Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 24 July 1891 — Page 4

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©he democrat JT. JJLAOJXB ZZBJr, Proprietor. FRIDA Y. JUL Y 24* 1891. Tn® Ohio campaign is on. * The Democrats are united for vigorous work and will pound McKinleyism out of the state. The time for the county board of review to close its regular session is about up, then the county assessor will commence to look up the delinquents. Sherman and Foraker, of Ohio, are trying to down each other for the chance of United States Senator. They need not trouble themselves so much for the Democrats are m line and ready for the position. We hear but little of the state of trade with South America. What is the matter with Secretry Blane’s free trade movement that the Republican press has dropped it so uncermoniously, are they afraid that it may ultimately lead them to free trade. The natural gas question has been again discussed by the press of the gas region. Some men who pretend to have looked down into “mother eartn,” say that in a few years the gas will be all and that the cities who now live and thrive on gas will be left like we are, while we have been willing to take the chances, they have never come this way yet. The city council have B been doing good work in the grading and stoning of the streets, but the contractors should be crowded to the utmost now, while the weather is favorable for after the first of September the work should cease until next spring, all work done after September first is not near as good as work done before that time, and it is to the interest of all property holders along a line of street to be improved to see that they get the worth of their money for they are the ones that have it to pay for. The platform of the Ohio Democracy is one that has no unmeaining sound and especially is that ture of the tariff plank, the one upon which the issue will be fought, the Republican side for “high protection.” While the Democratic side will be for only enough “tariff to support the government and that honestly administered.” While the Democrats declare in favor of free coinage and the Republicans straddle the question. The issue on that question will be lost sight of in the great strugle on the “rober tariff” question. For some time past there has been talk of the removal of the body of Jeff Davis from its resting place to Richmond, Va., and if his friends of should do so, our Republican friends will again have a chance to fly the bloody nether garment, that has of late years about passed from the party as their “Shiboleth” while the remains of the “Arch Traitor” will always rest on American soil, yet with the war he ceased to be an American, and never again was he known as a citizen of the United States, yet some of the Republican newspaper seem to have a hard time at the mention of his name. Bardsley, the honest man of Philadelphia, escaped with a light imprisonment. His offense was worth the limit of the law, yet he receives only fifteen years. The fine, however, is a different matter, and if he stands committed till it is paid, he is likely to be carried out of the eastern prison to be buried. There is something grimly humorous in finding a man who has misappropriated such enormous amounts the sum of his But what is to become of the rest ofthe parties who assisted him in the vast amount of money he squandered? Will the punishment of the one man be sufficient for all parties connected therewith, or will the rest be dealt with as he has been, or can a committee whitewash them so that they will escape the ptmisn* juwrt they so richly deserve.

Our new tax law is having its effects. The wealthy will be compelled to pay their share of tin taxes with the poor under the new law, and that is one of the reasonsthe Republican press and curbstone politicians are so bitterly denouncing the law. They are in favor of a law that will discriminate in favoi of the wealthy. In the city of Evansville they have unearthed four hundred thousand dollars to add to to the assessment list. While four hundred thousand dollars is not much for the state, yet that is from duly one city with all the rest to hear from. In our neighboring county of Huntington, the bank cashiers refused to testify to the amount of money held by them for depositors. J udge Daily fined them in the sum of one thousand dollars each to which the cost was added, thus we see the law put into force. This will increase the valuation to such an extent, and that from property that was heretofore left off of the tax list, that the rate can be reduced so that our tax will not exceed that of the past years, and in two years can be reduced or as soon as the benevolent institutions of the state are paid for, after that their will be no neecT of the six cents on the hundred dollars put on by the last legislature for that purpose. Then to those who do not see the actual benefit of the new law. Will the facts develope themselves, but to any one who will give it some attention its good results can be seen at once. While some may not want to see it and others may think that they will be better off if they can dodge it as heretofore but it is bringing them to an accounting. ‘ . Monopoly seems to be the ruling spirit of the age, they combine and compel consumers to come to their terms, and as long as they can find protection from the government they will continue to grow and flourish and that will be until the people will rise in their might and declare against them find then some of them have such a hold upon the people that it seems almost impossible to shake them off. They dictate to the people as though they owned them and such will be the case until our law makers will take them in hand. While m this state under our new tax law they will have a hard time to dodge the law. They have heretofore done about as they pleased with the officers and everyone else, setting law at defiance and in most of cases do so yet. Such corporations as the railroad contpany’s have heretofore paid on about one-fourth or one-fifth of their J ■ valuation and some of them not that, then the Western Union Telegraph company and the different express companies have almost sliped through without paying any tax. While they are the worst cormorants this country has to deal with, they make you pay them their own price and deliver you the goods when they see fit and in the con dition that best pleases them. While it would be hard to get along without them unless it would be by a united effort of all parties at the same time. The schemers that worked the law through the billion dollar Congress, well knew that it was another scheme to rob the money for the benefit of the' few and may be they are standing in with the sugar men of the country, for the scramble has begun for eleven million dollars in the way of bounty. While the tariff is off on most of sugar, yet we pay more for it in the way of bounty than before. While we buy sugar cheaper than when the tariff was on we pay more tariff some other article to make it up so the only difference is the way m which we pay it. The same amount and more must be paid in order to pay the bounty, and the consumer is the one who has ft to pay. While a few of the Republican journals point to the reduction in the price of sugar, as the result of the McKinley tariff bill. If it is true as to sugar Why not with all other articles; but #here would the money come from With which to pay the bounty. ; , ,

