Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 41, Decatur, Adams County, 2 January 1891 — Page 4

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democrat X, ''’ IdKßrsiffPrtipriittr. [ WJUF, A AN, 1, 1392. For the first time since the war the inuprity of Democrats in the Hoqse ot Representatives are trom the nchftb? There are 119 northern Democratic members and 115 from the south, a very large proportion bn..g >v members. Speaker Crisp is bla med for taking the full responsibility of the position to which he has been elected. -Time alone cau determine whether bis judgment has been faultless, lie may lack that important quality tact; but we rather admire his individuality of character. ; Perhaps no five words in the ♦ English language so inflame the Republican journalist as these: “The tariff is a tax.” They have denounced the phrase, derided it, denied it, but it is an argument in itself that goes to the root, ot this whole anl it sticks in the public mind. The few stray Republicans left in the House of Representatives have been keeping mighty quiet since Congress met. They may be expecte Lto begin roaring and raving scon after the holiday recess, When Democratic tariff reformers get down seriously to the of twisting '.he tail of the McKinley lion. y The chief 4 reason why Republicans have ventured on such bold and barefaced fiauds in Indiana? was because Democrats showed a disposition to lie down and let Republicans walk over them. Fortu- * nately there is a generation of Democrats coming on who cannot be intimidated by either the social or the eivic power ot scoundrels. J It is about tirne that Secretary Noble carried otit his oft<epOrted determination to resign. Another vacancy in the cabinet is really essential to enable the president to makekit symmetrical. He now has Blaine, Foster, Wanamaker and « Elkins, He certainly should devise some way to get Quay, Platt and Dudley into his menagerie of spotted statesmen. The. Democratic Senators from the South and West will join their colleagues of Indiana, in an attempt to defeat the confirmation of Judge Woods, of Indiana, to be a circuit judgb. It was Judge Woods who helped “Blocks of Five” Dudley to escape, and his nomination following within forty-eight hours the , appointment of Stephen B. Elkins, of Star Route "fame, has brought ciiticisn from many Republicans ti| on President Harrison. j- r—r - - ' A The tjn-plate business is still flourishing on paper. A “special investigation” snows that 23 firms are engaged in the manufacture of tin-plate. A second special investigation developes the fact that five, not 23 firms are making, not tinplate, but terne-plat'-, and that they “Wiave, on their own showing, a capacity of 3,150 -j boxes a week, which is said to be barely enough for samples for use in the trade.” *1 he greatAAmerican industry has a long mfaifcy. We are getting plenty ot illustrations this year of the value of the foreign market to our people. Not only are the farmers going to derive the whole of their renewed prosperity out of the export trade instead of out of the « tariff, but' • even the coal miners of Pennsyl-1 vama are looking to increased de-1 mands for fuel on the railroads that are bringing the surplus the seaboard to take off their hands the surplus coal production and . raise prices thereby. It is this “abroad” demand which we have J affected to despise not even tried to cut off that is bringing hope and salvation to the majority of our people this year.

