tx-waco-nwp-day_1887-12-06_01 |
Previous | 1 of 8 | Next |
|
* VOL. 4, NO 301 WACO, TEXAS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER. 6, 18b7. PRICE 6 CENTS. fflrg ffiono*. Sanger Brothers. ANOTHER WEEK OK BARGAINS IN OURCarpet department. 3 New and pretty patterns of Tapestry Brussels at 5o, 55 65 and 75 cents a yard. Standard qualities of Body Brussels at 85c,, $1.00. and $1.25. Wilton Velvets $1 a yard. Wilton Velvets $1 a yard. Extra Super all wool threeply at 85 cents a yard. Moquettes in new pattrens at fl.oo, $l.lo and $1.25 a yard. All fool Extra Supers 55 Cents. All Wool Extra Supers 55 Cents. § Superfine all wool two—plys at 5o cents a yard. And a new lot of choice rich patterns in Royal Wiltons. CLOAK AND SUIT DEPARTMENT. Our special sale of Ladies’ and Cnildren’s Cloaks and suits is receiving a great deal of attention, as our new price attached to each aud every garment shows a decided reduction thatbuyers are taking advantage of. The stock is still complete and early purchasers will get the advantage of same. Ladies’ Newmarkets at $1.00, $4.95, $6.00 and $7.50, are almost worth double. Ladies’ Walking Jackets at $2.95, $3.45, 4.9o and $6.oo, are all new and choice goods and are offered at these low prices to reduce stock. MISSES’AND CHILDREN’S CLOAKS. At no previous season have we shown such a large line of choice things at such very low prices. Sanger brothers. Srg ©ooiz. ISAAC LEWIS, Corner Fifth and Austin Streets. It Is A Conceded Fact That 1. I sell goods cheaper than any house in the city. 2. I give better value than any house in Waco. 3. I don’t misrepresent any article in my house. 4. I uniformly offer at prices advertised. 5. I don’t advertise good goods at low prices and offer inferior goods. 6. I am totally opposed to anything that would possibly tend“to humbug or delude the public. 7. I do business upon strict business principles, believing that success can only be its legitimate result. FOR THIS WEEK I WISH TO BRING MY HOSIERY DEPARTMENT PROMINENTLY BEFORE THE PUBLIC, WITH Unprecedented Low Prices Affixed Thereto. Ladies Full Regular Made Hose 15c, 20c, 25c; Former price 25c, 30c, 35c Ladies’JFull Regular made woolen hose, 22 i2c, good value ior 35c Ladies’ heavy weignt all wool hose, 30c, good value for 50c Ladies best quality English cashmere hose,ribbed and plain,only 45c,fully worth 75c Boys’heavy gray ribbed hose, omy .... 10c Boys’heavy ribbed full regular made, 15c sold elsewhere at 35c Boys’heavy ribbed double feet and knees, 20c, sold elsewhere at 40c Misses’ all wool hose, sizes from 6 to 8 12, at 33c, worth 50c GLOVE DEPARTMENT. Ladies’kid gloves 50c,65c, 85c, worth 75c, $1,51.25 Ladies’silk gloves, lined, ssoc, 252, 35c, worth from 50Cto$l Misses’ and children’s mittens, leggings, etc,, in profuse quantities, at greatly reduced prices. SPEC IAL Ladies’knit Jersey vests, regular made, with or without sleeves, for $1 and $1.25, all good value, and would be cheap at ... $1.50 and $2 Finest quality of ladies’ scarlet all wool vests and pants at 90c, worth $1.50 Best camel’s hair ladies’vests and pants at $1, worth ... $1,50 Ladies’ extra heavy merino vests and pants only 50c, worth from 75c to $ 1 A real good ladies’ vest for 25c, sold everywhere at 40c QELTT8 ERJRTST ISHILTGr f Gepts satin and gros grain silk scarfs at 25 cents, always worth 50c, I new, desirable and handsome patterns. Gents’ white shirts, twenty oprpiA! { pleat front;* t,!H dress shirt, reduced to $1.50, formerly sold at $2 and .^jICuIAL 1 $2.25. value ottered this season is our~$3 gents’ suit ot under J wear, all wool, standard weight and fast colors. My entire stock will undergo a SPECIAL REDUCTION during this month, making each department a place for bargains for the holidays. ISAAC LEWIS. SjarBtoart. BROWN’S PATENT METALLIC AND RUBBER Weather Strips Keep Out Cold, Rain and Dust HORSFULL & CAMERON SOLE AGENTS FOR WACO IBreacrion fflruaaisis THE OLD CORNER DRUG STORE, IS THELeading Prescription Drug STORE IN ENTRALTEXA.. COMPLK1E STOCK OF SDUIB'S PREPARATION S AND MERCKS CHEMICALS Only Best Of Medicines Used In Prescription PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE. A THOROUGH DISCUSSION OF THE TARIFF QUESION. The Treasury Surplus Must Be Reduced by Tariff Revision—Protection to Industry and Relief to the People. The Message. Washington, December6.