TRADE OBSTRUCTION INFLIC IS IOSS. Tne proposition that what is called a protective tariff operates as a fine on trade and inflicts loss not only upon individuals but upon the community is disputed. Suppose then, we examine it a little more closely. This kind of tariff is intended to be, and in faht is, an obstruction to t;ade. Our own form of it is an obstruction to external trade only, but primarily to the impord side only. We do not obstruct trade among the people of the several states. We leave that free, and not many of us pretend to deny that we are better off for so doing, or that any obstruction to such trade would be economically injurious to the American people. Neither do we obstruct selling by our people to the people of other countries. We leave the export trade free, except as we obstruct it by obstructing imports, and even our extreme obstructionists profess to favor the utmost freedom of this side of trade, except perhaps as to exports of gold. It is only buying from the people of other countries that they seek to obstruct. Now trade is always carried on by individuals. Nations do not trade; people trade. The motive to trade is always and everywhere the same. It is the desire of gain, and the result is gain. Men perceive that they can increase their possessions or their satisfactions by trading; therefore they trade. Each of the two parties to every trade is actuated by the same motive, and the result is the same whether they live one mile or ten thousand miles apart; whether they are of the same nationality or of different nationality; whether they live under the same government or under different governments. The imaginary lines which separate political divisions in no wise affect the gains of trade; the lines which separate Canada and Mexico from the United States no more than those that seperate Illinois from Indiana or lowa. We may safely assume that the traders know their own business—those who engage in external as well as those who engage in internal trade. They may be trusted to take care of their own interests. As for the rest of us, we need not fear that we, or the country, meaning all of us, will be any the poorer for their transactions. They will see to it that they are themselves the richer. That is to say, they will take care to bring into the country, in one form or another, snore value than they send out. It at any time they find that they cannot do that they will quickly stop trading. They will have no more motive to go on, but on the contrary will have sufficient motive to stop and engage in something profitable. That is to say, they will take care that more wealth is brought into the country than is sent out —that the country is made, richer—or they will go out of the forein trade and into something better for themselves. To throw obstacles in their way and heap fines upon them under the guise of taxes on imports can only prevent the increase of wealth by exchange. The effect upon the general prosperity is the same in kind, if not in degree, as would be that of a like obstruction to interstate, or inter-county, or inter-town trade. In every case exchange of products arisesfrom diversity of relative advantage. It does not take place unless this diversity exists to such an extent that each of the parties can gain something by exchanging. Any barrier, no matter what, interposed between them deprives each of the relative advantage he enjoys in his special branch of production. If the people of a sandy district abounding in pine on the headwaters of a river are prevented by mountains and rapids from exchanging with the people of a scantily timbered but prolific wheat yielding district down stream, neither community is so well off as it would be if the navigation of the river were wholly unobstructed, because neither is able to avail itself so fully of its natural advantages. The people up stream must produce food enough to sustain life Out of a sterile soil, while they have a superabundance of pine; and the people down stream must produce what lumber they require at a great expenditure of labor and from inferior timber. It matters not whether the people of the two districts live under the same government or under different Neither docs it-matter whether the barrier

