Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 15 January 1892 — Page 4

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©he democrat K. BLACKS ÜBK, Proprietor. FBTBAY, JAN, 15, 1892. —— - ■ ■ ■■■»■ A SECRET POLITICAL ORGANIZATION Has. Been Formed by a Numoerof Leadingfiepublicans. A political organization ot no B]:ia!' magnitude has been formed by wme of the disgunlled Republicans, who have been unablh to control the administration to meet their views. The order is secret, the members bound under an oath as close as they can be bound for the purpose of compelling them to advocate, certain measure and support certain candidates. Among them is James G. Blaine for the nomination and election to the Presidency of the United States, with the understanding that he will be able to bring lus pet scheme of k Free 1 rade” reciprocity in general favor, It'is said to have a following of seventy-live thousand at this time, the gieater number being in the large cities and is there known as the ‘Knights of Reciprocity” and each member is made to sign an oath to support the principal contained in the by-laws and ritual of the ojgauization, while in the rural districts especially in the east, they give it a different name, calling it the “Centennial. League,” but the by-laws and the oath are the same. W betlier this organization is to fill the place of the old knownothings and is intended to bring about such results only the originators “Blaine” and his bench men, General Clarkson and others can tell, but the fact that a political organization that is oath bound oan be no good, to this country, »>■—awhefjL* «vei;y man should vote his political sentiments, be they what they may. It is expected to bring to its ranks alike from both the leading political parties of this country, by catching the free trade voters of both parties under the guise of reciprocity. The great free trade scheme of the god of the Republican party to whom they are attempting to make the public bow, and which may ultimately result in something near the same as the late knownothings had in view, of course the scheme will be made to suit the locality if possible for there may be other obstacles to overcome in some of the large cities. Therefore the ritual will contain four leading questions, which are put to all candidates, besides being oath bound not to reveal any of the secrets of the order. The questions are as follows: In the first question the candidate is asked it he is a citizen ot the United States. Question two deals with the constitution ot the United States and the declaration of independence. The candidate must be willing to declare that he accepts everything in them unreservedly. The third test reads in this way: t)o you in any way sympathize with those who would deprive any citizen of the United States of civic honors on account of his religion? To answer “yes” to this means instant dismissal. In the fourth question the candidate is asked: Do you believe in the public school system of the United States? A negative reply to this likewise disqualifies the applicant for membership. Ex-Governor Gray’s letter, which was read at the South Bend banquet Friday evening,, is a most effective, and, indeed, unanswerable indictment of the Harrison administration and the billion dollar congress for their recklessness, extrava- . gance and general disregard of the| public interests. r l he pap-fed organs which are extolling the Harrison f administration as “clean” and ‘ “faithful,” and that sort of thing, will find some pretty hard nuts to crack in the ex-governor’s letter. It is a vigorous and timely documeut- ' 1 IT 1 Mr. Fobaker is endeavoring to ijPlpHt that Ue is only indefinitely posijionad and not laid on the table.

