Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 27 November 1891 — Page 4

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©he Democrat JT. BLAChHVHN. Proprietor. > > _ FRIDAY. NOV. 27, 1891. The secretary of the treasury an Bounces that it is illegal lor newspapere to print pictures of the new coins. This action is taken not, as some might suppose, to protect the new coin from ridicule, but to ayert the dire danger ol a newspaper picture of a half dollar being passed on some intelligent citizen for legal tender. Great law, that! The many different ways of obtaining money Jare numerous but tor the average man to get it so that be is protected by law is the rule the most of them apply, and while they may be within the law, their means of obtaing the same may be no better than highway robery. Under such a pretext does the govern' meat conliscates the property! ol oar citizens every day by down-right robbery compelling them to ( pay a certain amount of their earnings to other people, without any it is stealing under the guise of law. The thief generally gives you a chance to get even with him but the robber through the law does no such a thing. The Government has no more right to confiscate the property of an individual than ane has of another. Thß Republican politicians say that the Object of the recent tariff legislation was to reduce the revenues of the government; that the government was collecting through this source more revenue than was needed, and the surplus so collected should be left in circulation among the people. This is certainly a very proper thing for the government to do—leave all the money’ possible in active circulation. Now these same wise politicians tell us that the imports are paid for by tbeg importers, and not by the people of the United States. If that be true the money derived from these duties is not drawn from the people of this country at all, and hence, the diminution of these revenues cannot leave money among our people, if the money is not paid by the people but by foreigners, let it come, the more the better, and if too much accumilates at Washington, let it be used in such away as to diminish taxaaion. These wise Republican politicians seem to be a little mixed up on this question. The silver coinage advocates and the mono metahsts are agreed upon the desirability of international adjustment of the relations between gold and silver. So far so good. Tlje precious metals have money value when authorized by government law, and in business exchange ■ i become profitable in propotion to the extent and volunis of business transactions. As it is the policy of our government to limit its trade, so far as practicable, to the home market, it need not seriously concern us what value other nations place upon our coins, whether gold or silver. Gov. McKinley is hailed as the champion of the home market at the banquet of the home market club, in Boston. Ours is the only country in the world where tradesmen and publicists boast of home markets. Even in the protected countries of Eurppe foreign trade is solicited. Here the foreign intercourse is ol secondary consideration and '‘American goods for American homes/' and “protect American artisiaus by keeping away foreign goods,” is dinned into the ears of the voters from one end of the country to the other. Il we ar« to swap jack knives for a living there is no need of worrying about our coinage. A Barlow knife will do to “trade on sight unseen” as well as anything else. This is the logical conclusion of the attempt to justify the tw o propositions of restricting trade «nd establishing a fiixedness of coinage values by international ar-. rrn«?ement. It is a sort of go-as-jori-piease all around, I

POCKET CUTLERY. ne of the Most Rascally Clauses ii< The McKinley Tarif. j >m the New I'ork Evening Post. one ol the must rascally 1 ; the McKinley tariff is that relating to pocket cutlery, the duty upon waich was increased to 74, 83 and 1 .5 per cent., according to quality. Tte duty before McKinley took u i hand was 5u per cent, au valorem, w null was itself an unconscionable u mage upon the buyers of jackk ives. McKinley added a specific d tty to the ad valorem, which equivalent to the foregoing percentage, b uee the. newAanff went into effect t ;e manufacturers have Jheld meet1 igs in this city about onceamqnth t j put up prices, and have advanced t lem about 40 per cent, on [jsonie kinds of goods. Although they li ive not organized a trust, their c mcerted action has the same effect o i the public. - nt rested Observer” writes a very misleading article in Bradstreet's to j istify the advance in the price ol j tck-knives. Before the passage of t ie bill, he tells us, the manufacturers were selling thouaands of dozens of the knives at a loss of 25 per c nt. Poor did they g> on year after year increasing ilieir production and their losses'; I’.l-11 they did increase their pru . muon is evident. ■cording to their own statement, licit- production ot this kind of uiives in I&SJ was of the value of JI,32t),CU. .c Inpm-ts (including duty) were I.S&T.'JV. ' i isumption lor 15K1........ ' #3,K7,2i>. i’he increase in consumption mils' ve been as much as 2.1 per cent , r annum, or an increase of 15 pei it. m six years (1882 to 1887 in tsivej. Now, the importation ot ■ a?sc goods did not increase, but U-ightiy declined during this inter? v. d. Therefore, the natural increase i.ijjonsumption must have been supp ied by the domestic manufactures, aid this increase could not have boon less than 6'500,000 per annum i.i value, or 40 per cent. We are e peeted to believe that those distr .ssed manufacturers went on in c easing their product at a loss of 2 > per cent, to themselves at every t irn-over. A still more remarkable fact is that these sufferers, before t .e McKinley bill passed, sold at $2 p :r dozen a knife the foreign equivalent of which cost $2.20 to land in New York, duty paid, and could not b j sold, when all charges were paid, at less than $2.40 per dozen. And yjt they were given a large increase of duty by McKinley, which they are using, as the writer In Brads 'reefs blandly remarks, to “educate tie consumer to pay a little more for his goods.” This is a euphemism for cheating him under the forms of law. Thebe are some ministers in the United States who are likely to change their politics, all because of t ie double-spring, back-action qualities of the McKinley law. You remember the ’ ministers flocked across the water this season to attend the world’s Evangelical Congress in lomdon. They picked up a few of the works of the old masters and some of the new masters. They also delivered some addresses. We were proud of them, don’t you k tow. But they struck a pathway of thorns in the McKinley-ruled c istom bouses. Their pictures cost them two prices before they were allowed to carry them to their re elective parlors and libraries, and n>w the innocent* little pamphlets that inclose their eloquent eentene s and periods, which are distributed in London free, cost their authors from a halt dollar on up to $ 1.50, according to number ordered. Eor a small religious book, presented to Canon Knowles of Chicago, he had to pay 25 cents for the privilege of having it for his very own. The Chicago Times, relating the experiences of the good reverends of that city who stepped on the thorns says it knows of two of the most prominent of the number who are quite willing to be called Democrat# if that means they are “again” the McKinley law. Bring in your samples of corn, I etc and complete for the premium*. ■* • f .

**Bg TANKED GOOD* AND TIN PLATE tax. I- um the St. Louis Republic. The following contribution to . he Republic's tariff reform crusadi i- ’tie strongest indictment yet u ide of the McKinley tariff on tinplate. The writer, the Hon. T. L. pi inting, is himself engaged in the c t nning business as a packer of i. -aits, vegetables und meats and is moreover president of the Nevi York Canned Goods Association a id vice-president of the National C tuned Goods Association. As he i- also a member from the Thirtythird New York Districtot the new Congress, which meets in Washington next month, he will doubtless have something incisive to say v> hen the tariff debates come on. Here is Mr. Bunting’s letter: Cl Jo the Editor of The Republic. t jHambubg, N. Y., Nov. 17.—1 n a recent issue of your valuable paper Congressman Wilson makes some i deiesting comment in answer to a c immunication from Mr. Ladd concerning the effect on the farmer of tie duty on tin-plate enforced by tie McKinley measure. While Mr. Wilson makes a strong case, he by no means exhausts the sources oi injury which are heading toward Vie American farmer through the i .iquitous tin-plate provision. The great canning industry, which, commercially speaking, is less than a quarter of a century old, has solved the problem of the loss f om perishable waste of fruits and market vegetables—the salvage oi glutted markets —by converting them into imperishable in hermetically sealed cans, thus lifting them above the conditions of 1 ical markets and making them tr importable to the ends of the eirth. The iudu .j is powerful am< p 'pillar in possibilities bin weal’ «il struggling in resources, and c msidered in the light oi the cheri ied traditions of the country, w ilch have taught the value of a line market for the farmer, em- ! oymeut and good wages to labor, a >uld have been a beneficiary ol /ie protective system instead of a mask for its disastrous discrimina ii ms. The canning industry num burs nearly 2,000 establishments a id gives employment directly and in its various depedenuies—the fruit and vegetable growers, stock rais- *. s, the label and box manufacturers, can makers, fisherman and o sterman, etc. —to more than 3 per emt of our population, nearly .2, 0 ’O,OOO people. / A TAX OF $5,000,000 A YEAB/ During the year 1889 there were o