Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 29 September 1893 — Page 2
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29,1893.
TO TIIE PUBLIC.
W. C. Stewart has been employed by THE JOURNAL as traveling agent. lie is authorized to solicit subscriptions, advertising and all kinds of job printing, and to make collections and receipt for the same. It is his intention to visit every portion of the county within the next few months and we bespeak for him a kind reception by the people.
A DEMOCRAT in power is of but a few days and full of trouble.
WHAT is the Democracy going to do about sugar, tea and coffee?
SENATOR BUTLEP., of South Carolina, is of the opinion that the "tariff is iniquitous" on everything except rice which ought to stand.
Bliould
endeavor
to maintain a parity between his temper and his alleged leadership in the Senate. The ratio is at variance.
SENATOR VEST, of Missouri, denounces the tariff on everything except Joplin jack as being "unconstitutional, unequal, iniquitous, and unjust."
FARMERS are busy cutting up corn and putting the fodaer in the shock. Much of it is nothing but fodder, but it will make excellent feed in winter for Btock.
GOVERNOR MCCORKLE, of West Virginia, wants the tariff smashed on everything except coal and iron, two industries which have made that State what it is.
THE tariff hearings have demonstrated the fact that free trade Democrats OSD make strong arguments in favor of protective a uties for the industries of their own States.
JOSEPH W. NIOHOL, who has been appointed Deputy Second Controller of the Treasury, formerly lived in Crawfordsyille, and is a nephew of the late Joseph E. McDonald.
EDITOR HOLDEN, of the Cleveland Plaindealer, believes in "war to the bitter death on all protected industries" except lead mining, an industry in which he is directly interested.
JACK LANDERS, a Cleveland Democrat of Indianapolis, thinks that the tariff is unconstitutional except when it comes to encaustic tile, an industry in which "he has a controlling interest.
IT has been definitely decided by the World's Fair directors to close the Fair on October 31. About six weeks remains for the people to see the greatest show that has been on the earth.
THE Democratic Senators and Representatives from Louisiana are of the opinion that "reciprocity is a fraud" except so far as it relates to sugar, and are therefore opposed to the removal of the bounty clause.
THE President is giving out a few offices here and there just to keep the Democrats reminded that he has the appointing power but there will not be any general distribution untii after the repeal of the Sherman law.
AN Arizona bank put out a notice reading: "This bank has not busted it owes the people $36,000 and the people owe it $55,000. The people are busted when they pay we'll pay." And there is a good deal of financial wisdom in the notice.
THERE are all kinds of Democrats now. There are Democrats for free silver, Democrats for repeal of the silver purchasing clause, Democrats for the Administration, Democrats against the Administration, Democrats for forcing the election repeal, Democrats opposed to so doing, Democrats for free trade and Democrats for protection, Democrate for and Democrats against everv known or possible proposition—all Democrats, all training under the same party banner. But on all these questions the Democrats hereabouts are mum, including the two organs each of wh ch represents local factions sometimes known as Swallowtails and Ragged ReubeDS.
REBEL PENSIONERS.
In connection with the complaint of the Populites of taxes, levied by the State, we want to call the especial attention of old rebel soldiers to the following extract from the
CRAWFORDSVILLE JOURNAL
of
(Hep.), of Craw-
1 order!lie, Indiana, viz: Capt. H. H. Talbot has reseived a letter fro the Major of his old regiment, the 7th Kentucky Cavalry, in which he syys: "I wish when the Encampment meets you would bring to the attention of that body of true and loyal old soldiers so that It can be brought before the country that all the Southern States, with the exception of Kentucky, are now pensioning their Rebel soldiers and have soldiers' Homes, and that the ex-Federal soldiers and Union men are taxed to pay these pensions. The North, I am sure, don't know this. The Democratic rebels are always howling about a Union soldier receiving a pension. The tax for this is not a direct tax, while the tax to pay Rebel pensions Is a direct tax and comes out of the pockets of the people. This lact should be given to the country.'•
Gov. Jones approved a biil giving old' Confederate soldiers a pension not exceeding $50 per annum, and this only to those whose taxable property was less than $000 or whose salary or annual income was less than $400 per year. This is the only thing that Gov. Jones has done that increases the taxes above the ordinary expenses of the government and this only 5 cents on every hundred dollars' worth of taxable property.
