Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 15 October 1892 — Page 6
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SATURDAY, OCT. 15, 1892.
This Date in History—Oct. 15,
•-.1402—Martin Alonzo I'inzon iiiMh! i'(l that the tiei't should su-cr toward the southwist, but Columbus continued straight west. 1763—Lord Kdwiird Fitzgerald,
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1SKJ—IJattle of Canton, Miss. the Fifteenth and Seventeenth corps, commanded by General Mcl'lierson, "havo a brush" with the Confederates. 1870—Snissous surrendered to tho Germans 4,000 French were made prisoners. lSfKJ—The Hev. Dr. UreKg, of Host on, called to succeed Dr. Cuyler as pastor of Lafayette
Avcnuo Presbyterian church, Brooklyn.
Facts to be Remembered,
The Republican party, by its representatives in Congress, removed the tariff from Sugar. Till-: DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS
VOTED UNANIMOUSLY AGAINST .. REPEALING THE TARIFF ON SU-.-GAR. The Mills tariff bill which the Democrats formulated and passed through the
House PUT A TARIFFOF2K CENTS PER POUND ON SUGAR. This was in accordance with the recomeninundation of Mr. Cleveland's Secretary of the Treasury, who said, in his oflicial
Report ISSft: "Our own sugar crop is so very small apart of the total amount of sugar we consume that sugar ranks next to articles wholly produced abroad liite tea and cotl'ee in suitability for (tariff) taxation, on the ground that its consumption is universal, that the tax is easily and cheaply collected, that the increase price paid by the consumer is an unconsidered trille," etc. The "unconsidered trille'' of a tax on sugar as Mr. Manning sho A's in the next paragraph ol'Ins report is nearly lifty-two millions of dollars yearly and of this is most.lv paid bv the poor people for
NINETY-NINE HUNDREDTHS of THOSE WHO USE SUGAR ARE POOR. President Cleveland sent this recommendation of his Secrtary of the Treasury to Congress with his approval. Henry Wattcrson, who did more than all others to secure the adoption of the free trade piank in the Chicago Democratic platform said in his paper of
Aug. I5th. Is'.1:2: "WE WILL REESTABLISH THE TARIFF ON SUA VI ELD ING ABOUT f.VUHIOO.OOO ANNUALY TO THE TREASURY." Let every poor man ponder these facts and if he wants to be taxed just as much as the rich man. let him vote for Broolcsliire, and Mr. Watterson's "revenue tariff on sugar." But if he wants sugar to remain free, let him vote the Republican ticket.
THE WAR OF THEORIES. CWlion men disregard facts and rely altogether on mere theories, there is but little concord of opinion among them. Hence we find that every Democrat lins a theory of his own, and that the various arguments submitted by Democratic leaders against protection, are as inharmonious as a barnyard full of gatre roosters. We have all heard so much in this campaign about the Robber Barons —meaning the manufacturers—that a great many peo})le will be surprised at an idea inculcated by Mr. Cleveland's Secretary of the Treasury, Hon. Daniel Manning, in his oilicial report of 188G. He says of the tariff this: "Defeating our manufacturers in their endeavor to compete abroad with the manufacturers of untaxed raw material, it has set them on a ferocious competition, at cut-throat prices, in our own home market, to which they are shut up," etc., etc.
It will thus be seen that, according to Secratary Manning's "theory," our manufacturers instead of being Robber Barons, are reduced to distress by a "ferocious competition at cut-throat rates." and that they, and not tL:e consumers of their goods, are the great sufferers from the tariff. The theory that our manufacturers are selling goods at cut-throat prices, under a ferocious competition among themselves, because of the tariff, is very ferociously at war with that other favorite Democratic theory that the tariff comjjels the consumer to pay exorbitant prices for goods. No consumer of manufactures has ever yet been badly injured by high prices where there was a "ferocious warfare, at cut-throat prices," among those from whom he bought his supplies. But this theory of Mr. Manning's is an eastern theory. It was intended for use among the manufacturers of the eastern States. The tariff on goods like the tariff on wool, has an eastern and a western aspect. In the east, among the manufacturers of wool, the tariff makes wool high but out west among farmers, the tariff has greatly reduced the price of wool. (See Brookshire's speech) The tariff on wool, according to Brookshire, has set tho western farmers "on a ferocious competition at cut-throat prices," and this has made wool very low, and yet in the east it is necessary the tariff on wool should be wiped out in order that our manufacturers may have "cheap raw material." In 1844- we' had no telegraphy and few newspapers, and this kind ol thing could be worked to advantage but now our Democratic friends will find -me serious difficulties
in their way when they attempt to repeat the Polk policy of that year. Polk was run as a free trader in South Carolina, and as a protectionist in Pennsylvania and the trick was not known to many till the election was over. But, it is hardly possible that such tactics can win in 1892, when almost every voter reads a morning paper before he goes to bed at night.
