Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 11 October 1890 — Page 6

THE FORCE BILL

A Republican Measure D«»trnotWe of the

Bl|ht« of States and of the People,

The Most InfHmon* Measure ETA* Derlsed For the perpetuation of Power In the

Hands of a Political Party,

Xt Creates Officers For L1(«, and Clothes

.Them With Autveratlo Power*

It

Creates a Returning Hoard Whose De­

cisions Are Superior to All

State Authorities*

It

Forces Upon the Country an Army of

270,000 Mercenaries as Odious as

Pinkcrtoo Thugs*

^Drawing Annually From the Treasury Not

...Xess Than 938,000,000 to be l*ald Out of the Toll of Farmers

and Other Workinjrmcn*

Of This Army Imttfinn's Share Will Not be Less Than 0,000 Men at a Cost of About 8000,000.

forco bill, brought forward by Conan Lodue of Massachusetts, and -the hoaae of representatives, is all honorable men as more inpurposes than an act of treanstitation that the republican viously proposed. &::perTlsors For

L'fe.

-horizes the appointment of "sors by the U. S. circuit 'ild office for life, are amena- •, and are election directors tive ^districts. These chief iotlhreo supervisors for ecinct, and they may ininber of election officers at out consulting congress and pay

em from the public treasury without mit as to the aggregate amount. Indeed, the voters of the United States, the treasury, and the army and navy are placed under the control of the chief supervisors and supervisors while they are managing and controlling elections, and the chief supervisor may, after consultation with the U. S. district marshal, have as many deputy marshals appointed as may seem to ,bo necessary, ana in the absence of deputy marshals the .supervisors have the full power of deputy marshals and may arrost a voter if challenging him does not accomplish all that ts absolutely necessary.

Here we have a set of supervisors clothed with despotic power. Thev can arrest and imprison at will. They have at their back the purse and the sword, and are obBolutely a law unto themselves.

Aldi to the Chief Supervisor* Sec. 5 of the forco bill makes it obligatory upon the judcro to appoint as many supervisors as the chief mav desire, and •while the chief may in his discretion present additional names to those who have formerly applied, the judge has-no discretion, but is bound to appoint the number desired from the list furnished him by the chief, three supervisors at least to each precinct or polling-place, two from one political party and one from the other, and give full authority to the \two who are^

agreed to act independently of the other that is to say, the two republican supervisors may act and thoir action is made lawful if no democratic supervisor at all ebould he appointed, sid if appointed and he should undertake to expose any rascality practiced by the other two or should fail to pull smoothly in harness with them the chief may remove him and suspend his. pay in his discretion.

This section arms the chief supervisor •with a complete muzzling process. He can order any amount of cheating and rascaliYty to bo perpetrated at any pollin^-placo within his jurisdiction, and if either one of the supervisors or the deputy marshal protests or attempts to expose it, or refuses to bear witness that what the majority does is fair and honest, or that what the state inspectors or poll-clerks do is dishonest or fraudulent—in short, fur doing or failing to do anything which the chief may desire or order—he may suspend or remove any officer within his jurisdiction, stop his pay, and cut off" hie rations.

In short, this section is framed upon the idea that tho chief supervisor, like the king, can do no wrong. Still Mor« Kxtrssrdtniirr Powers Conferred

Upon the Chief Supervisor** Sec. 6 of the force bill authorizes tbi chief supervisor to transfer his subordi--te supervisors throughout a congres••al district. seventh section declares tho chief 1 of the inferior supervisors and marshals- to be officers of the stiflf the moment they are as--which puts them within tile Nagle case recently supreme court, the effect exempt them from prosecute courts for aiiv crime they ind.r eolor of their office, or ,ng to discharge the duties ae of them should kill or i^en of the stato b* would l*le to the state law, but could /in a U. S. court, and before a d*c, whose creature he is. v£sta the chief with the power, bis subordinates, to revise and se the registration of voters to exstate ballot-boxes before •lections to keep a poll-Hat and to number voters to receiv* and count ballets reacted by the state inspectors to make statements and returns to the chief supervisor in whatever form, manner, ana to the extent the chief requires, and such returns to be sent up to him by the deputy marshal and in a city of 20,000 inhabitants end upward, the "chief may require any of the supervisors and a deputy marshal to make a house-to-house canvass, •which may begin live weeks before and be continued on the day of election, inquiring into the eligibility of voters add whether they have ever been legally naturalized, which is simply a provision for domiciliary visits to do tho work of ticket peddlers in the interest of the republican party.

Keithor of the men assigned to this work is required to belong to the opposing political party. The Infnmom Returning Board Sch.ms.

Tho bill also provides for th* appointment in each state by the judge of the U. 6. circuit court of a returning beard or board of canvassers, wh« receive the returns from the precincts in the various counties and bear evidence if thev think proper,and then declare and certify under their hands and seals who is elected representative ia congress, and th* individual •o certified is to be placed by the clerk of the bouse of representatives on the roll of members elected, and thus authorized t* participate in the organization sf the next bouse of representatives. These boards of canvasscrs have autocratic power far beyond any power er authority graated to any similar beard in the w*rld. They can make, according to their own sweet will, the house of representatives of the United States. Under the bill they can certify any candidate as duljr elected a member of congress, no matter if he received only

1,000 votes while bis opponent received 10,000 votes, and the clerk of the house of representatives is compelled under huavy penalty to place tho name so certified on his list of congressmen. Only ono remedy is open to the legally elcctud member and that is the right to contest the election, but it is fair to presume that he would have to wait until "Hope deferred mad* the heart sick" before he would be allowed a seat in a house of representatives chosen under this bill.

