Show THE SOREST SPOT american party politics in the last few years have presented many core spots but the sorest of all is the question of free trade it is strange that with BO amny wise and ex perie need heads covered with tho hoar frost of age or illumined by the glowing eyes of vigorous manhood thi cerp axed and perplexing enigma of the has never yet found taci fortunate oedipus to solve it and to deliver tho people from the grisly nightmare but stranger still is the fact that the republic of the united states whose bloody baptism was pronounced in the triune name of liberty equality and justice should so surround itself and its avenues of trade with restrictions and pro hibit ions comparable only to the great chinese wall quarrel between free trade and prohibition between large fouled farsighted far sighted open competition with the worlds trade and industry on the ono side and mole eyed narrow minded has agitated the american nation for a few months has most potent factor in tho national scramble for the chief executive and it is still a live issue we even venture to predict that it will be lh issue between the parties during the next administration and it will most likely be the pivotal point and the crimial cri cial test of the next presidential election it is therefore not idle folly as II ancock was led to call it to endeavor to loik tho silent sphinx resolutely into her enigmatic foce and to solve the riddle let us commence at first prin caples so that tho simple can understand it and the craty use no subterfuge ter fuge commerce or trade is the exchange of products in modern days carried on by the medium of conry which in its turn has bes come a merchantable article mankind mule because even down to the lowest mot barbarous tribes they have found out every in div idail prospers the bet if he pia duces those articles which IB can produce th achaa post and best and exchanges them for other things which are produced cheaply and well by others A ann who can make a awl coal in a day but would need a whole week to manufacture a bad pair of boots will naturally find it advantageous to pay for the boots be needs will coats ho makes ho turns ata ilir and his neighbor who cn make slices or boots quickly and well takes to shoemakers wax thus both are fixed well they never think it to e a shame not to botch around in every trade neither are they afraid that they ever will fall out among themselves so that tho one would be without shoes to his feet and the other without a cott or jacket to his back they realign that by the division of labor according to each laborers disposition and ability they havo to them selves immense advantages beg able to obtain better clothes better houses better goods of any kind with less work if every single individual profits thu sevi dently a whole people will profit on the same principle thus we measure the degree of eur prosperity ity by tho activity of trade ie the quanta ty of products exchanged hither and thither iu a given period of time now the free traders simply ar gua that if the individual members of a nation or the part of a particular state by artificial and ollen purely accidental agencies find their advantage in such a free interchange of products much greater advantages can be secured by the free interchange between all nations states and other portions of the whole world but dont let us suppose that the free traders intend to demand a tos tal and universal abrogation of all duties no moro than they when asking for A for revenue only propose to place the duties on the lowest pogi ible scale in order to in duce the largest possible importation and great revenues for the govern ment we mut always reckon with the situation and conditions as we find them and whatever has been by science to bo a true theory requires komo modification in practice thus in the first hiie we must consider that duties on import for ahe defraying of the state expense are the moat popular be cause the least direct manner of taxation the free traders do not op such revenue duties they however contend rightfully that a real protective tariff cannot ba a revenue tariff because ia purport is to discourage and deter importation but thin pro gramme is and there i where the democratic parly can redeem much dofita lost prestige to demand that the import should be so rated that the people gather tho greatest portion of the taxes by it in ill public treasury while protective taru the moro it fulfills its intent takes the more money out ot tho peoples pockets to swell ahe cal accounts and bank credits of A few capitalist and manufacturers again the free traders arc willing to concede that in and rising countries like america it si afien necessary to grant to certain industries an extraordinary protection but they insist that such protection bo only granted for a jimr and amount only to so is needed to equalize tho condi liona of production they do not want to hill off all competition they simply wish to place the competitor at homo on a similar footing with the competitor abroad thus suppose that one year the united states require for annual expenses over and above the yield of the internal revenue and other receipts in abia the free traders propose to raise this eum by import duties with the retea of banff distributed so that those need pro lection abo most should be giyen it in appropriate reasonable duties by ai unreasonable and fraudulent protection system a whole series of industries have been created whose whole institution and arrangement are based on a falso system thus although the do not mean or propose a clean sweep of nil barill regulations they most determinedly urge fand demand a revision of the duties a reduction of the unreason able hiah tariff on certain articles by which duties it is only intended to secure great profits for tho manufacturer fac offer inducements for unwholesome speculation and render the situation of the laboring man unsafe the former two are the very mainspring of tho protectionist clamor and the third is the inevitable natural consequence in the recent presidential election the people have not biad a fair chance to between tho two groat commercial issues free trade or protection but before 1834 the gardian knot will have to bo loosened somehow or ether TUB AMERICAN portion of the bible revision committee has completed its labors and transmitted the result to england fhe british committee of translators are to meet this month for final action and the university presses of oxford and cumbridge arc expected to issue the revised new testament in february 1881 the old testament will be published two or three years after the american revisers sers have given their time and labor for eight yeam without coin the necessary expenses have been provided for by voluntary subscriptions any friend of the graat undertaking who will conan bute toward before february next will receive a memorial copy of the first university edition of the revised new testament handsomely bound and in ascribed scribed bed taft money must be sent to the president the rev dr or treasurer mr andrew L taylor in the bible house new york although the latter day saints possess a translation of the scriptures infinitely more valuable be cause written by the prophet joseppi anler the direct inspiration from on high the work accomplished by the english and american divines will still bo of interest to many of u as it promises to be an improvement OB I the old king james translation in every respect all the knowledge available to le human mind unaided by divine revelation lias been brought to bear on the work which rev dr is one of the chief performers two AUNTS to the same man dying ft bundled and seventy years apart from each other aro certainly quite a curiosity and many might bisbe lieve the real occurrence lucli phenomenon in vital statistics still such a case actually occurred in the family of the celebrated british statesman charles james pox whose life has been lately published by brothers in new york the grandfather of this illustrious parliamentarian sir stephen fox who had attended charles the first on the scaffold and lived to discuss the execution of lord Derwent when a widower of seventy six years married again in order that so plentiful an estate should not go ou t of the all his sons of his first marriage lad died childless also one of his daughters of the same marriage died a baby lidy sarah napier however the sister of his kw survived until the year 1826 and there is no reason to question the tradition that charles lames fox had two aunts who died a hundred and seventy years from each other NOTO the stalls bican of the agricultural department is gathering materials for hia preliminary crop report which vill be ready for publication on monday noon although the exact results cannot bo ascertained before that time there is reason to believe that the yield of oats rye and corn will not vary materially ctorn that of last ear and that the variations will be fraai the earlier returns at it wa found that there had been a slight increase in the acreage but the yield is believed to have fallen to more than keep the balance it is probable that the returns of the yi idol will an increase of about bah els as compared art ear more than half bein from alio pacific coast As the world beld ot waca is somewhat therewa there wu d seem o be a fair of good prices to the american surplus hilll culta alte U a aliw thing to have even in ihn practical age ot iron or as somo call it of brass but with all t ie deep wadom supposed in the alleged of lles supernatural non here ia al son bulk ol 01 chart and jargon or A apeci aien of such wo take a paragraph from a lecture of bronson Alcott the age who presides over the concord N II 11 school of philosophy says this venerable old gentleman who has filled two thirds of this century with some common sense and not a little metaphysical nonsense we cannot think annihilation when I think of myself as nothing I prove that lam something if I gay I am I am realty wing this is ho power by which we thing things I who am or ising is ing I think this that other somewhat the thing mut be what I think or thing it in other word I think my thing and that things things the thing that things things in such an manner deserves the of all thinking thin kinf to telny |