Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 2 October 1891 — Page 4

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®he jDumocrai AT. BLACKS UJtIT, Proprietor. fKI IkAi, OCT. 2, lSi)l. It cvrUiuly is a fine thing foi the farmers to raise big crops and to sell them at high prices. When this combination occurs it makes a sort of oasis for the farmers in a rather wide and disagreeable desert. But wouldn’t it be also a good thing for the farmers to be able to keep and enjoy the greater part of the fruits of their toil and the yield of their land? That is the important question this year, and the only Republican answer to it is that the best part of what the farmer earns belongs to the McKinley barons along the northern seaboard. The legislation of the Reed congress was skillfully shaped for the purpose of taking from the farmers the best part of what they getthis year, and this purpose will be rapidly accomplished as the farmers make then purchases. Under this legislation the fostered monopolists will get most of the crop money by the end of the year; next year they will be putting it out in mortgages, and the year after they will be forclosing ■This has been the regular history of “good year for the farmer”under Re publican tariff and financial legislation. It begins to look, though, as if the farmers had held the bag ii that game long enough to be famil iar with its tricks. Besides, after a . man has been starved to exasperation a good feed of strengthening victuals makes him more dangerous than ever. For political as well a' nhilantrophic reasons the Democrat sincerely hopes that the pres ent bright prospect of a bellyful of strengthening victuals in the way of good prices for the farmers this year will be more than realized.

The cry of the high protectionist is the great and growing industry, the tin plate manti facturk*.*;, that a.re being established all over the country, which so tar have failed to materalize except in some room 8 by 10 where they dip an occasional batch of black sheets of iron rolled some place else in a taoJution made from pig tin shipped from some foreign country, done by some foreign hands shipped here for that purpose. The only purpose tor which they seem to be created is for politics. The National rtsioner, a journal representing the great canning industries of this country, says there U not a bit of tin plate made in this country and that the loud mouthed hyppcrits are liars. We clip the following from one' of their articles on tin plate ot this country: We publish in another column some further correspondence regarding the effect of the McKinley tariff bill on the provision trade. There is no more doubt in our mind that the largest and most influential firms in the c inning, packing and provision trades feel already the detrimental influence which the tin plate clause of the McKinley tariff bill has on f their business. The case is an aggravated one, on account of the persistent ignominious lying on the part of those fellows who make capital out of the political situation aid help themselves to free advertising in the columns of a misinformed and deluded press. To our certain knowledge one of these houses, that can meats in large quantities has written to the Philadelphia concern, which is most persistent, and to others who are Jess persistent in their lies (we can n«e no mildei expression), about Amer ican tin plate for canning purposes, .and in reply all they would offer under guarantee was, iff theiß own words, “imported tin plate.” VV hat is the use of lying abont it? If these concerns that boast so loudly that they are making tin plate in this country tell the truth, why don’t they offer it to the trade at any price? Simply because they have none to offer! The McKinley'Amencan tinhoaa perpetrated at Piqua, O. has been -exploded.

WE. I L TH D 01) GING TAXES.

The St. Louis Republic takes the position that the average State law for the assessment and taxation of personal property operates as a permium on perjury. The farmers and small property owners list their property to the best of their knowledge; but the man who has a large bank account and a safe deposit full of securities, declares the Republic, is apt to commit willful perjury to evade his taxes. This is a darker picture than we care to paint, a view of the average man of wealth which we would prefer not to take, but still there is too much foundation for it. Recent proceedings in Cincinnati seem to warrant the con elusion. A tax commission there charged with a review of the assessment lists has summoned more than sixty of the shining lights of Cincinnati to answer for making under oath false returns of personal property, and a Cincinnati dispatch claims that such items as the follow ing have been unearthed: 250 share; of whisky trust stock, - $700,000 worth of Adams’ Express company stock, and $400,000 Standard Oi' stock. All of this stock under th< laws of Ohio is taxable, and ye* each of the owners had sworn tha* he had listed all his taxable propei ty. The Republic very justly ob serves that, no matter w’hat excuset may be offered, these men, no mattei how prominent in society, or church or state, simply swore themselves out of the payment of their taxes. All good men must regret that we have a revenue system which en ables men to save money by swearing falsely; a system which offers a standing bribe for perjury. But what kind of a system can be sub stituted for it? Life’s transaction mu<t still largely be based upoi honor, and in our teaching and edu cation, honor can be no more strong ly appealed to than through thi medium of an oath. If this lai. when weighed against money, mon ey must not only be king, but lord of lords in the human mind, and what to do presents a problem for. something more than philosophy to solve.

And in this matter not only morality but justice is at stake., Our theory of property taxation is that all property must bear its proportion pf the expense of government; and stiie£ a definite amount of revenue must be whether the amount be great or smsii, £ child must be able to see that the taxes which should have been paid on the property that escapes listing must be made up by a higher rate on that which retu>h££ {hp rolls. Hence the honest poo** who list their property must pay not only ihfljr own taxes but those of the wealthy dodgers as well. From the items cited ab&w it JF.HI be seen that the people not only ejifcer (the oppressions of the trUSte combines, but are compelled by the perjury of the holueis of their stock to pay ihfMr taxes also. What a demoralizing influence is here! What a to the poor and those of moderate medhy to avoid taxation! The knowlege that their limited property is being taxed because the wealth that is able to pay & .dp.dging taxation, is a stronger the dollars and cents saved. We must have a different way of getting at the property of the rich, or we must a higher standard of morality among Um upper classes.

tin plate seems to be the battle cry g< Ohio politics this year, and the bigger llm He the better it suits the Republican Io hear them tell it, the little dip pte«4 at Piqua is an immense affair to bear the high protectionists teILU. While the day that McKinley was there they borrowed all tho ’pgd in the city to make a dip sufficient te get out tin pUte enough to make McKinley badges.