Here is something infinitely worse than the Louisiana returning board. Under the old regime, the vilest wretches who concocted frauds observed some show of secrecy, but under the republican force bill, devised to secure the same ends, the contrivers of that aoomination throw off all disgraoe, and with brazen audacity, create a returning board to perpetrate frauds and rob the people of their rights.

KnownotMngtsiu Revlvrd.

The twelfth subdivision of sec. S bents knownothingism in its' palmiest days. It requires the supervisors, when instructed by theirchief, to make a complete list of all foreign-born persons who have been naturalized, with the date thereof, their placo of nativity and present residence, and the name and residence of the witnesses used to obtain naturalization papers and they are to examine and note the original affidavits and application presented to the court, all of which shall be filed in the office of the chief supervisor and there preserved. It establishes political espionase over all of our naturalized American citizens with a view to controlling their votes for the republican party,

Count ns In R«inbllonn».

Sec.15 authorizes the chief supervisor to faotjfy tho judge of the U. S. circuit court in September that ho has business for the court to transact and thereupon the judge shall open his court the 1st of October, and shall appoint aboard of three canvassers, not more than two of whom shall belong to the same political party, who shall hold their office for "so long as faithful and capable."

They shall have a seal and the power of appointing a clerk who shall receive $12 per day, and each of them shall receive a salary of $15 a day for each day actuallv employed in the work of "canvassing the statements and certificates of ballots cast at any election, general or special, for a representative or delegate in congress, and and a further sum of $5 per dav for their personal expenses." The uoard is required to convene on the 16th day of November of each even year, and shall convene at such place in tho state as is most convenient to thetn where a circuit court of the United States is held, and are to have power to finally canvass and tabulate the statements of the votes in each congressional district of the state according to the returns made to tho chief supervisor) they mav call before them and examine any of tbe supervisors who acted at the election anywhere in the district to th* correctness oi the returns made by tbem.

The majority of the board is authorized to act, which is equivalent to saving that the republican members of the board mav decide any matter to suit themselves, anil th* democratic member can do nothing more than to protest. When they arrive at a decision their finding is to 'be made public triplicate certificates, one to bo filed with the chief supervisor, ono to be sent to the person elected, and one to be sent to the clerk of the house of representatives, unless they find that no one was elccted and then thu certificate is sunt to the governor of the state. The Cl*rU of tlm Jlnna*. of Representatives

Mnst Ob« the Voting Bonnl. Sec. 16 makes it tho duty of the clerk of the house of representatives to put on the roll of members-elect the name of the person cert.fled by tho board of can-

SSBffPtSnSvToeeF^eJecPSf^SmnoT" failure to comply with this requirement they make the clerk punishable by a tine of not less than $1,000 nor more than $5,000, and imprisonment for not moro than five years, one or both, and to be forever disqualified from holding office under the United States.

The Authority of Ihe State Wiped Out. A certificate of election from the governor of a state is set at naught and made worthless. Never before in the whole history of congressional legislation were the great seal of a sovereign state and the certificate to which it is attached treated as mere waste paper. The certification of two partisan members of a canvassing board, appointed by a federal judge, is to be receivod as gospel truth, while the certification of a governor, who speaks for a sovereign state, is to be treated as waste paper and utterly disregarded. Are the American people prepared to submit to such degradation?

The Force Bill Army and Its Cost to the Country* It is estimated that the republican force bill, should it become a law, will create an army of mercenaries of about 275,000, and that they will cost the country for every congressional election not lees than

$28,000,000.

Indiana's Share In the Republican Iniquiry. Hon. John H. O'Neall, the representative in congress of the Second Indiana district, in a speech delivered in congress June 30, Remonstrated that Indiana has at least 18,000 subordinate supervisors for lior 3,000 voting precincts. It these supervisors are on duty twelve days, which the law permits, at S15 a day,which the law fixes as their per diein, it will cost the country for on* election the enormous sum of *1,030,000. To this army of republican heelers another army of deputy marshals may be added,1 at a cost of io a day, which would swell tho grand total indefinitely. "As a climax to all this," says Mr O'Neall, the state returning board with S15' per day each and $5 each extra for expenses. This returning board is to consist of three persons, "not more than two ot whom shall belong to the same political partythe other may belong anywhere or nowhere.

This board, or any two thereof, may "certify" or "count in." Their certificate confers title, the state returns to the contrary notwithstanding. Their certificate, when it reaches tho clerk of this house, must be recorded, and th* name of the party certified to must be enrolled by said clerk on th* roll of membership. A failure so to enroll him subjects the clerk to heavy penalties, the certificate of the governor of any state or tho law of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.

