Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 27 September 1894 — Page 2

Printed Every Afternoon Except Sunday.

THE JOURNAL COMPANYT.H. B. McCAlN. President. J. A. GKEENK. Secretary.

DAILY-

WEBKLY-

One year.-.. Six months ...... Three months

A. A. McCAIN, Treasurer.

Due year Slat mouths Three mouths Per week by carrier or wall

15.00 :.r»o 1.25 10

^.11.00 50

Payable in advance. Sample ooples iree Knteied ut the l'ostoflioe at ruwtorti\ lllo,

Indiana as seoonti-oljiss» matter.

TUT RSDAY, SEPTKM KKli -'7, 1S94.

isiNiR the Democratic party carac into power have wages been advanced or lowered'.'

SiNt'K Cleveland became President eighteen mouths ago lias the bonded debt been increased or decreased?

PROTKCTION consists of three great principles: First, a tariff upon the things we can produce second, no tariff upon the necessaries of life that we cannot produce: and, third, reciprocity which directs the President to discriminate against the countries that discriminate against us.

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EVRKV cent paid for sugar increases the price of sugar. Sews.

That is to say during the time tlie McKinley law was in force which paid a bounty of two cents a pound, tin average price of sugar was live cents Had it not been for the bounty.according to the Anjus AVfrs. the price would have been three cents, and the purchaser would have received 33 pounds for SI instead of twenty. The A tyu* Sews would better stick to potatoes.

TIIE Council might easily investigate the question of sewerage without any cost to the tax-payers, and the results of the investigation would be of value to the public and the Council in deciding when and how we -hall build our system. There should be a committee of two or three Conncilmen. the City Engineer and the City Health otlicer. and they should be authorized to make the most tli trough investigation of the question, both as to plan and e.\pen and methods of assessment. If it should be that the expense is not too great, or can be spread out so as not cause too great a burden, work might be begun next year. At any rate it not a bit too early for a committee of ... inye.stigatiou to be appointed.

•"VITIMIMTY CONE TO SICKl". Mr. Krookshire, in "his speech in this city last Saturday, said:

The laboring man of this country paid less for his labor than in any other country in the world. In the I nited .Mates"the mechanic produces annually

Sl.s-O worth of goods and receives in wages §:»S0. In England he receives one-half he produces. In Trance he produces S34s ami receives S175 in wages. In Germany he produces S.')40 and receives $1 "r. In Kussia he produces S^tSl and receives §1-0. In Italy he produces S2C5 and receives SI :.'0. .So that in other countries of the world the mechanic receives one-half of what he produces, while in the L'nited States lie is paid but one-tiftli.

The speeches of the world will be searched in vain for another piece of stupidity equal to this. If "the luboriug man of this country is paid less for his labor than in any otner country the world." why do so many laboring men of other countries come here to •••labor for the wages they receive in this country? llow did Mr. lirookshire .find out that a mechanic in this country produces SI,-SO annually and gets but S:'rS0 of it'.' Who gets the other

Sl.M'0. Mi". Brookshire would have people believe that cthe man who em ploys the mechanic makes a profit of SI,500 yearly out of his labor. Tin Studebakers at Soutli Rend have, say 1.000 hands employed in their great wagon works. Is it a fact that they make Sl.SS0.oo0 a year and give but •-1 83^0,000 of it to their employes, retain iug SI,:"i.i0.00n for themselves'.' Mr.

Brookshire himself does not believe any such nonsense: and when he triesto impose such a story on other people he is simply playing the demagogue. He is striving to create a prejudice in the minds of working men againt their employi r*- He is trying to make it appear that the manufacturers of his own country are all villains, while the manufacturers of England. France and Germany are the. best of fellow There is a large class of men in this country who can find nothing here to admire: everything here is -disgusting to them. They go to England for their clothes, to English statesmen for all their political ideas, to Germany for their philosophy, [and to France for their manners. With them nothing good if it does not have a foreign brand on it. Everything American creates a stench in their nostrils. In this clas of people Mr. Brookshire is a leader

Among the great men of this country he can find none to admire. Webster. Clay, Hamilton. Lincoln and Grant are all pigmies to him. Sir Robert Peel and a few later Englishmen till the entire horizon which limits his vision. He turns up his nose at everything American, from a hairpin to a Premier or a Lieutenant-General in the army. Mr. Brookshire thinks that the man who works in Italy for S1:!0 per annum and lives on rice, is better off than the American workman who receives S'ixi per annum—and it is cully much more than this—but we apprehend he will I not succeed in inducing many of his constituents to hazard the exchange. It it were not for tthc fact that working men understand their own interests better than Congressman Brookshire does. America would suffer a shock from a perpetual stream of emigration from here to England. France.

