Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 23 October 1891 — Page 4

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She If. BLAOKBUM, Proprietor. FBI J) A Y, OCT. 23, 1891. Protection has attacked American labor right in McKinley’s own town. The Deuber Watch Case Company has ordered a reduction ot wages from twelve to fifteen jer cent. That is a nut which the Prince of Protection cannot crack. If his bill will increase wages why are his especial home friends, the Deubers, obliged to make this sweeping reduction? What about the boom he promised if his bill should become a law. The spirit of 1776 is again aroused. The people of the United States haye not forgotten or forgiven the terrible outrage perpetrated upon them m 1873 with the aid of British gold. They are tired of being robbed and plundered by f< I eign capitalists under the guise < ‘ law. America for Americans, “n lions for defense, not one cent f -tribute, and equal rights to all, wii special privileges to none,’' a again the battle cry of the r< former. Perhaps the me t demagog ‘ part of McKinley’s . da speech v: i* this sentence: “If you want t> know who pays the tax ask tl Canadian farmer who brings 1 wheat to Buffalo, New York.” Tl Canadian farmer brings precioi > little wheat to the United State 1 , and Maj. McKinley knows it rdoes the American farmer, for tl e very good reason that the United States raises more wheat than it consumes and the suplus is shipped abroad. This republic is not rn importer of wheat. Home-Market protectionists are inyited to focus their attention icr awhile upon the fact that Cook county, Illinois, has an acre or farm mortgage debt of over $14,000,000, though it has within its limits the big city of Chicago wherein to sell its products. Now, if “home-mar-ket” is what the farmer needs, and Cook county with a home-market like Chicago can’t keep out of debt, what is to become of an ordinary agricultural county out in lowa or Nebraska or Indiana or Southwest Missouri? Will Mr. Allison please explain? The tin plate factory in Appolo, Pa., which sends out campaign badges and the like, is sketched from life in a newspaper of that state, it is exactly nine feet long and seven feet wide. All this din about tin is ridiculous enough. We have no tin mines and no factory to . speak of at this stage of the game, and those who are blowing tin horns know it. If the people want to suffer taxation without limitation to lift that industry above others that must work for themselves, then they can so express themselves by ballot. It can be done in that way, even as the iron ana steel business has been fostered until its millionaire owners are the -• beneficiaries of perpetual tribute. Because bad crops and threatened starvation in Europe raise the price and expand the markets for American breadstuffs, let i t the farmer deceive himself into he belief that any'law but the natural law of supply and demand has anything to do with the fixing of prices. They are fixed in the markets of the world as they were last year and will be next year. It is only the monopolistic manufacturer who can regulate prices for home consumers and other prices for foreign buyers by virtue of a bargain wjth the United States government. Let a year of good crops in Europe and short crops in America come, and the prices of the farmer’s products will be fixed by the same law and the same market, and while he cannot meet the interest of his indebtedness because of low prices, be will * be obliged to pay protective charges ?on his tin ware and crockery, blankets and carpets, just the same. It is a blind man who cannot see these things.

THE GREAT CRIME. it is possible for a representative government to commit a crime against its own people, the demonetization of silver was such a crime. That it was done by stealth is cer tainly established. The prominent Republicans of both houses of our national congress openly and publicly declare that it was not their purpose to demonetize the silver dollar, and that they did not know they were doing so; and the President himself, two years afterwards, recommended an increase of the capacity of the mints to coin a dollar which two years before had been demonetized by a bill he himself had signed. Such a state of facts taxes our credulity, and would be beyond belief but for the testimony of the principal actors themselves. And yet who of the prominent actors in that strange drama of crime, have taken steps to repair the wrong?jajk could easily have been corrected. The gist of the law is the intention rather than tl e words of the law-makers, when tl at intention can be unmistakably e:stablished. Had President Grai t, who signed the bill, and Gen. Gar field, Blaine and others who supported it, or let it pass without O] - position, joined in such a statement to the supreme court as the} each afterwards made in public dis cussion and private interview, cai any one doubt that the law would have been declared void by that court? Or, if this had not be< n the proper method,' and these men were honest in their after declara tions, how easy it would have be<i to repeal the law they unintentioi.-. ally adopted and thus undo the monstrous wrong? Who of them proposed such appeal? Not oue. On the contrary, those who now urge its repeal in the name of justice and for the honor of legislative bodies, are denounced as calamity howlers and cranks. This drives us to the question: What became of British Banker Seyd’shalf a million of Briitsh money? For some years a great deal has been said about the immense supply of tin in the Black Hills. The McKinley law imposed a duty of four cents a pound on that meta) after July 1, 1893, to encourage the production of tin in this country. During the debates on the bill Senator Moody, of South Dakota, grew eloquent over the vast deposits of tin in the Black Hills and promised that if tin and tinware were protected, it would not be many years before all of the last named article used in the country would be made in his state. It sounds a little odd, therefore, to hear the superintendent of the Harney Peak Tin Mining and Milling Company announce that “the question we are trying to solve is, ‘Can it be found in commercial quantities in the Black Hills?’ ” He says that the richest tin-bearing rock in the world is found around Harney Peak, and the tin is of superior quality. But the company has not gone down .deep enough to find whether there will be sufficient tin to pay dividends on the plant. It has sunk a shaft 300 feet deep, but will go 1,000. At that depth it ought to be known whether it will be worth while to work the mines. The superinedent is confident that everything will turn out right, and it is quite likely that he is correct about it. Nevertheless, it is singular that it has been said so often that these tin de posits would supply the world with tin it should be stated now that there is an uncertainty as to their commercial value. At the same day and hour when Mr. McKinley was orating before an Ohio audience upon sugar—how the Republicans had reduced it in price by removing the tariff, Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge was telling an audience of Northampton, Mass., tobacco growers that the new tariff law had brought their products up to profitable figures, for which they should be truly thankful. And yet the organs go on proclaiming that the tariff tax has nothing to do with prices, as, the foreign manufacturer pays- it all. Great mess they make

