THE TARIFr ANn onR MEcnANIcs
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HE TARIFF AND OUR MECHANICS

 One oi the deceptive artiiees resorted 10 by the advocates of high tariff policy, is to speak oi the protection to home manufacture CTS as protection to our mechanics. Indeed. It Is common with many wing orators 10 treat manufacturers and mechanics as being one and the same class of persons. The single mechanic who carries on his shop in one of our villages or towns, is persuaded that the tariff law Is intended 10 protect his labor and hls trade against foreign pauper labor. This Is delusion under w5eh thousands of hon est mechanics have sbored, but which may be dissipated l'y the application ofa moderate share of common sense operating upon we'll established facts.

 The western mechanics are generally en- gagged m the manufacture of single article for trade, such as shoes or hats and they are generally men of limited capital If the tariff law has tendency to protect his shoes or hls hats against foreign competition, and thereby enables him tc get better prices for his labor; at the same time 1t raises the pri- ces ol salt, sugar, iron. and clothing, which he necessarily uses, and thereby he loses more Tn the enhanced Pfice paid for neces- saFleS, than he gains in the enhanced prices received for his hats and shoes. His object Tn making hats and shoes, is to sell them in order to buy other nece saries of life. If, hy the tanil, he pays mors 39. the necessaries he consumes, insted of gaining, then, heis loser

 But whence comes the competition which proves so destructive to the small mechanic i? Our stores are full of manufactured articles. brought from the eastern cities, which come m competition with oar home mechanics Under the operation of the tariff law, large amounts ol capital are concentrated in the eastern manufacturing establishments and hence the small mechanic of the West has to compete with the lafge capitalist al the North and East. The consequence is, that the rich manuiactur CTS can afford to make the goods and undefsell the small mechanics al their own doors. The tariff first secures the cas- tern capitalists against foreign competition, and thereby enables them to embark heavy capitals in manufacturing. Having such an advantage over the small mechanics, and be- ing protected against foreign competition, they are able to command the home market, and limit Inc trade of the western mechanics.

 We think such considerations as these ought to satisfy every mechanic, that, in en- acting high protective tariff laws, the object Is to benefit the owners of large capitals, and not the daily aboring mechanics The law operates upon themsin the same way that il does upon theagrieulturist. Il raises Il e price of his neeessafies of life, and then subjects his labor to the competition of the rich cap- talists.-PaoH (Iad) True .3mcrfcaa aAsz .ssss4l.4ss3szzz ;fzsl.lgss

 OBITUARY.

 DIED, at the residence of her son, k. r. DUNN EsQ h thls county on yeaterday morning, 28th. instant, Mas. M8RGABETT DUNN. wife of Mir. Ed ward Dunn, formerly of Albany, New York. but resident of t3is City fer the last ten years.

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 DIGD-At his residence in St Francis eennfv Arks., on the lst day ef Jav, 1915, Gen. BBGGE M C. BLACKWELL. HeWa5 Representative from St. Francis county, i8 the last session of the Sate Legislature. In politics lie was a Democrat lie was kind and aiactionata husband; and has Jeff an alniable wife and .a,ay to mourn his loss

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 8lcp-l Lafayette eoautr, Arks, on the I7th inst, ot the coagastive fever. MABy ELIZABETH, daughter of Gov James s. Conway, in the 18th year ot her a1e.

 In this ely, oa the 2lth inst MArY ISABELLA, infant daughter ot Fe4 4. and Anna Maria Hunter, aged weeks and 3 days

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