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the reader to the following extract from a letter written for 

 the May number of the ,5V. Louis Magazine by the great 

 and celebrated divine, Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage: 



"I have, during the past few years, traveled much in 

 the North and South, and I tell you there is only one 

 thing that is needed to make harmony between the North 

 and the South, and that is the funeral of those politicians 

 who want to be President. It would be a very expensive 

 thing to bury them, but it would not cost this nation half 

 so much as the prolonged congressional sessions pro- 

 longed to allow the president-makers and the seekers of 

 the presidency an opportunity of firing off their inflamma- 

 tory speeches. ' ' * 



The bill which the Republicans have brought in to 

 "correct the inequalities" of the tariff laws is worse, if 

 possible, than the Mills bill. It proposes to reduce the 

 revenues about $75,000,000, and $52,000,000 of this is on 

 sugar and tobacco, which are almost exclusively Southern 

 products, or the industries of Democratic States. In this 

 respect, however, it resembles the Mills bill, that placed 

 wool, lumber, salt and "other products of the North on the 

 free list. It seems to be a game of "pull Dick, pull 

 Devil." The duty on sugar, most of which conies from 

 Louisiana, the Democratic measure left at about 68 per 

 cent. The Republican measure proposes a further reduc- 

 tion to 40 per cent, ^he Democrats put salt, a Northern 

 product, on the free list, while the Republicans retain it on 

 the dutiable list 



"Was there ever a bill that showed more plainly that 

 it was shaped for purely partisan ends than each of these 

 tariff bills? Neither bill is shaped in accordance with any 

 economical theory. If, as the Democrats tell us, the tariff 

 should be adjusted so as to rest on the rich, why do they 



( * If the above letter smacks of partisanship the author asks to be excused 

 on account of it having been written during the heat of a political campaign.) 