—The following is a synopsis of the President’s message, as read to both houses of congress today: To the Congress of the United States. You are confronted at the threshold of your legislative duties with a condition of national finances which imperatively demands immediate attention and careful consideration. The amount of money annually exacted through the operations of the present laws from the industries and necessities of the people largely exceeds the sum necessary to meet the expenses of the government. It will not do to neglect this situation because its dangers are not now palpably imminent and apparent. They exist none the less certainly and await the unforeseen and unexpected occasion when suddenly they will be precipitated upon us. On the 30th day of June, 1885, the excess of revenues over public expenditures after complying with the annual requirements of the sinking fund apt, was $17,859, 755.81; during the year ending June 30th, 1886, such excess amounted to $44,405t5452o; and during the year ending June 30th, 1887, it reached the sum of $55,5(57,849 54, and is estimated to reach the sum of $113,000,000 on the 30th day of June next, at which date it is expected that this sum added to prior accumulations will swell the surplus in the treasury to $146,000,000. There seems to be no assurance that with such a withdrawal from use of the people’s circulating medium our business community will not in the near future be subjecied to the same distress which was quite lately produced from the same cause and while the functions of our national treasury should be few and simple, and while its best condition would be reached, I' believe, by its entire disconnection with private business interests, yet when by a perversion of its purposes it idly holds money uselessly subtracted from the channels of trade, there seems to be reason for the claim that some legitimate means should be devised by the government to restore in an emergency without waste or extravagance such money to its place among the people. 1 have deemed it my duty to thus bring to the knowledge of my countrymen as well as to the attention of their representatives charged with the responsibility of legislative relief, the gravity of the financial situation. The failure of congress heretofore to provide against the dangers which it was quite evident from the very nature of the difficulty must necessarily be produced, caused a condition of financial distress and appre hension since your last adjournment which taxed to the utmost all the author ity and expedients within executive control, and these appear now to be exhausted. If disaster results from the continued inaction of congress the responsibility must rest where it belongs. After arguing that the tariff imposes a burden upon those who consume domestic products as well as those who consume imported articles,and thus create a tax upon all the people, the message says: It is not proposed to entirely relieve the country of this taxation. It must be extensively continued as the source of the government’s income and in a readjustment of our tariff the interests of American labor engaged in manufacture should be carefully considered as well as the preservation of capital thus employed. It may be called protection or by any other name, but relief from our present tariff law should be devised with especial precaution "against imperiling the existence of bur manufacturing interests. But this existence should not mean a condition which without regard to the public welfare or a national exigencymust always insure the realization of immense profits instead of moderately profitable returns. ^ There is a suspicion in the public mind that an organized combination exists all along the line to maintain the manufacturer’s advantage. While in the midst of centennial celebrations and with becoming pride we rejoice in American skill and ingenuity, American energy and enterprise, and in the wonderful natural advantages and lesources developed by a century’s national rowth, yet when an attempt is made toi ustify a scheme which permits a tax to be laid upon every consumer and for the benefit of our manufacturers quite beyond a reasonable demand for governmental regard, it suits the purposes of advocacy to call our manufactures infant industries, still needing the highest and greatest degree of favor and fostering care that can be wrung from federal legislation. It is also said that the increase in the price of domestic manufactures resulting from the present tariff is necessary in order that higher wages may be paid to our workingmen employed in manufactures than are paid for what is called the pauper labor ot Europe, The standard of our laborers’ lives should not be measured by that of any other country less favored and they are entitled to their full share of all our advintages. But the reduction of taxation demanded should be so measured as not