Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 14 August 1891 — Page 4

D R PRICES Used in Millions of Homes— 40 Years the Standaro

She democrat X. BLACKB URN, Proprietor. HtHM Y, A UG. 11,1891. One Louisana plantation will get 1250,000 out of the sugar bounty and another will get $200,000. Who has to pay the tax? Governor Gray will go to Ohio to assist in the campaign this fall. The Governor will help to briiigtlie Democratic party to the front in the Buckeye state this fall. * The exchange of goods without ahy duty or tariff being demanded by either party, they call reciprocity, but the exchange of any articles of individuals they call a trade, and and without any restriction it is called free trade. Those lamps that have been made for Maj. McKinley’s carriage out of American tin-plate will probably emit a pleasing and refulgent light, but they can throw no light on the undiscovered whereabouts of the American tin-plate. Manufactured products which the farmer has to buy have been increased in price. That impoverishes the farmer by prohibiting him from reaching his competitor, and it enriches the manufacturer by prohibiting his competitor from reaching him. For the present the Republicans in the west seem to beju a fix that is very embarassing to them. The party having declared in favor of the “gold bugs.” W hile all western Republicans are free silver men, they have been unable to find where they stand. The tariff was raised on window glass. The manufacturers are reaping an extra profit. The people pay more for window glass, but the wages, of employes in Pittsburgh glass manufactories have been reduced ten percent lower than when the McKinley bill went into force. ■ — & The Republican farmer who believes in protection because he owns a few sheep should note that the price he gets for his wool is from one to nine cents less than the foreign wool prices for wool of the same grade. Os what benefit to him is the protection of 36 cents a pound on wool. Can anyone tell just where the great tin-plate manufactories of this country have been located? The only one that we know of so far is at Saint Louis, Mo., and that is twelve by sixteen feet in size. As it is but one year more until the campaign, the Republican party had better be locating them. The Italian government refuses to participate in our coming World’s Fair. This is rather shabby treatment to give to the memory of the late Admiral Colen, known onside of Italy as Christopher Columbus. Columbus was a patriotic native of Italy—but then the Italians are treating him just as well dead as they did when he was alive. The split in the Republican party in Ohio will go a long way toward deleating McKinley for governor this fall. The fight among them for the chance of the United StatesSenatorsh ip is growing warmer every day, and with the fight in their own camp and their direct opposition to the people’s party, | it ’ooks as though they had not ~j>6ven a fighting chance, it they do have plenty of boodle to operate with. || McKinley has been among the men that have been benefited by his great tariff bill soliciting help to carry him through this campaign. L The boodlers are getting ready for | work, and the “fat frying” process K Will be resorted to until they feel I that they have enough to carry the state of Ohio with. They now e* realize that their only hope lays in the money they can command and k put into use, and then trust to the honor of the men they buy.

TEAKS’ WOKE EOK NOTHING. While the country has increased enormously in wealth in the last decade, as the census bulletins shoWj the farm-workers have not received their share ot the increase. They contribute a larger proportion to the annual mcreasment than any other class of persons in the land, for they not only supply food to a population of 65,000,000, but they furnish the materials for threefourths of our foreign commerce; but w hile they make others rich they remain poor. There was a time when an industrious, intelligent farmer could hope, by steady work and good management, to grow rich, or, if not rich, at least independent. But that time is past. There are wealthy manufacturers, speculators, lawyers, doctors and politicians to be found by the score, and even by the hundreds, but rich farmers are as scarce as white blackbirds. In 1880 the value of all farm products in the country was a little over two billion dollars—s2,2l3,400,000 —which, divided among the 7,670,000 persons engaged in raising them, was a gingerly average of less than S3OO each. This net manufacturing product of the country for the same was nearly two billion dollars — $1,973,000,000 — which, divided among the 2,732,000 persons engaged in making it, gives over S7OO to each. This shows that manufacturing paid more than twice as much to the hand as farming eleven years ago. And the difference is still greater now, for the last census indicates that the net manufacturing product of the country has increased to $3,400,000; that is, it is nearly a billion and a half more than it was in 1880. But the entire product of the country’s farms has not probably increased in value a single dollar—and ten chances to one when the statstics come out they will show that all farm crops in 1890 were not worth as much as they were ten years before. In Wisconsin the wheat crop value fell off in this time $5,000,000, although the quantity increased 285,000 bushels. In Ohio the yalae of the wheat crop fell off in the same period $12,700,000; in Missouri, $13,000,000; in Minnesota, $4,000,000, Michigan, $14,000,000; in Illinois, $31,000,000; in Indiana, $20,000,000, in lowa, $14,000,000. During the period of 1880 to 1889 the value of the wheat crop of the entire country declined 132,000,000; of the corn crop, $72,000,000, and if there was a similar decline in other farm crops, then the farmers of the country have not advanced a single step since 1880—so far from it, after all their hard work and self-denial, they are worse off now than they were ten years ago. If the city wants a park the only piece of giound available, is the six acres inthe north part of town known as the’county land,and such a place is becoming a necessity. We have no place in which a public meeting of any size can be held without going to Zimmerman’s grove across the river, or the court house yard. The ground as it lays there is no benefit to the county or city. There can be no doubt but that the county will be glad to have the improvements put on, that will be necessary to beautify it for that purpose. It is the duty of our council to look after the matter at once for fear the chance may pass away from us to never return. The New York Tribune discovers that the business depression, which it admits exists, is accounted for by too much wealth, by overproduction and over-trading, procongestion ot commodities and sending prices to rum. This is one of the equivocations of a protection organ that knows it has a bad case. If there were nb artificial restrictions upon trade and; our commodities could be exchanged for the products of other peoples which they wish to sell, there would be an end of the business depression, for, if one market failed, another would be open, and trade would be what it was intended it should be by the intelligence that projected society.