Germany, ami Italy. Hut some workmen. however ignorant, understand sotue things better than a Congressman.

M'KINLEY SPEAKS

Grantl Welcome Accorded Ohio's ernor at Indianapolis.

Gov-

Formal Opening of llie Republican Campaign In Indiana.

TOMLINSON HALL CKOWDED,

Capital City Filled Willi Entliusia'Stic Republicans.

Rail Reantifnlly Decorated in Honor of Protection's Champions.

BENJAMIN HARRISON'S REMARKS.

Ei-I*re»lleut Keceiveil With Great AppttiU!«i* by His Ailmlrinn Friends—Full Account of Ills Speech—The Deinocrfttio

Party's Iouble-l)eallnB lu Congress

Scathingly Referred To Republican

Victory Assured In Indiana lu November—The Kyes of Worliingmen Opened

to the Fact That the Democratic Party Instead of lleing Their Friend Is Their

Worst Enemy—Fallacy of the loctrlne

of Free Trade Shown—Magnificent Re­

ception to the Two Great Republicans*

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 25.—Tlio Republican campaign in Indiana was opened hero today by William McKinley, governor of Ohio, assisted by Benjamin Harrison, ei-presidont of. the United States.

The early trains into the city were crowded with Republicans and later ones, on some of the roads, could nothaul enough cars to accommodate all the people who wished to get here.

At 1:15 o'clock William McKinley and Benjamin Harrison appeared upon the stage of Tomlinson liall. The audience was responsive to their presence and a prolonged cheer followed. r. Harrison'* Ketimrk*.

My Fellow Citizens: The delightful duty 1ms been assigned me by the state central committee of the Republican party of Indiana to preside over this great meeting. I am to be its chairman, not its spe:iker, and 1 congratulate you on that fact. ["Laughter.] I brought the distinguished gentleman to whom you are to listen to this hall this afternoon, without sending any courier in advance to find whether there- were enough people here for him to speak to. [Cheers.]

I notice in the audience here today with great satisfaction the presence of many of our older fellow citizens. The old men are fond of telling of the "good old times." but the times to which they look back to with so much delight are glorified in the fact that the processes of nature and of Providence have covered the things that were hard, and brought ont in the memory those things that were sweet and pleasant. Hut the good times wliich 1 have in mind are not good old times, but very young good times. [Applause. bo young that only the unweaned babes have no memory of them.

Only two years ago this country was not only the most prosperous country in the world—for that it had been before— but it stood upon the highest pinnacle of prosperity that it had ever before attained. [Cheers.J This is not the verdict of politicians it is the verdict of the commercial reporter it is the. expressed opinion of those men who make a pro fession of studying business conditions. The last- two years have been years of distress and disaster.

The losses of them defy the skill of the calculator. It has been said, I think, not without reason, that they exceed the cost of the great civil war. These losses have not been classed losses they have been distributed. The holder of stocks and bonds has found his wealth shrinking, and so has the farmer and the workingman has found his wages shrink iug There has been a general participation in the calamities of the past two years, as there was a general participation of the prosperity of the preceding year. [Applause. The great national debts, like those of the civil war, havt sometimes their adequate compensation.

Great as was the cest of the war for the Union, we feel that it was adequately compensated in the added glory that was given to the flag, and in the added security that was given to our civil institutions and the unity of the nation. [Cheers.

