Democratic State Convention

A Democratie State Convention to nomínate candidates for State Offlcers, to select a State Central Committee and to transact such other business as may come before the convention, will be held at the Opera House, in the citj of Jackaon. on Wednesday, the 23d day of August nezt, at 12 o Vloek. M. In pursuance of a resolution passed at the last Democratie State Convention, instructing the committee to apportion the delégate to the sev eral counties according to the total vote at the last gubernatorial election, making proper provisión for the represeutation for the new counties, each county will be entitled to one delégate for every 500 votes cast in 18S0. According to the rule established in previous conveutions a delégate must be a resident of the county he representa. AU citizens, irrespective of past party differences, who can unite with us in an ettort for pure. economical and constitutional government and administrative reform are cordially invited to join in sending delégate? to the convention. O. M. BARNES. Chairman. H. D. Püoh, Secretary. -■♦- Marshall Expounder : One of the gross fallacies employee! by the frieuds of a protective tariff is their asserüon tbat protectiou usures a higher price for labor than would otherwise be paid. This assumption has no foundation in fact. The willes of fully three-fourths of our industrial population engaged in farrning, mechanical pursuits, and liibors ara in no wise affected by a prolcctive tariff. Tho price of their products aro dependent ou supply and demand, and so far as the farmer is concerned, the price of his staple produce is fixed in Liverpool. Then ïf we cali to mind the condition of factory operatives f rom 1873 to 1878 under the bigu protective tariff incident to the exigeucios of the country m war times, it will prove the uttcr fallacy of tbe preteuse in regard to the other fourth of our workinc population. Stimulaled to uunatural activity by the high tariff, iuauufacturing run wild, the mnrket was glutted with unsalable goods, and the oountry was overrun with half starved operatives in the shape of tramps. Suppose, for in s'.auce, cocgress shüuld offer a premium of 25 per cent. for every bushei of wheat raised in the country ; iu effect would be to stimulate the production of wheat to a most injurious extent, and the conse qnence would be immense oyer-production. This is exactly what the present protective tariff does. It is rank injustiee in both instances.