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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1888
Page
2
A Brooklyn lawyer reviews tariffs from 1789 to 1884, arguing high duties did not guarantee prosperity. He lists periods of economic boom and bust under various tariffs, noting protracted lows in years like 1837, 1843, 1867, and 1873, and asserting modern protectionists ignore past cycles.
G Carlisle speaker of the House and trusted statesman was renominated at the Covington district convention. He attacked tariff proposals for raising taxes and argued tariffs do not raise wages uniformly, citing Chicago and New York disparities. He contrasted Blaine and Harrison and urged better attention to American laborers.
A graphic anti tariff passage portrays a farmer taxed at high rates for everyday items from clothing to meals and tools, claiming under a protective tariff he pays 84 percent on a shirt and 85 percent on a hat. It argues this makes the nation falsely claim freedom under a burdened economy.
By virtue of a power of sale in a chattel mortgage from B W Wright and L F Wright to Joshua Thomas and Bro dated August 27 1884 and recorded in Caroline county chattel records one for Frick Company assigned to Eion S Hobbs the undersigned as assignee will sell in front of Douglass's store Preston to the highest bidder on
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