Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 7 November 1890 — Page 4

I ©he gimwrrat If. Proprietor. I BIDAY, Sor. 7. 18'J0. I WE CROW ! IK We’ve got ’em. I VV k told you so. ■ ’ a- 1 t' Yrs, the tariff is a tax. w - There Indiana stands. Look at her. I Congress meets on the first Mon- ■ day of next month. 'W- o ”i - - Briant will continue in the stave business. Martin goes to congress. > The total number of lives lost by the wrecked Spanish steamer, Vircays, is seventy-nine. ‘ Greater Democratic victory that ever in this county, last Tuesda y “Open the books” did ir. As a political organizer the Republican party admits that Ashcraft has the happy faculty of fixing things up for the Democrats. They point to the returns for proof. Ashcraft's band-bills scattered broadcast over this county didn’t fetch ’em. lie might have known better than to attempt to fool the people by that stale chestnut, “Open the books.” I’ostmastek General Wanamaker has decided that postmasters who fail to notify publishers when siibnbcrs move away or fail to take ipers from the postotlice, shall be Id responsible for the subscrip<>n. ' . • . The greatest Democratic victory in thirty-five years. Harrison went home to vote , Tuesday. He might as well have stayed in> Washington. Ashcraft is the sickliest looking Republican in Adams county. Me Kinley’s medicine gave him the jim jams. Ashcraft should indicate the re- ■ — suit this way: We met the enemy, .they “opened the books” and took us in, in great shape, thauk you. The Republicans of Adams county, in command of Captain Ash. craft, will start on a journey up Salt River in a few days to--“ Open the books?’ Memorial exercises in commemoration of the execution of the five anarchists are to at Chicago on next Sunday. Extensive preparations are being made to observe the memorable event. Any Republican who permits scores of Republicans to slip in and vote the Democrat ticket without being checked by party workers, will never reach a postoffice in Decatur. B. Harrison has no particular use for that kind. , Saint Marys township, always Republican, shows a disposition to get over into the Democratic column. It is a noticeable fact that the Democrats made substantial gains in that township last Tuesday, due in a measure t > Ashcraft’s intense desire to “Open the books.” It’s a little early to select a chairman for the Republican committee in this county for the contest of 1892, but if Ashcraft fully recovers from the present shock to ous system, we’ll promise to do all we can to have him retained in that position. A better man to subserve the interests of Democracy can not „ be found in the eUte. j

What's the matter with Martin? He’s all right. The new election law gave universal satisfaction in this county. H ~ a W ithout “blocks-of-five,” the Republicans don’t thrive —in Indiana. There must have been something the. matter with the tune to that old song, “open the books.” The McKinley bill will not raise the wages of a single workman in Decatur. Not one. It will, however, increase the cost of his living expenses. “Now you see it and now you don’t see it.” This will apply to Ashcraft’s vision of a great Republican gain in Adams .county, lie is now quite certain that he -‘don’t see it.” i Some time ago the. Democrat made the assertion that Ashcraft was giving the Republican snap away. The vote of Tuesday confirms the assertion. “Open the books.” As President Harrison remarked upon a certain occasion: “The campaign is over and the speech-making i< over.” To this allow us to add that the Republican party in Indiana is over—the ragged edge. To W. E. Ashcraft: “The Bourbons were not afraid of the new election law” as predicted at Wabash. As proof of this just cast your eye over the splendid Democratic vote in this county. Leopold Bros. &C0.,0f Chicago, 111., the greatest clothing firm in the west, failed last Friday for $300,000. The failure was caused by the tightness of the money market and the effect of the McKinley bill on the the merchantlie business of the conn try. Our neighbor down street telegraphed Tuesday night to the Re publican papers that two Republican commissioners would be elected in Adams county, the first in the history of the county. Ashcraft’s inclination to lie still sticks to him we are forced to admit. The chairman of the Republican committee should show up all right in his report to the State executive committee. They will see the Republican vote in this county is considerably short, that there wasn’t any substantial work done. If things don’t tally just right, the cry will go up, -‘There’s something wrong. Open the books.”

