The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 5, 1894, Page 4

The South Carolina whiskey law | is causing trouble and blood shed. | g | At Darlingt n, constables attempted | 1. D, ALLEN Epreor. |to earch private residences and | SRE were revisted by the citizens and | | several men were killed. The militia —jof the state was called out by the| B fLER WEEKLY TIMES }. D. Atten & Co., Ptoprietors. ‘TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: { The Weexty Times, published every| Soldiers laid down their arms and | Thursday. will be sent to any addressirefused to obey and the| one year, postage paid, for $1.00, a |commanders of the companies re | sigued. | “The seat of war is now changed | orders, Announcem=-ntwx. The dispatches say: We are authorized to announce i Chairman of Finanee Committee Voorhees Launches the Question. | governor to eufurce the law and the | An Unusually Full Attendance, Both on the Floor and in the Galleries and the Indiana Senator was Given a Warm Greeting—He Occupied Nearly Two Hours With His Ad- dress. TARIFF DEBATE Has BEGUN ' the imperfections and shortcomings | jalleged against the pending measure, | ‘and will constitute the rock on which |the temple of tariff reform will be} ‘built, and against which, in the! | ameliorated future, the gates of! jayarice, oppression and fraud shall | not prevail. With such a beneficent | ‘and stupendous result now plainly | j within the reach of the American | | people and almest ready for their | eager enjoyment, F envy not the fate | |of the part, nor the man nor the set | ENNETT-WHEELER MERC. C0. — —DEALERS IN——— Bradley and John Deere Stirring Plows,Steel frame Lever Harrows Deere and Challenge highand low wheel all steel frame Corn Plant- ters with check-rower and drill . H. HILL, 4s candidate forthe office of Circuit Clerk of Bates county, subject to the action of the d-m- gcratic convention, May 25 Democratic Central Committee. The committee decided that town ship conventions be h-ld Saturday April 14th to select delegates to the county convention to be held in But ler, Monday April 16th. to select delegates to the state convention. Also that township conventions be held Saturday, May 26th to select delegates to thescounty convention to be held in Butler. Monday May 28 to nominate a county ticket. Reports from Nebraska say the wheat in that state has not been injured. It took a good deal of nerve to re- fuse a seat in the United States sen- ate. Speaker Crisp did _ The president's message vetoing the seigniorage bill is published iv full on another page of th’s paper. Speaker Crisp refused the offer of aseat inthe United States senate tendered him by Gov. Northen, of Georgia. R. McManns, of Livingstone, Mon- ana, shot and killed bis young wife and then committed suicide by drawing a razor acrosa his own throat. ee jto Columbia. The adjutant aud in- apector geueral of the State troops arrived here on a special train. of the Governor, has traveled over the State endeavoring to raise a force of volunteers to uphold the dispensary laa, but the indications are he bas met complete failure on all sides, as all classes of citizens are refusing to bear arms against South Carolimuns The adjutant general nas been in consultation with the most couserva tive citizens of Darlington to day, and the inference is they have all agreed to use their influeuce to quiet the disturbed condition. A strong determination still prevails, however, that Tillman spies shal! not invade private residences. The spy McLen don, who was in jail here, was spirit ed away by his friends and support ers of tue dispensary law between the hours of 6:30 last evening and 5 this morning. McLendon was the man who killed Frank Norment and a number of the dead man’s friends are searching for him The “spy” who was captured in the woods near Rogers has also escaped.” Silver Seigniorage. Washington, D.C, March 29 — Représeniative Henderson (Demo erat) of North Carolina followed the presentation of th» President's vet8 message by submitting a bill for the coinage of the silver seigniorage. The text is the same asthe Bland bill, omitting the second section and Pending the completion of a new jail, Howard county has eleven pris oners in the Boone county jail and pavs $165 per month for their maintainance. _ McKinley is booming timself for president by starring over the coun- try, in palace cars and making speeches. He evidently believes in the fable of the early bird. The busis of represeutation in the coming county convention is one delegate for every 25 votes cast for Cleveland in ’92. And one for every fraction of 13 votes cast at said election. The seceding members of the Christian church at Nevada have purchased the rink building and are fitting the same up for church pur- poses. Nevada can now boast of having two churches of the same faith. The tariff bill was introduced in the Senate Monday The republicans announce that there will be no fili bustering on their part. But have agreed to fight the measure in detail and it is predicted a vote on the bill will not be had before the latter part of August. It isa quiet, though nono the less ‘effective, contrast to the customary affluence and money making attri butes,of the Senate that Senator Col- quitt, after serving eleven years in that company of nabobs, had uoth- ing but his life insurance of $5,000 and a Georgia homestead to leave his family. To this will be added a year’s salary as Senator, but the whole amount is not so large as the average Senator often expends in a single jyear. Senator Colquitt was an honest man.