The attempt of the sore-head Republicans to re id “Benjamin I j out of the party is causing some | 1 comment, and the stillness of Blame is worrying them. They well know- ■ ing that if they ‘ stir up a feeling ; they must get Blaine to consent to I be a candidate. They feel sore of ■ being duped into voting money < -ut of their own pockets and into those of sharks who control the machin- ' inery of the party. How often have they been but kicking themselves because they voted to rob the poor and are.not in shape to control the appointment of a country cross roads pdstottice. The present treatment of the Republican United States senator by Republicans is simply astounding. The accusation of the use of money among members of the general assembly is not infrequent. Uriininaticii and recrimination are indulged in and whichever candidate shall succeed, the accusation will remain . unchal- ' lenged unless tue b.gM.itute shall 1 purge it- If by investigation. A • resolution refervi: g the charges to ' the United >. te- te for investigation m?. .;d ' < :> iie necessary. Think of ts erm;.:: an.l Foraker be ing m such a boat.. The Chic go GiU e say?:- We i are waiting iv:. i>r to hear of lan advance m ;>g- -of the workI ingiuen in Ohio since th? election, i of McKinley, and a corresponding reduction in lowa, New York and Massachusetts. They cau wait to hear from Ohio until the next campaign, and then hear from the stump speakers of the “robber party,” for they are sure to be on hand with a good supply of such talk when they well know i that they have no intention of reb deeming any promises they« make toward the bettering of any but those of whom they can “fry the fat” out of to them they bow the knee. During the late political canvass iu Ohio the boast was regularly made that American tin-plate would be used to roof the Pennsylvania buildings at the World's Fair and that the material would be furnished by protected manufacturers ( without cost. But it turns out that the job is greater than was antici- . pated, and that with the limited out-put of the manufacturers the ■ donation would be more than they could stand. They have, therefore, repudiated their promise and the ! state will hWve to pay for the rdof- ■ ing, getting the material quietly , from England, unless the commissioners are willing io pay a special , rate for “American made” tin. The New York World says that the bounty on sugar for this year iu the state of Vermont will be ¥IOO, 000 and no questions asked. But why should the people be taxed to pay that money to the men who make the sugar? Is this an infant industry, that we Should pay a tribute to those who aie in a country where the sugar tree flourishes. So fur ic has failed to make maple sugar any -cheaper; We pay the price they ask for it and they take our money, and the two cents a pound as bounty from the people in genera), :u..qfher one of the benefits of the it gtslalion of the “robber party” that is wriirging the hardearned money from the working man for the money barons. It is essential to our city that the streets that have been stoned of late be cared for iu a manner that will keep them up to the standard or near the condition they are left in by the contractor when accepted by the city, should the winter continue open and they are not put in shape , some of them will be cut through before spring, for some of fifem are near that now, and with soft weather will go fast. About all they need is to be raked in from the sides to the center so as to keep the center full, and they can be kept in shape until they get settled into proper , shape to stand ibe wear. It is the duty of the coOcil to see that they are repaired from time to time the ’ same as gravel roads of the country , are. * j

Attlmrtkd combinations among planters to restrict the production of cotton have repeatedly proved idle. The planters will never get : at it from the right end until they direvT their energies and intelligence, first, to the reducing the cost of cotton production, and next to make a greater diversity' of farm products. Not less cotton, but more grain, meat, vegetables, fruits, etc., will prove a profitable motto. Iu the cost of making cotton there : are possibilities of a revolution ‘ ' through the perfection of the cot- , ton-picking machine, which is now claimed to be a success. The cot-; I ton picking machine, for practical useJi« probably uo more a dreamno* than the cotton-gin was imine- | diutely after Whitney made his invention in 1795. Admiral Montt has been inaugurated as President of Chili and will doubtless proceed at once to form a cabinet. W hen this is done Chili will have what it has not had for several months—a regular govern.ueut. The first and most impjrtdut matter which will confront the new will be the demand ox the United States for reparation for the attack on the sailors of the Baltimore in Valparaiso. Now that the official inquiry made by Judge Foster has been completed the authorities at Santiago are in possession ot all the fa#ts necessary to make a reply to our claim. We believe that this reply will lead to an amicable settlement will be to tire interest and credit of Cl.ill. lhe new government can hard y fail to recognize this fact .ifi.l act accordingly. All the blusI . ■ ter of the administration at ' Washington reminds us of the great big bragadocia boy ifrho wanted to fight the youngtser half his size. Since the Binding Twine Trust incorporated itself as “the National Cordage Company” it has been steadily at work fixing on the mar- • ket the tentacles of its monopoly, iAn officer of the company said to a reporter of the New’ York Times recently