Still Populites. even Confederates who have since deserted the Democratic faith, "howl" at Jones and the Democratic party even for this.
The Democrat does not hesitate to say that the good people of Marsnall county would today vote lor a measure Increasing taxation to l)e properly expended in care for the old Confederate soldiers, that not an honest soul in the bounds of the county would wish to take one cent from a needy soldier of either side.
In the article copied above the desire is that the attention of the country be called to the tact that taxes are levied directly for the payment of Confederate pensions and only indirect for federal pensions, the people of t.lie South ask what is the dillereuee when it is taxes just the same'.'
In the case put by Mr. Talbot he admits that It is taxes but not direct taxes we ol the South would like to know what the difference is whether director indirect, we know wc pay a federal tax for pensions we are willing to continue to pay it if it is an honest pension, but we do object, to the payment of pensions undeserving and dishonestly obtained as you ^uggest. We have our own needy soldiers to pay a pension an 1 we can't pension the soldiers of both armies and keep up our own families, unless you pension only the needy aiul list reused.
There are Populists in this county opposed to paying the State taxes levied for the old Confederates and there are old tories and brcakfence Federal soldiers of the same opinion. but none of the good people—not one.
We want to call the country's attention to the fact that while the South is taxed to pay pensions for soldiers in the North, that but few Northern men are In the South to help us pav oi'r Southern soldiers pensions and those that are here are out balanced by Southerners at the North. Besides this, the men from the North who are residents of this section join freely in the payment ol their Bliure of the taxation for needy Confederates and vote for the most liberal provisions proposed, condemning robbery by Northern pensioners, as heartily as the most rabid southerner,
THE JOURNAL
is mistaken In the feeling of
Southern people. We are only opposed to robbery, whether in the form of tarifT taxes, demonetization of silver fraudulant pension or highway pr jceedlngs. GuntcmviUc, Ala. Democrat.
We copy the above merely to show our readers the plea of the Southern Democrat for levying a direct tax to pay pensions to ex-Confederate soldiers. A tax of "only five cents on every hundred dollars worth of taxable property" is levied in Alabama to pay these pensions. If a tax of only five cents was levied in Indiana to pay the Union soldiers the Hoosier Democrats would raise a howl louder than the "Populites and Confederates who have deserted the Democratic faith" in Alubama. There's quite a difference between direct taxes and socalled indirect taxes. Direct taxes come directly out of the pockets ot the peo pie as for instance the pension tax in Alabama. The alleged indirect tax is paid by no person in Alabama, unless he is a consumer of spiritous liquors or to bacco when possibly he assists in rais ing the $72,000,000 of internal revenue. But this is not compulsory, as neither distilled spirits nor tobacco are necessities. Neither does he pay any of the $25,000,000 raised by the duty on iron and steel, as neither iron nor steel have
been
increased in price. But on the other hand it has been lowered in price by the development of the industry in the good State
Alabama. In consequence of
the tariff that State is much better off by far than it would have been without the tariff. The same is true of the $12,000,000 duties desired from cotton manufacturers. The Democrat
knowG
that cotton goods are no higher because of the tariff. Likewise the $10,000,000 derived from (lax and hemp, largely a Southern production. Imported wines and liquors piy aoout $9,000,000. The domestic article certainly is good enough for the editor of the Democrat, hence neither he nor any other Alabamian is compelled to sip the sparkling St. Julien. From silk manufacturers $20,000,000 is derived. And everybody knows that silks have been lowered in price since factories were established in the United States. Besides the masses of Alabama are not in tha habit of wearing silks. And thus we could run down through the list of $395,000,000 derived from the so called indirect taxes, and not one dollar of all this vast sum was collected upon the plea of meeting pension payments. Every dollar of it was gathered in persuance of a well settled policy for the promotion of some great material interest in the prosperity of which the work, wages and livelihood of thousands and the development of the whole country is directly involved.
As an act of alms lhe Southern States are justifiable in levying toxas to pen sion the Confederate soldiers, just as all
States levy taxes for the maintenance of their pauper poor. But the pensions granted to the soldiers of the Republic are based upon the principles of eternal justice. They are the payments bv the Government of its just obligations to the men who saved the Nation's life in the day of its deadly peril. Placing the men who preserved the Nation on an equality with the men who sought to ddstroy it, in the matter or pensions, is an act that will never be tolerated while the Republic stands.