, WOOL TARIFF AT WORK. And just hero is an appropriate place for calling attention for another striking illustration of the manner in Wbiph our wool-tariff policy and Mr. McKinley’s states- ; mabship, while greatly taxing the ' American people, also operate to destroy the American industry. Let anyone who has access to it take the “Statistical Abstract” for iB9O, issued by the United States Treasury, > and turning to page 128, notice how I dependent the women and children • of this country are upon foreign i manufacturers for their supply of . what are known in the trade as , woolen ‘‘dress goods”—such fabrics as everybody’s wife and daughters 1 want to wear—and in what a startling ratio the importation of such goods is increasing. But as comparatively few have ready access to this official document, the essential figures is here submitted: In the year 1881, 52,693,000 square yards were imported; in 188 i, 59,432,000; in 1885, 68,657,000; in 1887, 78,042,000; in 1888, 85,630,000; in 1889, 91,284,000; and in 1890, 116,992,000 square yards. Now, why was not this immense import of this class ofy'woolcn fabrics manufactured in this country, or at least a fair proportion of it? No one will, pretend that it is through any lack of skill on the part of our artisans. Men that can work up cotton, cow hair and shoddy so that they will have the appearance and touch of wool can do almost anything in production of textiles. No one will pretend that it is lack of desire, machinery or capital on the part of our manufacturers, or that an average of 71 per cent, was not good, stiff protection. On the other hand, no one will deny that it is an inability of our manufacturers to supply themselves under favorable conditions by reason of our tariff with the qualities of wool essential for such fabrications. Were they placed on a par with their competitors in this respect, our best manufacturers would speedily engage m the business of making dress goods, using a large per centage of good, strong American wool for the warp, and a comparatively small percentage of fine, lustrous foreign wool for the “filling” or surface, thus creating a large additional demand for domestic wool, and opening avenues for the employment at high wages of thousands of American artisans. But Messrs. McKinley and Aldrich and Delano and Lawrence have said: “No this thing shall not be done,” and the American people, who pride themselves on their intelligence, have thus far acquiesced in such treatment and have been taught to imagine that it was good and that whoever asserted to the contrary must be a very knavish fellow.—David A. Wells in the New York World. THE TARIFF IS A TAX. From a Speech by the Hon. Wm. R. Morrison In the House of Representatives. The doctrine that the importer pays them for us is apparently exploded. If the foreign maker were permitted to and did pell in our mafket 100 tons of iron at $1,400, oa sl4 per ton, duty free, the maker of iron here must sell at the same price. If a duty of $6 were imposed upon the foreigner he must add it to the price and sell it for S2O if he returns with the same amount jfor his iron. Suppose he does not add the duty to the price, but pays it himself, sells his--iron at the same price as if he paid no duty, #l4, and returns with $8 per. ton, how would the maker of iron here be benefited or protected? It is only because the duty goes into the cost and the price of the foreign article that the domestio producer is protected. To afford protection a duty must be $ tax. In the Senatorial campaign of Ohio, from the present charges against one of the representatives, J. E. Daugherty, of Fayette county is charged with receiving $3,500 from John Suerman for his vole. There will be more to follow in a short time. They are quarrelling over the spoils now and more must follow. . * .. .. fT" )i.. { . ' '.K '

TARKIFF REFORM, A Review of the McKitkey BUI By Congressman Martin to the Tariff Reformers. Tho following letter from Congressman Martin was read before the tariff reform meeting which was held at Bluff ton on Friday, Jan. 8, 1892. Mr. Martin knows whereof he speaks and this letter should be read by every Democrat in tho county. January 5, 1892. Mr. D. W. Krisher , Secretary Tariff Reform League: Dear Sir:— Replying to your J kind inyitation to attend the third annual meeting of the tariff Reform ' League, of the Seventh congressionJ al district of Indiana, to be held at ’ Bluffton, Indiana, on the coming 1 Bth day of January, I write to say ! that my duties in the present session of the fifty-secoud congress » make it obligatory upon me to remain here and I am therefor com--1 pelled to decline the invitation. | Nevertheless, please accept my earnest thanks for the honor and the 5 compliment your invitation oonfers. ’ To such an intelligent and deter- * mined body of men as will assemble at your coming meeting it is doubt--1 less unnecessary for me to attempt to make many suggestions: I must 1 say, however, that every man present at your meeting will be there 1 because of his spirit of opposition 1 to that form of class legislation 1 popularly styled by its advocates as “protection,” but which the great body of the people have learnrd to regard as legalized robbery of the many by the few. Protection’s latest inequity is the so-called “McKinley Bill” which was unfairly juggled ini.o existence • at the denjaud of monopolists and in violation of the will of a great majority of the taxpayers of the United States. This McKinley bill was intentionally so drawn as to seem to give great relief, while in truth, for every dollar it seems to reduce taxes it adds more than that in other particulars. Making sugar free during the will of the president, this bill not only adds grivions burdens upon other necessaries of life, but it gives the president power to reimpose the tax on sugar and authorizes him to add a high tax on coffee, tea, hides .and molasses, all of which except the molasses, have been free of duty for several years. Such a power, surrendered by the ljlW-making body to the judgment of one man, is a dangerous departure from safe legislation. This same bill, whilst making some reductions of tax, raises the tax on tin plate, woolen goods and other necessaries in various degrees, the increases being in some instances over 100 per cent, and in still others more than 200 per cent. Another inexcusable portion of this bill is its provision authorizing the payment of many millions of dollars of the people’s money as bounties to the manufacturers of sugar, as a protection, while the laborers, farmers and business men who have to pay these bounties are left without any protection that protects, and must depend upon themselves; in other words, “must paddle their own canoe.” While the effect of this McKinley bill has been to raise instead of lower the taxes, it has manipulated . the matter so that the great bulk of the tax the consumer paid into the public treasury under even the old law now goes into the pockets of the protected few, until the public treasury is almost empty without 1 having eased the burdens of taxpay--1 ers. This bill has turned boldly away from the doctrine that a tax is a ! burden which should be laid only 1 for. the public purposes of a government economically administered, and follows the selfish greed which oppresses the unprotected many tor the benefit of the protected few. ‘ The great coutest of 1892 will be fought upon the issue thus presented, and since it is the battle of right against wrong—the battle of the people against monopoly—the battle of constitutional rights against selfish greed,—the battle of reason against avaricious sophistry; the victory of 1890 will be repeated in 1892 with redoubled effect, and the McKinley bill will be strangled in the dust of its own defeat. The McKinley bill is lull of burdens lor the poor to bear and is a threat to legitimate business, while its pretended reliefs i&e shams bearing high sounding titles, and its whole tenor is in the line of oppression and monopoly! Whether this merciless law be attacked in