to necessitate or justify either the loss of employmtnt by the working man, nor the lessening of his wages, and the profits still remaining to the manufacturer, after a necessary reducement, should furnish no excuse for the sacrifice of the interests of his employes, either in their opportunity to work, or iu the diminution of their compensation, nor can the worker in manufactures fail to understand that, 'while a high tariff is claimed to be necessary to allow the payment of remunerative wages, it certainly results in a very large increase in the price ot nearly all sorts of manufactures which, in almost countless forms, he needs for the use of himself and his family. The hatd earned compensation of many days of toil of the farmer and agriculturist, who manufactures nothing, but who pays the increased price which the tariff imposes upon every agricultural implement, upon all he wears and upon all he uses and owns, except the increase of his flocks and herds, and such things as his husbandry produces from the soil is invited to aid in' maintaining the present situation and he is told that a high duty on imported wool is necessary for thp benefit of those who have sheep to shear in order that the price of their wool be increased. They, of course, are not reminded that the farmer, who has no sheep, is, by this scheme, obliged,,in his purchases of clothing and woolen goods, to pay a tribute to his fellowfarmer as well as to the manufacturer and merchant, nor is any mention made of the fact that the sheep owners themselves and their households must wear clothing and use other articles manufactured from the wool they sell at tariff prices and thus, as consumers, must return their share of this increased price to the tradesmen. I think it may be fairly assumed that a larg^^njoportion of the sheep owned by the Wrmers throughout the country are found in small flocks numbering from twentyfive to fifty. The duty on the grade of imported wool which these sheep yield is ten cents for each pound of the value of thirty cents or less, and twelve cents if of the value of more than thirty cents. If the estimate of six pounds allowed for each fleece, the duty thereon would be 60 or 72 cents and this may be taken as the utmost enhancement of its price to the farmer, by reason of this duty. Eighteen dollars should thus represent the increased price of wool from twentyfive sheep and thirty six dollars that from the wool of fifty sheep, ai d at present values this addition would amount to about onethird of the price. The farmer receives this or a less tariff profit; the wool leaves his hands charged with precisely that sum, which in all its changes will adhere to its increase to the consumer when manufactured into cloth and other goods and material for use. Us costs is not only increased to the extent of the farmer’s tariff profit, but a futher sum has been added for the benefit of the manufacturer. In the meantime the day arrives when the farmer finds it neccessary to purchase woolen goods to clothe himself and family for the winter. When he faces the tradesman for that purpose he discovers that he is obliged, not only to return in the way of increased tariff profit on the wool he sold and which then perhaps lies before him in a manufactured form, but he pays a considerable sum for further increase in cost caused by a tariff duty on the manufacture. Thus in the end he is aroused to the fact that he has paid upon a moderate purchase, as a result of the tariff scheme, which when he sold his wool seemed so profitable, all the tax which accrued to him. When the number of farmers engaged in wool raising is compared with all the farmers in the country, and the small proportion they bear to our population is considered, when it is made apparent that in the case of a large part of those who own sheep the benefit of the present tariff on wool is illusory, and above all when it must be conceded that the increase of the cost of living caused by such tariff becomes a burden upon those with moderate means and the poor, the employed and the unemployed, the sick and well and thejyoung and the old, and that it constitutes a tax, which with relentless grasp is fastened upon the clothing of every man, woman and child in the land, reasons are suggested why the removal or reduction ot this duty should be included in a revision of our tariff laws. The considerations which have been presented touching our tariff laws are intejded only to enforce an earnest recommendation that the surplus revenue of the government be presented by the reductions of our customs duties,and at Continued on Fourth. Page.
