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TWO FUKEKA.L OUATIONS MY SENA-
TOK MLACKMUltX.
By the irony of fate and the exigen
cies of personal ambition , it became the
duty of the Hon. Joseph 0. S. Black
burn to pronounce the funeral oration
at the coffin of William Goebol. And
of Goebel Senator Blackburn said :
"Build here over his grave a mighty
towering granite shaft that shall defy
the- corroding touch of time. Inscribe
upon it an epitaph that shall be worthy
of the man. He earned this at our
hands. In life and death he was consecrated
crated to the people's cause. He lived
an honest life , and gave his life for your
deliverance. Of him no eulogy but
truth may say : "Earth never pillowed
upon her bosom a truer sou , nor Heaven
opened wide her portals to receive a
manlier spirit. ' "
At Covingtou on Sunday , April 14 ,
1895 , a little less than five years ago , the
eulogist of Goebel pronounced another
funeral oration. That time he stood by
the coffin of Col. John L. Sanford , who
like Goebel had been shot down in the
highway. Aud of Sauford Senator
Blackburn said :
"John Sanford was to nio like a broth
er. I loved him. I hope God may spare
me , and I shall make it my life's mis
sion to avenge him by burying his slayer
in the depths of merited public execra
tion. "
The slayer of John Sanford was Wil
liam Goebel. New York Sun.
There are few
THE ARGONAUT.
more interesting
journals in the United States than the
Argonaut of San Francisco. It is a
brave advocate of whatsoever it thinks
right and patriotic. THE CONSERVATIVE
is a careful reader of the Argonaut , be
came an admirer of its slashing style in
the hey day of Frank Pixley , its found
er , and has been constant to date in
reading its editorials.
The present editor , Mr. J. A. Hart , is
an intense and vehement protectionist.
He is for artificial prices on things.
He favors producers and antagonizes
consumers. On February 12 Mr. Hart
remarks ;
"The bubonic plague has caused the
prohibition of imports from certain Ori
ental ports. Rice
IUce , IlatH , and
from Asiatic ports
Free Trade.
is not allowed to
enter , as rats invariably accompany rice
cargoes , and rats are dangerous distrib
utors of the plague germ. This purely
sanitary precaution of the quarantine
service is having an effect on the domes
tic rice market. A dispatch from Sa
vannah , Ga. , dated January 80th , says
that rice has jumped half a cent a pound
in the Carolinas , Georgia , and Louis
iana , and is still rising. This may im
press those fat-heads who affect to be
lieve that free trade with our new trop
ical islands will not unfavorably affect
the American farmer. If a temporary
stoppage of foreign rice importation en
hances the price of American grown
rice , would not a permanent duty help
J
the American rice-grower ? Aud if all
the gates be thrown down and rice be
admitted free from our now Asiatic and
other islands , will it not hurt the Amer
ican rice-grower ? "
From the foregoing one may logically
conclude that the Argonaut estimates
the economic value of rats and the bu
bonic plague above that of the republi
can administration now annexing islands
to the United States and prescribing
free trade between them and all other
territory of the republic.
"The sanitary precaution" which has
raised the price of rice in the Oarolinas
and Georgia so that the sick , indigent ,
or any other consumer of rice anywhere
in the United States will be forced to
pay , at least , a half cent more per
pound therefor , the Argonaut thinks ,
"may impress those fat-heads who af
fect to believe that free trade with our
new tropical islands will not unfavora
bly affect the American farmer. "
All Americans eat rice. A few Amer
icans produce rice. The law , saith the
Argonaut , should be favorable to the
few and against the many. A part , a
small part , who raise rice is greater ,
saith the Argonaut , than the whole , all ,
who consume rice. The economics of
the Argonaut are not any more absurd
than would be a system of mathematics
declaring a part of a thing bigger than
the whole thing.
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