Has it come to this, that the certificate of the governor of a state—a man in whom the people of the state have expressed their confidence by electing him to the high office—is it possible that the certificates •f th* governor, backed up by the returns made by th* state canvasstrs, is to pale before th* certificate of this mighty trio, er any two of tho trio, a trio, perchance, hatched and brought into existence by a midnight junta of professional politicians 7 Must the peopl* turn their elections over to politicians "The force bill debauches tho judiciary and brings," said a member of congress, "the circuit judges of the United Strtes aud other federal judicial tribunals into mud and dirt of partinaa political schfmies. Who appoint* the judge? He is tfcere for life. He appoints tbo supervisors/ These duties imposed on the courts by this bill are extra-judicial. If judges agree to voluntarily perforin thew, they take froin tho judiciary its high character. The judge is there without aay power to direct and compel his action. Tho snporvisot is amenable to nobody, arid it is not possible, Mr. Speaker, if this becomes a law, to bring him to account for whatever

he may do, howover wrong it moy be, however dlr ctly against the law it muy 'be. There is no power to hring him tip before a court and question tho authority of his act. The moment yon do this the man who does it is brought before the same court, bccause he complains of injustice and illegality in the supervisor, and he is put in prison by tho jury. Who chooses tho jury The supervisor or his marshal and the man who dees the wrong goes froe. A man cannot step in and interfere, or he may be "subject to arrest." This supervisor or the marshal, who are without responsibility, may go to the polls, may raako a house-to-houso inspection, may see to the registering, go into the election-room, count the ballots, mark the ballots, and having done that may certify to the clerk of this house the congressional vote.

The foregoing discloses the essential inequalities of the republican force bill, unparalleled in its designs to sweep away the righto of states and of individuals.

In the Interest of Monopolist Millionaire!.

The proposition to put a duty on tinplate was denounced by a republican loader in congress sotno years ago as a call to protest nn infant industry which is as yet unborn. The houso of representatives has voted, and the senate is expected to agree, to tax the people of this country from $10,000,000 to $16,000,000 a year to develop and protect this still unborn infant. For what purpose? To give employment, it is said, to tho 24,000 workmen now idle, who would be required to make the tin-plate used in this country. It would be far cheaper for the country to pay 24,000 idle men average wages to do nothing than to tax every square of tin roof, every dinner-pail, teapot, milk pan and tin can simply to build up half a dozen more monopolist millionairesand enable them to give coaching parties through Scotland to protection leaders, and to found libraries from the savings of a 15 per cent, reduction in their workingmen's wages.

TH* UNBORN INDUSTRY.

In Anticipation of It. Hirth tho People Pay 8IS,000,000 1 Yrar, [Senator Voorkeot.]

If this somewhat elaborate description of tho manufacture of one Of the great staples of plain domestic life may seem tiresome to senator, perhaps it will seem ICBS SO to the industrious housewives of the country, especially when the amount of tax they are made to pay on their kitchen utensils, and the reasons for such taxation are pointed out and explained. There is not a mill in the United States, and there never has been, engaged in the manufacture of tin-plate. There are but three American mills which produce even the iron plates, or black sheets necessary for the manufacture of tin-plate, and their annual product do»« net exceed 12,000 tons.

Those who make tin cups, tin buckets, tin pans, tin spoons and tin dishes for the tables of the poor, import all the tin-plate used in their business. In 1889 they imported 377,000 tons, which was cut up and made into tin-ware for household purposes, and the people of this countrv paid for this tinware more than $90,000,000. The duty on tin-plate under existing law is 1 cent per pound, and the net revenue derived iast yenr from this source amounted to at least $5,541,900, paid by those who purchase and use linware.

But that is a mere tap on the till of the foti'Ml'.Wift V.'.IMU'B, '.Viv kn-Ml-aVniiH's, Vrnr

busy bees who gather honey for the indolent, bloated drones of the hive to eat compared with what the McKinley bill now reposes. The finance committee of this body has reported a bill to us raising tho tariff tax on imported tin-plate to 2.2 cents per pound—an increase of 120 per cent, over the present rate, and swelling the aggregate of revenue on this one class of goods from a little over five millions and a half annually to over fifteen million dollars..

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THE TIN TAX.

A Bobbery That Will Cmit tho People In Ten Y»ar» St40,00'0. [WUlitm 6uul In the Knights of Lr.bor Journal.]

Already wo throw away $11,000,000 in duty alone on the $21,000,000 worth of tin plate imported, which, when importers', jobbers' and retailers' profit is added, swells the amount to $41,520,000. instead of $30,492,000, which it would be without the duty, allowing same rate of profit all round. The McKinley bill will about double the amount of the present duty, apd since, at the lowe»t estimate, this hypothetical industry, if developed at all in £)aicota, will take at least ten years' time, the simpletons of the Onited States will contribute in that time about. #240,000 to increase the plutocratic class, whose heels are already on th* necks of the community.

I speak under correction, but I think there is some $18,000,000 invested annually in the canning industry, which, with'tho present export trade, will be seriously crippled, if not wiped out, by tho McKinlejr bill. AVhen one considers this one item of tin alone and realizes the injustice and misery* it canses, surely it should be a sufficient object lesson for farmers, mechanics and traders alike to unite their marked protest in coming olections by voting down the fetich «f protection to the realms oi oblivion and hoisting the banner of free trade, -^/ich gives all tb* right Inherent in them" to buy in the cheapest markets in the world and expend the fruits oi their labor to the best advantage of thenmelves and their families, placing taxation where it belones, and lightening the toiler of his load im-

fong

o*ed

by indirect taxation, which has to robbed tbo massus of their own.

TIN PLATE.

The McKinley Bill More Than Double! the rr«i«iit Rftte of Taxation* iThtHoa. Joion Brown.]