TSE NEGKOES INCLUDED. Our last year’s exports of breadstuffs were $127,000,000, of provisions 138,000,000 and of cotton $290,000. “This shows who pays the bills of the country,” as a contemporary says—an assertion that is displeasing to Mr. Murat Halstead, who generally starts to asking questions when his mental repose is disturbed. “Well, tell us,” he asks, “if any class of persons pay the bills of this country, just who they are. Cotton, we see, showsup the largest figures. By whom is. the cotton raised and picked, and baled and prepared for its long journey? The black farmers, perhaps. Are they included m your Democratic farmers’ fad business.” Are the negroes included? Well, they are, Mr. Halstead, to such an extent that the money Northeastern Plutocrats have taken out of their earnings since 1865 would have bought their freedom twice over and would have given them their forty acres and a mulejbesides. Take the matter of cotton ties for instance, on which the McKinley bill makes an outrageous increase of tax! The hard-working, ignorant negroes to whom a silver dollar is as large as a cart wheel, will have their dimes taken away from them on every cotton tie they buy, to double the millions of a few men who are millionaires already. The negroes are included, Mr. Halstead. In the language you have doubtless learned since going East, they are in it, not only on cotton ties, but on everything they use. Your Eastern Plutocracy bleeds them until about all they have to show for their freedom is your permission to vote the Republican ticket. The exports of the agncultral states, the bread and meat stuffs of the West and the cotton of the South, are all that keep this country out of banktruptcy. Yet the trade ot the agricultural states, with their European market is taxed 60 cents on the dollar. Instead of getting $1.60 in imports for one dollar of- exports, we give a good dollar’s worth of exports for 62| cents worth of imports and 32| cents tax on imports. The prices of our Western and Southern surplus are taxed down by the same law which taxes up the prices of our supplies. A bushel of western wheat or a pound of southern cotton will buy half as much again in London as in Boston, but the profit we could otherwise make is taxed against us at the custom houss and instead of trading in the best markets, we are compelled to trade with the Northeast on N ortheastem terms. And the Northeastern Plutocracy guages the negroes as it does the rest of us. It

has no race prejudice against taking the negro’s last dime. Ob, yes, Mr. Halstead, the negroes are

Thk decision of the treasury department in the case of the Dobson Brothers, of Philadelphia, who imported silk velvet weavers from England is awaited with interest. The firm acknowledge bringing the workmen here, prepaying their passage and fixing their rate of wages before they came. Their defense is that they wish to make a quality of velvet now imported, and that the American silk velvet weavers do not know enough to make it. This the Dobson Brothers do not appear to have found out until their American workmen had struck on them. Importing Welshmen for tin-plate work, and Englishmen for velvet weaving because Americans are not skilled enough to do the work is a little hard on the American. He will soon begin to ask himself what he does know, and to add a little to the sum of his knowlegde. The first thing he Ought to find out is what and how much he owes to the system of protection—for manufacturers.

Occasionally a Republican paper refers to the great benefit derived from the placing of sugar upon the free list, but their boasts are of short duration, for fear that the reaction may come too soon, for but few there are who do not realize that the scheme is the same as before but that the money goes to a different source, the government being left out. While the parties of whom they expect to fry the fat from are getting the money of the consumer. Thb New York Sun estimates that Europe will be short 619,000,000 bushels of wheat and rye this year. *this seems to be an overestimate, but there will pYobably be famine enough in Europe to move the western grain surplus in spite ot McKinley taxes on our European trade. < ■

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