Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 5 February 1892 — Page 4

DSPREES Used in Millions of Homes— 40 Years the Standard

xill— ir - - 1 ■■■ ■■ ■■ ®he genwcrnt X. BLAOKBUBN, Proprietor. FBIDAY, FEB, 5, 1892. Did you ever bear oi a protected manufacturer raisins tbe wages ol his employes on account of the increase of protection? No; on the contrary, many firms have made radical reductions in the last twelve mouths. ■_L ' J_._ L l .. ’.'L'. Is it not true that the protected manufacturer does just like every one else—buys Jiis raw material in the cheapest available market and pays no higher wages than he is required to pay. Tarriff reform has its foot in the stirrup in the House of Representatives, and it will take its place in the saddle. When it does there will be no place on the crupper for either active or passive supporters of McKinleyism. The Republican organs all over the country are calling this the “five cent Congress.” They’ll wish they hadn’t done it when tbe votes are counted next fall. That shiboleth will elect a Democratic President and Senate. The plain people would like a little old-fashioned economy after an experience with a ■billion dollar congress. The farmers know that they have not been prosperous under the Republican so-called “protective” tariff. They can easily trace their failure to the tariff which enhances the price of everything they are compelled to purchase while it fails to increase the price of anything they have to sell. They will no longer vote to support the party which advocates the continuation x>f a policy which has proven so ruinous to them. Frequently we hear Republicans talk about some of them being disfranchised or the Negro being deprived of his rights, but you never hear a one of them say anything about an executive officer elected by a minority vote, a man filling the Presidential chair ot this country and not being tbe choice ot a majority of the voters of this country. The Republican party never elected but one President by a ma jority, according to their theory a majority are disfranchised. The following bills have been introduced into Congress by Hon. A. N. Marlin; To throw the burden of proof on tbe U. S. to show that a eoldier at enlistment was not sound; to repeal tbe bounties on sugar; to repeal section three of McKinley tariff act; to reimburse the Miami Indians for money improperly withheld from them; to remove .presumption of misconduct from pension applicant not having honorable discharge; and to compel inter-state railways to use safety coupling appliances. It seems to have been a preconcerted plan, on the part of tbe Republicans, to attack the new tax law at their recent district conventions. In the Thirteenth district conventions. la the Thirteenth district convention, held at Elkhart the resolution, sent out no doubt by the Republican slate central committee, was withdrawn^ because Senator Hubbell, who represented Elkhart county in the legislature, had voted for the law. lie stands by his record, and the Republicans were afarid to oppose himThe first claim for indemnity against tfee Chilian government for assaulting the Baltimore’s sailors was filed at the state department by VV. W. Jierf. of Philadelphia,-for the heirs of Willjam Riggin, who was killed by the Valparaiso "mob on Qet. 15. The petition, which is addressed to the secretary of state, is signed by John I. Riggin, Mary Zimmerman and Ella Matthews, brother and sisters of Riggin. They .daim that they are entitled to de-! ssaand and receive from the republic of Chili reasonable compensation | *nd invoice the aid of the govern- 1 roent of the United Status to secure ■

LAST REAR'S CHOP. The figures sent out from Washington as' tbe aggregate of the three principal cereals for last year, are given in the following paragraph: An estimate of territories of area, product and value of the principal cereals for the United States for 1891 has been prepared by the statistician of the department of agri* culture. The crops of .corn, wheat and oats, including all but 2 or 3 per cent of the cereal aggregate, are reported. The total for corn has only been oxceeded once. The wheat product is the largest ever known in any country, and the yield per acre in the United States is the largest ever reported by the department of agriculture. The total for oats was slightly Exceeded in 1889. The aggregates are as follows: Corn—Area, 76,204,515 acres; product, 2,060,154,000 bushels; value, $836,439,220. Wheat—Area, 30,916,897 acres; product, 611,780,000 bushels; value, 513,472,711. Oats—Area, 25,581,861 acres; product, 736,394,000 bushels; value, $232,312,267. The aggregate of all cereals is largest ever produced, and will average 54 to 55 bushels per unit of population. During the year just closed tbe revenue to the government from imported painting and statuary amounted to only $250,000, so the duty is virtually a prohibitory one. The quarters of the American students in Paris, Florence, Rome and other art centers of Europe, men and women who become alienated from their own country through enforced study and residence abroad, is another phase of the question to consider. The money they spend in foreign lands would make a wonderful showing beside the figures named. Kate Field is making a good campaign against the stupid measure, but argument tells very little. It is part and portion of that darling McKinley bill, and if one little peg is pulled out another one may be, with as good reason, and the whole sham concern is liable to tumble. And just so sure as the styi shines that is to be the fate of it and possiply in the fashion foreshadowed. Mr. Blaine's free-trade lean-to is all the brace it has, and that must be battened too often to be anything permanent. Let th© pulling down begin with art and the crusade be led by a woman; it matters not. The bill introduced by Mr. Bland, of Missouri, chairman of the House Coinage Committee, to-day for the free coinage ot silver, provides that the unit of value shall be the dollar of 412| grains standard silver or 20.3 grains standard gold. Any holder of gold or silver bullion of the value of $lO or more of standard fineness shall be entitled to have the same coined free of charge. It further provides for the issue of coin notes and for their redemption in coin. The acts of Feb. 23, 1878, and July 15, 1890 are repealed. As soon as Farnee shall re-open her mines to the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 15| to 10 the President of the United States shall make proclamation of that fact, whereupon the ratio shall be the legal ratio in the United States, and thereafter the standard silver dollar shall consist of 400 graina of standard silver, Cai’T. J. B. White, of Ft. Wayne, in his speech al the Republican district convention at Auburn, among other things, said: “I, for onej am here to say that Harrison has not, done what he could for the Republican party—he has not done his duty. This sentiment prevails throughout the state. Look back one year and see how the state went then—2o,ooo Democratic. Are not these recent Democratic victories evidences that he' is not wanted? Had the stale gone Republican it ' would have.been an indorsement of tbe administration.” Fort Wayne captured the Republican state convention. It will be held in that city in April. - „ j