No CoinpotmntlnK Thought. Bat the losses of these last two years have no sueh compensating thought. There is no god to be gotten out of them, except for guidance. They seem to be of retributive nature, like the swamp, into which the traveler has unwarily driven, that have no ameliorating circumstances, except as they teach him to keep on the foothill and to follow the road that is on the hilltops. Our people seemed to be inclined to make the most that can be made out of these years of disaster. We were told in the old times the rich were getting richer and the jtoor poorer and to cure that imaginary ill our political opiwneut-s have brought on a time when everybody is getting poorer. [Great applause.) I think I rememlter to have heard of an inscription once upon a tombstone that ran something like this: "I was well I thought to be better I took medicine, and here 1 lie." [Laughter and applause.

Our Democratic friends have passed a tariff bill that is approved—so far as I can learn—by only six Democratic senaators and nobody else. [Laughter.] Mr. Cleveland has repudiated it and declared 1hat it involves ''perlidy and dishonor that it was shameful in its character and in the influences that producod it that he would not even put his name to it. All of the leading Democratic papers in the country have condemned it—both of the old stalwart variety and of the mugwump variety. The Democratic chairman of the ways and means committee has condemned it and the entire Democratic, majority in the house of representatives. Now that is a great misfortune. It is a misfortune that the Democratic parry was not able to evolve a tariff bill that that party would accept as a settlement of the tariff question. But it is not accepted as a settlement

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In the very nature of things, a bill thus pasxrl and thus characterized cannot be a sett lenient and already we have the proclamation from Mr. Clove land and from Mr. Wilson that this is only the beginning of the crusade against American industries that tho war is to goon. Now that is a great misfortune. If we could prove by our fvij.mK r.hrit. we weri» in t.lie

bottom of the wi ll, dark and damp and dismal a* if was, we would have bo^un to look up and see whether we could not find some star of hoje: we would have begun to annoint our bruises and try to build some seatt*old by which we might try to climb out. Hut wo are told that there are greater depths yet in store for us. And so this country is to be held In a state of suspense upon this question.

w/-' M'KINI.UY lNTKODl CED,

UeoeivtMl With (Iront KtithusiAHiu by the Assembled Thousand*.

When Mr. Harrison finished there was applause both for what lie said and for what was promised from Mr. McKinley. The latter begun to speak slowly— so soon as the generous and general applause. subsided. He clung on to the last syllables of his words, llis voice was soft and tlexible, with a rising tendency as he proceeded. He spoke as follows:

Mr. President, My Fellow Citizens of Indiana, Ladies and Gentlemen—In November, 1W2, a Republican national administration, able and efficient and patriotic, which had managed the govern-

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mont with exceptional zeal and ability for nearly four years—at the head of which was one of our greatest- presidents, the illustrious citizen from Indiana [applause], he who presides over this meeting—was, by the voice of the American people, voted out of power.

Those who assisted in that decree and those who were opposed to it have been regretful and unhappy ever since. [Applause and laughter.] Ill obedience to that decree the Democratic party has been in supreme control of the government for now nearly 1!) months and for the greatest pari-of that rime it has been engaged in trying to revise the tariff. It must have been apparent even to congress that long before it had concluded tlio consideration of that subject the people had already revised their opinions, and were tilled with anxiety to pass judgment-uiHin their work. It did not take the people of this country as long to revise their views as it took the

Democratic parry to revise the tariff. [Laughter.] This has been a period of sober reflection, steadied by the discipline of adversity, and, after all, the form of instruction which is most effective and eudurinir in experience. Anil wc have had that with great abundance for the last is months, but liave been blessed with little else. The country is ready to speak upon the work of the Democratic party. There has never been, I think, in tho political history of the country a greater revolution in public sentiment than the one which has occurred in the last IS months and since the November elections of JS02,

The Revulsion.