THE SCHOOL OF EXPERIENCE. It is one of the odd things about human nature that few men are dis posed to learn wiedom from the experience of others. Each one prefers to experiment for himself. Each one loves to get his education in the fools' school— the school of his own experience. Wise men profit by the experience of those who have gone before them but unfortunately only the few are wise. If our' people had been disposed to study the past and profit by the lessons of experience, all the distress that has overtaken them in the change from a protection to free trade administration might have been avoided. The oountry had been prospering—prospering wonderfully for the last thirty years. It had never prospered so much at any former period. And no other country on the globe could show such a degree of freedom from want. Labor was employed at the highest wages ever known in the world. Wages had increased till the skilled mechanic had an income equal to all the djmands of our expensive modern life There was DO necessary or luxury be yjnd his reach. But in an evil hour there came a vote of the people which declared protection a fraud and a violation of the constitution, although protection had been the policy of the Government, with short intervals of low tariff, from the very conimen. ement of the Union. Scarcely had the vote been announced when all our business affairs were thrown into confusion and the people into distress. So rapidly did public misfortunes accumulate that the clamor for un extra session of Congress, became general and the President was compelled to call that body together to devise measures of relief. No emergency had called for an extra session of Congress in the preoeding thirty years but in a few short months after the change was voted, every busineBB of the country was in distress, and hundreds of thousands of laborers were being fed by public charity. All this misfortune might have been, and ought to have been foreBeen. Many times before the people, in their blindness, had voted for a similar ehange, and distress followed as surely as the cannon balUlies from the explosion of the powder behind it in the chamber of the gun. And wise men knew it would do BO just as the artilleryman knows the effect of putting the torch to his loaded piece. The free trade party of this country has never had control of the Government without a similar result. In 1833 the compromise tariff, which was to finally reduce all imports to an ad valorem duty of '20 per cent, was passed, and the greatest- distress ever known in this country soon followed. The mill wheels stopped, our workmen were idle, British goods flooded our country at low prices, but unfortunately, few had money to buy them with at any price. The distress became unbearable, the free trade administration was hurled from power by an overwhelming majority, an extra session of
Congress was called to consider the public distress, and soon the protective policy was again inaugurated, and prosperity
Bet
in anew and continued. With
this experience the people ought not to have made the blunder they dul when they voted protection a fraud and a vio lution of the constitution. But the blunder has been made and there is no remedy but to retrace our steps and go back, as soon as it can be done, to the wise American policy of building uj our home industries in order that our laboring people may all have work at Kood wages. Then shall we see prosperity again and not till then.
THE speech delivered by the Hon J.N. Dolph, of Oregon, in the United States Senate, at an e,rly stage of the silver discussion in the Senate, contained some pithy facts which cannot be too often reiterated. He could not have put the situation more clearlv than in this statement:
The present condition is the logical result ot the success at the Presidential election ol November last of the party which declares that protection of American industries is robbery, aud stands pledged to reverse the policy which lor more than thirty years has given us an era of prosperity such as this or no other country has ever before enjoyed—a policy which has caused civilisation to sweep across a continent, which has opened mines of the useful metals and started the wheels ot new I Industries in the Sou.li, which has larirely transferred the industries abroad once supported by our people to our own shores to furnish them employment, which has caused the continent to be covered with a network of railroads along whose lines great centers of
Industry ha\e sprung up. with great manufacturing establishments giving profitable employment to millions of American citizens.
THE facts presented to the Ways and Means Committee in regard to tbe American
Bugar
industry are extremely
interesting, especially the product of tLe beet. Take for example the large beet sugar factory at China, California. It will Berve as an example of what iB possible under oontinned protection in American sugar. This factory, built at a oost of more than 91,000,000, was commenoed in the Fall of 1890, after the passage of the McKinley Tariff Act. It began operations August 15 of that year. It will work this year about 90,000 tons of beets, the product of about 6.000 acres of land. At $5 per ton, the price paid delivered at the factory, to the farmers, it will pay them in round numbers $450,000, equal to about $75 per acre for their crop. The tatal output of the factory this fleason will be about nine thousand tons, worth at the factory, including the government bounty of 1 cents per pound on 80 per cent of sugar, about $100 per ton, or $900,000. The population of the five great States of the Pacific slope in 1890 was 2,001,000—not more than the State of Indiana. Tee product of such a factory located in this State would be consumed within a radius of 100 miles.