THJa TRUE REASON.
The determination of tho Democratic party to put a tariff on sugar and put tin plate on the free list, is so remarkable a position that it puzzles many people. Mr. Manning, Mr. Cleveland's Secretary of the Treasury, says there should be a tariff on sugar because it is of universal use, is easily identified, and cheaply collected. But is not tin plate just as universally used as sugar? Is it not just as easily identified, and could not the tariff on it be just as cheaply collected Nobody will believe that this is the real reason for putting a tariff on sugar and putting tin plate on the free list. Because, if it is a good reason it applies to dozens of other things which the Democratic leaders are determined to put on the free list, if they ever get the power to do so. The truth about, it is that the whole scheme originated among the free traders of England, as most free trade schemes have. England does not object to a tariff on sugar because she has none to sell. She does object to a tariff on tin plate because she has much of that article to sell. It is quite a curious coincidence that whatever England wants put on the free list in this country, the Democratic party wants put on the free list. Since it is now demonstrated that the McKinley bill has not increased the price of tin, and will not, what possible reason can any American assign for wishing the tariff removed from that article? Our forty odd tin plate factories are giving work to many laborers—they are having some iniluence in making home markets for the farmers' produce and no one can possibly point to any harm the tariff on tin plate is doing to any one in this country. If it had increased the price of tin, as Democratb predicted it would, that would be some reason for repealing it. But tin plate and tinware are both cheaper than they were before the tariff on tin plate went into effect. What reason then is there for putting tin plate on the free list except that it would destroy our tin factories and again give to England the monopoly of furnishing us our tin plate? Will the people of the United States suffer themselves to bo thus gulled by the tin plate makers of England i®pv--v igf«p
IS TKE TARIFF A TAxf
Tho Republican party has always fairly stilted its objects in imposing duties upon foreign goods. Republican legislation in Congress has always been founded ujxm an underlying principle that we should legislate for America, that we should buy nothing abroad when we had the raw material, labor and skill to make at homo all things necessary to make us independent of foreign Cuuutries. The Democratic party as an organization has pronounced itself to legislate with the principle of free trade as its guiding star that protection is unconstitutional and a robbery and that we should be permitted to buy where we can buy cheapest, regardless of those who are engaged in making like articles in this country. For the benefit of those who deny facts and will not try to ascertain the truth, we will state that about 1873 two of our leading merchants—Campbell Bros, p.nd B. L. Ornbaun—bought five large French plate glass for the sum of SG25, or about §2.25 per square foot. A tariff of 50 cents per square foot was placed on the foreign glass and as a consequence the industry was built uj) in this country and tho bs st plate glass of American make can now be made and bought in Indiana for one-third the foreign price twenty years ago, and yet there are some who still claim that the "tariff is a tax."
After twenty years of experience the Republican party is willing to face its predictions as to the plate glass industry. Will any Democrat be willing to face his prediction made twenty years ago and now say that plate glass is selling for $2.75 per square foot—the old price with the tariff added?
Northwest Indiana Conference. TEIIRE HAUTE, Ir.d., Oct. 13.—The
first session of the forty-first annual Northwest Indiana conference convened Wednesday morning' at Centenary church. Bishop J. N. Fitzgerald, assisted by the presiding elders, administered the sacrament of tho Lord's Supper. Rev. H. M. Middleton, presiding elder of the Crawfordsville district, read his report. It showed a large increase in membership, and that a large rcdnctiou had been made in the church debt. The preachers in the district then submitted their reports, showing the amount ~i collections during the year for missionary work and for various funds. Rev. 1). M. Wood, presiding elder of the Greencastle district, reported that several new churches are in process of erection and that the church debt is being reduced and that Methodism is in a prosperous condition in this district.
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CL'XMNHIUM for your Sunday
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GllOYER
HE OFFICIALLY USED FORCE BILL
TACTICS TO RE-ELECT HiMSELF.
A Discovery Which Takes Awav too i.iisi Issue of the Democracy—An Olllchu Or
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Hill .Methods to Re-elect Ilimselr.