Guv. Campbell’s enemies now declare that his speeches are written for him by eastern friends. This is a peculiar charge against a man of the governor’s ability, and probably prigin in the fact that the speeches jfft having the effect he desires. e

no i» am/. MoKinley tva# FOULED. Lima, Onto, tept. 27.—Another c.tap ter u. regard to the tin plate hoax sprung by Maj. McKinley at Piqua, Ohio, last Thursday evening, auu w Inch was heralded by the Republican press throughout the country, has become known. To secure the location of the rolling-mill and its adjunct, the Cincinnati corrugated iron works, the city of piqua entered into contract with the gentlemen at the head of these enterprises to furnish free gas for fuel for a stipulated number ’of years, the said fuel gas to be used only in running the works for the purposes indicated in their corporate titles. Last Thursday Messrs. Ricks and Batelle, who are at the head of the above works borrowed 500 pounds of pig lead from Capt.Keifer, superintendent of the Piqua water works. The next day McKinley came, and under the protection of Col. Orr, Messrs. Hicks, Ellis and others he was taken to see the Piqua mills make American tin plate. They have been doing that for years in thousands of places throughout this country. And then he saw these plates dipped 'in American block tin, melted, and as a finishing touch run through rollers to give them a Welsh polish. This all done; tnere lay before him a sheet of tin made from the products of American mines and by American

workmen, so he said. Had the matter stopped there Piqua tin would have gone on serving as a good Republican argument, but, like all the the other reported manufactories of American tin plate, it in the end has proven a hoax Capt. Keifer, superintendent of the water works, aud Mr. Smile, editor of the Leader, thought there was a colored man in the woodpile somewhere, and this is how they unearthed him. Messrs. Hicks and Batelle of the corrugated iron works and the rolling-mill were sent for. They came and were told by Mr. Smiley that he would have their contract with the city for fuel annulled on the ground that they were exceeding the rights of the contract in manufacturing some thing not named m the contract unless they confessed the “tin fake.” Messers. Hicks and Batelle were brought up standing. They then and there made the confessson that they had taken the steel plates that they manufacture and dipped them in a bath of the melted pig-lead borrowed from Capt. Keifer, then rolled them to secure a polish that would make them look like imported tin, and that in fact there was nothing about the tin plates made in the presence of McKinley that would entitle them to the name of American tin plate, because there was not an ounce of America# Uft PF an y kind of tin in a single one of the plates.— Chicago News. . TflE road question seems to have passed trow tiip ot our fanners at this time of yew, hfi are too good to think of making them any better, so they afe satiated, but as soon as the fall rains come ffjerr will wish for better roads, even the that was to be built by private subscription seems to have died before much yas done. Let the party that has the paper get the work in motion go Mw fop completed thia fall- There w ptepty of menVho ute Wiiljpg U) ffD»ble their subscription if neoeMa?? IP complete the mile that has been ppmmenced. So let it move.

Dr. Bucharu is The Dr. came to the notice of the puhftc dur* ing the great political combat of 1884. While members of i.be ministry of Republican party had forsaken their into the slums of politics, h)P Pft as spokesman declared that they admired Blaine because of his opposition to “Rum Romanism and Our the Rw^tyipyM ? have about quit telling the people 4,hjt the tariff is not a tax. They feel thattbp fedyction in sugar as soon as the tariff w&C taken off showed the naked truth. Jf it is “Harrison sure,” as Ingilis s»ye if jty it will be the last of Harrison. 4n.d if is yejj possible that the Republican hgpe to renominate him to got rid of him? Gov. Campbrll haa struok MoKinley squarely from the shoulder and the blow has told. Now let him give John Sherman the same kind of a right-hander.

A oTIW-Pan made of filch “tinplaie” a<« the Ohio “Mckwley and Protection” campaign medah are made of would give off salts of lead enoegb in cooking a slew in it to poison an entire family. Mr. McKinley has put himself in the “bands of his friends” and the Chauvenet quantitative analyses of his campaign medals of Piqua “tin” shows that some us the hands aie very bad.

Germany is hungry enough this year to eat American pork if it can get it after paying the kaiser’s McKinley tax. Perhaps another year or so of famine might convince the kaiser that the real value of food is in its feeding qualities, and that there is no feeding quality in his McKinley taxes. Missouri pig-lead is a good thing, and so is sheet-iron, but dipping sheet-iron m Missouri lead does not make it “Ohio steel coated with California tin.” Pull off your Piqua medal, Mr. McKinley. You have been sold and the sell is nasty enough to be very cheap. In the approaching joint debate in Ohio Gov. Campbell will speak first, McKinley will answer, and then the governor will have a brief recall just to apply the trimmings to the goose he will have cooked. McKinley will be the meat in the sandwich. And now Harrison contemplates a trip to Atlanta next mouth. As i> junketing president, Harrison easily takes'the belt.

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