Open the Books The Republicans should not censure their chairman for putting them all in the soup deeper than ever before. They must remember that he is a new hand at the machine. They should be encouraged to believe that he may learn something by experience and do better next time. We are in favor of giving him another chance. Before the election our neighbor down street was frequently heard to remark that there would be some surprises in store for the Democracy in this county after the election. But the alarmist was himself surprised when he read of the great democratic gains from every 1100 K and corner of the county. Ashcraft’s attempt to deceive the people has come to naught. The Whitley county production somehow or other wouldn’t take root in Adams.

Tariff is a Tax! . few Grover Cleveland So say the people of Indiana. Indiana rebuked the high tariff monopolists. Congressman Martin, if you please for two years longer. Ashcraft is in the soup clear over his eyes. He got there by trying to “open the books.” The extremely long whiskers on that old chestnut, “open the books” is what did it. The Republicans see the point now. Woods, the Republican warefworker, has been indicted for murder in the second degree, in the killing of Blount at the Richmond Insane Asylum. The tariff on pearl buttons has been increased 1.400 per cent and there are no pearl button factories in this country that make the grade of goods used by the great mass of the people. Black diptheria is said to be raging at Mercer and other points in Western Ohio. People are fleeing from the towns and much consternation prevails. A number of the fugitives have taken refuge at Greenville, Ohio. Open the Books The election expenses under the new law are very heavy but no price is too great to pay it if it secured an honest expression of the people, which no doubt it did where the law was properly observed. The McKinley bill, we said some time ago, would kill the Republican party. Ashcraft remembers we said it and now the truth of it begins to dawn upon his mind. The Democrats owe a debt of gratitude to McGinty McKinley. It is stated upon good authority that an extra session , ”'of congress will be called. The President decided to do so before returning to Indianapolis to vote. This will be done to crowd through the election and reapportionment bills now pending in Congress. Assistant Secretary Bussey has decided that prisoners of war who enlisted in the rebel service in order to escape imprisonment and return to their own command, are entitled to a pension on account of disabilities incurred by reason of the service and in the line of duty. This overrules the decision made by Commissioner Black oil May 25, 1885. In 1833, Henry Clay said that all the infant industries of this country* needed was a protective tariff of twenty percent for nine years and at the end of that time they would be able to stand alone. 1 Fifty-sev-en years later, these ‘ infants” are enjoying a tax of sixty percent levied for their benefit, not that they need it, but they paid for it by furnishing the “FAT” for the campaign of 1888. To W. E. Ashcraft: The Amish people of Adams county showed by their presence at the polls last Tuesday that their interests did extend “beyond the limits of their farms’ to the promotion oQtrue Democratic principles. Tb you is given the glory of assisting in bringing them out squarely qii the side of Democracy whic h is shown in the increased Democratic vote in the county. The Amish don’t belong to the igorant Democratic class. They know how to vote.

What’s the matter with Briant ? Echo answers—What? Ben Harrison’s chances for the presidency in 1892 are not worth five cents on the dollar. Benjamin Mclaughlin, of Kirkland, thinks Adam Pease ran better over in Van Wert county than m his own township. Adams county is Democratic by increased pluralities. This probably would not have been the case had Ashcraft not resorted to “Opening the books.” To W. E. Ashcraft: Conrad Brake and Jlenry Fuelling are elected county commissioners. If you have any business with the Board they will wait upon you. Tile farmers of Oklahoma have made an appeal to Kansas for supplies to keep them from cold and starvation. Where is the McKinley bill? Where is protection? “Open the books” brought a great victory to the Democrats in Adams county last Tuesday. Ashcraft, as chairman of the Republican central committee, knows how to make votes for Democracy. On last Tuesday, for the first time, the voters of Connecticut were privileged to cast their ballots irL secret in accordance with the provisions of a new election law passed by the legislature two years ago. i —i John Dillon, M. P., Wm. O’Brien, M. P., and Mrs. O’Brien, J. D. Sullivan and Timothy Harrington, M. P., and band of Irish patriots arrived at New York last Monday on the steamer La Champagne, and were given a cordial reception.

