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Asheville daily citizen., 1891-11-19

The tax list for this year has been In INV
few have settled. The county 10 In
med of money to defray It's expenses
and meet the dem and upouit I am expect d
and required to collect the taxes, VIII ch I
have been instructed to proceed with the coli
lection. without regard to person. I have
no dsnos,io TO presa the people, but the
taxes must be paid, and indulgence can
once. ami save themselves cost ana me much
trouble and annoyance, Respectfully.
p. l.. KRYNoLDs,
nov17d1w shsria
Asheville daily citizen., 1891-11-19
FOR SALE.
MISCELLANEOUS.

DEMOVAL nr WI Wilmington has
IL novel Is Office to rooms over Wor.
tnvn 4 Co.'S drug store, No II North Main
street Office hours, IL to ? and to 4.
nov tdtf
Asheville daily citizen., 1891-11-19

LADIES
Needing atomic, or children who want build.
ing IN, should take G
BROWNS IRON BkTFEuB.
n Y. .ploatant 10 take, cures Malaria, Indl.
nesliu1. Htliouznnta aud Liver domplninta
Asheville daily citizen., 1891-11-19
Want COLUMN.
WANTED.
FOR RENT.

NOR RENT-Dcsirablc connecting offices
Il in McAtce building Apply at 6t French
bro d avenue. l'-uSt
Asheville daily citizen., 1891-11-19
ASHEVILLE MARKETS.

Corrected daily by POWELL & SNIDER,
wholesale and retail groccrs These prices
are being paid by the merchants to-day.
Asheville daily citizen., 1891-11-19

vNITED SrATES Mutual Accident Asso.
u cil ION OF the city Of New York. The
Oldest. Largest and hest
oct.9ltf w. POSTELL, Agent.
Asheville daily citizen., 1891-11-19

INOR RENT. Suburban re'idcnre, near
II elec ri tramNay. completely furnished
SCAM heater and modern conH.' lene's
Finr mir of hur,ts with V, hiclrs, nnd two
Jersey CONS Address L BON 1SG'
Asheville daily citizen., 1891-11-19

NOTICE, The womans' Exchange as
IN sociatiou wish the public to know that
the reopening Of the exch nge is on'y ".-
TERED until the present Oppression OF trade
is relieved. Meanwhile. tney consider II
more prudent TO confne themselves to taxi
ing orders, " hiCh are carefully filed by the
old cousig lers. These order for eatables
ant all kinds Of needlework. may be sent to
Miss DuH, 159 Patton avenue. There will
also be a Christmas sale, BEGIN ing Dec. ~
due notice Of which vii be given
A. w. PENN NAN, President.
Mrs. Thos A. lones, S cretary, now 6d3t
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-28
A WAR OF CRiNKS.

Kansas is the habitat OF the crank.
His breeding-place is further East, in
| Massachusetts generally, though he is
| native to all the New England states,
| and is Matched in considerable numbers
as far West as the Western reserve OF
Ohio. But as soon as'iedged the crank
turns with unerring instinct toward
Kansas, where the fullest development
of that peculiar and offensive fowl is
acquired. 1t is here that republic OF
cranks has full sway, and here We can
study the habits, thoughts, DISPOSE
tons and vagaries of these eXtraordi-
nary creatures in their aggregate rela-
ton to the world and in their individ-
ual relations with each other.
Without going very deeply or widely
into this Investigation, ii is interesting
TO pay attention to "A striking phase OF the
development of crankism in its bearing
on two subjects OF agitation now pres
ent to the public mind. 1t is known
that the prohibition cranks have their
strongest foOthold in Kansas. Here
they have had their greatest develop
mcnt.
Such has been their stength OF mem
bers that they have controlled the Re
publican party Of the state since 1880,
Notwithstanding that they led it to dis
astrous defeat in 1882, and gave the
state to the Democrats. But. firing Of
the tameness OF political life, after
having swallowed the Republican party
OF that state the cranks thirsted for
more excitement, ard threw themselves
into the Farmers Alliance movement.
Whether the Farmers Alliance cranks
are Of the same breed as the prohibi
ton cranks, we cannot say. 1t is prob
able, however, that they came from the
same nests, and they may be considered
as one. However that may be, the
thing we want TO point out is that
there is the opening of bitter war be-
tween the adherents OF st. John and OF
Sockless Simpson. st. John says of
Simpsons party that it is another
whisky party. Simpson hasn't been
heard from, but he will be, for the
crank is never at loss for retort, and
is bound 70 have the last word. There
is war in the crank family of Kansas,
and now the country will gather around
10, =
the circus that is to take place.
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-28

