Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 28 August 1891 — Page 4

D-PRICE’S Used in Millions of Homes— 40 Years the Standaro

©lie glenuxcrat A*. BIA.CKBVRH, Proprietor. FRIDA Y, AUG. 28, 1891. The most amusing task that the protection organs declare they have had on hand, and yet the one they are the longest accomplishing is an explanation of the drop m wool. • ». The Republican papers that try tp make it appear that there is no fight on between Sherman and Foraker, remind one of the man who told Noah it was only a passing shower. When free sugar was forced into the McKinley tariff bill it was the death blow to the whole tariff system. It is a striking demonstration that tariff is a tax and that the consumer pays it. The opreation of “p-otection” for those who live by the labor of their hands may be stated n very simple words. By reason/ c ' it they pay more for what they need, and get less for what they do. - Taxes that are levied on foreign goods, are not levied until those goods come into the country and pass through the custom house. The tax must, therefore, of necessity fall upon the American consumer. Another Keystone bank employe has confessed and been sentenced and gone to states prison. Can no one of these lesser roges be induced to stand trial and let the big rascals for whom they are scapegoats be found out. Major McKinley is putting in a good deal of time repeating his ancient protection speech, but he does PP not tell the farmers of Ohio why the price of wool is several cents lower a pound since the passage of his monstrosity. Senator Voorhers predicts Harrison’s renomination and defeat, and is of the opinion that McKinley and Sherman “are in far greater danger than they are willing to admit.” The tall Sycamore of the Wabash can evidentally look right over the heads of ordinary jobbing politicians, and take a bird-eye view of things. Raw cotton is 25 per cent, cheaper now than it was a year or two ago, and cotton goods are at least 5 per cent, dearer. The difference both ways is all on account of McKinley, whose rascally bill bears down the price of cotton and gives the Down-East mill-owners a chance to clap an extra profit of 25 per cent, upon their cotton goods. The Republican organs burn with indignation and spatter their pages with fiery rhetoric over reputed fusions of Democratic and People’s party local tickets. The farmers are being used as catspaws, they are' being duped by the Democrats, shiek the organs. The farmer in politics does worry the Republicthis year, and w’ith g od reason. The constant fight that has been waged against the new tax law by the Republican press is gradually abating as the many-laudable virtues of the law are made clear to the benighted intellects of the editors. No one claims that the law is perfect; from the very nature of its origin and passage this could not be, but is vastly superior to the old law, which failed in securing a correct list of property. While Major McKinley to-day dwelt upon the aim of the Rex publican party to keep out the pauper labor of the old world the police at Newton, Mass., were standing guard over the sewers of that town where Italian laborers had been employed; These laborers are on a strike to be paid their August wages in advance, and threaten to use their stillettos if they cannot have the money. These laborers were imported by padrones, m violation of the alien labor law, a law that has has been persistently ignored under this Republican administration. '•;• i- - •

Notwithstanding the splendid crops all over the country, the McKinley bill is still getting in its fearful work on the businessmen of the country. The business failures of the last seven days ending with Saturday numbered 227, as compared with 197 last year, before this insidious robber commenced to eat us up and out. This kind of business is going to make a final finish of the author of our woes in the November, and don’t you forget it. Everybody is well pleased over the fact that the foreign market affords the people an opportunity to get nd of their big wheat surplus. What a blessing our wheat raisers would see in that ‘ home market” idea that our Repudlican friends have been trying to impress us with. The “home market” will answer when there is no surplus. It is the Republican design to have no surplus. They evidently think this idea is good so far as the treasury is concerned, and want to try it on wheat.

The spirit of Ananias has taken bodily possession of the Republican editors, who are shouting in seventeen differnt tone of voice that McKinley hasn’t marked up he prices of goods in ordinary ue. Their lying is short-sighted and ill-timed, The men and women who will soon be hunting winter clothes will find out what the matter is when they are forced to pay for mixed cotton and shoddy finish as much as they paid last yeah- for good woolens. Cotton and shoddy with a showy finish is what the Eastern mill-own-ers are preparing m quantities for fall trade.