consists of an impassable moun-1 tain range or a regiment o' soldiers' stationed on the frontier with orders | to let no food go up and no lumber go down. The economic effect of either barrier is the same. If instead of an impassible barrier there is only a serious obstruction the effect will rot be different in kind, but only in degree. The insurmountable barrier prevents the realization of any profit from exchange. An obstacle takes away a part of the profit sufficient to cover the cost of surmounting it. And it makes not the slightest difference what the obstacle is. It may be shoals m the river which may destroy a part of the cargoes, or a bandit chieftain, or a custom house officer, who seizes and confiscates a like part, or exacts an equivalent ransom for the goods. The effect m any case is to prevent the communities exchanging from availing themselves fully of their natural advantages and to compel them to make a wasteful expenditure of effort. But there is this surprising difference: The tariff obstructionist wo*uld remove the sunken rocks and exterminate the band of robbers at whatever cost to the public, and even subsidize boats and run them at the expense of the pubic; while, so far from removing the custom house obstacle, he would commission the officer in charge to confiscate from 20 to 75 per cent of the commodities shipped. His object, be it remembered, is not to get revenue, but to “encourage home industry;” to induce the people of the pine barrens to pro duce wheat at twice or thrice the expenditure of labor that would be involved in obtaining in exchange for the lumber they so easily produce. And for that purpose a robber is as good as a custom house officer. Look at it as you will, the obstruction of trade results only in loss. It is not to the purpose to say, with a writer of the Herald, that articles sometimes become cheaper after a tariff obstacle to their importation has been interposed. In these days of invention and discovery the process to reducing cost of reduction is all the while going on. It is this and competition that cheapens things. The obstacle always prevents us from getting them as cheap as we might. That is just what the obstacle is for. If it does not do that it protects no one. No one asks protection for his product to cheapen it. Let us be free, and we will reap the whole benefit of the cheapening process, and we will not until we are free. — Chicago Herald. 1 PLATING AT TIN-MAK ING. In view of the controversy that Jas arisen over the manufacture of tin-plate in the United States, the results of a yisit to the tin-plate plant of ex-Congressman Neidringhaus will prove interesting. This visit was prompted by the fact that Mr. had distributed at the convention at the National League of Republican Clubs at Cmnati samples of tin-plate made here, and that this had been heralded broadcast all over the country as being convincing evidence of the ability of American manufacturers to produce tin-plate on a practical and remunerative basis with a little protection. Before going into details it may be said that the discoveries were in brief, that Mr. Neidringhaus is operating a kind of kindergarten plate factory, in which he employs a few boys and one or two men; that he turns out just enough tin-plate to supply the, current Republican conventions, and that when the proposed enlargement of his plant occurs his total output, even with the increased facilities, will barely enable him to supply the numerous conventions to be held during the approaching presidential campaign with samples of “home-made tinplate.” The factory is simply a doll’s house, a plaything which can be operated at trifling cost for a couple of years and then abandoned asquickly as possible after it has served its purpose. The best posted manufacturers here maintain that Mr. Neidringhaus cannot profitably make tin-plate, even under the present tariff, anu that the only direct and visible effect of the tariff was to advance the prices to tinware consumers. Some idea of the “magnificent littleness” of the “great Neideringhaus tin-plate factory” may be obtained when it is stated that Mr. Neidringhaus owns three blocks of ground in North St. Louis, and that the “tin-plate factory” which the Republican papers point to with so much pride occupies just eight by fifteen feet of this immense tract— Chicago News. 1 . - < •

Some of the Republican papers of the last few days past, have been trying to explain why wool is cheaper under the new tariff law, than under the old one. Some offer as a reason that the demand is not so great while others say the production is too great, but they forget that during the last campaign they promised the farmer that the McKinley bill would increase the price of all the farmer had to sell and when the scarcity of grain and hay seemed to cause the price to reach above former years they were ready to claim that high protection had something to do with it, but as they find the reverse they are ready to reverse the order. While the wool question has so far turned out as the Democratic party has said to the farmers it would so does all the questions that the two parties have been dealing with for a long time past. They will have a good time explaining it to the Ohio farmers this year, especially that portion of the state in which they raise sheep. Ex-PostmasterWilson’s Settlement. About a year and a half ago when the late Hezekiah Caldwell relieved W. H. Wilson as postmaster in this city, the government postal inspector in settling up Mr* Wilson’s accounts declared that the re tiring postmaster was short $l5B. Mr. Wilson is a careful business man, and feeling assured that his accounts were correct, made a vigorous kick, and referred the matter to Congressman Martin, in the meantime the postoffice officials were making preparations to begin suit against Mr. Wilson’s bondsmen for the recovery of the above mentioned amount. Thus the matter rested until recently when the ex-postmaster was agreeably surprised at the receipt of a draft from the government for $264. Showing beyond a doubt that after the accounts had been revised Mr. Wilson not only did not owe the government $l5B, but that there was a snug little sum standing to his credit.— Wabash Plain Dealer.

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