grown in this country. the tariff on
that class OF woods was heaped on in
the most generous manner IS = power
full stimulant to home production. The
tariff was placed at 80 per cent on one
grade and 81 on another, rates which
are frequently doubled by the sorting
clause" a job prepared by the Wool
Growers association, and adopted by
Mckinley.
The importation OF carpet WOODS dur
ing the first quarter of 1890 was 10, .6l.-
SIS pounds, and in the corresponding
months of 1891 26,9SS,6 Co. pounds, or
nearly double.
The total increase OF importa-
tons of the three classes of wool in the
period named was the difference be-
tween 10, S5S, 455 and 4O,9SS.S16 pounds,
the latter being the quantity imported
the first quarter this year, and the
former the first quarter OF last year.
Here is an increase in the importa-
ton of wool OF more than 100 per
cent under the Mckinley bill, with a
considerable increase in the tariff duty
thereon. which OF course the consumer
must pay. 1t is noteworthy fact also
that there has been decline instead Of
an increase in the price OF Ohio cloth
ing wool. And this is how the wool
tariff operates in favor OF the farmer.
The only result from the increase has
been so far that the farmer must pay
more for his clothing than before.
Now who is protected by that? Yet we
are sometimes told that the tariff is a
minor consideration.
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-28
THE M.kINLEY BILL AND WOOL

One Of the much Wanted triumphs
of the Mckinley bill was the increase
of the tariff on wool, intended of course
to benefit the poor farmer by encour-
aging the rearing of sheep and the
growth OF wool. This desirable and
praiseworthy end was to be reached by
restricting or excluding the importa-
ton Of foreign wool, which Importation
was said to be the cause of the decline
of wool growing in this country.
In order to show how well the law
has accomplished the end in view the
New York Times, the best tariff au-
thority in the country, has compiled
some figures from the treasury reports
covering the months of January,
February and March. The Mckinley
bill increased the tariff on wool of the
Notwithstanding wool-10 per cent.
The treasury reports show that the i'm
portation Of this class of wool during
the first three months OF 1890. was g.
645,47 pounds. During the first three
months OF 1891, the importation reached
12.S71,190 pounds. In spite of the Nc
Kinley tariff, four times as much cloth
ing wool was imported during the
first quarter OF this as during the cor
responding months of last year.
The increase of tariff on wool of the
HING vv0O1s-1r-.,. n j,,,,t
20 per cent. The importation OF
this class OF woods increased
from 45l,I2S pounds in the first
quarter OF 1890, TO LIPS 24
pounds in the same period this year
The importation OF this class of woods
was more than doubled under the Me-
kinley plan OF exclusion.
As there Is very little carpet woods
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-28

The utterly inconsequental character
Of the Cincinnati platform just adopted,
is evident from the eight-hour plank
That plank was the work of the in
dustrial unions of Eastern cities.
chiefly those OF Massachusetts. What
is there in common between the Just
demands of the Western farmer and
the eight-hom movement among the
city mechanics of the East? Suppose the
government. having the power, should
enact an eight-hour law binding
alike upon all employers of labor in
the country. The first to rebel against
it would be the farmers. They would
never respect it. for TO do so would
bankrupt the last one Of them. The
farm hand that works less than sixteen
hours day is an exception. There
fore, the quasi Endorsement of such L
plank by the Alliance members in the
convention proves how successfully the
walking delegates and the hummer
GIGIutIl Vi lllt CLUES HOEktu lIlclF fdDDlU
foot on the man with the hoe. The
eight hour movement may do for the
artisans and mechanics of the crowded
cities OF the East, who would gain by it
more time for reading and social en-
joyment. But the want of it is not one
OF the causes that underlie the:distress
affecting chiefly the agricul-
tural classes. And to insert a
demand for it in political
platform announcing the creed of
new party organized ostensibly and
chiefly in the interest of the agricult-
ural class appears to be deliberate,
tritling and real mockery. No third
party with q confession of faith like
that is going to catch many Of the
farmers OF the country.
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-28
PROVIDENCE AND M,KINLEy.