FAIR TRADE AED HIGD* WAY ROBBERY, A census bulletin of October Ist gives the private debt secured by mortgage un real estate at $156 a nead in Kansas, $164 in lona and luu in Illinois. This is exclusive of debts secured bv mortgage on p A’sonal propertyMwpen accounts, and all other “floating” or unsecuied private indebtednes&'Nor does it include the very large railway and corporation debts in these states on which their people pay interest to outside holders of mortgage bonds and other securites. iSucn a per capita debt on nai estate is equivalent to an average debt of S7BO on every family in Kansas; of $520 per family in Iowa; and of SSOO per family in Illinois. Os course, all the families in these states are not freeholders. A veiy large proportion of them own no real estate and consequently they can have given no real estate security for debts. While the burden of carrying such a debt falls finally on the entire community, the interest on it is paid primarily by freeholders, whose average indebtedness is without doubt from seven to ten times as great as that given as the average for each head of population. But, taking the interest on the per capita indebtedness at ten per cent.—and in Kansas at least it is often more than that—we have a yearly income tax of $15.00 on every man, woman and child in Kansis; ul $10.40 a head for lowa, ano of SIO.OO for Illinois. At eight} ei c?nt. this yearly tax will be $12.«8 a head for Kansas, $8.32 for loi a and SJB for Illinois, on this singh item of real estate mortgages, H that m Kansas at ten per cei ’. every family of five persons has tu bear an annual interest tax of s7t, m addition to state, county and school taxes, to federal taxes, and to interest charges for railways aix other simihar public improvement!. It is not to be forgotten that th< natural tendancy of the .Census D< partment is to understate the facts of the private mortgage indebted ness of the western states. Its esti mate* for Illinois is . ne $20,000,000 below the figures of the cencus; of Illinois taken by the Republican state administartion, although this was believed with good reason to be itself an underestime. But the figures of the federal census are sufficiently appalling. Kansas, for instance, is mortgaged on real estate alone for over 80 per cent, of the entire assessed value of its property, both real estate and personal. While this debt has been accumulating the .people of the west have lived frugally and worked hard. Y*»ar after year they have produced immense wealth. Could they have realized on it at anything like its fair exchange value, they would now be out of debt and the most prosperous people of the world, but for thirty years the tariff tax on its exchange has averaged from 40 to 55 per cent. Under the McKinley bill it will ba from 55 to 60 per cent, as an average tax on importa tion of all articles which they would exchange their products if allowed to do so. Instead of going to Europe to be exchanged at its full value, their entire surplus now goes there to buy gold, which is very scarce there, as it is elsewhere. It commands a high premium there, but when it is brought back here and given m exchange for New England manufactures it is subjected to a discount fixed under the high tariff, which enables them to give over 40 per cent, less in goods than would be given tor the same amount of gold in Europe. Under this policy everything the west has is taken from it, and it is forced deeply into debt to the New England States. It is owned, “lock, stock and barrel,” by a small class of protected capitalists in the northeast, who, after getting all it had under the operations of the high tariff, which shuts it off from its European markets, think themselves magnanimous in lending back a part of its own earnings to it, at high rates ot interest; who, when it protests, threaten it with the “withdrawal of capital”—that is, with foreclosure and forced sale under the hammer. How much longer is this system of highway robbery to receive the support of the federal government and to be perpetuated under federal law? There are men in this country working for S3O a week who can discount Mr. Harrison at speaking from back platforms. And yet Mr, Harrison is drawing $4,166,67 out of the treasury every month of his life on the theory that he is a great

THE WAGES THEY PAY. Badly informed advocates ,of high-tariff taxation having challenged the correctness of figures of wages paid in the cotton mills of Massachusstts. Here they aie classified for 157 Massachusetts cotton factories in 1890: At weekly wages under tft.19,421 At weekly wages 85, but under M.. .11.165 At weekly wages 86, but under Vt 18,133 Total number of employes at less than ST a week y :48,719 This is out of a total of 71,965 < f all employed in the 157 mills. This table gives additional data of wage s in the same establishments: At weekly wages 87, but under 88 9,115 At weekly wages 88, but under 895,928 At weekly wages 89, but under,810.5,320 At weekly wages over 810, but Under 880. 7,81® At weekly wages 880 and over 498 Total employee at 87 a week and over.. .28,24# bo in this protected industry, em ploying 71,965 persons in Massachusetts, 43,719, or over 71 per cent of the whole, receive less than $7 a week. These figures may be found on page 147 ot “The Annual Statistics of Manufactures” for Massachusetts, issued officially by the State from the office of its State Printer, 18 Post Office Square, Boston, 1891. On page 161 ot the same volume is given table ot wages paid in all manufacturing establishments of the state (3,041) for 1890, from which the following is condensed: At weekly wages less than 87 .134,887 At weekly wages of 87. but under 88 80,798 At weekly wages of 88 and 0ver138,570