[Special Correspondence.]
WASHINGTON, Oct, 3.—Another Democratic idol has fallen. Another Democratic "campaign issue" has been destroyed. And this, too, by Mr. Cleveland himself.
Tho Democratic party has certainly been unfortunate in its issues in this campaign. Its tariff isstio was destroyed by it member of its own party—Labor Commissioner Peck. Its wildcat currency issue was destroyed by members of its own party innumerable, who denouueo it unsparingly. And now its last and only remaining issue, the forco bill, has been destroyed by Mr. Cleveland himself.
It catno about in this way. Some wretched person with a good memory, who had listened with amusement and amazement to tho plantive wails of the Democracy about the force bill, suddenly remembered that Mr. Cleveland, while president and a candidate for re-elec-tion, not only authorized, but absolutely ordered for his ov.-n benefit, the enforcement of the very force bill features of the then existing law, about which Democrats are now so much agitated.
This discovery has been the political event of tho week. It was as much of a bombshell in the Democratic camp as was tho Peck report a few weeks ago. It takes away the last leg tho Democrats had to stand on. The three issues upon which they were making or attempting to make their fight in this campaign were tree trade, free banks, free frauds at tho polls. Curiously every one of them has been knocked ont, and that, too, by Democrats. But the most distressing tiling is that the distraction of tho last one of these issues left to tho party should have come about through an official act of the party's own candidate while he occupied tho White House. And this he did with the purpose of reelecting himself president of the United States.
The facts are these, and they aro very interesting: The so called forco bill simply proposed to extend to small towns and country districts of tho United States the law which has been in force for years through which United States marshals and supervisors of elections, enforce order and prevent fraud in auy city of 20,000 inhabitants or moro in elections for congressmen or other United States officials. The recent discovery, which has created such a panic in Democratic circles and taken away the last vestige of an "issue." was the fact that President Urover Cleveland, on t!:o approach of the election of 18SS, when he was a candidate for re-election for the presidency, issued to Attorney General 'Pan Electric" Garland, under date or' Oct, 5, 1888, the following order:
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Immediately afterward this letter was sent by Attorney General Garland to United States marshals:
Sin—In pursuance of a letter of the 5tli inst. from the president, directing the attorney Lteueral to take charge of the "appointnu-ut of special deputy marshals, the per'urinunue of their duties and their compensation, together with tho compensation of supervisors," at the congressional election in vember next, your attention is directed to ihe provisions of titles 2-t and 'JG, chapter 7, 1 itle 70 of the Uevised Statutes. Under seel ions -.CP™ and 2.1K4 Revised Statutes you have power to keep the peuce, protect supervisor.-, [.reserve order, prevent frauds and enforce -.in-law in towns of 20,U(X inhabitants and upv. -,rd. You should make yourself familiar wit: Uie statutes referred to and see that they rre understood by your deputies, who should he discreet men, impressed with tho importance of an honest franchise.
The manner of discharging these duties by yourself and your deputies is largely left to your discretion, lu matters involving questions of law you aro directed to consult the attorney of the United States for your district for needed information and advice. It is assumed that the duties can be performed without infringing upon the rights of any citizen in a manner that shall be tirm, and at the same time free from any unnecessary display of authority. It is not expected that supervisors and deputy marshals will receive compensation for more than five days' service, and they should be so informed. Within this time all can bo done, it is thought, tlnu ought to be. You need vigilant men. who aro conscientious workers, and no others.
It is thus shown from official records I that Mr. Cleveland, while president, ordered his subordinates to use. in tho election in which he was himself a candidate, tho very laws to which his party is now so strenuously objecting. The so called force bill, about winch Democrats are howling, was the very essence of the act which Mr. Cleveland ordered I his subordinates to enforce for his won re-election. This is all there is to tho force bill bugaboo. It was simply a proposed law providing for an extension to country districts, oil the petition of citizens, of the law already in force in the cities of 20,000 inhabitants or more.
What did the force bill really propose to do? It proposed to extend to the country districts, where fraud is now a matter of common occurrence, practically the same law which Mr. Cleveland ordered enforced. It proposed to make false registration or interference with registration a crime: it made keeping false poll lists a crime: it made election bribes and ballot box stuffing a crime: it required ballot boxes to bo placed in plain sight of voters, and the willful placing in those boxes of illegal ballots a crime it made improper manipulation of ballot boxes or ballots a crime. And that is all. That is the law which President Cleveland ordered his subordinates to enforce to aid ill his own re-election, and it is the proposed law so extended as to bo available for all of the people about which Mr. Cleveland's supporters were howling until they found that one of the last oflicial acts of their candidate sustained all of its principles. O. P. AUSTIN.
