The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 14, 1887, Page 5

"HATIONAL BANK, i BUTLER Sa | Opera House Block, BUTLER, Mo. | 1 an | FURS WANTED ——I WILL PAY—— ST. LOUIS QUOTATIONS, ——IN CASH—— For all kinds of Furs offered the entire season. PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. Price, ite manufacture continues to thrive, it is entirely evident that one thing has been discovered which should be carefully scrutinized in an effort to reduce taxation. The ne- cessity of combination to maintain the price of any commodity to the tariff point furnishes proof that some one is willing to accept lower prices for such commodity, and that such prices produced by competition prices are remunerative, and lower | chance in foreign markets with the manufacturers of other countries, who cheapen their wares by free material. Thus our people might have the op- portunity of extending their sales be- yond the limits of home consumption —saving them from the depression, interruption in business, aud loss caused by a glutte domestic market, and affording their employes more certain and steady labor, with its re- | Sulting quiet and contentment. | The question thus imperatively | presented for solution should be ap- proached in a spirit higher than part- | isanship and considered in the light |of that regard for patriotic duty prove the same thing. Thus where either of these conditions exists, a case would seem to be presented for Capital. - $66,000, ronrios = 8,800 LEWIS HOFFMAN er, NORTH MAIN STREET, BUTLER, MO. JOHN H.SULLENS........ President SE BOOKER POWELL,... Vice President. aie as Aan; eee i gia ie aa Wu. E. WALTON,.. - -++eCashier. . RUE JENKINS, .......Ast - ashier, » | ON KINNEY..... Clerk and Collector. J DIRECTORS , Keep the Largest Stock, Atthe Lowest Prices in. Dr, T. C. Boulware, Booker Powell, .M Tucker, Green W. Walton ) R, Simpson r. N, L. Whippie ‘rank Voris, Ww, E, Walton, C. H. Dutches J- Rue Jenkins. iit J. H Sullens, jen Deerwester, Receives deposits, loans money, and transacts a general banking business. We extend to ourcustomers every ac- commodation consistent with sate tanks ing. COKRESPONDENTS. First Nat'l Bank - Fourth National Bank - Hanover National Sank - Kansas City St. Louis. New York. BATES COUNTY National Bank. (Organized in 1871.)%§ OF BUTLER, MC. Canital paid in, - - $75,000. Surplus - - - + $71.000 F.t. TYGARD, - - - + President. HON i: ® MEWBERRY, Vice-Pres. J.C.CLARK - - - Cashier. FINE SUITS. In every style price and quality Made to Order [guaranteed a fit in every case ailand see me, up stairs North? Main Street. JE TALBOTT, a7 Merchant Tailor. i THIS is the top of the gen- uine “Pearl Top” Lamp Chimney, all others similar are imitations +4: is the exact label on each one of the Pearl Top Chimeys. The dealer may say and think he has as good, but he has not. Insist upon the- exact label and top. GEO. A. MACBETH & CO. | Pittsburgh, Pa | Harness and Saddlery Spooner Patent Collar GENTS FURNISHING GOODS. ADVERTISERS — can learn *he exact cost | of any propesed line of | advertising in American | papers by addressing Geo. P. Rowell & Co., Newspaper Advertising Bureau, 10 Spruce St., New York. Send 10cts. for 100-Page Pamphiet fields are searce, bat thoss who write to Sunson & Co.,Portiand, Maine, will recstre, free, fall information about work wbich they can do, and tive at home,that wi) pay them from $5 to $25 per day Some bave earned over $0 inaday Either sex, young orold Capital ‘Dot required. You are started free. Those who start at cone we absolutely sure of sang Uttle fortunes, A!) u pe —PREVENTS CHAFING CAN NOT CHOKE A HORSE Adjusts itself to any Hi place better than any other collar. SCHWANER’S AML TUG SEUTID Prevents braking at end of clip, and loops from tearing out. women, \USED ON ALL OF OUR HARNESS. SOUTH SIDE SQUARE BUTLER MO. BUY YOUR Dry Goods BOOTS AND SHOES Where you canget srepresented. to select from Go then A large stock d quilny, iow prices, a call will convince vou of the fact. Kb PE. rrt LLY. J, M. McKIBBEN, | may discharge a double duty to our ! e | proud proof of our country’s pro- lorse’s Neck, has two rows ot stitching, will hold Hames “in afforded, should lead them to willing- an easy reduction of taxation. The considerations which have been presented touching our tariff laws are intended only to enforce an earnest recommendation that the sur- plus revenues ofthe government be prevented by the reduction of our eustoms duties, and, at the same time, to emphasize a suggestion that | which should characterize the action | of those entrusted with the weal of | coptiding people. But the obliga- tion to declare party policy and prin- cipal is not wanting to urge prompt and effective action. Both of the great political parties now represent- ed in the government have, by re peated and authoritative declarations- in accomplishing this purpose, we people by granting to them a meas- ure of relief from tariff