The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-01
BOOK ON TARIFF CAUSES

f. w. Newman Completes Publication
Dealing in a Few Reflections and
Mistakes of a PrOtectiOnist-StOry
of the Squirrel and the Plus
Preacher.
Some Tariff History and a Few Re-
Elections on the Mistakes of a Pro
ilege' is the title of a brochure on
the tariff by E. w. Newman alias
~"Savoyard" of this city which IS at
tracing attention among both Demoi
Gratis and Republicans. 1t is hard %
conceive a more illuminating and more
attractive discussion of the subject Of
tariff in the compass of fourteen pag-
es. The work is in the inimita5le
style Of Mr. Newman. who as "Savo-
yard has achieved a wide reputation
a. a political essayist; in England he
would be termed a publicist.
PREACHER AND THE SQUIRREL.
Several illustrations, all Of them OF
the homliest character are used to
enforce the argument against the sys-
tenn of protection. Most of them are
stories laid in Barren county in the
Bluegrass state, where the author first
saw the light and to which his heart
always turns with the longing Of the
exile. Here S one of the stories:
Many years ago there lived in Bar
ren county a fine old gentleman, a
Mr.. Rush, a successful merchant, a
prosperous merchant and a beloved
preacher of the Baptist faith, a man
of sterling honesty and ~undoubted
pieCy. The year 1855 was a very fat
one in Kentucky and Mr.. Rushis bins
were bursting with the product OF his
broad acres The Norway rat had just
invaded the Bluegrass country, and
Mr.. Rush and just completed a grain
cry warranted by the carpenter 20 be
rat-prOOf.
But one morning the old gentleman
saw a gray squirrel in the gralnery
and it was manifest that if a squirrel
could enter the building so could d
rat. The parson in a rage chased the
squirrel out of the building and in do
ing so he stumbled over a piece OF
timber and fell and skinned his shins.
Minister Of the gospel that he was
Father Rush vas yet a choloric Ken
tuckian, and he could not refrain from
using language utterly unbecoming in
a member of the reverend clergy.
The old fellow scrambled to his feet
and turning round saw his eldest born.
a young nan of twenty, a domineering
fellow, the real head of the family Of
whom mother, father and brothers and
sisters stood in awe. In a most in
sinuating tone Mr.. Rush made this
proposed: "Jonothan, if you promise
not to tell the brethren at Antioch
next Sabbath that | was guilty of the
sin of profanity I'll take you down 10
GLASGOW and buy you the finest suit
of b%roadcloth Shuttleworth can make
Then turning to a younger son, a
stripping of seventeen, he reared:
Roberts and the Jonathans. Jonathan
like HI and d-n n%atiOni"
ROBERTS AND JONATHANS.
Savoyard goes on to say that the
American people are composed of the
Roberts and the %Jonothans. Jonothan
has the privileges; Robert performs the
duties. Jonothan is the fayorite; Rob-
ert does the work. Jonathan gets the
subsidies; Roberts foots the bills.
Another homely illustration is that
of a workingman who gets 81 a day
! and who buys two hats at 81 a piece,
one for himself and n for his son.
He works two days for these two hats,
the tariff on which is 81 about each.
He could get the hat for a dollar were
it not for the tariff. but the excessive
duty of 96 per cent. Shuts out the for
eign competitor and gives the Ameri-
| ran manufacturer a c0m-
peliing the American w~orkingman to
work two days for two hats that he
could get for one days work if he were
allowed to buy where he could buy the
cheapest.
WORKINGMAN THE SLAVE
Whose day is that second?" asks
Sayoyard. Not that wOrkman's.
Whose money is that second days
wage of 81? Not that workingman's.
Not the governments, for there is no
revenue arising from the transaction.
On that second day that workingman
is virtually the slave of that manufac-
turer, who is protected by the tariff at
the extortionate rate of SO per cent"
The phamphlet abounds in such ex-
cellent bits of tariff argument, so lucid
that the simplest mind car comprehend
and the most astute cannot refute. Mr..
Newman is receiving orders for the
pampret at five cents d piece from all
over the country, which is taken as
evidence that the people are waking
to the iniauities Of tariff extortion.-
Washington Dispatch to the Virginia
Pilot.