Show According to the Payne tariff schedule we are drifting toward English free trade or a tariff for revenue The total of England's custom duties amounts to over one hundred million dollars per annum and it all comes from fewer than twenty articles that with the exception of spirits cannot be produced in spices and This schedule leaves the railroads and corporations entirely free from as corporations and they do not use or In the Payne duties are added or increased on and for revenue only is like a poll for it reaches every the old and male and rich and poor and all pay about the same amount irrespective of what property they hold or the amount of wealth they In a tariff for revenue the government gets the A protective tariff protects the few manufacturers at the expense of and the manufacturers and not the government get the Free trade all our ports open and our manufacturers have to compete with the cheap labor of the Which do we i i i Seldom Eider and his good had lived the same farm and in the same house Luzerne for over forty They had never been away from home to stay all In 1868 Rider bought a new and placed it on the No matter how cold the weather or how tired he for over thirty years he wound that clock every night before going to One day a neighbor came to him and told him he ought to know what was going in other take the next excursion to New York the fare was only Kider objected at He said he did not need a vacation any more than a greyhound needed a and that he knew what was going for he had read every copy of the Post ever since the first issue came from the and the he would squander on the blamed railroad would buy buckwheat pancakes at At last he was persuaded to On Monday morning he and his good took the 7 Lackawanna train at and arrived in Hoboken at 12 noon-They followed the crowd on to the ferry where they observed that the North river was filled with tug ferry ocean and they saw the great grain elevators on the Jersey the Bartholdi statue in the Then Rider began to realize that there were lots of things in the world that the Dallas Post had neglected to On arriving in New York they started up Barclay street towards The din of thousands of trucks loaded with merchandise from all of the the hum of the trolley and the rattle of the the baby cry of the newsboy and the coarse croak of the made the old couple think they were dreaming or in another When they arrived at Broadway and saw the great hurrying rush of the multitude there the old farmer put his carpet bag down on the lifted his hands up in the and said to his distracted heaven's sake- where are all them people They remained in New York one week and learned in that short time than they had on the farm in forty They arrived home Saturday and when he unlocked the door and went into the to his great astonishment he saw that the old clock on the mantel was still It was an eight-day clock |