Our Secretary Foster is a cheerful
mule. providence is giving us good
crops says he. and the Mckinley
bill will give us good prices" With
good crops and good prices, the joint
products OF Providence and Mckinley,
he looks to see the third party move
menI dissolve and bring about the cleo
ton Of HARRISON, whose Inauguration
will be enthusiastically cheered by d
large attendance of the men who have
given their names to the new party.
One important thing Mr.. Foster fails
to take account OF, which may wreck
his hopes. While Providence may give
us good crops and the Mckinley bill
good prices, the good prices will not be
for the crops, but for the manufactured
articles that those crops must be eX-
changed for. There is nothing in the
new tariff created by Mckinley to add
to the profits or the prosperity of the
crop producers. The cotton and wheat
and corn growers still have to sell in
the free markets of the world, in COM
petition with the cheapest labor. But
when they go to town to buy their
clothes, their farming implements,
their salt. and the other necessaries OF
living, the beneticent working OF the
Mckinley bill is brought home to them
in higher prices. These are the good
prices that Mr.. Foster speaks of so ex-
ultingly. They are good, indeed, to the
manufacturer who by that bill is given
a monopoly of the home market and
empowered to advance his prices several
points, but the agriculturist who finds
his living expenses increased by large
per cent on account of It will not con-
slider that good reason to vote for
Harrison and the perpetuation OF the
Mckinley protective tariff. That's
where Mr.. Foster made his mistake
The Cincinnati convention was made up
of farmers and laborers, not OF manu-
factllrerS
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-28
DEMOCRATIC CLUB SAYINGS.

! a man doesn't have to stuff cotton in his
ears and Il corn cob in his mouth to be a
| Democrat. He must hear, discuss and
| investigate and then abide by the wisdom
| OF the majority in convention assembled,
where he is represented by delegates.
| The people want to know what political
| party is for as well as what it is against.
| This thing of the secretary of the United
States treasury running TO New York aud
| dropping few millions in few favored
| banks to relieve the financial stringency in
| the South and West, is like farmer having
| to go TO mill away over in the next county.
This thing of banks not being allowed to
! loan money either on land or its products, is
| like the farmer who having gone way over
in the next county to mill, finding miller
| who wont grind his corn because it is red
instead of white.
It is not in order for Democratic club to
indorse anybody or anything at present,
but at the right time to express their views
| and preferences through deleg ates to con-
ventions and in primaries.
If we are opposed to national banks as
declared in all our Democratic platforms
then are We opposed to all banks, if not
what system do we favora' The people are
expecting an answer from Democratic
clubs.
The Democratic party is in no danger
from third party, but the voters are
going to have more to say in shaping the
policies of the party they vote with,
hence the campaign Of education.
The industrial classes can't be expected
to be in love with banking system that
doesn't permit loan or their land or the
products OF their labor.
AS the people build and maintain
churches to improve their moral condi-
ton and organize literary and dramatic
societies for social improvement, so they
viii organize Democratic clubs to add 10
their political knowledge and improve
their political condition.
Every citizen, and especially if he has
had the benefits Of public schools, owes the
country some of his time for the study
of political questions; if he doesn't pay
this debt he is dishonest.
Permanent Democratic clubs are going to
be organized in every locality, and are COM
ing to stay They are not campaign affairs,
but will he 20 the politics of the country
Vhat churches are to religion. and what
social and literary club circles are 10 society.
The South and West are practically
unit Ga tariff reform and free silver, and by
means of Democratic club discussions they
viii get together on the banking question.
The Russians are depressing all the Jews
because of few usGTerS. We ought TO loan
them our financial system Of national banks
and mortgage companies. There are more
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-28
men avoid difficulties with negroes and

