Show THERE is a good deal of hard sense in the following from the american protection and prosperity are synonymous terms just es free trade and fail ure to accord with each other this nation hag adopted protection for iab land they have prospered beyond ol 01 any other na tiong on the afia over lothe free competition ot for blips atud ahey have been sold off until they are almost un known in the ports of the world bat once we protected our ships just as we do our lac d industries and by the same instrument the tariff protection caused prosperity then just as free trade has caused failure now how much longer shall we suffer free trdoe to destroy our shipping to perpetuate a monopoly in carraine carr out foreign commerce for foreign ships when the tariff docs for the american ahapa afloat what it doea for our industries on the land as it did in our earlier history then everything american will prosber pro prosperity will not stop at the seaboard as it does now FEW people have any real conception of the immense area submerged by the floods in the sippi valley an article in the boston advertiser refers to the vast size of the territory subject to inundation including square milea in louisiana in mississippi 1600 in arkansas and 2800 in missouri an area as large as the states of massachusetts vermont connects cufa and rhode island combined in louisiana alone the flooded in an ordinary season produces a cotton crop amounting to bales valued at THE american newspaper annual is at hand it shows 76 papers published in the territory it should be state 7 are daily 2 tri weekly 8 semiweekly semi weekly ajl weekly 3 semi month ly and 6 monthly there are 27 counties in the state and newspapers published in only 19 the annual is issued by N W ayer son phil 1 adelphia and contains 1504 pages numbering periodicals perodi cals publish ed in the whole country the work is a credit to the publishers gathe enquirers suggestion to sink all differences in provo both partisan aud sectional for the welfare of our progressive little city seems 10 meet with general favor the prospects now are that citizens of this city will be spared partisan strife next november THE broadax broad ax wants it understood that no man who is compelled to cuff a white mans boots for a living can ever become a true leader of the negro race |