The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-20
GREEN APPLES AND SALT.
watterson's Wild and Ferocious Humor Over the Tariff BiII.

watterson's Wild and Ferocious Humo Over the Tsrin BilI.
 | Louisville Courier-Journal.l Green apples-twenty-nve cents pe
 bushel.
 l -Salt-placed on the free list In these two lines the result of care fui study of the senate tarin bill is tt be found when considered fl their relations to their bearings upor each other. a powerful argument against the passage of that bill as Il stands to-day.
 : We have had a great deal of jabber' ing and towering about sugar, coal and iron. It is over these that the two houses of congress have locked horns It is concerning these that the presi. dept of the United States has fulminat. ed his protesting thunder. An agree ment upon these by the conference committee means a quick enactment of the bill, without further contention into law. And yet there 1t stands unchallenged and even unnoticed:
 Green apples-twenty-five cents per bushel.
 Salt-placed on the free list.
 We have heard much regarding the alleged discriminative lines upon which this bill was nstructed-discrimina tion in favor of one section against an- other, of this industry against that But no one has yet pointed out the great, the shameless, the outrageous discrimination so cruelty proved by two lines.
 Green apples-twenty-five cents per bushel.
 Salt-placed on the free list.
 It is the crowning discrimination of the age-the discrimination of sex, dis elimination of power against aspira. tion, the discrimination of arrogance against advancement, the discrimina. ton of man against woman.
 In these two simple lines are em- braced the wrong, the oppression, the tyranny of the centuries through which man has usurped position and power over the prostrated and tram pied forms of the chattels he is pleased to call his women folks" In these two simple lines is comprehended the injustice of generations which has pre- cipiated the conflict of the coming cen- tury upon the casus belli which that in- justice has warped into the brain of weman-that man is her worst enemy. 7 It is perfectly patent that men drew up this tariff bill; that they drew it up for men, and against women. It's fram- CTS were willing enough to abolish the duties on salt. Salt is one of the neces- saries of mans life, no less than wo- mans He needs it when he makes sardines and anchovies out of young herring and chubs; he needs it when he cures his meats and cans his vege- tables; he needs it in nearly every thing which he, gross slave of the stom- ach, pags his wife into putting on the table. He cannot untax salt for man and tax it for woman; so heeis com- pelled out of his own selfishness, to al- low woman to have free salt.
 But he makes it up on green apples! Green apples-and-salt in one dish, strange to say, for which he does not care. Furthermore, it is dish for which woman does not care very much. Result: Mans salt untaxed; woman's green-apples-and-salt twenty-five cents per bushel. s.
 1t is all of piece with the one-sex domination which the advanced woman Is now daring to challenge The house was more generous. Fresh from the people and more faithfully ref1ecting the modern spirit of liberafity and pro- gressiveness, it placed green apples as we'll as salt on the free list. But the senate, that moribund junta of masculine crustaceans, promptly socked a duty of twenty-five cents per bushel on green apples while willingly accept ing the benefits of free salt, straight.
 We trust that the house will never yield. 1t has taken its stand for the right Having set its face toward free green-apples-and-salt, let it never look backward, to become itself, in the march of advancement, a fossiliferous pillar of mere salt. Let 1t remember that q great principle is at stake, and if nothing else will keep it from falter- ing in the fight let it bear in mind that her views on taxed green-apple-and- salt are about the only views which Sarah Grand has not incorporated in her Heavenly Twins" and that a victory for taxed green+apples-and-salt would in all proba bility insure the prompt expressions of Sarah's views thereon, which would necessitate the addition of several thousand more pag- es to the next edition of ''The Heavenly