taxation where it is most needed and from sources which itcan be most fairly and justly accorded. Nor can the presentations made of such consider- ations be, with any degree of fair- ness, regarded as evidence of un- friendliness toward our manufactuy- ing interests, or of any lack of appre- ciation of their value. These interests constitute a leading and most substantial element of our national greatness and furnish the gress. But if, in the emergency that presses on us, our manufacturers are asked to surrender ¢ mething for the public good and to avert disaster, their patrotism, as well as a grateful recognition of advantages already ly co operate. No demand is made that they shall forego all the benefits of governmental regard, but they cannot fail to be admonished of their duty, as well as their enlightened self-interest and safety, when they are reminded of the fact that finan- cial panic and collapse, to which the present condition tends, afford no greater shelter or protection to our manufactures than toour other im- portant enterprises. Opportunity for sale, careful and deliberate re- form is now offered, and none of us should be unmindful of the time when abused and irritated people, heedless of those who have resisted timely and reasonable releif, may in- sist upon a radical and sweeping rec tification of their wrongs. The difficulty attending a wiseand fair revision of our tariff laws is not underestimated. It will require on the part of the congress great labor and care, and especially a broad and national contemplation of the subject and a patriotic disregard of such lo- cal and selfish claims as are unreas- onable and reckless of the welfare of the entire country Under our present laws more than four thousand articles are subject to duty. Many of these do not in any way complete with our manufactures, and many are hardly worth attention as subjects of revenue. A consider- able reduction can be made in the ag- gregate by adding them to the free list, The taxation of luxuries pre- sents no features of hardships, but the neceasaries of life, used and con sumed by all the people, the duty upon which adds to the cost ofliving in every home, should be greatly cheapened. The radical reduction of the duties imposed upon raw materal used in manufactures, or its free importation is of course an important factor in any effort to reduce the price of these necessaries. It would not on™ ly relieve them from the increased cost caused by the tariff on such ma- terial, but the manufactured pro- duct being thus cheapened, that part of the tariff now laid upon such pro- duct, as a compensation to our manu- facturers for the present price of raw | material, could be accordingly modi- | fied. ch reduction, or free im- portation, would serve beside to largely reduce the revenue. It is not apparent how such a change can have any injurious effect upon our manufacturers. On the contary, it would appear to give them a better condemned the condition of ourlaws which permit the collection from the people of unnecessary revenue, and have, in the most solemn manner, promised its correction; and neither as citizens or partisans are our count:ymen in a@ mood to condone the deliberate violation of these pledges. Our progress toward a wise con- clusion will not be improved by dwelling upon the theories of pro- tection and free trade. This savors too much of bandying epithets. It 1s a condition which confronts us— uot a theory. Releif from this con- dition may involve a slight reduction of the advantages which we award our home productions, but the entire withdrawal of such advantages should uot be contemplated. The question of free trade is absolutely irrelevant; and the persistent claim made in cer- tain quarters, that all efforts to re- cive the people from unjust and un- necessary taxation are schemes of so- called free traders, is mischievous aud far removed from any considera. tion for the public good. The simple and plain duty which we owe the people is to reduce the taxation to the necessary expenses of an economical operation of the gov- ernment, and to restore to the busi- ness of the country the money which we hold in the treasury through the perversions of the governmental powers. These things can and should be done with safety of all our industries without danger to the opportunity for remunerative labor which our workingmen need and with benefit to them and all our people by cheapening their means of subsis- tence and increasing the measure of their comforts. The constitution provides that the President shall from time to time give to the congress infomation of the state of the Union. It has been the custom of the executive in com- pliance with this provision, to an- nually exhibit to the congress, at the opening of its session, the general condition of the country, and to de- tail, with some particularity, the operations of the different executive departments. It would be especial- ly