The McKinley bill imposed a duty of more than double the present rate on- tin articles of ev*ry-day use, which enter into the humble hemes of the poor at well a* the extravagant residences of the rich. The pretext for this is, that in some future years some protected- monster mav, with the assistance of this bill, give b'rtb to an infant tin plate industry. Preparation for the ovent must bs made now. In order that people will be well prepared to nurse, nnrture, raise, care for and protect this infant, when born, they now,notwithstanding tbey are already overtax-ridd*n, most pay nearly sixtean million dol ars per year to give assurance that the infant will b* born, and, wh*n born, that thay will furnish it a prinecly estate. The rule is that on* must cak* cars *f and support its own otitpring. Not so with this royal iafant, the

[K. T. Werld.l

The tin-plate infant, yet unborn, will not b* able to talk before 1890. In the mean time we are to be mercilessly bled, so that by a sort of political transfusion it may gasp out a scmblance of life.

S E E N

WAILIXG WOMEN

Who Work For the Protected Industries at Starvation Wages.

norrlljlng Presentation of Piracy and

Poverty Infl oted by the Itepuli-

llcnn Purty*

A Document That Ought to be Itend In

Kvery Ilome Throughout the Laud.

The following is the full text of a memorial presented in the senate of the United States, Sept. 3, 1S90, by Senator

riuuib

REPUBLICAN TESTIMONY.

Taxing Dlnnor-Falln, Tea Pots nnd MI1U Fans.

of Kansas for the protection of

women and children employed in the mills and factories throughout the United Ssntes:

Th* Women's national industrial league of America, having carefully watched tariff debates in the tl. S. senate, and having from our own observation and experience obtained fact* which corroborate thei statements made by senators, respectfully submit the following memorial. -Women At^d chllilron tlie Siove* of Corporatinns.

Evidently the intended protection, liberally bestowed bv the house and senate, doej not protect 'labor, but is only fruitful to the manufacturers in this country. Women ichildren of tender age are virtually t^My the slaves of powerful corporations,. a •Blare Wagea.

In tho cotjii and woolen mills of Pennsylvania, Nw ijfork and the New England states, womo children work at from 35 to 75 cots\

a

dny their day's work

consists of enti10111"® hence at 3J and 7 cents an hotr. according to the census of Massachigetts\of

1885.

23

PGr cent, of

all persons cmplw61^

in

the cotton and

woolen niillt receive onlj ?2.10 to $4.50 per week, when attendVPe to'from two to three looms each, while tp Great Britain they have charge oi one or two looms only. The Holy liiUle to rrcvent Edu.ay«n-

Families it these aforementioned states il.. fomiltr Kiltlnc ba

falsify the entries in as to enable them ti earlier to work than unfortunately force means in order to be living expenses,

their family bibles so put their children ho law permits, being to resort to theso able to meet current

Abuses of

orporntions.

The president of t' industrial league chairman of the scna cation and labor, to oi the working won and she has also, for watched the abuses and from actual facts ered appeals to vol protect these uni'or children

ie Woman's national as appointed by the te committee on oduinvestigate the status len in this country, years past, carefully tlieso corporations, and statistics gathir honorable body to .unate women and

Tho Clonk Mnnnfnctu Immedintely after tariff bib in the hot when^a beuntiful pro of 60 peri.cent, on was granted io the they, on the 5th dav

tho passage of tho ise on May 21 last, vision of an advanco he ad valorem duty :loak manufacturers,

June, notified their

women-workers that beir waees would be fccrivine themselves cent, ad valorem on existing rates, decreiturn their pittance to a further reduction of 25 ]l'*r cent., seems like grinning mockurv anjd wanton cruelty.

reduced 25 percent. I an advanc* of 50 per

women wage-workers

The silk weavers c.f Bethlehem, Pa., have been notified, by tltyeir employers, that a reduction of 40 per/cent, of their wages has been decided upoti thev, for self-preser-vation, were oblirfed to strike. These silk ribbon manufacturers have also been liberally provided for with an advance of 20 per cent, bv house and senate on their goods, receiving a bounty of 20 per cent, extra, r.ad asking these white slaves, by HU9_reduction of their wages, virtually to contribute to their employers 40 per cent, •'rom their already scanty wages, seems almost inhuman.

Price* Which D^grado Women. Your memorialists also respectfully submit to vu« *lio fact that women in Now York City ar making a bov's jacket for 15 cents, in fau.* a wholo jacket for the price of two" loavev of bread, and a pair of pants for 12 cents.

Women flnishern in the woolen mills in Pennsylvania, according to the Pennsylvania annual report of the secretary of internal affairs for lS-'S, receive only 54 cents a d.ny—not giils but full grown women—Jwomen spinners 71 cents a day, women spoolers from 42 to 64 cents a day, woif.en weavers 40 to 90 cents a day, tho latter sum being paid to experts cnly. In the knit goods factories women, not girls, receive or.ly 55 cents a day for winding •pools women spinners 50 cents a day yarn twisters 03 cents a day yarn spinneru 66 cents a dav reelers 65 cents a day: girls at work in' Pennsylvania, in th« sliQ'e and boot factories, receive 50 cents a rUy. In the texfile fabric factories the women spinners and spoolers receive from 47 to 55 cents per day, and tho winders CO cents a day, while the dressers of woven textiles receive only 43 cents a day.

