The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-25
Woman should Stop their Screaming
and Spend heir Money Not at Bar
gain Counters Blt Woare Fair
Wages Are Paid.
Wages Are Paid.

gain Counters But Ware Fair
Wages Are Paid.
New York, Oct. 22.-Eyery is
talking about the election. One starts
bles over a large crowd, brass band,
braying forth, Just Tell Her That You
Saw Me''(and not mentioning the awful
sounds that you are forced to hear),
with spellbinder at the back. Some
times we stand still and listen some
times we are spellbound-more fire.
quently we are not. But it starts, does
a political campaign, certain amount
of questioning, to which the feminine
voice, unless it be given over to the
upholding of missions, finds pleasure
in answering.
Says the masculine inquirer: What
do you know about protection?"
Say /, representing the feminine
voice: well, not very much; but this
is what / believe: / think there should
be high tariff, very high tariff.
Several years ago had an opportunity
to compare our manufactures with
those of England and France, and when
I say our manufactures, / mean our
cloths especially. Now, my friend, half
of the cheviots, broadcloths, rough or
smooth goods in wool, That you buy
stamped with the English or French
hall mark, are made in this country.
We can make as good piece of cloth
as was Designed or made across
She ter neatly, there ought to
be ;sriff on wool materials.
Ar rH ought to buy the home
ma leep the mills going, and
by y enormous tariff, an out
rage tx one, on all woods, force
lie i article out of the market,
When gye have a good thing we ought
to recognize IT, Tn the finest of silks
and velvets we cannot compare with
France. but for that reason fabrics
should be introduced at a high tariff,
kept at a high price, so that the Ameri-
can manufacturer viii grow ambitious,
be eager to make his silks as fine as
the imported ones, and, in time, achieve
what he desires, so that no further i'm
portations viii be necessary.
CHINESE SILKS FROM PATERSON.
A Japanese importer told me that
more than one-half of the printed silks
sold as coming from China or Japan
were made in Paterson, n. j. We've
got the men who can work we'll and
who have the brains: we've got the
money to pay the men, and we want
to introduce a little Jingoism, which
is, after all, the slang word for recog-
nizing the possibilities of ones own
country. Why can't the man who sells
American silks hang a piece of the
American silk beside a piece of the
Japanese silk and let the customer
take her choice, having to pay for the
Chinese silk an extravaganza price, and
for the American a just price. Let
the tariff be low on pictures, ON books,
on anything that will educate the peo-
pie. Let the tariff be high on jewels,
on anything that is bought by the
rich people, simply as luxury.
Do / want the suffrage extended?
No, I want it restricted. If I were the
person in power / should have each
twenty-five years OF age, free, and add
ed to this freedom there should be the
knowledge of reading and writing and
the owning of a home. Then vote
would be worth something. 1t would
represent something. Men would
strive for it and dollars would be saved
to buy the home for the women and
children that would in addition, make
the father voter. What does Antonio,
or Francois, or Heinrich, or Patrick, or
Tommy Atkins, know of this country
after living here few years? Whether
he is from Italy or Germany, France,
or Ireland, Russia, or England, Sweden,
or Scotland, how can he realize in one,
five, ten, or fifteen years the needs of
those men and women who have made
this country? Let American birth be
the very first necessity of the right
TO claim a vote. Then let all the rest
follow
THE "BIDDL'S' VIEW OF TT.
And about the gold and silver The
best that / can say about that was
told me by the honest, little Irish maid
busy in my kitchin. She wondered eff
the gentlemen got IN who were going
to give silver away, If the IS that she
was in the habit of sending home on
special occasions, would receive no well
come" Because" she went on to say
ssif it only stands for a half or quarter
as much as it calls for on the face of
it, how can they be pleased at me, so
to say, writin' one thing, and meanin'
another? It will be a funny govern
ment, Miss, thatll write a order on its
own paper for certain sum of money
and then only give you little bit
of it; and how, Miss, does that differ
from stealing2'' That's the feminine
voice from the Kitchen. In the parlor
the feminine voice says: IF the people
get ia who are going to make our notes
OF no value, or of so little value that
it amounts to nothing, the unhappy
days in Richmond during the war will
return, and I'll go to market with my
basket filled with money and I'll come
home carrying my purchase, wrapped
up in paper, in one hand"
/ wonder what Mr.. George Washing
ton would have thought of reputation
/ wonder what Mr.. Thomas Jefferson
would have Thought at our deliberately
making ourselves the laughing stock
of the world? What other country
makes its money a lie ON the face of 1T?
Remember, / don't pretend to be a
politician, but these are things that /
was forced to think when / listened to
the spell-binder who talked, and talked.
and talked. and never. convinced did