Object Description
ID | tx-waco-nwp-day_1887-12-06 |
Title | The Day (Waco, Texas) Vol. 4 No. 304, Tuesday, December 6, 1887 |
Date | 1887-12-06 |
Volume | 4 |
Issue | 304 |
Number of Pages | 8 |
Publisher | The Day Publishing Company |
Language | English |
Rights | http://www.baylor.edu/lib/digitization/digitalrights |
Resource Type | Text |
Format | Newspaper, 8 pages |
Collection Name | Baylor University - The Texas Collection - Historic Waco Newspapers |
Uniform Title | The Day (Waco, Texas) |
Description
Title | tx-waco-nwp-day_1887-12-06_01 |
OCR - Transcript | * VOL. 4, NO 301 WACO, TEXAS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER. 6, 18b7. PRICE 6 CENTS. fflrg ffiono*. Sanger Brothers. ANOTHER WEEK OK BARGAINS IN OURCarpet department. 3 New and pretty patterns of Tapestry Brussels at 5o, 55 65 and 75 cents a yard. Standard qualities of Body Brussels at 85c,, $1.00. and $1.25. Wilton Velvets $1 a yard. Wilton Velvets $1 a yard. Extra Super all wool threeply at 85 cents a yard. Moquettes in new pattrens at fl.oo, $l.lo and $1.25 a yard. All fool Extra Supers 55 Cents. All Wool Extra Supers 55 Cents. § Superfine all wool two—plys at 5o cents a yard. And a new lot of choice rich patterns in Royal Wiltons. CLOAK AND SUIT DEPARTMENT. Our special sale of Ladies’ and Cnildren’s Cloaks and suits is receiving a great deal of attention, as our new price attached to each aud every garment shows a decided reduction thatbuyers are taking advantage of. The stock is still complete and early purchasers will get the advantage of same. Ladies’ Newmarkets at $1.00, $4.95, $6.00 and $7.50, are almost worth double. Ladies’ Walking Jackets at $2.95, $3.45, 4.9o and $6.oo, are all new and choice goods and are offered at these low prices to reduce stock. MISSES’AND CHILDREN’S CLOAKS. At no previous season have we shown such a large line of choice things at such very low prices. Sanger brothers. Srg ©ooiz. ISAAC LEWIS, Corner Fifth and Austin Streets. It Is A Conceded Fact That 1. I sell goods cheaper than any house in the city. 2. I give better value than any house in Waco. 3. I don’t misrepresent any article in my house. 4. I uniformly offer at prices advertised. 5. I don’t advertise good goods at low prices and offer inferior goods. 6. I am totally opposed to anything that would possibly tend“to humbug or delude the public. 7. I do business upon strict business principles, believing that success can only be its legitimate result. FOR THIS WEEK I WISH TO BRING MY HOSIERY DEPARTMENT PROMINENTLY BEFORE THE PUBLIC, WITH Unprecedented Low Prices Affixed Thereto. Ladies Full Regular Made Hose 15c, 20c, 25c; Former price 25c, 30c, 35c Ladies’JFull Regular made woolen hose, 22 i2c, good value ior 35c Ladies’ heavy weignt all wool hose, 30c, good value for 50c Ladies best quality English cashmere hose,ribbed and plain,only 45c,fully worth 75c Boys’heavy gray ribbed hose, omy .... 10c Boys’heavy ribbed full regular made, 15c sold elsewhere at 35c Boys’heavy ribbed double feet and knees, 20c, sold elsewhere at 40c Misses’ all wool hose, sizes from 6 to 8 12, at 33c, worth 50c GLOVE DEPARTMENT. Ladies’kid gloves 50c,65c, 85c, worth 75c, $1,51.25 Ladies’silk gloves, lined, ssoc, 252, 35c, worth from 50Cto$l Misses’ and children’s mittens, leggings, etc,, in profuse quantities, at greatly reduced prices. SPEC IAL Ladies’knit Jersey vests, regular made, with or without sleeves, for $1 and $1.25, all good value, and would be cheap at ... $1.50 and $2 Finest quality of ladies’ scarlet all wool vests and pants at 90c, worth $1.50 Best camel’s hair ladies’vests and pants at $1, worth ... $1,50 Ladies’ extra heavy merino vests and pants only 50c, worth from 75c to $ 1 A real good ladies’ vest for 25c, sold everywhere at 40c QELTT8 ERJRTST ISHILTGr f Gepts satin and gros grain silk scarfs at 25 cents, always worth 50c, I new, desirable and handsome patterns. Gents’ white shirts, twenty oprpiA! { pleat front;* t,!H dress shirt, reduced to $1.50, formerly sold at $2 and .^jICuIAL 1 $2.25. value ottered this season is our~$3 gents’ suit ot under J wear, all wool, standard weight and fast colors. My entire stock will undergo a SPECIAL REDUCTION during this month, making each department a place for bargains for the holidays. ISAAC LEWIS. SjarBtoart. BROWN’S PATENT METALLIC AND RUBBER Weather Strips Keep Out Cold, Rain and Dust HORSFULL & CAMERON SOLE AGENTS FOR WACO IBreacrion fflruaaisis THE OLD CORNER DRUG STORE, IS THELeading Prescription Drug STORE IN ENTRALTEXA.. COMPLK1E STOCK OF SDUIB'S PREPARATION S AND MERCKS CHEMICALS Only Best Of Medicines Used In Prescription PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE. A THOROUGH DISCUSSION OF THE TARIFF QUESION. The Treasury Surplus Must Be Reduced by Tariff Revision—Protection to Industry and Relief to the People. The Message. Washington, December6.