agreeable to follow this course at the present time, and to call atten- tion to the valuable accomplishments of these departments during the last fiseal year, but I am so much impress- ed with the paramount importance of the subject to which this commu- nication has thus far been devoted that I shall forego the addition of any other topic, and only urge upon your immediate consideration the “state of the union” as shown in the present condition of our treasury and our general fiscal situation, upon which every element of our safety and prosperity depends. The reports of the departments, which will be submitted, contain full and explicit information touching the transaction of business intrusted to them, and such recommendations retating to legislation in the public interest as they deem advisable. I ask for these reports and recommen- dations the deliberate examination and action of the legislative branch of the government. There are other subjects not em- braced in the departmental report demanding legislative consideration and which I should be glad to sub- mit. Some of them, however have been earnestly presented in previous | Messages, and as to them I beg leave to repeat prior recomendations. As the law makes no provision for any report from the department of state, a brief history of the transact- ions of that important department, together with other matters which it may hereafter be deemed essential to commend to the attention of the congress, may furnish the occasion for a future communication. Grover Ciave.ann. Washington, D. C., Dec. 6. 1887. The Butler Hunting Party. Reno, Mo., Dec. 1st 1887. Ep. Tiwes: “Our hunting party ar- rived at Reno on Tuesday last, and taken a hunt on Wednesday following. One deer was slain by G. A. Heath of the party. This was the first deer he had ever shot at and he says it was the fatest deer he ever killedj It was amuseing to see him when he first shot it. He rushed up and fell on the deer, then drew his knife and cut its throat, and not being satisfied with that he severed its head from its body, and then exclaimed, I don't in- tend to letthis here deer get away from me. And still having some doubt about the deer being secured, he then cut all of its legs off. Then began to hollow for some one to come to his assistance. Myself, and Esq., Badgley, hearing his yells, made fast haste to his assistance, thinking he had accidently shot himself. As soon a8 we arrived near him he yelled out, Oh! I downed two of them but didn’t get but one. The balance of the party have all killed several wild pigeons, they are very numerous here, and are fine eating. It is raining hard to-day, and has been raining for the past twenty four hours, which stops our hunting until it ceases.. Taney county and the southern part of Christian county is very mountainous and rockey, but pro- duces well, though it was very dry in this seciion during the past sum- mer, cutting the crops short. Corn is worth 35 cents per bushel, wheat 50 cents per bushel, Oats 25 cents per bushel, pork 5 cents net, beef cattle from one and a half eents on foot. The fruit crop of every variety was fine the past season. We will return to Butler about the 10th, load- ed down with game of different kinds. The party are well and en- joying themselves fine, D.G.N., Prof. Scoville, of Kansas, has been experimenting to ascertain the abrink- age in corn after it isripe and placed in the crib. Reports of his teste are given in the Kansas City Indicator from which we learn the six different varieties weighed October 6th iid stowed in a room without any artifi- cial heat, showed an average shrink- age of 154 per cents 30 days alter storage. One variety lost a little over 8 per cent, while another the loss was 25 per cent. On February 29th, 145 days from the dateof gath- ering, the lot was weighed, and the average loss on the whole amounted to 21% per cent. From the above the farmer may make a very close calculation as to the advance in price of corn which he must obtain in spring to make it equal to the loss sustained in shrinkage during winter; A remarkable case of endurance without food is related of a bull be- longing to Jeff Keseling living near Xenia. The animal got loose one night and having a lariat around his neck and after an absence of 46 day in which every effort was made to find him he was found ina thieket about 600 yards from Keseling’s house with the lariat attached toa bush from which he was unable to. extricate himself, having lived all that time it is believed, without eith- er food or drink. When found he was unable to stand, but since being wared for he is gradually gaining in strength and promises to entirely” recover. This beats Tanner whe fasted forty days and was not tied —Blue Mound Sun. The United States supreme eourt decided Monday last that Probibi- tion is constitutional. Go to N. O. Wyard for harness, whips, collars, &c. He will treat you right and sell to you cheap.