Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 25 September 1891 — Page 4

WRICES Used in Millions of Homes— 40 Years the Standara

@;he .5 . fl ORN, Proprietor. FRIDA Y, SEPT. 25, 1891. McKinley has not yet been able to explain why he opposed the incorporation of Blaines reciprocity scheme in his tariff bil|.y McKinley has not yet explained to his Ohio audience why wool is lower by about five cents a pound since the passage of his robber bill. The American hog opened the gates of Germany for himself. He had a little help from a foreign famine, but owes no gratitude to any reciprocity humbug nor its prophets. There isn’t an article in the category of necessities up'which the tariff was increased but what thi cost is greater to just the extent ol the additional tariff. No one with any brains denies that. The Tennessee tin mine, which Mr. Niedringbaus was to order, 38,00'0 pounds of tin, has fizzled out. This will make no scarcity in tintin plate lapel buttons the McKinleyites in Ohio wear. They arcmade in wales. We hope Major McKinley will take cognizance of the silver plank in the platform of the Democraticconvention. The language is plain and to the point. It reads: “We are against the coinage of any dollar which is not of the intrinsic value of every other dollar oi the United States.” s --vs?- ' . A new material has just been discovered for use in the construction of ships of war. When penetrated by a projectile it immediately expands and closes the orifice. Perhaps if Mr. McKinley had built his tariff of this substance it would not be showing the daylight in so many places where it has been pierced by the arguments of the Democrats. Private persons have offered to •’ contribute the money needed to continue the expert examination into the affairs of the Keystone bank. The treasury’s excuse is thus overww, and, if the administration persists m refusing to permit the discovery of the w rong-doing it will be generally believed that John Wanamaker needs protection and that the president accords it to him. The Chicago Mail notes that one day last week importers of tin in that city paid SI,BOO increased duty on a Welsh tin plate consignment. It follows indisputably that when the articles manufactured from this tin are put on the market this added cost of material will proportionately increase the market price, and the buyers of the article must pay it. The tariff is a tax every time, and there is no getting around it. The platform adopted by the Republican party of New York is someting more of a curiosity in its way of an effort “how uot to” say nothing, than party platforms usually are. In one sentence the McKinley high protection idea is lauded in a fulsome manner, while in another sentence, Blaine and reciprocity free 'trade are just as liberally indorsed. The resolve on the liquor question is equally as Janus faced. II ■ idApd so Manufacturer Conger, National Republican Committeeman, ex-Repubhcan congressman, chairman of the Ohio State Republicancommittee, has cut down wages 33| per cent! This is the most unkindest but of all for his bosom friend, Major McKinley. Considering how near election is the wages might have been kept up until after November. Or do the Republican partyleaders continue to believe that the wage-earners they have fooled with their false theory will continue to hurrah for protection under even these circumstances.

THE TARIFFDEL USION. The new tariff as now hieing operated is a delusion and a snare. Hertotore it has been manipulated by the Republicans without regard to ,the wishes of the people, but since so many of their followers are keeping time to the music of the Traiff Reform party they have had their senses somewhat sharpened and are now endeavoring to run their machine in the tariff reform swath and therefore delude those who are threatening insurrection. They have gone so far as to increase the duties on agricultural products, that we export, which can be of no earthly benefit to farmers. It is simply a scheme by which the Republicans hope to make the farming element, the balance of power, submit more meekly to the increased duties on goods for the of the eastern capitalists and which is nothing more than a system of robbery fed from the pockets of the liboritig clashes of this couutrx. There never was a greater curse imposed upon the people than this machine for the manufacture of mon opolies. It is the principal system that is widening the gulf between capital and labor; it is the net work that is winding the masses into the merciless clutch of the money power and the force that is covering so many farms with mortgages and filling the country with tenant farmers who labor year in and year out for a mere existence, ilow much satisfaction will it be to western farmers to know that the duly on corn is 15 cents on the bushel when his only choice is to sell his surplus for what the market is worth, or burn it for fuel. So it is with every article named on the list. No farmer can receive any benefit from a tariff on produce when thousands and millions of bushels are shipped to foreign markets every year. No occasion arises for them to receive one penny through the medium of the duty. If crops should fail then, and not until then, would they see the result of such legislation. Instead of it being a benefit they would then find that the beautiful (?) tariff they were to receive would be paid out of their own pockets and in no case can they be benefited from the tariff.