men avoid difficulties with negroes and
frequently under provocations that
would be speedily resented were the
offender white man. A yankee" is
far more likely to resent the swagger-
ing, bullying and general otfensiveness
of too many town negroes than South
ern man is. Southern men are accus-
toned to ii and pity the ignorance that
prompts the initiative negro to copy
the vices rather than the virtues of
the white in towns. Not three days
ago in this city burly negro with his
hat on one side Of his head and two
cent cigar in one side OF his mouth,
went staggering down Main street,
la Sullivan, showing white people to
the right and left, who simply turned
and looked at the brute, and laughed.
Had the offender been white man he
would have been knocked into the
street dozen times. The South pities
the negro, and, left undisturbed by the
devilish partisanship OF the North, there
would be no trouble among the races.
If the North would see more humanity
in the negro and less angel. and
more humanity in the Southern white
man and less devil, and attend strictly
to its own race wars" it would be
better for the negro and for the country.
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-28
BEGINNING THE WORK.

Always the Democrats can depend
on Barney Gibbs to have an idea for
any emergency, and the fearlessness to
advance it. The idea may not be the
proper one, and it may be crude in its
conception and imperfect in develop
ment: but it is an idea, nevertheless,
and criticism OF it often leads TO amend
ments and cancellations. and from these
we arrive at satisfactory solution OF a
difficult problem.
The suggestion offered by him to
meet the demand for a larger circula-
ton of money may be worthy OF ad-
verse criticism, but it is to the credit
OF the originator that the idea advanced
by him. and the criticisms Of it. will
bring out other IDEAS that may unite to
build up a practical system that can be
seized upon as basis of liberal cur
rency.
If other Democrats will put their
wits to work, and come forward in be-
half OF their party with as much zeal
as Barney Gibbs has shown, it will be
well for the party.
The constant reduction Of the ma
tional debt and calling in of bonds upon
which the national bank circulation is
based, is contracting the volume OF
money faster in that direction than in
creased coinage OF silver can expand it.
At the present rate of paving the debt,
it will be entirely extinguished before
1900, and the national bank notes will
have to be retired, wiping out several
hundred millions OF dollars. We must
provide some other currency for this,
or find some other basis than national
bonds for its continuance. To answer
this demand is the present duty OF
Democratic leaders.
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-28

WHATEVER else Of criticism men
may wish to indulge OF the Alliance,
let this be set down to its credit: The
Alliance has educated the farmer to
think and talk, and If the politician
imagines that appeals to the past will
longer hold men in party line, let him
look to Hampton, Gordon and ingalls,
and be convinced that the people are
aroused to the need Of legislation for
men now on the earth and the gold bug
and tariff baron must 90.
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-28

AT the Denver congress the Texas
delegates offered resolution calling
upon congress TO cede the arid public
lands to the states and territories in
which they are situated, and asking
that such lands shall be devoted 10 the
cause Of education. 1t was proper that
the resolution should come from Texas.
because it is the only state that is not
interested in such a cession. Texas al
ready owns the public lands in her Dor
ders. and would not share in the bene-
fits of cession of such lands to the
states. Our lands belong to us alone,
and the general government has moth
ing TO do with them or their DISPOSE
fiOn
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-28

THE Republicans have been in con-
troll of the government for thirty
years, and the result is the enrichment
OF the few at the expense of the many.
The gold bug and the tariff baron have
had their day and are now having it;
but the people are in the saddle and
viii ride down both. Democracy,
since 1861, has not been in complete
possession OF the national govern
ment: once they have had the presi
dency and lower house, but Republi
can senate was an obstacle. If Democ-
racy will he true 10 the people and
adopt as a battle cry, More Money and
Less Tariff Taxes. the party will win
next year a famous victory and com
plcte control OF the government.
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-28
RACE WARS" NORTH AND SOUTH.