—The following is a synopsis of the President’s message, as read to both houses of congress today: To the Congress of the United States. You are confronted at the threshold of your legislative duties with a condition of national finances which imperatively demands immediate attention and careful consideration. The amount of money annually exacted through the operations of the present laws from the industries and necessities of the people largely exceeds the sum necessary to meet the expenses of the government. It will not do to neglect this situation because its dangers are not now palpably imminent and apparent. They exist none the less certainly and await the unforeseen and unexpected occasion when suddenly they will be precipitated upon us. On the 30th day of June, 1885, the excess of revenues over public expenditures after complying with the annual requirements of the sinking fund apt, was $17,859, 755.81; during the year ending June 30th, 1886, such excess amounted to $44,405t5452o; and during the year ending June 30th, 1887, it reached the sum of $55,5(57,849 54, and is estimated to reach the sum of $113,000,000 on the 30th day of June next, at which date it is expected that this sum added to prior accumulations will swell the surplus in the treasury to $146,000,000. There seems to be no assurance that with such a withdrawal from use of the people’s circulating medium our business community will not in the near future be subjecied to the same distress which was quite lately produced from the same cause and while the functions of our national treasury should be few and simple, and while its best condition would be reached, I' believe, by its entire disconnection with private business interests, yet when by a perversion of its purposes it idly holds money uselessly subtracted from the channels of trade, there seems to be reason for the claim that some legitimate means should be devised by the government to restore in an emergency without waste or extravagance such money to its place among the people. 1 have deemed it my duty to thus bring to the knowledge of my countrymen as well as to the attention of their representatives charged with the responsibility of legislative relief, the gravity of the financial situation. The failure of congress heretofore to provide against the dangers which it was quite evident from the very nature of the difficulty must necessarily be produced, caused a condition of financial distress and appre hension since your last adjournment which taxed to the utmost all the author ity and expedients within executive control, and these appear now to be exhausted. If disaster results from the continued inaction of congress the responsibility must rest where it belongs. After arguing that the tariff imposes a burden upon those who consume domestic products as well as those who consume imported articles,and thus create a tax upon all the people, the message says: It is not proposed to entirely relieve the country of this taxation. It must be extensively continued as the source of the government’s income and in a readjustment of our tariff the interests of American labor engaged in manufacture should be carefully considered as well as the preservation of capital thus employed. It may be called protection or by any other name, but relief from our present tariff law should be devised with especial precaution "against imperiling the existence of bur manufacturing interests. But this existence should not mean a condition which without regard to the public welfare or a national exigencymust always insure the realization of immense profits instead of moderately profitable returns. ^ There is a suspicion in the public mind that an organized combination exists all along the line to maintain the manufacturer’s advantage. While in the midst of centennial celebrations and with becoming pride we rejoice in American skill and ingenuity, American energy and enterprise, and in the wonderful natural advantages and lesources developed by a century’s national rowth, yet when an attempt is made toi ustify a scheme which permits a tax to be laid upon every consumer and for the benefit of our manufacturers quite beyond a reasonable demand for governmental regard, it suits the purposes of advocacy to call our manufactures infant industries, still needing the highest and greatest degree of favor and fostering care that can be wrung from federal legislation. It is also said that the increase in the price of domestic manufactures resulting from the present tariff is necessary in order that higher wages may be paid to our workingmen employed in manufactures than are paid for what is called the pauper labor ot Europe, The standard of our laborers’ lives should not be measured by