While our friends, the enemy, are worrying over the silver plank in the Ohio Democratic platform it may be well for them to study up on the act of July 14, 1890, now in force. This act provides for “the silver product of the American mines.” The United States is not America, though by common and incorrect usage the people of this nation attempt to monopolize the word. It is not for the purchase of the silver product of the United States only that the act provides then, even if that was the original intention. As a matter of fact the output of our own silver mines for the calander year 1890 is estimated by the director of the mint to have been 54,500,000 ounces, of which 8,701,598 ounces were used for art purposes. Unless the product of domestic mines this year is greater than it was last year, which is not. known, the treasury department is now, complying witK the act of 1890 which makes it compulsory on the department to purchase 4,500,000 ounces of silver a month, forced to buy foreign silver. It is undoubtedly buying quantities of it which were mined in Mexico. In view of the free-handed appropriations the billion dollar congress, Uncle Sam will be apt to think that there ought to be money enough somewhere to keep a few experts at work on the books of the Keystone bank Uli that dark scandal is probed to the bottouip The stoppage of investigation just as thfi accounts had become hopeful of finding » clew to the wrong looks very strange. It reminds us of the story Mr. Lincoln used to tell about a hunter who followed a bear for sometime, and then gave up the chase because “the trail was getting too fresh.” Before this campaignis over the little tin button and the McKinley badge will be sleeping by the side of Foraker’s skin cane.

Mr. Wanamaker’s statement of his connection with he wreckers of the Keystone National Bank of Philadelphia is in so far a good defense that it shows bis relations with them may not have been other than those of close business intimacy. Some such relations seem to have existed not only in the case of the Keystone, but ol the Spring Garden wreck as well'. According to Mr. Wanamaker’s statement, his intitimacy with the Keystone wreckers came through a deal in the Erie railroad, in connection with .which he acquired what is now declared to be the fraudulently overissued stock of the bank which he has surrendered.

Pending further investigation, it is doubtless best to accept his explanations at their face value. Even thus they show how greatly Mr. Harrison sinned against the public welfare when he outraged public opinion by giving a Cabinet place to Mr. Wanamaker solely for his money’s sake. Holding this place, Mr. Wanamaker goes on heaping up money by what he considers per fectly proper methods—at what cost may be judged from this testimony of the National Bank Examiner, given immediately after Mr. Wanamaker had concluded his defence: Mr. Drew in his testimony said that the now fugitive president of the bank, Marsh, had first told him ot the overissued stock, and that he told Marsh it must be returned. This took two weeks, which Mr. Drew explained by saying that much time •nd w.ui tv na ik cessary to get the stock together. Mr. Drew said without the confession of Marsh he wold not have dis covered the deficit in the bank by mean* • f the books. He was first told of tht Lucas deficit on January sth by Charles vlcFadden, a director of the bank, am iom that time on until he made his offi :ial report to the comptroller of the curency he kept that official informed of the rank’s condition. Mr. Drew said that the aw firm of Reed & Pettit was counsel 'hr the bank after January 10th or nth. Mr. Etting asked in some surprise it he meant John B. Reed, United States Disrict Attorney here, and Drew said he did Mr. Drew said that Marsh was not arrested before he was because he was being used to obtain for the bank the money due it by the Lucas estate, What thrusts itself on attention here is: (1.) That the Bank Examiner formed the return of the overissued stock, part of which was held by Mr. Wanamaker. (2.) That the discovery of the deficit was in January, and that the comptroller of the currency was at once informed of the bankrupt condition ot the institution. (3.) That the bank was, nevertheless kept open, Mr. Wanamaker, as he says, from “ordinary business prudence,” withdrawing his deposits while deposits were being received from the less informed and not so prudent public. (4.) That while Mr. Wanamaker’s colleague in federal administration, the comptroller of the currency, was keeping open his rotten institution, the law firm of Reed & Pettit, embracing his other colleagues, the Federal District Attorney at Philadelphia, was engaged in the bank’s interest as soon as its insolvency became known. This is evidence which speaks for itself. It is circumstantial, and we are not to be rash in inference from it or hasty in working out from it definitions of “ordinary business prudence,” as understood by the participants in this affair. But what we are to conclude, what we cannot avoid concluding, is that federol officials high, it authority, the comptroller of Currency at their head, have kept a rotten bank open, knowing it to be rotten, and so have helped to rob the public by receiving deposits. There is fraud in this case and strong evidence of conspiracy. The guilty should not be allowed to profit by the results of their criminal action.— St Louis Republic. The Republicans now claim nr. der the operation of the McKinley tariff law that the custom’s revenues have been reduced from $3.62 to $2.59 per capita—a savings of $1.03 for each man, woman and child in the country. W’hy, how is that? We thought that the tariff was not a tax, that it was not paid by the people, but by the importers. How then, this saving to the people. According to the usual Republican argument this would be a saving to the importers and not to the people. If increasing these revenues cost the people nothing, reducing them surely saves the people nothing. This tariff business is not like 3Fslh«t bark pills, is it—if you peel it up it works up, if you peel it down, it works down? If you increase it the importers pay it; if you reduce it, the people get it. This is fine Republican political argument. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castcrla. 4," : - > , ; ■ w®

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