If the Northern press would recog-
nize the negro as man and not as 4
black man, the race wars" with which
Northern newspapers periodically re-
gale their readers would be less plenti-
ful. If u difficulty occurs between two
men Of different colors il the South, at
once the Northern Tray, Blanche and
Sweetheart, set up the yell and all the
pack cry out in chorus: Race war
'.Intimidation of negroes" etc, etc
With so large population of negroes
in the South it is not unnatural that
white and black roughs occasionally
collide, or that white roughs or black
roughs may wantonly assail man Of
different color. Such things happen in
the North, but as most of the people in
that section are white, there is no text
for race war" headline, not even
when Americans and Irish or Dutch
and French collide. More fights occur
between white men in the South than
between whites and blacks, and more
whites than blacks are shot at and
wounded and killed by whites in the
South, but there is no race war" no
chance for political capital, and such
affairs are simply used by Northern
papers to advertise the South to its
disadvantage. But if the human ma
ture in man breaks out between white
and black skins, rather than between
men Of the same color, the jaundiced
press of the North sees race war" and
intimidation" in what is but the pure
cussedness that finds exemplication in
the North and South every day.
The truth is. that Southern white
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-28

the distribution of political strength
as it stood in 1890.
A special session OF the legislature is
the only power to which the people can
turn for relief before 1894. 1t rests
with Governor Hogg to extend this re-
lief to the people. or to withhold it
from them. He has q. precedent for
such action in the calling of the legis-
lature together by Governor Roberts in
1882. to reapportion the state, and the
people approved the act. Such action
is as necessary now as it was then,
and the people look to Governor Hogg
to give them the relief that can come
from no other source.
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-28
These figures tell their story and

These figures tell their story and
make their appeal with an eloquence
that the spirit of justice cannot resist.
With state population OF 2.235,-
600 and senate Of thirty-one mem
bers the ratio of representation is one
to 1900. The districts that fall
below this ratio are the First, Third,
Fourth, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth. Tenth,
Eleventh, Thirteenth, Seventeenth,
Nineteenth. Twenty-second, Twenty
third, Twenty-fifth, Twenty-siXth and
Thirtieth. The others have a sur
plus of population. The most notable
instances OF disparity are the Third
and Twenty-eighth districts, one
with only 26,73l persons in it, the
other with lO4,S72. One man in the
Third district has as much power in
the senate, speaking through his
representative, as four in the Twenty
eighth. The sixteen districts in
which the population is deficient have
one member in the senate to $500
persons. The fifteen districts in
which there is redundant popula-
ton have one member to $500 per-
sons. One million people have six
teen senators to look after their
interests, while 1,235,00O have only
fifteen senators to defend them.
1t is ten years since the state was ap-
portioned into senatorial and repre-
sentative districts. In ten years popu
lation has shifted from the East TO the
West. The unrepresented population
is nearly all west OF the Houston and
Texas Central railroad, because in that
territory the growth has been greatest.
Compare the Third district with the
Nineteenth, in 1880 and 1890. The
Third numbered 25,111 souls in 1880,
and the Nineteenth 25,S47. After ten
years the Third had but 26,13l, while
the Nineteenth had 64,962. Compare.
also, the Second and the Twenty
eighth, with 81, 500 and 81, 1876, respect
lively, in 1880, and 1883 and 104,S $40,
respectively, in 1890. They were nearly
equal in numbers at the time the state
was laid off in districts. Now they are
far apart, so rapidly has the West out
stripped the East in growth
To readjust on more equitable basis
these discrepancies that the lapse OF a
decade has made in different quarters
of the state: to give the citizen of one
part of the state an equal voice in gov
ernmental affairs with the citizen of
another part; to guarantee truly re-
publican form of government, in which
all men are equal, requires of us that
the state shall be redistricted upon the
basis OF the population, as ascertained
by the latest census returns, SO that
the legislature that is to be elected in
1892 shall fairly represent the people Of
Texas as they are now distributed
over the state. Unless this reappor-
tionment is made before the next
election, it cannot serve the people
until the election OF 1891, when. sup
posing that the Twenty-third legisla-
ture will not neglect its duty in that
respect SIS the Twenty-second did, an
assembly will be chosen. based upon