IT is one of the queer phases of American politics that some of the demagogues who during the last Presidential canvass urged before the people that protection was a fraud and unconstitutional, have been before the Ways and Means Committee praying for the protection of all the manufacturing industries within their several district and States. The Governor of West Virginia wants protection on iron and coal, and Congressman Ikert, from the potterv district in Ohio, who runted through t.h^ canvass against the tariff as a frand, wan before the committee last week urging that there should be no lowering of the duty on pottery ware. Tom Reed took him in hand and soon turned him into a laughing stock and his Democratic friends on the committee failed to come to his defense.
WE undertook, a few days ago to answer an artiole in the IndianapoliB Neios to the effect that "the tariff is a tax." The Neics growB facetious over what it assumes to be our ignorance of the laws of color blindness. The News may understand color blindness better than we do, for we are not "up" in "scientifics," like the editor of the News. But our argument waB designed to show the absurdity of tbe News' claim that the tariff added to the cost of manufactured articles. We have repeatedly asked the News to point to an instance where tbe tariff ever made manufactured articles manufactured in this country higher than they were before it was levied. This question the Neivs answers by showing that, we are not posted in the science of color blindnesB.
WHAT'S the difference between offering $15 for an Indiana one-horse postoffice and $50,000 for the Ambassadorship to Italy? Only $49,985. If Bretz becomes so indignant because an ignorant German offered $15 to be retained as posmaster at some cross-roads in Southern Indiana why cannot he arise in his place and denounce the bargain and sale of the Italian Ambassadorship for $50,000? Did not Bretz sell the other postoflices of his district for delegates and for political work? Bretz bores with a small auger.
THE entire cost of the National Encampment recently held at Indianapolis was $66,007.63. Of the $75,000 appropriated by the city $42,600 will be returned. This certainly is an excellent showing and reflects great credit on the wonderful executive ability of Col. Eli Lilly and Will Fortune and their able lieutenants. TIIE JOURNAL has heard nothing but praise at the handsome manner in which Indianapolis cared for the army of veterans who swooped down on the city during Encampment week.
TUB industrial panic, which preceeded the financial panic, now survives it. The financial panic was an incident the industrial panic is a condition, and the cause cannot be wholly removed while the free traders in Congress keep their clutches in the business vitals the oountry.
THE most useful service that a Demo crat can render his party at the present time is to say as little HS possible about the fulfillment of the pledges upon which it carried the last election.
THE new Cleveland baby has attracted far more nttention than any statesman who has made a speech in favor of free si lver.
A POLITICAL campaign is evidently on at Indianapolis. The Sentinel refers to the Neics as the Evening Quantrell.
LIGHTNING has struck the Collectorship in the Sixth district, but the contest in the Seventh still hangs fire.
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No man can afford to have a sick Wife or Daughter, nor, in such times as these, A big Doctor bill. Zoa Pho? a cures the sickness, saves the bills.
EDWARD BOK receives one of the largest personal mails in the country, a year's mail consisting of over 20,000 letters. Three-fourths of the letters are from women. No part of this huge mail reaches Mr. Bok directly: it is opened by a private secretary and distributed to assistants for answer. Every letter, however, receives a reply. One of Mr. Bok's editors on The Ladies' Home Journal, Ruth Ashmore, who writes to girls, receives over 5,000 letters during a year.
THE State fair management came out minus $10,000 on the fair held last week. The premiums will uot be paid until some bonds can be Hoated. The managers are not unlike some business men who expect the public to patronize them without an invitation. The public are not built that wav.
Quit Democratic friends would have the people believe that the way to ge cheap clothing is to stop wool-growing in this country, break down our own manufactures and depend on foreign nations for both wool and woolen goods.
IT is attributed to Bourke Cochrtin with the remark that thu Democrats intended to repeal the "infamous McKinley law, and then pass another as near like it as possible/' This is about the size it.
THE conviction that the failure of the Sherman act repeal bill is not only possible but highly probable, is daily gaining adherents.
THE St.^Louis Globe-Democrat thinks that if victories were won by countermarching, Dan Voorhees would make a great leader.
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