—Kaneas City Times. Of all memorials which have been presented to Congress during the tariff debate none is more self-accus- ing than that signed by three Sena- tors from Montana, Idado and North Dakota regarding sheep raising in the West. The basis on which a high protective tariff for wool is asked is the cheapness of pasturage in Australia and South America. While such a plea might hold with ceference to the high-priced lands of the Eastern and Middle States, it is obviously out of place where the immense and almost free ranges of the Northwest are concerned. There are no cheaper or more prolific sheep pastures anywhere. The fact that that wool has reached its very low- some of the explanatory language of the first section. It directs the See- retary of the Treasury to coiu as fast as possible the silver seignior- age into legal tender standard silver dollars. The bill was referred to the coinage committ F This week the announcement of D. H. Hill, of Hume appears in the Times as a candidate for the office of cireuit clerk of Bates county Mr Hill was born in the state of Virginia and is a graduate of the university his native state souri in 1868, locating in Lafayette county wuers he taught school for a numb r of years I. 1878, he cam- to Bates which county bas since been his home. He was postmnster at Hume for ten years, and pow holds the office of Justice of the peace of his township Since his residence in this county Mr. Hill bas taken a: active part in politics, work ing and voting for the democratic nominees of his party, but never 2as asked for himself « county office be fore. He bas served a number of terms and is nowa member of the He came to Mis The! inspector generul, under the orders | Washington, D. C., April 2 —The principal interest in the Senate to day centered in the speech of Sena- tor Voorhees, the chairman of the committee on fiuance, who thus launched the tariff question upon the sea of Senatorial debate SENATOR VOORHEES’ ADDRESS. Mr. President: Great abuses in yvovernment, strong by the sanction an growth of yearsembedded in the powerful interests of privileged classes, created. fostered, encourag ed and frotected by the laws them- 8 lves, have rarely, if ever in any age been promptly and totally eradicat- ed, except by forcible revolution and bloodshed. Such isthe concurrent and unbroken testimony of history. The spirit of peace:ul and practical reform, on the other hand, 18 a reas oning avd progressive spirit, moving forward, step by step no matter how radical and thorough its ends and aims may be, and overcoming the most gigantic evils with patient wis dom and courage, rather than by violent and wholesale assault. The protective system of tariff taxation as devcloped and fastened upon the busine-s and labor of the American people, especially during the third of a century past, growing worse at every stage, is a system of indescrib- able injustice and oppression, and yet wio will contend that all its vic- ious principles and workings, rawifi ed as they are through every branch of trade and commeree, can be anni- hilated by a single legislative enact- ment? For the bill now under con sideration no such claim is made,but in its behalf can be truthfully asser ted and will be successfully maintain ed that it accomplished a vast work in the field of tariff reform, embodies a great relief to the people from ini- quitious existing bucdens and con- stitutes a long stride, though not a tinal one, toward the approaching day of a full and perfect deliverance. Sir, I challenge the attention of the Senate and the country to the great aud commanding fact that by provisions of this bill the same time an increase of public revenues will be reconciled when it becomes a law. I will not stop to consider at this point the vast individual robberies co-umitted in protected markets,the untold and incaleulable millions of blackmail levied by Americau manu facturers for their own pockets on their own enforced customers when cut off from all oui side competition; county central committee and acted as chairman at the recent meeting of that body map, accommodating, competent aud would make a model clerk. He is « genial gentle rT, | KNOWLEDGE Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when rightly used. The many, who live bet- ter than others and enjoy life more, with less expenditure, by more promptly adapting the world’s best products to the peels of physical being, will attest the value to health of the pure liquid laxative principles embraced