Ueplor»blt C-andltlon of Affaire In Mannanlim«tt«, The chiefof the bureau of statistics of labor pf Massachusetts, in his twentieth annual report, 1890, on page 570, states thijit 391 temale children from ten to thirteen years of age are emploved in_the factories of that state, and that 69,807 girls of a^es of from fourteen to nineteen years aro doing factory-work. Considering that out of tho 114,223 girls of ageB between fourteen and nineteen years in tlie_ whol» state of Massachusetts, 69,•• 807 girls are factory girls, or over 61 per cent, of thfj whole girl population of that age, it seems almost incredible, but the fr.cts,presented are official. 16,535 Wora^n Working For 10 3-8 Cent* a

Day.

In volume'2, page 215 of the Massachusetts centus Jor ISSo the following startling confession is recorded: "During tho year ending'Jane 30, 1S85," 15,538 women were furnished with work home, and the amount paii] to theso women for the whole year fyafl $514.362, or at tho averago of $33.10 a y'jjnr of 312 working days, equal to 10| cents day."

All of which is respectfully submitted, and, earnest^ asking for relief, your memorialists wif| ever pray.

r'tin-

plato industrv," yet to be born. Unlets something interrupt* the happening of the event, notwithstanding it will hav* none of th* bload of the people in it notwithstanding that its parentage will not be of kin to th* people, either bv blood or marriage, y*t thejr must t*il and enslave themselves, that it, upon it* coming into the world, aaay live in loyal splendor.

CHARI.OTTK SMITIT, President,

CATNERIN'ii: BEROEK, fiecy. "Washington, J), o., Sept. 2,1890.

PENSIONS.

Democratic »nd Republican Records—Facta For T«f

srnna

la Couterojilate.

The republican party h*d control of the povernment '{r0m 1861 to 1884, both inclusive. During that pariod of twentyfour jears it jiaid out for pengiona the sum of '»S,34*i,834—an 'average of $33,007,784 a year.

The

The Tiu-Pinte Infant.

demoraticparty

had contrel of pen­

sion appropriation* from 18S5to 188S, li.-th inclusive, f^tir years, and paid out for ponuioni thesi^m of 5284,730,010—an avernge of $71,184,1)^2. Aimual KTitr« pnM hr democrxtf ?7I,1M.D02 00 Annual overf,g(n0 paij by republicans 38,097.781 00

Democratic exccis over ropublIe«D..$J3,0S7.1l8 SO

JUDGE BALDWIN.

HIS PRONOUNCED VIEWS ON THE TARIFF.

An Iloneit Republican Who Repudiates War Taxes in Tlmei of Peace.

Judge D. P. Baldwin *f Legaasport is one of the laading republicans of Indiana He it a nephew of U. S. Senator Trait, in whose office he studied law. In 1880 he wat elected attorney-general of the etate on tho republican ticket. Last year he was on the stump for Harrison in Indiana, New York and Xew Jersey.

From an inverview with Judge Baldwin, published in the Indianapolis Xewsol Nov. 14, the following is taken: "I do not believe that the farmers of the. United States will ever again bo in favor of the present war tarifl. My notion is that, without a radical change, tho farmers in 1890-92 will eo against us.

The inequalities mi tho present tariff are very hard on the agricultural interests. The farmer i« provided with a spoon, while the manufacturers receive protection by the shovelful. Why should the farmer bo compelled to sell his wheat at the price fixed in Liverpool, in the marketR of the world, and buy all his necessities from manufacturers protected from 30 to 75 per cent.? Whilo the latter class is becoming enormously woalthy, the farmer is pulling the devil round by tho tall and just making a living. Tho tariff should treat all classes as near alike as possible." "This sounds very much like democratic talk."

LOOK AT THIS.'

What the McKinley Bill Does For the Farmers.

ajonntalrm of TAXAD on the One ftlrte, and Bankruptcy on tho Other 81lo.

Prett.n duly.

Arftcte.t.

Rftrtuco

REPUBLICANS THII0WD0WN

THE BARS TO FOREIGN LANDLORDS.

The Hon. Green Smith Repeal* tho Repub­

lican Allen Itiud Law.

READ THEIR RECORD OF FALSEHOOD.

We believe that the soil of the United Stntes should t« reserved for its own oltisens, »nu stieli as may become eitixeus, and favor such leffis'ation by oonxreas and the state legislature ns will prevent aliens beeomiug the owners ot the land needed for homes for independent American farmers. And we condemn the ceadaet of the representatives of the democratic party, both in congress nnd the legislature of Indiana.—fiepttbliean Plntfnrm,

This is a pretty plank to bo introduced in its platform by a party which hna given nway to aliens nnd-. corporations 190,000,000 acres of public lands in this country, and which, in 18S1, when it hnd a majority in both branches of tho legislature, electcd Benjamin Harrison to the U. S. senate, and enacted tho following law, which was approved by Gov. Porter April 16 ot that yeitr.

An act to nnthorize nlions to hold titles to real estate, convey the sitiua, etc.: Seo. 1. Bo it enacted by the fencrnl assembly of the state of Indiana, that naturni persons, who are aliens, whether they reside in the United States or any foreign country, may acquire, hold and enjoy real estate, aud may convey, devise, mort^Ago or otherwise incumber tho sumo in lileo manner, nnd with the suute effect as citizens of this ftute.

Sec. 2. All laws or parts of laws in conflict with tho provisions of this not aro hereby repealed.