that it now owns forty-five plants which were formerly operated as independent and competing manufactories. It is said that this includes all in the country except two, which stay out and get the benefit of the advances in price made by the trust. Os the several advances it has made, the most recent is of three-quarters of a cent a . pound on manilia rope, of one cent a pound on sisal and New Zealand rope and of three-fourths of a cent , on New Zealand and sisal “lath ' t the percentages of advance being S, 16 and 13 on these articles respectively. The passage of a bill to remove the tariff entirely from , the products thus monopolized would be approved by nine-tenths ' of the American people. ’ Senator John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky, in an interview on politics, his the following to say about the tariff: “The tariff plank in the I next Democratic National platform ought to declare in favor of a just revision and reduction of tariff taxation; with due regard, of course, t to the raising of revenue and to the i ail a 'trial situation as it has grown t up under the existing system. Theo- ( retically I am a freetrader, because , I believe that all taxes are simply t necessary evils.- But it will be a _ ! long time before we can have free . ! trade in this country; we must ap- } pio.ich it gradually, step by step k li h were an original question the , situation, of course, would be differed: but we have to deal with arti- , J ficial conditions, and cannot expect i i to accomplish a complete reform by a, single measure of legislation. We „ will always need a certain amount of money to carry on the government and we must always impose ! taxes of some kind to pay its ex- ■ peu-es. But my idea of a good ; government is one which accoms plishes its purpose with the least [ possible taxation upon the people. • Not only should the rate ot taxation i be as small as possible consistent with the raising of the necessary amount of revenue, but the bur- ■; dens of taxation should be distriI baled as equally as possible upon the people According to their ability\to bear them. Our present system of taxation violates both ot these rules in the mdst flagrant i ' mxner.” i>ccn judges as Woods may be, j needed after the presidential election in .’92. A judge with two opinions can make a president, no , m liter what honest ballots may | say. . J

CUTTING DOWN LIOK. As a first step towards the reform of Congressional appropria tions the House of Representatives must return to the former practices of referring all bills calling for the > expenditure of money m any amount to the Appropriations Committee. { The coming Congress must reduce ® i appropriations at least §100,000,000 below the Blliion-Dollar ’basis .of | the Reed Congress, and as the rev- 1 j enues are already heavily mortgaged ; ,in advance, it will require the careful and laborious w s ork of the best ; trained men in Congress to mux- 1 the reduction possible. The Keen attempted not only to j spend everything in sight, but to 1 create such heavy liabilities against future revenues as to make it impossible for any Congress m the near future either to reduce taxes or io cut down appropriations. The work to this end was skilfully done, “ut no matter how great are the difficulties m the way of retrenchments, there must be retrenchment on appropriations at once, and that to an extent of not a cent less than §100,000,000. Hon. Roswell P. Flower says with perfect truth in congratulating his successor in Congress that Democratic success next year depends very largely” on the success of the House in forcing economy. It will be impossible, of course,,while the Harrison administration is in charge to prevent its extravagance in expenditure of appropriations already made, but the Democratic House J can prevent the administration from handling the appropriations ,so enormous that for the sessiou«of the Reed Congress they amounted iu gross to. the full net amount ot circulation. .Every bill calling for money must go to the Appropriations Committee, and the committee must be chosen with a direct yiew to stopping every appropriation that is not urgently necessary. If there is any reason satisfactory to the department of state for Minister Egan’s non-attendance at the inauguration of President Montt, it might be well to make, the reason public. Since pie beginning of the Chilean trouble the ways of Minister Eagan have been, like those of Providence, past finding out. Presumably they have been satisfafetory to the administration at Washington, or Mr. Egan would have been recalled after bringing this country to the verge of war with Chiii. But since at last the United States has recognized the congressional party in Chili as the legitimate government, why was our representative absent from the inauguration of its chief executive? Can it be the “jingo” policy to force a war upon this weak and unprepared sister republic? Os course, Americans are brave, and ready to fight at the drop of the hat. Even . so, we would a little rather be right than wrong, in beginning a fight, and Minister Egan persists m a course in which he puts us constantly in the wrong. In which course be appears to be sustained by the powers that be, at Washington. A POPULAR FAMILY. JrMXiz: “ How is it, Kate, that you always seem to ’ catch on ’to the last new thing ? Do what I may, you always seem to get ahead ot me.” Kate: “I don’t know: I certainly do not , make any exortio’i in that direction.” JhxxiE: “ Well, duringthe last few months, for example, you have taken up painting, f - —| ■• • Eo. / • ' -' . 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