in the remedy, Syrup of Figs. Its excellence is due to its presenting in the form most acceptable and pleas- ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of a perfect lax- ative ; effectually cleansing the system, dispelling colds, headaches and fevers and permanently curing constipation. Tt has given satisfaction to millions and | met with the approval of the medical profession, because it acts on the Kid- neys, Liver and Bowels without weak- ening them and it is perfectly free from very objectionable substance. est point after three years of the highest protection on record is suf- ficient ground for bringing that costly system to a atrict\ revenue ~ basis —Kansas City Times. | Ss of Figs is for sale by all dru; gists in 50c and $1 bottles, but itis ae ufactured by the California Fig Syrup it is enough for my present purpose to say that we have liberalized Amer- ican markets, made them more acces- sible to the traffic of the world, and, while not establishing free trade, we have made trade freer and more even handed between the manufacturer and the consumer. But over and above and beyond this wide and well known field of extortion and injue- tice, it will be found from the sched- ule of this bill that tariff taxes now officially ascertained and paid under existing law, on the want,necessities jand daily consumption of the labor- jing mep, women and children of the | United States have been reduced more than $76,000,000 per saonum. These reductions are as follows: On chemicals, $1,000,000; on pottery, $1,900,000; on glass, $1,500,000; on metals, $12,500,000; on wood, $300,- 000; on tobacco, $3,300,000: on agri- cultural producte, $3,300,000; on spirits, wines, etc, $1,500,000; on cotton manufactures, $3,450,000; on flay hemp and jute manufactures, $6,000,000; on woolen manufaetures, $23,500,000; on silk manufactures, $3,500,000; on paper and pulp,$300,- 000; on sundries, $2,450,000; trans- ferred to the free list, $12,170,000. Total, $76,670,000. To this must be added the further imposing fact the bill provides for a full and ample revenue, largely in- jexces of present supplies,with which to meet all the requirements of the public credit. Such a consummation Co. only, whose name is printed on every also the name, Syrup of Figs, and being well informed, you will-not accept any substitute if offered. i i as this, so full of relief to the people, |of men who shall constitute them lcombined. selves a hinderance and an obstruc | tion to its speedy fulfillment SUBSTANTIAL MEASURE OF REFORM Faults a-d imperfectious can, of course, be alleged and pointed out; concessions are apparent which have been unwillingly made in order to secure its passage; articles on the free list, as they came from the house, bave been made dutiable under the duress of a small majority here, yet, deeply as I regret the ue cexsity of these changes, I do not hesitate to say the bill, whole, as it now stands, with its combination of lower taxes ou the necessaries of life aud at the same time increased revenues for the gov ernment, will be bailed as a substan tial measure of reform and release by the great producing masses of the American people. Manufacturing interests which 100 years ago were indeed in their infancy, and were nursed and foster ed while in their cradle, are now the colossal taskmasters of the whole people, commuuding tribute from every day's labor beneath the sun, = haughtily striding the corridors of the capitol and issuing their edicts inthe tones of dictators for or against the enactment of pending measures iu the halls of congress. taken asa Deere Spring Trip Cultivators, Stalk Cutters, Grub Plows, Disc Riding Cultivators, Road Plow Hardware, Groceries, Stoves, Ba cent ad valorem. The fact the duty tax on sugar has inured more to the benefit of the revenues of the gov- ernment and less to the profits f private parties than any other tax known to tariff legislation, may be stated as the main reason why the democratic party has never made an issue against it. Every dollar col lected from a tariff tax on sugar paid into the treasury relieves some other article of even higher necéssity in the economy of life from the imposi tion of tariff taxation. During the present fiscal year, ending June 30,there will be paid by the treasury $12.300,000 as bounty to the producer of sugar, and every dollar of this vast sum is first col lected from tnose who plant corn, raise wheat, and engage in all the various pursuits of Tabor. Nearly $30,000,000 of bounty money bas been handed over to the sugar mak- ers of the country since the law went into operation, and each year the sum is rapidly imereasing. It was thought when the law was un der diseussion the bounty would not exceed $8,000,000 per year, but the stimulating influence of such an enormous bounty was underrated. If the law is to remain unrepealed the time is at hand when it will con fer as a mere gratuity more than $20,000,000 per year ona small frac- tion of our population, engaged in Those who own and represent these swollen and arrogant