A search of “sweaters” quarters m Chicago has revealed a condition m no way less horrible than, the east end of London can show. Men, women and girls of tender years, huddled together in dirty cellars, attics and inside rooms, sitting elbow to elbow in filth and grime, working from 14 to 18 hours a day, Sun days included, and for wages rang- , ing from a dollar a week to a dollar a day. This, is what investigation has turned out to the light? of day in an American city, and there is something awfully wrong that it is so. No society and no nation is safe with plague spots such as this festering upon it, and yet we have the Republicans shouting about the pauper labor of Europe, who work for small wages while we have the same here at home. Now is the time to prepare for the building of roads. Let some one prepare a petition for some of the roads leading into town, and push the matter along so that the contract may be let this fall, and the work commenced early in the spring. The petition for the road leading down on the south side of the river is in the hands of some of the property owners, and all they need to do is to crowd the matter along. The people are ready for such a move. If Allen county people can afford to buy our crushed stone and ship them to Fort Wayne by railroad and make roads of them. What is the cause of our people not making roads? They only need to get started and all will move along m good shape. Announcement is made that the great firm of Leiston & Sons will abandon their tin works at Tipton and Tividale, and establish a plant in the United States, bringing their Welsh workmen with them. Also that Mr. Leiston, Sr., has obtained yaluable American patents for tinning sheets. Between their patents and the immunity from competition the present tariff gives them, this English firm have a golden opportunity to coin dollars out of American purchasers, which of course they will proceed to do. Their homes will remain across the wahpr and their American-made will be sent over to keep up thqir vested interests in England. Thus does the theory of protection wo rk itself out in practice. Let us h irrah ourselves hoarse in praise ol a system that robs us and puts cur money in the pocket of foreign ca ntalists and their workmen. 'A J ■

A DEPT-CURSED PEOPLE. According to the returns of the enumerators engaged on the mortgage census, there are now 2,491,980 homesteads under mortgage. Id a population of 62,000,000 people there are not more than 12,500,000 families, so that, even if there is a homestead to every five persons, two homesteads in every ten are mortgaged. The number of freeholds is not yet given, but at a low estimate at least four families in every ten live in houses they do not own. This leaves only 40 per cent, of the homesteads of the country held by a free and uncumbered title. The total indebtedness secured by mortgage on homesteads, is estimated from the census returns at $,565,000,000, which, at 8 percent., would amount to an interest tax of $205,200,000 a year on the 2,491,930 heads of families involved, or of over SB2 a year on each. At the average rate of American wages for unskilled labor, each one of these heads of families would be required to work eighty-two days in the year to pay interest on the mortgage debt. The money-lender, therefore, have a force of nearly two and a half million of men working foi them for 82 days out of 365 days in the year under a system having for the money-lender many advantages over African slavery, as the chattel slave was fed and clothed by his master and supported at his master’s cost in sickness. The profits on the labor of the chattel slave were frequently nothing at all, and rarely, if ever, as much as SB2 net a head. Most of this burden is borne by the agricultural states. The preliminary estimate of the census oflice puts the average mortgage debt on lowa farms at $1,283. The total indebtedness of other western states, as of Kansas and Illinois, is greater than that of lowa. This enormous load of debt in the agricultural states is only a part of the grand total on which interest must be paid every year. It does not include chattel mortgages, county, state and municipal indebtedness or railroad debt. Nor does it include the inflated capitalization of corporations like the lead, wire and sugar trusts, organized under the high tariff to force from the people the highest possible dividends on enormously watered stock. After thirty years of high tariff taxation and Republican financial policies the country has been forced entirely away from the cash basis of interest-bearing credits. The people are in debt as they never have been before in the history of the country, and under the Republican policy there is no hope of their getting out of it. And this while through the labor of the people the general wealth has increased until now the average wealth of the poorest farmer and of any one of the moderately wealthy plutocrats is counted by millions. If you feel very poor, there is always this consolation for you—that you can add your wealth to that of Carnegie, and take half so as to find how well off the two of you together are “on an average.” You will then be able to get all the satisfaction there is to be had out of the increase in the “average per capita wealth of the country.” The sugar bounty of two cents’a pound is a direct step toward socialism, but it is a roundabout kind of socialism that even a socialist of moderate business capacity would disapprove. If the government collected from the consumers seven cents instead of two, and paid the seven cents to the sugar trust, the progress towards this species of socialism would be complete, and the trust could give the consumers their sugar free. Republican organs would no dobt make a big brag over such a consummation, but people who now ignor the fact that they pay the trust indirectly two cents a pound through taxation, could not shut their eyes to the fact that they would then, as now, pay full value for sugar, although they would get it “free” from their grocer. Os course, the trust would do no such thing as give up its power to further tax the consumer, merely because the government collected and paid over to it all that the sugar.it handled was worth, but if such socialistic work is to be done by the government at all. j It would be vastly better to cut the trust clear out of the calculation and let the government both raise and distribute the sugar crop. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castorla. 1

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