THE JOUIINAL Jon OII-ICE for bil Leads.
RKPUiiljlCAN TICKKT.
NATIONAL. For President,
BENJAMIN HAllltlSUN, of Indiana. Tor Yiec-l'resideM,
WHITKIJAW
HK!D. of .Sew York.
COUNTY.
i'or Prosecuting Attorney.
WIIJMA.M 1,
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l'"or Hepresentatlw, NATHAN JJ. C'Ol'JIEUIIY." for Clerk,
HENHY Ht'LBTT. For Treasurer, JAMES O. JicCOKMJCK
For Ueeordcr.
TIIOMAS T.
MUNnAI.fi.
For Sherllf.
CIIAItLtiS 13. DAVIts. For Coroner, DR. KICIlAKl) ICING.
For Surveyor.
WILLIAM. F.SH A ItPli. For Assess-or. CHAltLKS W, EI„\ ORK. For Commissioner, 1st, l)ist.,
JOHN PETEKSON.
For Commission, .id Dist., ALBIiKTT HOKBAKliK. STATE.
For Governor, IKA J. CHASE.
For Lieutenant-Governor, THEODORE SHOCKNEY. For Secretary of State,
AAKON JONES. For Audit or of State, JOHN W. COONS. Treasurer of State,
F. J. SCHOLZ.
For Attorney General, J. 1). FAKUALI,. For Supreme Court Keporter,
GF.OKGE
p. HAYWOOD.
Fnr."Supf,rintendeiit. of Public Instruction, JAMES II. HENHY, For State Statl-lie.iti.
SIMEON J. THOMPSON.
Forjudges of Supreme Court. Second District—JOHN 1). MIIXKH. Third District—li\ HON K. EI.LIOTT Filth District—ROISEKT W. .MclUtl UE.
For Appellnte.1 udges.
First. District— A. C.CAYINS, Second C. S. HAKEH. Third —JAMES W. BLACK.""" I'ourfh —HEN'HVC. FOX Filth —EDO A It C. CHUM PACKEK .* For Cousrrcss.
W1NDF1EI.D S. CA KPENTFR. For Joint Senator, THOMAS L. STJLWKLL.
For Joint Representative. T. T. MOOHE.
Tli« Cleveland administration of
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Sill —You nre hereby requested to take
general charge and direction of the execution of the statutes of Ike United States touching tke appointments of supervisors of elections arid special deputy marshals, and the performance of their duties and their compensation, so far as these subjects are by the constitution and laws under tho supervision and control of 1 he executive branch of the government. Yours truly. Gnov::u CLEVELAND.
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public land uttlce charged fraud against hundreds «f thousands of honest homesteaders in tin west, liung up entries
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millions of acres ami went out of ollice leaving .'150,a plications and entries unacted upon. The Harrison administration lias nctcd upon all of these and the many thousands which have since been presented, issuing patents for 05,000,000 acres against UG.OOO.OOO acres patented by Cleveland's administration in the same length of time.
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Under President Harrison's administration there lias been an increase of #300,000,000 in the money in circulation in the country. Tho present administration lias reduced tho annual interest charge on the public debt SI 1,084,570, or a saving of practically a million dollars a month in interest alone.
Massachusetts Alice Samee New York.
Investigations of 3,743 manufacturing establishments in Massachusetts have revealed the following facts, the comparisons being between tho years 1890 and 1891:
There has been an increase in the capital invested. There has been an increase in the stock used in manufacture.
There has been an increase in the value of the product. There hits been an increase in the number of persons employed.
There has been an increase in the gross amount of wages paid. There has been an increase in the average yearly earnings per individual. —Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
EYE, ear and throat diseases only, Dr. Greene, .Toel Block. Fitting of glasses a specialty.
Mr. Chcis. N. Hauer
Of Frederick, Md., suiiarcd terribly for over ten yeurs with abscesses and running sores on his left leg. lie wasted away, grew weak and tliin. and was obliged to use a cane and crutch. Lverylliiug which could be tliouglitof was done without good result, until he began taking
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which effected a perfect cure. Sir. Hauer is now in the best ot health. Full particulars of lus case will be sent tilt who address
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