not hesitate to declare in what terms a bill vitally affecting 70,000,000 will be permitted to become a law, and in default of what provisions for financial profits to themselves the. will insure its defeat. In the hard Working days of attempted tariff re form they are met eveywhere; and asarule bear themselves as favor ites of power generally do The evactment of the McKinley law in 1890 was a gigantic crime, uot only against every workingman aud working woman in the United States, but also against every indi- vidual mauufacturer and agaiust all wanwfacturing interests. It was designed by its authors, but such was its real and inevitable character It deelared a policy so flagitious ir prine+pie, so rotten in morality, and so ravenous jn its exaetions of the absolute wants of life, that its pos sible duration was ouly a question of time when the next election by the people should occur, and yet the vast manufacturing interests of the countyy were tempted and seduced into aecepting its delusive bribes, andinto an eager adjustment of interests do and of strength, safety and honor to the g@vernment, may well atone for themselves to its alluring though evanescent and short-lived provision If the yeward of labor bad ever been increased as an incident or conse- quenee of increased tariff duties on foreign imports, nothing would be easier or more gracious to the advo cates and beneficiaries of protection than to show that fact. The very reverse, however, is true. It can never be forgotten in the enactment of the McKinley law in October, 1890, was followed almost immedi ately by a reduction of the wages of all workers in iron and steel, begin- ning at Homestead, in Pennsylvania, | under Carnegie, resulting in blood- shed and wholesale murder, and ex tending to all parts of the country and to almost every branch of man- ufacturing industry. He defended the advalorem system as fairer, hon- ester and more easily understood than specific duties. On the subject of sugar schedule he said: THE SUGAR SCHEDULE. Absolute free trade in sugar is an attractive theme, but no such thing has ever existed for a single hour since the organization of this gov- ernment. A moderate duty has al- ways been imposed on sugar, and it has always been a staunch revenue support to the government. In that great model of a democratic tariff for revenue only—the tariff of 1846 —it was declared in short and sim- ple phrase that “sugar of all kinds,” and “syrup of the sugar” were sub- ject toa duty laid tax of 300 per no public service, but in their own private enterprises. REGARDING THE WOOL SCHEDULES. If I believed wool on the free lict would burt the farmer I would not vote for the bill. It is a mattar of actual demonstration, however, which has often been made that free | wool, accompanied by sueh reduced rates as can be placed upon manu- factures of wool and which are placed on them in this bill, is one of the greatest blessings than can be- fall the farmer. If the farmer should get an increased price for his wool by reason of a tariff for its protec tion, he will pay it all out, and much more, to the manufacturer, as a duty on woolen goods when he next buys a flannel shirt, an overcoat, or a pair of trousers. Mr Voorhees eoncluded as fol- lows: When the day shal! dawn in which the farmer, the mechanic, and the wage-workers shall alike have | the right and the privilege to go into the open, liberated markets of the land and buy where their hard earn- | ed money will buy most for their | wants, with none to molest. to assess | to levy, to take toll, or to tax, then, | indeed, will the millenium of labor | have come, and all the sons and | daughters of toil shall rise up and} eall their government blessed. | Sir, this is the birthday of Thomas | Jefferson. One hundred and fifty- | one years ago to-day he came into | the world, the greatest emancipator ' s, New Departure Tongueless Cultivators, Farm Wagons, all kinds of Grass and Garden seeds, rb wire, Queensware, Buggies, Spring Wagons and Road Carts We always pay the highest cash or trade price for all kinds of country produce. Bennett-Wheeler Mercantile Co. and teacher of the natural rights of men ever known in human history. The blows he struck for freedom, justice and equality in government are yet resounding throughout the eirth. and they will never «ease to be heard until the last shackie of privilege and tyranny is broken. Ten days before bis soul took flight from his mountain home, he wrote his parting words to his own coun- trymen and to all the races of man- kind. With this great dying message before us. and in its spirit, we take hew courage aud yo on with our work. “All eyes are opeu, or opening,” be said, “to the rights of man The general spread of the light of science has already Jaid open to every view the palpable truth that the mass of mankind bas not born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately by the grace of God.” Hail mighty message, and hail its speedy aud certain fufillment. 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