundering, and a medal to the
captain of the British ship Amorette in
token of his action in enforcing order
on the Island of Navassa after the up
rising of the negro laborers and the
massacre of their employers there in
1850
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-04-04
,,.,uo NJ, Takes the Place of Gas,

Lima oil is being used successfully IN
n number of Pittsburgh mills ana iac- ''
tories. Rollng-mill owners favor u oe,
cause Il does not oXidzc the IRON ana
for that reason ii is thought tha'
natural GAS will soon be supcrsedrd oy
n A movement is on foot 10 oo''o
t,,,1, limo
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-04-04
The Gift of Two Women

The handsome hew building erected
for the National German American
Academy, at Milwaukee,, the, gift of
Mrs. Guido Pfster and Mrs. r. vogel,
was formally dedicated Monday. The
building cost about $4,000, and will
hereafter be the home Of the teachers
seminary, the normal school proper and
ths turn tepchers seminary.