whole or m detail, the onslaught should be vigorous and without compromise, until this latest and worst form of protection is gibbetted before a long suffering people. The work of tariff reform Ik - the t mission of a powerful majority ot the people of the Unitpd Utates, ' who Will never cease until they a're successful, and this success does not depend upon the efforts or prest&ge of any one man or set of men, but upon the united will and effort of r all. * With hearty good wishes to you ■ and to the friends who will thus 1 meet on St. Jackson’s day, I remain, i Yours respectfully, A. N. Martin. , ELECTORAL VOTE OF 1892. < Six more states will take part in - coming presidential eleotion than i ever before, and thirty more than ■ elected the first President. Then ■ there were fourteen States and six- . ty-five electoral votes; this year there will be forty-four states and ! 444 electoral yotes. In 1888 the , popular vote was, in round numbers . 11,400,000; m 1892 it is estimated i that it will reach 13,000,000, the largest vote ever cast at any election , which history records, and they will be scattered over a greater area of country. For the first time the vote of the United States will exceed that of France and Germany. With so tremendous a franchise the neoessity becomes stronger than ever tor surrounding it with every possible safeguard, and making every effort to secure fair and honest elections. Alabama 11 Arkansas S Calitoi nu 9 Colorado 4 Connecticut 6 Delaware 3 Florida..., 4 Georgia 13 Idaho "3 Illinois *4 Indiana ...... 15 lowa 13 Kll tas 10 Kentucky 13 Louisiana 8 Maine 6 . Maryland 8 Masachusetts 15 M ichigan .t ■ 14 Minnesota ! 9 Mississippi 9 Missouri 17 Montana 3 Nebraska .... S Nevada , 3 New Hampshire 4 New Jersey I to New York ; . ... 36 North Carolina. n North Dakota 3 Ohio j 23 Oregon 4 Pennsylvania 3 2 Rhode Island 4 South Carolina 9 South Dakota ■ 4 Vermont , 4 Virginia 12 Washington.,... -. 4 West Virginia ....... 6 , Wisconsin 12 Wyoming 3 •i! .r — , Total 444 Necessary to a choice 223. WIIAT THE LABORER GETS. ■ Under McKinley's Beautiful Tariff it is Mainly Reduced Wages. ! Among the multiplying signs of cheer to labor arising from the McKinley tariff is the recent heavy reduction in wages among the employes of the American Hosiery Company at New Britain, Conn. This is one of the most highly protected industries in the whole tariff list. Under the tariff of 1883 there . was a uniform duty of 40 per cent on cotton hosiery. The McKinley ; bill divided it into four classes and added specific duties to the ad valorem, so that the equivalent rate ; ranges from 53 to 65 per cent; and now, just as we were fancying ourselves happy, comes, this cut in wages. This hosiery company serves to keep in countenance the glass works at Anderson, Ind., which made a reduction of 25 per cent in wages on the 10th ot November, glass being also one of the particular pets of the McKinley tariff. The American Wool and Cotton Reporter of December 17 mentions still another reduction of wages in the cotton industry. It is in the well-known New York Mills. “The cause of the reduction,” says the Reporter, “is the depressed condition of the market and the slow sales.” —New York Evening ' Post. ' X 1 The Tin-Plateo Consumers Assoi--1 ciation, nnmbering 2560 f the can--1 uing firms of the country, say that ' they treat the tin plate question as one of business, not of politics^because they are Republicans or !Democrats the McKinley bill has already cost them $10,000,000 for tin-plate more than they would have bad to pay for it under former duty. But if they wish to make business count against politics they must oppose the polites that kills business. ' ' >V' ; • ; ', .V, .- r *■ V*/. • •

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