Beginning in New York, thence to Pennsylvania, thence to the two congressional districts in the great Empire state of New York, thence to Iowa and to Ohio and a half dozen other states in the year lsO:i, and then coming down to the election of ls'J-l. beginning with Oregon and ending in Maine, gives to the people a realization of tho wonderful revolution that has taken place in the sentiment of the country within 2-1 months. What, my fellow citizens, has been the cause of this remarkable change? The Democratic parry hits been running the government fur eighteen months, during which time little else has been running. [Great applause.] We have had very little to employ us but observation and reflection. Business has been practically stopped. Labor hits been little employed and when employed at greatly reduced wages. The waste of wealth and property and wiiges is beyond human calculation. Government and people have been draining their resources and lxtt.li have been running in debt. The government has suffered in its revenue and the people in their incomes. Distress hits been everywhere universal. No brightness, no cheer, no hope have been manifest anywhere, and the appeals to charity were never so universal and incessant and their necessity never more manifest than in the last two years. Congress has trifled with the sacred trust confided to it by the people, has disgusted its own constituents, imperiled their enterprises and investments, and the people have been thinking about it. Those who have not been thinking have been feeling—feeling the stress of the times wrought by the greatchange. What, my fellow citizens, in all these months have they done? They have given us a revision of the tariff, such as it is—a revision which the presiding otlicer. General Harrison, has well said, nobody approves of and everybody is ashamed of. Even Mr. Mills of

Texas declared in open debate that the Gorman-Hrice bill, which hits just become a law, was not approved by 1,000 people within the United States.

I ordinarily disagree with Mr. Mills, but in that 1 quite agree with him. A law, my fellow citizens, which never had the consideration of the committee of ways and means, a law which was never oonsidered by the finance committee of the senate, a law which never was considered by the conference committee of the two houses and which was only left in the conference committee anil not withdrawn by the senate because of the hurried action of the house of representatives in adopting that law under the tlrreat of tho agents of the trusts that it was to bo that bill or none, and in all human probability none. A bill which has received the condemnation of tho president of the United States, a bill which he condemned before its passage, and when it was passed, tinder tlio mightiest pressure of his party, refused to give to it his signature a law which be declared was tho result of party perfidy and party dishonor, and which, since its passage, ho declares the very communism of pelf.

Will tll« People Do It?

And it is this law—it is this tariff legislation—that the people of this country are asked to approve by their votes in November next, and thev are asked to return to congress hero in tho stato of Indiana anil in other states the very same men who helped to make this law. Will you do it? (Cries of "No!") You have got an opportunity here in Indiana to show your disapproval of that law by leaving at home the men who helped to write it. ("We will do it,!") Then are about six in Ohio who will bo left at home. I Applause.]

Mv fellow citizens, the manner of tliQ

making of the law should condemn It. if nothing else. It was not made by a doliberate house. It was not mailo by a deliberate senate. It was traded through in violation of party principles, public interest and public morals, and 1 want to show that, not by Republican testimony, but by Democratic testimony.

History of the Legislation. The history of the new tarff legislation is interesting aud instructive. Tho house, which alone has the power to originate revenue bills, passed what is known as the Wilson bill, a measure which has the unenviable distinction of being the only tariff bill in our history that was ever indorsed by a president in his annual message to congress before it had been reported to the house or even considered by the committee oil ways and means [applause and laughter] And before it had ever been officially adopted by any official committee of either the house or the senate of tho United States.

That bill did not raise sufficient revenue to conduct the government. Every estimate 1 have seen of its revenueraising power created a deficiency of from $40,000,000 to $70,000,000. That bill went to the senate and took the usual course of refereuce to the committee on finance which is charged with the revenue legislation of the senate. After protracted consideration by the committee, the Wilson bill, with more than 400 amendments, was reported to the senate.

But, after much talking aud wrangling. it was soon made manifest that neither the Wilson bill, nor the Wilson bill with the finance committee's amendments, could pass that body and so, taking the bill ont of the hands of the committee, taking it out of the hands of the senate, raking it out of the control of the finance committee of tho senate, a sell'-constitoted committee, consisting of Mr. Jones of Arkansas, Mr. Vest of Missouri, and Mr. Harris of Tennessee, on which was not a single northern senator, wits made the adjusting committee to fix up a bill that could commands:! votes, or a majority of the senate of the United States. The senator from Arkansas himself best tells how it was done. Spcakiug of the bill of tho finance committee in open senate after its passage ho said—and I quote from the record: "We knew that to pass the bill in this form at that time was impossible. With that fact staring us in the face, we saw the necessity of passing some sort of a tariff bill while we had the power. The senator from Tennessee, the senator from Missouri, and myself and other members of tho committee, and senators not on the committee, discussed the sit nation freely. 1 began conversation with individual senators one after an other. 1 carefully noted down the ob jections and criticisms of each, and to each particular paragraph throughout the bill, and the objection made to it. 1 went from the beginning to tile end through the bill with mail after man on this side of the chamber, spending (lav: and days in tho work. After I had talked with each who was opposing the bill and had noted on the margin of the bill what WILS said, 1 had every objection presented by each of them, and after I had gone over the marginal notes and made up my mind exactly what were the smallest modifications which would at all meet the difficulties which were in the way. 1 consulted the secretary of the treasury and the president aud those that made the bill."

