"bill Arp" For Protection

A frieiul tells us the following story : M:ijnr Smitli, oí Atlanta, better knmvn as '"Bill Arp," waatalklng witli me about matten and tblnm not long ago. "You know I wiis an old-fashioned democrat," 8aid Bill, "broujrlit up to believe In free trade and Milon' rfgbta. I mu one now ; but soiiu'tiiin.íí baa happened. I own a llttle farm near Caiterëville. I used to gatlier iny corn and sell H in Atlanta for wliatever ihey would give me. I liad sume pasture land for iny stock, and I raised wheat, vegetable! and fruit la a siuall way. What ve could not consume was wasted. When the tariff went in!o opcratimi oíd Joe Brown started soine iron developniMits near by, and the CarleiRville Station becaine quite a village. The day before I left lióme 1 sold seventeen loads of hay. Ruyersdidn't bargain for it, but carne and took all I conld spare at my own price. I haven't sold a liu-lirl of corn in several years. Those fellows come and buy it by the dozen for roaftinc ears. It's so with eventhinj; that growa mi my land. I cannot raise as much as they want. I'm in favor of the thing that did it, so I'm a protectionIst."