The Day (Waco, Texas) Vol. 4 No. 304, Tuesday, December 6, 1887

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VOL. 4, NO 301 WACO, TEXAS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER. 6, 18b7. PRICE 6 CENTS.
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Sanger Brothers.
ANOTHER WEEK OK BARGAINS
IN OURCarpet
department.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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