1

"Well, if it does I can't help it. I am no democrat. I dou't want to see the republican party go down upon the tariff abuses when they held all tho cards in their own hands." "But is it not believed that the new states and the proposed federal election supervision have made everything solid?" "Don't you believe it. There aro 20,000 republicans in the stato and 1,000,000 in tho United States who think as I do about tariff reform,and if tho present abuses are not eliminated will rebel. If congress dodges and shuffles and cuts ofi' the tobacco tax and tinkers a littlo here and there, but makes no radical tariff reform, wo shall certainly go to the wall."

Sec. 3. Whereas, an emergency exists for the immediate takiuir efl'cot of this nei, therefore, it shall be in force from and after its passage.

In 18S4 thn farmers of the state, having felt the burden pnt upon them by reason of the ownership of large tracts of land by aliens, demanded legislation restricting it. The Hon. Green Smith, who is now the democratic candidate for attorney-Koneml, was a candidato for senator from his district that year, his republican opponent being Col. Wells, tho aeent of the Dundoe (Scotland) land and insurance company. The fight between them was upon that issue, Mr. Smith taking tho side of tho farmers and the other gentleman endenving to convince tho people it was eminently proper that nliens should bo continued in their rights under the old republican law «f 1SS1.

123.10

3.1.00 60/0 Ti.0) GO.OO 09.00 iw:oo 91.69 126.00

jtolu for TiroMtl BUnketc, flanaels and bat* 60.70 Women'sand ohiidren's dr«Mgood* B&Q4 Women'* and ebUdren'a dross goods 6&00 Women's and children's dress goods 85.0J Clothing, ready-made 64.00 Cloaks, dolmans, etc 6:^00 Webbing, gorinfi*, eie 64.00 Chuap woolen shawls RS.OQ

GOV. IIOVEY'S SPEECH.

OLD SOLDIERS READ.

Short History of P«tnelona—How a Itepnb-

lloan Congress Treated the Veteran*.

The following are extracts from GOT.Hovey'i address at Boston, Aug. 8. 1S90: For tUei* who fought Use, In ihe rebellion end nnnKtur.nl Mnflletof 1SM-GA, lands end life pensions hiiTe been r.fuseil, with bil.lon. of acre* ot public dcitnuln, MI4 a xirplus In our tr»«ury that the Ingenuity of our state* mori bai lepn unahln to exhaust!

What Is the causeof tbfi niggardly and parsimonious conduct of our representatives in cungre.ss? 1 can attribute tt to nothing but envy, hatred and the greed of gain. The banks of deposit of the United States, which now hold mauy mtlliona of dollars without paying Interest, do not want tho deposit* removed for any purpose. The shipping inlorcsts nr. clamoring for mire ships and "sulnldies" to be paid by th. gOT.rnm^nt. The rlv.r and harbor log-rollers in eongress are d-vislng schemes for combining and swallowing up mauy millions te enrich their constituents.

Petitions by veterans, with hundreds of thousands «f names, hare btou sent to congress, and haro be«n burled in the cellars of the capttol unread, although th. constitution declares that "the right to petition shall remain inviolate."

I had thnhosorof presenting to the present congress petitions of a arly every grand nrmy post in the United States, representing nearly 500.000 veteran«, praying for th- passag. of a law in conformity with these resolutions (for service pensions).

All th«se petitions were wholly unheeded and a bill was formulated and reported by the invalid pension committee «f the house, whieh entirely ignored the prayers of tho p«titloners, the bill report+d being sanctioned by cancus of the majority, prevented all service pension legUlatl.n.

The recent act of congress will bring eome relief to veterans in the asylums and pour-honses of our county nnd to many helpless widows, but it will reach no one, not even th.se who are now receiving disability penioni, except these whe will take the pauper .ath prescribed by the second suction ef that act.

This act is called a disability act for the purpose, no deuht, of disuniting its r.al character. It Is a dlsabilitT act, btit tt would havo been more appropriate to have csllod it a pauper pension act. for the (Usability consist* In the fact that the applicant la unable t. earn ^snpport hy manual labor.

There may bo a few wealthy soldiers and sailors found who are unable to' earn a support hy theh i^anual labor, but I doubt If there cetild be ose such found in a thousandnp.llcanU.

Strip this act of Its verbi.ge and Hypocrisy, and It eould well b« .Ailed "a pauper pension act." Let tbo authors take the aensequence. Veterans will kaov how to resent th. inaulL

Protection Knrrftn Without ft A tax. properly speaking, is a burden with a benefit You pay so much water, police or school tax, and receive its equivalent in aqueducts, watchmen and educators. But wh»n you pay $1 for a thing and another dollar as duty on it, what do yon get for that extra dollar? Strictly speaking, therefore, protectionist orators arc right in saying the tariff' is not a tax. It ia a burden without a benefit, just as if the money had beea lost or stolen.

Depredation RmI R1U10 Uudor a Republican Rnhb«r Tariffs

The official real estate valuation in the stato of Ohio hna failea off more than $80,000,000 in tho last ton years, a decrease of more than 10 per cent.

Suppose we estimate the real estate of Ohio as oae-twentieth of the real estate of the oountrv. In that case, under the influence ef protection, thp value ef real estate ef the country has decreased $1,600,000,000.

Campaign Itttclprncttjr,

The only reciprocity really understood by the republican leaders is that which has lK»en established between them and the manufacturers. The manufacturers provide the campaign funds, and the republican leaders reciprocate by taxing consumers to cnrich tho manufacturers.