The people are rapidly learning that increased duties on manufactured goods do increase prices; the duty must be added to the price of the imported article and the domestic manufacturer makes his price as near as he can to the price of the foreign article, duty paid. The farmer, laborer or consumer, whosoever he may be, must pay it all. The Cleveland Press says: “If the McKinley law had a purpose, that was to raise prices. Only in that way could the “infant indus tries” get profit out ot it. This is so palpably clear that it seems almost as absurd to say so as to state a fact regarding the multiplication table. The law has been in force less than five weeks, and the buyer of goods has fouiid out that it does just what it was intended to do. The wages and salaries of buyers remain the same. There were no provisions in tjie law increasing wagos and salaries.” / ■. Opt® the Books The census announced the population of the United States as shown by the first count of persons and families exclusive of white persons in Indian Territory, and Indians on reservations and in Alaska, to be 62,480, 540. These figures may be slightly changed by later and more recent compilations, but such changes will* not be material. In 1880 the population was 50,155,883. The absolute increase in the population in the ten years intervening was 12,324,757, and the percentage of increase was 24.57. In 1870 the population was stated as 38,558,371. According to these figures the absolute iticrease in the decade between 1870 and 1890 was 11,587, 412, and the percentage ot increase WB9 30.08.

They Vomit! I McKinley himself admits that the tariff may pinch for awhile. What right has it to pinch at all? Do you want it to pinch you' Wasn’t it gotten up expressly for the benefit of the few? Mr. Joseph Medill the editor of the Chicago THfene, the leading Republican paper of the west, has this to say of the results of protection: I understand the truth when I say thai the fanners of the west and the planters of the south are charged $500000.000 a year on their goods for the profit of protected eastern manufacturers, more than ‘is fair rr necessary on the principle of live and let live. Tinware, carpets, dress goods, tools, boots and shoes, crockery, glassware, lunfber and furnitun will be marked up in price or scaled down in quality. The plague of monopoly taxation is upon the American people, and' their eyes to it as they may, deny it as the paid organs and orators of the trusts may, they may feel its cruel oppressions more and more keenly from this time forth. The robben is in progress. There is but one question: Will the people submit to it? i X. Open the Books

Taxes cannot be laid for the benefit of monopoly without dispoiling the people at whose pockets these taxes are aimed. Monopoly taxes appear small in detail, but m the aggregate they are prodigious. Insignificant as they seem, they are the basis of many hundred million fortunes, and they are the source of Quay’s colossal corruption fund. It is admitted by the authors and defenders of the McKinley bill that “it will pinch a little.” Senator Cullom makes light of the one-half cent tax upon a tin cup and asks s “Who cares for half a cent ? ” Jay Gould says the new tariff is not a disadvantage. It may increase the cost of the necessaries of life, but what of it ? “if the tariff on wool makes clothing cost more,” he says, “a person will get along with one suit where he would otherwise have two.” Now all this is very candid, but who is to be pinched? Who is to pay the half cent tribute to monopoly? Who is to “get along with one suit of clothes? Not the monopolists, depend upon it. They are doing the pinching; 'they take the toll of one-half cent and they reap the benefit of prices that limit the citizen to one suit of clothes Republicanism is committed on the side of this monstrous crime. Republicanism perpetrated it, and it now defends it. Democracy is opposed to it, and, if given the power, wiil stop the pinching and the robbing. Nowjfhat the great battle of the ballots has been fought let us get down to business. There is no special need during the coming few months for over-indulgence in po litical matters. jLet us trust that the result, whatever that may be, may result in the “greatest good to the greatest number.” The Democrat is now ready to devote its best endeavors to booming the business interests of Adams county in which every citizen should feel the greatest concern. There are many things that need to claim our. attention in the way of improvements. These the Democrat will endeavor to bring prominently before the public in the future. Let the injunction be: Now to business. The tariff on tin plate was raised from 1 cent per pound to 22 cents by Mr. McKinley’s bill for the protection of monopolies only. Yet there is not now, nor has there ever been, a tin plate factory in the United States.

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