The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-07
The New Rice Tariff.

The Wilson bill reduces the duty on
cleaned rice from to - cents per pound,
and on ncleaned rice from 4 to l cent
per pound Paddy and rice meal or -four
remain unchanged at "a and 4 cent res
pectively The bill defines uncleaned rice
TO mean rice from which the outer hull
has been removed but which retains the
inner covering, or cuticle.
In the opinion of the New Orleans pa
pers, in the rice center of Louisiana,
planters have little to complain of in the
new bill. The Times-DemOcrat says:
1.-The duties will about square the
difference in cost between American labor
and the coolie labor, by which most of
the imported rice is produced, and is
therefore, in accord with the principle
which has always been asserted and ad-
vocated by the democrats-that the tariff
should allow for the difference in wages
between this and other countries" The
Picayune says that while the reductions of
= cent per pound on clean rice may be re-
GREETED, the definition of uncleaned rice
will be accepted with satisfaction, as do
ing away with a system of fraud which
has been robbing both the government
and the domestic producers for many
years"
The system Of fraud referred to is the
mixing of cleaned rice with polish and
importing it as uncleaned rice The Me
Kinley law levies a duty of IL cents per
pound upon unCleaned rice and makes no
definition of what shall be classed as
cleaned, thus the mixed product which is
virtually cleaned rice, has been imported
under tie IA cent duty. Under the new
bill such rice will be classed as cleaned,
and duty of ~ cents pound levied
Z Jacksonville appears to be making an
effort to acquire an unsavory reputation,
and is succeeding very well. The Jack
sonville city council, in passing to second
| reading an ordinance to legalize prize
fighting, probably had an eye to the dol
lars that Corbett, Mitchell and their
satellites may leave in the city in case
their fight is permitted there. But is a
city's good name worth no more than
that2 New Orleans has reached the con
| clusion that the reputation of being a city
! of prize fighting is Improbable as well as
! ulJltdSdllbs anu WIZ klCIllllb no llOIc l4nb-
! ing there. San Francisco is of the same
! opinion; so is Omaha, so is New York
! Even Coney Island, notably tough re
Sort has done with prize mills. The pugi-
lists and plugs have been driven out of
almost every city in the land. Now
Jacksonville is about to invite them Off
cially to make he precincts their head
| quarters. The decent tourist travel does
not satisfy Jacksonville; she wants the
sports the "bookies," the sluggers and
the bottle-holders to come down also
The effect of the ordinance to legalizC
prize fighting that the Jacksonville city
council is considering, would be to make
the contests more brutal than any one thai
has recently occurred. In almost every
state the law limits the minimum weight
of the gloves that may be used in a box
ing exhibition to five ounces. The Jack
sonville proposition is to reduce the mini
mum weight to three ounces. In three
ounce glove the fist of pugilist is almos
as solid as a billet of wood. and is as eff
fective a weapon as bare fist Witt
three-ounce gloves either Corbett OF
Mitchell would be able to cut the skin
break the nose or tear the ear of tn,
other almost at pleasure. Corbett is al
expert at delivering a blow technically
known as the whip lash" 1t is the
blow with which he whipped Sullivan
The fist is given a double motion. for.
ward and lateral, the lateral motion tax
ing place upon the instant of impact. Tn,
blow delivered with the bare hist vii
make deep bruise, and break the skin
more times than it will fail to DO SO
With three-ounce gloves it would prob
ably be more damaging.
The more ardent of the iingoists Of tn,
republican press have discovered a new