Seo. 2. All other aliens may take nnd hold land by devise and dctcont only, nnd may convey the same at any time within five yenrs tliereaftert and nn longer, nnd all land ao left insl^ remaining nnconveynd at the end of five yenrs shell escheat to tlie state.

m.s* lis 08 74.00

11.59 IV 00 5a oo U09 40.00

4". CO S4.00 75 00 60. CO (HI 00 toOO

Sec. 3. Nothing herein contained shnll prevent the holder of any hen upon, or interest in, real estate heretofore acquired, from taking a valid title to the real eatnte in which lie has anch interest, or upou which he has Mich lien.

See. 4. An emergency oxistx for the immediate taking effect of this net, thereforo it ahull be in foree from and after its pasvagc.

This bill w»i bitterly fought by the republican side of tbo senate, and by ns tersifitent lobby as ovor disgraced tho corridors oi a capitol. It pjissed, bowever, and went to the house, where it was superseded by an amended bill, sumberud house bill No. 13, introduced hy Mr. Robipson, an independent member. It passed that body by the entire republican vote, and the assistance of a few democrats, who did not pa' as strict attention to what they were doing as tbey should have don*. The bill was then returned to tho senate for its approval very near tho close of the session.

101.0£

110.00 1J0

0

73 00

110.00 84.0U 82.00 99.00 155.00

How long will tho people submit piracy?

to such

REPUBLICAN FINANCIERING

The Sarplns of 1100,000,000 Gone, nnd ST Do*

flclency of More ihnn 880,000,000

llns fleet! OrentoU,

HON. W. D, BYNUM ON THH SITUATION.

The Silver lilll Fraud, and Promises

225,000, of $3,/75. amount nuihoriz propriati the aggr

Senator Smith, seeing his object was about to be defeated, moved to amend the house bill by striking out the enacting clause and inserting the substnnco of his original senate bill, which amendment made it read as above quoted. In the excitement incident to tho last days of the session, he secured the adoption of this amendment by both senate nnd house, tool1' it to the engrossing clerk, and from the^e to Gov. Gray, with his own hand, and 16

wfts

approved March 9, 1S85.

Now the platform-makers of the republican party cojno forward with the claim that tl"e repuhlicnn party "fAvor» a hiw preventing aliens from becoming owners of land needed for the farmers of America."

This show* either gross false pretenses or densest ignorance on tho part of tho lendernjSnd in either case is inexcusable and is [^•Jn-facia evidence that tho pnrty represented by such aplatformis not ciipiible of properly •managing the affairs of ^ae state.

Acain, the latj.ra8'ec'.by thy-exertions of Senator Smith^cTorr'^i^e'.' certain provisions which are moiiS.Ykely being violated by alien land-owners, and the present republican attorney-general, instead of looking after Buch violations, as Iris oath of office requires him to do, puts in his time at republican headquarters writing snch piatformn and attempting to so deceive the voters that they will retain his party miniom in the pay of the stato.

SAMUEL J. TILDEN.

Whnt Ho Said in 1R7S, Becoming Truo In 1800. "Tho democracy advancos to fight anew the battle against centralism and corruption, to which it was first led by Thomas Jefferson in the nation and by George Clinton in the state of New York. "The equilibrium of our wholo political svstom is iji danger of being overthrown Ht-d a despotic and corrupt centralism established. "The creed of the democratic party is comprised in two ideas: Fir^t, to limit as much as possible all governmental power, enlarging always and everywhere the domain of individual judgment and action secondly, to throw back the governmental powers necessary to be exercised ns much as possible upon the states and the localities, approaching in evory case the individuals to be affected. "These ideas dominate ovor the democratic party nnd dnd in it their best representatives. The opposite.ideAs, to mendle with everything belonging to the individual, aud to centralize all governmental powers, express the tendencies of tho republican party. "Under this inspiration the federal government is rapidly seizing upon all the powers of human society. It bits assumed to regulate the suffrage and threatens to tako control of the elections. "I oppose centralism because it is incompatible with eivil liberty. "I oppose centralism because it creatos an irresponsible peweivaud an irresponsible power is always corrupt. A government ruling all the aOairs ot" individuals and leeaiitiM from the Atlantic to the l'arifie, from tlie great lakes to the Gulf of

Mcxieo, would be the moiit inoo petont for what it would nndertake, the most oppressive, the most irresponsible, and the most corrupt government of which history affords any exaufylo.

to tho

Soldiers Broken.

"It would be impossible to give, from momory anything like a full icviewof tho proceeding of the session," Baid Congressman Bynutn. "I can only give an outlino of tbo principal measures. Tho ponsioa bill was not what tlie republican party promised to the soldiers. They were led to believe that a service bill would be passed, and the limitation clause of tho arrears act repealed, if the repnb!ican~ succeeded. I know full welt session began that the republica never carry out their promises, their cxcus«s would be 'wo aro do so at present wait.' In order might have,no excuse, I offered a mont to tho rules providing th nny general pension bill shoul' consideration, it might be in amend hy providing means same. Had the amendment bee thero would have been no exc failure to carry out their pi revenues could have been provi iwsutmce of bonds, or greenbacks, the levy of an income tax^ The' repu cans, however, voted dovn my time" tnent, and are now ready \o make to be broken as soon as tho electi over.