er 1,000,000,000 cans used. The d iiy cost in the cans, to be acurate, a aounts to two-thirds of a cent per c hi, but on a basis of a half cent the increase of cost in this vast number of cans incident to the duty is $5,000,000. This vast sum only g >es to increase the cost of an ing edient in our products, which the consumer does not want, and which his no valve when the goods are served except to swell the dump heap. This waste represents the cost to consumers of 2,000,000 cans ot canned corn on a basis of price for 1891, or 4,000 car-loads of twelve tons each, which is considerable more than the whole estimated output of that article for the season of 1890. Consumers of canned goods could afford, in the absence of the duty, to pension 12,000 workmen (more than enough to manufacture all the tin-plate needed for home c Hisumatiou) on a salary of S4OO a y ar and then save over $200,000 by the transaction. HOW THE FARMERS PAYS THE TIN TARIFF. It would require 60,000 acres of land to grow the corn represented by this waste of produce, while the labor necessary in securing the crop processing, packing labelling, boxiig and shipping’would not fall short of people, four times the number of persons necessary to manufacture our entire supply of p!ates. On a popular approximate the farmer receives about S cents per can for the produce contained in them. In the absence of the duty the canner could pay the farmer 25 per cent, more for these product* and still sell these goods at old prices; or, on the other hand, with present prices for produce, in the absence of the duty consumers could get their, goods correspondingly cheap. This would lead to a more popular consumption of canned food ami popular consumption of canned products economic, wholesome article of diet would the cordmal index to a wonderful future, devellopment. We

■ I iMiwpw— 111 - - - — Wil II -I II IT wll track a waste of produath t f-rce nearly a* surprising in tb> ickmg of MEATS AND LARD. The meat packers of the country i. for covering their products firing the year ending March 1, l ; 91, over 600,000 boxes of tin late, about equally divided between .eats aud lard. Gs the meats oneUs were consumed in thiscoiintay, > n’d three-fourths. This would >.iow that 475,750 boxes covered products that were consumed at .i me. The whole amount of duty i scssed against this quantity of j. will be $1,125,650. This "itch of waste c’apiial auci labor <. ould have paid for 56,287 more uead of steers, which would have required over a million acres of range laud to graze, aud would haye paid the farmer S2O per head. The number of people who could have been maintained by this increase of s:ock raising, packing and marketing, would not fail short of 20,000 parsons, as this is about the number oi persons living oil the tiu-plate i idustry of the world. Wliy not i gislate for a certainty instead ot an experiment? ARRESTEDgDEVELOPMEN T.“ k jThus in trying to subsidize into existence a new industry for which o ir people and our resources have dj aptness, and which under the wildest estimate would not give employment tq over 12,000 people, we ace actually cutting off from an established industry, a natural and assured extension which would give e uployment to 70,000 people, while the raw material consumed by the latter, which would come from the farms, is more than an offset for the raw material demanded by the f ormer, which \vu < i u> u li u * m ne. This summary of waste is based u on the present status of the can nng industry. No estimate can be approximated of the damage and I tnger to the future developments o the industry through this en f Toed increase in the creative cost of its products. It is estimated tut 10,000,000 people go hungry c. oitinually, whole 30,000,000 mon g iage their purchase of food pro--I icts in self denial. As long as tin ii iman wants of 10,000,008 people i e unsupplied there can be no prac <: ial surplus in acceptable food pro d lets. STARVING THE HUNGRY. This being so the volume of can nid goods consumed is gauged strictly by price. A reduction of street car fares 1 cent is said in * cities to have resulted in a 25 p r cent, increase of traffic. The National Canned Goods Ass iciation, observing the close relations between price and consumption, as guaged through periods of b »tli a job and regular sale of. their products, compute that 1 cent per cm, which is 24 cents per case, (more than a jobber’s profit) will mturally curtail consumption 25 pir cent, to the laboring classes, who are the principal patrons of canned goods. Here, then, we have a waste from restricted development which affects over 500,000 people as proprietors, producers and i laborers. The popular consumption of jams and preserves in Continental Europe has revolutionized the agricultural promise of England. The county ot Kent alone is said to give employment to fifty thousand people alone in the growing, picking and packing of fruits for jams. As