That- is to say, he said to the several senators who were not pledged and who refused to be bound by parry caucuses "What do you want, what is your price for voting for this bill? Name your consideration?" He did not put tin question, What is the best interests of the country? Ho did not ii.sk, What is for the best interest of the wage earners! He did not ask, What is best for the farmers and the agriculturalists? lie did not ask,

What would carry out the pledges

and purposes of the Democratic party? He asked what must- be the price to be given to the unbound senator, to get him to vote for some sort of a bill, while the Democratic party had tho power, and that is the way that bill was made.

That, of itself, my fellow citizens, ought to condemn it. The voice of Indiana was not heard in tho making of that bill. Three senators from three southern states made tho industrial law for 05,1)00,000 of people. [Applause.] And I give notice here and now, speaking for my fellow countrymen, that we do not propose to be bound by legislation made in that way. [Applause.]

Some Protection.

But, my fellow-citizens, this bill gives some protection. Rice is carefully protected by a duty of more than 80 per cent and sugar is not wholly neglected, It has some free trade in it here and there, but principally here in tho north. There is tho titriff on peanuts. [Applause.] But free trade on hoopiron that goes to bind a bale of cotton. There is a tariff on sumach, but free trade on wool. There is a tariff oil mica but free trade in lumber. There is a tariff on the grain bags of the the northern farmer, but there is no

tariff 011 the cottonbags of tho southern farmer. In their schedule there is the grossest exhibition of sectionalism and unjust discrimination. Is it any wonder that even Mr. Cleveland should condemn it? And in his letter to Congressman Catcliings he declares there are provisions in this bill that are not in the lino of honest tariff reform, and it contains inconsistencies and crudities which ought not to appear in tariff laws or laws of any kind, while influences surrounded it in its later stages aud interfered with its final construction which ought not to bo recognized or tolerated in Democratio reform counsels. And the president might have well have added, nor any other counsels.

Woull Take Caro of Sugar. Those men, fellow citizens, in the plain story of the transactions in tho campaign of 1892, told in open debat-c, told in public session, told to tho conntry, published in the enduring records of tho United States, that the candidates of tho Democratic party, and the managers of the Democratic party controlling organization, made a private contract with the senators from Louisiana, the consideration being the electoral voto of the state of Louisiana, that they would take cure of sugar. They modified their platform. You never heard of free sugar in the campaign of lb'J2 from the lips of a Democratic orator. It, wits not in tie.! Democratic platform, it was not spoken of in the Dentwcratic press of the country, but here were, two great- leaders of the Democratic party making a private contract-with a great- sovereign state of tho Union that they would modify the platform of their party privately and seetionally in consideration for the electoral vote of the state.

That is the way that law was made. It reduced duties, but every timo it reduced a duty it reduced the wages of labor. You cannot reduce tlio duties anil increase tho revenues unless you increase importations. If you reduce the rate of duties 50 per cent, you can only increase your revenues by multiplying vour imuortations. If vou decrease tho

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In the rush for Bargains in Our Great Discount Sale.

There remains but a few more

days to get the

Linen Bargains, Handkerchief Bargains, Wash Goods Bargains,

Domestic Bargains, Dress Goods Bargains.

We must have the room our Wash Goods occupy, so all

that remains of the

5C Lot, 7~c Lot, ioc Lot, 15c Lot. 29c Lot

Will be packed away alter the selling is over Saturday

from past and present indications there will be but

cause they are melting away like snow bstore a warm

sunshine. Some of the best styles yet remain and are

every department.

It Pays to Trade at the Big Store.

LOUIS BISCHOF.

The Big S'ore." 127-129 E. Main St.

New Fall and Winter Goods are arriving daily in

evening, but

few left, be-

Spring

worthy

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