THE SI1.YEII TIII.L A FRAUD. The silver which the repujAS proven a fraud, bill wili bo to suafeilvor 'dollar. The rrency will never rovides that treasury in payment of the th{ treasurer jssuca y'be paid in gold4 and iargc denominations, circulate, are issued and ______ i- the treasury. In short, tho people are taxed to purchase silver bullioi! which cannot bo coined. I notice tho secretary says this will be corrected just as soon as possible. This is tho same old republican cunipaign promise.

licans The onl

promi come:

Mr. Smith won the battle, and upon entering tho senate promptly introdmced the following as senate biil No. 3: An aot concerning the ownership ntul alienation of r»nl estate by aliens, nnd declaring an emergency.

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the general assembly of the state of Indiana, that all aliens residing in the stntc of Indiana, who shall .have declnrrd their intention to become eitineint of the United States, conformably to the laws thereof, may actjnirc anil hold real estate ia like manner as citizens of this state.

Proposed duty.

Common window-glass 19 by 15 por pou $ §7.61 Common xritidow-glMi, 1C bf 24 per pound 110.41 Common wludow-glais. 2\ bv 3J per pound 1J8.5S Cotton-ties per pound i3.00 Tin-plat* 31.00 titeel Ingots, eto., above 16 cent* per pound Wir*-fenct» r»d«, No. IMj-knires, «tc... Table otitlerj Ho«lery shirts and drawer* lirown and b:«aeht»a linens Jtrown and bleached linens Varnt Woelcnt and wonteds, knit goods, ejc..,.^.....

73.72

THE GOVKRXiMENT BANKRUPT. "A full exposition of the appropriations, etc., of the present*congress was made a short time ago, in a speech by Gof. Sayor ol Texas. The appropriations by the present congress exceed those of the first session of the fiftieth congress by $.r2,013,700.50, and those of the second session by $72,352,78-1.41. Tho secretary of treasury estimutes tho receipts of the government from all sources for tho present official year at 5450,415,3-17.34. The appropriations for this year, including the indefinite and permanent, amount to $401,824,770.89,. which will leave a deficiency of $11,430,« 442.55. No appropriations whatever havo been made this year for thw payment oj additional pensions.. From the number ol claims already presented it will require at least forty millions more for this purpose. Also public buildings, to the amount of $1,741,639.54, have been authorized, for which no appropriations have been made. In addition to. these, wtir vessels, with v.. fjimountintr in cost to $25,heavy orduance to the value £en provided for. The ited deficiency and for which no apmade amount 1ft, 552,8*1,0411.54. ltBTS CONTRACTED. "In short, *he present republican congress has contracted debts, over and above the total revenues of tho government, fo" the ensuing yenr, in ten times the amount of the entire public* debt of tho state of Indiana, about which it appears to havo so much concern.

OFFICERS ANn SALARIES.

"The number of offices created by the present congress is 1,270, with salaries amounting to $1,391,211.50."

THE STATE DEBT.

Who Created It and What lteoame of tR« Money.

Tho Books Opened and tho Faotf

gMgg Stated.

The foreign debt of Indiana as stated by tho republican auditor is $8,050,(315.12. Of this amount the republican party created f4,.S3,7S3.12 aud the democratic party ?3^202,S3!l

When tho question is arfced what became" of the £4,853,783.»^pe debt which the republican party crt®ed, organs ond orators are silent. There pre no assarts.

How stands the case whan it is required to know'what become of tho $3,202,832' for which tho democratic 'piyty is responsible.

The answer is: The ne7^ state-house required §700,000, the hospitals for the insa" at Evansville, Kichmond sind Logansp$1,500,000 total, 52,200,001). The soldie nnd sailors' orphans' hotne at Knic town, tho institution forth? feeble-ruin^ of the state at Fort Wayn.s, the new no, mal building at Terre Iiau£o, tho new additional building for the institute for the blind at Indianapolis, tho .Tdw ifWjool building for the deaf and dumb at Indian-^--apolia, tho soldiers' monument at Indianapolis.

These splendid monnments of benevolence and patriotism account for the expenditure of tho debt which the democratic party created. But for the debt of $4,853,782.12 which the republican party created, there is nothing in sight

MORTGAGES

Io Six Stntss, 88,4IJ1.000,000—Annual in. tereit, SMS,380,000.

The following is tho amount of the mortgaged indebtedness on farm lands in states mentioned, with interest at 6 per oent.:

Ftrm Sfortgagu, Tntereit. HM.0*0,000 114,000,00#

Intians. 619,»e»,000 88,700,000 I.wa £67,000,000 84,020,000 Mlshlma. Wt,»W,000 80,000.000 WtetoMiQ M7,0*1,»J0 12,020,000 Obi. 1,117,080,000 ft7,620,009

The above figures are take* from the Bankeri' Monthly, aad as the bankers hold the mortgages, our authority cannot be disputed. With Indiaaa's 938,700,000 annual interest at 0 per cent., it ii fair to presucau that the amount ehsreed by the money sharks above that saale would make tho aggregate at least $40,900,000 per annum. With ninetytwo oounties equally divided, and each farmer having tho same anouat of lands equally incumbered, the interest paid annually by every farmer in the state would bo $200. In othur words, tho "real owner" is paying $200 annual rent, while the renter who owns nothing gots off with lost burden. If farwiag is profitable at these figures, Unele Jerry Rusk should teach liis dependent brethren who till tho soil how to. reverse the crops so that they will grow backward. A change is doinuuded.

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