that of any other country less favored and they are entitled to their full share of all our advintages. But the reduction of taxation demanded should be so measured as not to necessitate or justify either the loss of employmtnt by the working man, nor the lessening of his wages, and the profits still remaining to the manufacturer, after a necessary reducement, should furnish no excuse for the sacrifice of the interests of his employes, either in their opportunity to work, or iu the diminution of their compensation, nor can the worker in manufactures fail to understand that, 'while a high tariff is claimed to be necessary to allow the payment of remunerative wages, it certainly results in a very large increase in the price ot nearly all sorts of manufactures which, in almost countless forms, he needs for the use of himself and his family. The hatd earned compensation of many days of toil of the farmer and agriculturist, who manufactures nothing, but who pays the increased price which the tariff imposes upon every agricultural implement, upon all he wears and upon all he uses and owns, except the increase of his flocks and herds, and such things as his husbandry produces from the soil is invited to aid in' maintaining the present situation and he is told that a high duty on imported wool is necessary for thp benefit of those who have sheep to shear in order that the price of their wool be increased. They, of course, are not reminded that the farmer, who has no sheep, is, by this scheme, obliged,,in his purchases of clothing and woolen goods, to pay a tribute to his fellowfarmer as well as to the manufacturer and merchant, nor is any mention made of the fact that the sheep owners themselves and their households must wear clothing and use other articles manufactured from the wool they sell at tariff prices and thus, as consumers, must return their share of this increased price to the tradesmen. I think it may be fairly assumed that a larg^^njoportion of the sheep owned by the Wrmers throughout the country are found in small flocks numbering from twentyfive to fifty. The duty on the grade of imported wool which these sheep yield is ten cents for each pound of the value of thirty cents or less, and twelve cents if of the value of more than thirty cents. If the estimate of six pounds allowed for each fleece, the duty thereon would be 60 or 72 cents and this may be taken as the utmost enhancement of its price to the farmer, by reason of this duty. Eighteen dollars should thus represent the increased price of wool from twentyfive sheep and thirty six dollars that from the wool of fifty sheep, ai d at present values this addition would amount to about onethird of the price. The farmer receives this or a less tariff profit; the wool leaves his hands charged with precisely that sum, which in all its changes will adhere to its increase to the consumer when manufactured into cloth and other goods and material for use. Us costs is not only increased to the extent of the farmer’s tariff profit, but a futher sum has been added for the benefit of the manufacturer. In the meantime the day arrives when the farmer finds it neccessary to purchase woolen goods to clothe himself and family for the winter. When he faces the tradesman for that purpose he discovers that he is obliged, not only to return in the way of increased tariff profit on the wool he sold and which then perhaps lies before him in a manufactured form, but he pays a considerable sum for further increase in cost caused by a tariff duty on the manufacture. Thus in the end he is aroused to the fact that he has paid upon a moderate purchase, as a result of the tariff scheme, which when he sold his wool seemed so profitable, all the tax which accrued to him. When the number of farmers engaged in wool raising is compared with all the farmers in the country, and the small proportion they bear to our population is considered, when it is made apparent that in the case of a large part of those who own sheep the benefit of the present tariff on wool is illusory, and above all when it must be conceded that the increase of the cost of living caused by such tariff becomes a burden upon those with moderate means and the poor, the employed and the unemployed, the sick and well and thejyoung and the old, and that it constitutes a tax, which with relentless grasp is fastened upon the clothing of every man, woman and child in the land, reasons are suggested why the removal or reduction ot this duty should be included in a revision of our tariff laws. The considerations which have been presented touching our tariff laws are intejded only to enforce an earnest recommendation that the surplus revenue of the government be presented by the reductions of our customs duties,and at Continued on Fourth. Page. |