Total employed in all industries..B97,6so So that while 134,287 of these “protected” workers receive less than $7 a week, only 132,570 of them receive $8 and over. According to the table given <i> page 928 of the Tenth Census Com pendium, the average weekly wag< s paid in the manufacturing industries of Massachusetts in the census year was ST (£7.005f). The figures of the state census < 1890, as well as of the federal cei sub, were furnished by the protected corporations themselves, and it inot likely that they have under estimated the wages paid by then . Nor is it to be forgotten that a ) salaries are added into the pay at count to make up the average. Th< salary of £4OO a week paid the president and general manager of tie corporation adds on to the salary cl the employe at £5 a week and unde r to make the “average wages for all employed”—an average that would be reached for these two by this process: Weekly wages of president and general managerß4oo 00 Weekly wages of 85 emp10ye...... 5 00 Total wages of president and 85 employe.B4os 00 Divide by 2 for average 208 50 So that “on the average” the wage of the “under $5 a week” man shows up much better in the statistics. While the protected corporations and capitalists of Massachusetts pay such wages, they virtually own five or six of the western agricultural states. The railroad bonds, the county and state bonds, the private mortgages and other securities for debt in Indiana, lowa, Illinois, Kansas;" Ohio and other western states are largely held by Massachusetts corporations and capitalists, who under the prohibitive tariff, get western products at their own prices and sell supplies to the west at their own prices. We would be glad to have Mr. McKinley’s attention*to these statistics. He will, of course, recognize them atouce as official. FACTS VERSES THEORIES. High-tax advocates are given to alluding, in a general way to the effect of the protective tariff policy on* European countries, they carefully avoid particularizing and pay small heed to dates and facts. The pauper labor they warn us of is always located in tree trade Euglaud» when, as a matter of fact, labor is better rewarded in England, better conditioned and better contented than in any other country in Europe. And nd English paupers and contract laborers are landing on our shores.. They come from protected Italy, Germany Austria and Russia. It is a sad reflection, if it were warranted, that in our wide expanse of country, with its millions of acres, and our free institutions,, the only advantage our people have over those of the crowded monarchies of the old world, descendants of absolute depotism, is afforded by a high tax law on commerce. The protectionist organs and orators picture the decline of England under free trade when a reference w official figures would disprove every such affirmation. England with her thirty-seven millions population commands a commerce equal to.that of France, Germany,, Austria and Italy combined with their one hundred and fifty-seven

millions of people. And these] countries have been “aided.” moie or lees by the protective tariff while the free trade flag of England has distanced them on every sea. This is not theory, it is fact. Belgium and Hollond with their “tariff f< r revenue only” and their little moie than ten millions population, command trade that reaches close to the figures of France and Germany, with four and five times as many people. Grouping with free trade Engird, the countries whose commerce is lightly taxed and for revenue only, and making mathematical deduction, it is found that 55 percent, of the whole importlrade of Europe is entirely outside a policy like our McKinley monstrosity. The figures proving this are carefully tabulated by the New York Commercial Bulletin from accepted reports in a statistical study of the subject. The steady rise of wages in England during the years of practical fne trade is also shown by dates ai.d figures which cannot be disputed. The countries of Europe are divided into three groups. First: Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, where the duties amount to 3.90 per cent, of the value of the merchandise. The Second: Austria-Hun-gary, France and Germany, with limited protective duties, where the ratio of duties to amount of merchandise is 8 per cent. The third group embraces Italy, Portugal and European Russia which impose cuties averaging 30 per cent. Tbt se three countries have 37 per cent, of the whole population and only 7 per cent, of the commerce. B. 1gium, the Netherlands, Switzerlai d and the United Kingdom (the tint group with 3.90* per cent, dutiu) command 55 per cent, of the tot; commerce. These facts are deducted from authentic tables too v< 1umiuous to quote entire, and what do they prove? That low tariff stimulates commerce and increases the wealth of a producing country. Facts are worth more than theo nes. A Woman’s Testimony. Mrs. Louis Elzroth, of Wabash, Ind., says: “I am ready to acknowledge that Hibbard’s Rheumatic Syrup is a great medicine I have been afflicted with rheumatism tor some time, and tor seveial months previous touting Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup, I was unable to help myself. J. T. Graden, druggist, of Wabash, Ind , urged me to give it a trial, and it worked a complete cure in my case. I think it the best family medicine in the world. Mrs. Louis Elzroth, Wabash, Ind. Sold by W. H. Nachtrieb.

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