popular a consiinfpUon of canned products in Continental America, which can only conic of popular prices, will effectually revollutionize American agriculture by transforming extensive farmingin raising the c mrser cereals with its poor returns into intense farming with its higer cultivation of frqits and vegetables and the highest powib)* profits to agriculture. THE WORST TAX pF ALL. Os all the tariff job lots thrown in to liquidate the claims of special i nterests, none has proved ®o blindly considered or mischievous in application as the increase duty on tin-plate enforced by the McKinley measure. < ’®*® 111 the more aggravating because the petitioners for increased duty have sought through subterfuge to blind the public mind as to the real advantage sought. To divert 418,000,000 yearly from the people’s pockets, to th? advantage and enrichment of the iron interests direct, was too pal pable an injustice to be expedient, hence the ■ petitioners (the iron baronii) worked . $e protection scheme, with a string 3 attached in toe nsipe of the tin plate industry. By pulling the i

' Hn 'of i.he niippusFil prohibitive dy on plates they have inverted he protection to the proposed tin ate industry, iutu a subsidy lor tin • r>m muster, whose products, tin Hates, owing to their vbvapuess auu . irabihty, were substituting fui uny uses. Ii was not American tiu.late but Aiuenuau iron; u was nu. cheap tai-plates but no tin-plate* ihat was the auu wi this rotten McKinley provision. THAT TAX ON TIN. 1 is There and It Must lie Paid By Home Body; An American, Too. F.' >.n a Spwoh Uy Mr. Ulumb, of Kumma, In no ssauie, August 14, l»uo But, adinituug tor the sake of the a gumenc that the purchaser would u >t have to pay the additional cost 04 the van, bucket, cup, or whatever other form the tin might be inanuf utured into, somebody would have t > pay it. The American manufacturer, or the American retailer, or ail combined would have to pay il i the consumer did not, aud these people, I beg to observe, are not o ily American citizens, but they are vary large iu number, and they employ more labor than all that ever would become necessary to the manufacture ot a national supply of tinplate; aud they arc widely scattered, aud their interests are as much to be taken into accounts as the interests ot some possible future American manufacturer. You put a burden upon them of au addition to the capital which they "are required to put in their business in order to carry it on and of an increased cost for their rare product whereby their profiits are reduced. One of the effects would be that the smaller manufacturer, uj .v...-.uu ui u»« iualily iu tin*, a t miu.iMi uaj'ii ii uuv Ills. dllUlUU*"<u ( . ouu.G §l >it of business, and therefore ihn uuufucture, su widely extended, v mid be concentrated iu the hands i a few men possessing large capil. The small and near-by manumturers would luve to give way to ie distant and ipore wealthy ones, Now, these things are to be all .ken into account when we come > say what we shall do about tWls i ity. bhall we put on a duty, shall . e enact a provision of law here . hich changes the course of busiiss as existing under the present’ ;w, not onl) now, but for the last venty-tive years, and shall we take lie risk of what will come from ihat? Shall we put upon these manufacturers and these wholesale and these retailers—supposing, now, that the consumer pays nothing w hatever v additional—this burden which is to grow out of the imposition of this tax r and shall we do it upon the assumption of something tor which we have no foundation whatever, towit, that the manufacturer of tin will be introduced into t'le United States and carried on under conditions which will finally give, us a full supply of thia neccessary article as the result of American manufacture and at a diminished price? Mr. McKinley is opposed to any further “agitation” of the tariff is sue. So are all the tariff barons. It there were a law passed legalizing pocket-picking, every pick-pocket would be opposed to agitation against it, on the grounds that such agitation would disturb his business. CHEATING HORSE Blankets Nearly every pattern of & Blanket is imitated in color and style. In most cases the imitation looks just as good as the genuine, but it hasn't the warp threads, and so lacks strength, and while it sells for only a little less than the genuine it isn't worth one-half as much. The fact that 4K Hone B/ankete are copied is strong evidence that they are THK STANDARD, and every buyer should see that the 9k trade mark is served' on the inside of the Blanket. r Five Mlle 5/Assh. HORSE BIJMFTS ARK THE STRONGEST. 100 OJ$ STYLES at price* *uit pvoybwljr, ff yon can’t «t . them from your dealer, write w. Ask k* the ak Book, Yon can pet It without charge. , WM, AYRES & DONS, Philadelphia. O.P. W. ASDKRWiS, eto SSvweosa MONROS, JNDUNA. Sudani Sril doors

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