V *. c " V WEF ** 4 ’-MR*’# THE QUESTION OF FREE . I WOOL. The formal appeal to congress of ] the Wool Consumers’ Association of New England is explicit and cm. , pbatic. There is no political twang , to it; it has the pure business ring, | yet it reaches down with nnmistak- , able clutch to the very heartstrings of protective tariff taxation. It de- | mands free raw wools and advises a j correspondingly decreased duty on ( manufactured goods, to the end that ( the industry may prosper as it nev- | er can do under present regulations. J “Not only,” it says, “will free wool i be a boon to the manufacturer but , to the consumer. * * It is not , produced in this country in quantity , or variety sufficient for the demand. High duties for a quarter of a cen ' tury have failed to tempt tbe pro- i duction of any carpet wool in this , country, or an adequate supply of ] some grades needed for woolen and i worsted manufacture. And as wool can be made free with very little | disturbance to trade and without ] interference with sufficient protec- ( tion, it is asked that tbe change be ; made in Scheule K of the act of 1890, for Ithe benefit ot the whole people.” i This expose of the failure of the McKinley tax idea should be considered in conjunction with the flockmaster’s condition; prices of his product have gone down since the law to benefit him went into operation. With the wool-grower, tbe manufacturer and the consumer agreed that the tax is a failure, what stands in the way pt its repeal? Nothing but a dogged partisan ; spirit, a blind prejudice, an obstinate determination to choke this policy down the throats of the people in spite of their protest, of common sense and plain illustration of its futility. Mr. McKinley has said to the flockmasters of Ohio, it the tax comes off from wool, so will it come of the manufactured goods.” Mr. McKinley is not a lawmaker, at the present moment, but he doubtless speaks for bis party, which hap- i pily are not manipulating all things without let or hinderance. The consumer says “amen” to the McKinley dictum, and he may look to see a Democratic congress echo tbe sentiment. We have the word of the mill Owners that it will be “a great boon to consumers,” and the sheep owners cannot object strongly as they are worse oft with the law than they were without it. It is not the one item, wool, that so disturbs the high taxers, but to confess to failure in this particular and to make amends is to knock the main prop out of the whole sham-- ' structure. It is but the beginning 1 of the end of this monstrous and expensive legislation that interferes with the business of individuals to ! the detriment of all concerned. 1 i' , Representative Breckenridge, > of Kentucky seems to think that [ the President is withholding or ■ suppressing some' of the communications with Chili or with Minister Egan. He therefore introduces the > following resolution: Resolved, ! That the President of tbe United ' States be respectfully requested to t inform the House whether any ans- • wer has been received either from r our minister to Chili, Patrick Egan, r Esq., or from the Government of f Chili, to the dispatch sent by the ■ Government of the United States ! to the Republic of Chili bn Jan. 21, t and if so, from whom such answer 1 was received and at what time, 'and 1 that he will communicate to the > House all the correspondence be--5 tween the Government ot the Unir ted States, its Minister to Chih and ■ the Chilian Government, not com- • municated to the conferees with the I message heretofore sent in. Senator Teller, of Colorado, I has introduced a bill for the admission of Utah as a state. With a . live and progressive population of over 200,000 souls, and a desire for the dignity and benefits ot citizen- , ship, why should not the request be • granted? Senator Teller. is fully ; persuaded that polygamy is dead in , i the territory, but he, would hedge ; against the possibility of resurec- ! . tion by tbe character of the bill of i admission. In realty, there is noth- j ing now standing between Utah and statehood but her Democratic pro- 1 clivities. — i Protected pay no f higher wages than the unprotected. ) Now, if the unprotedted manufac-' j turers are able to make a profit on J their goods while paying the same g wages, what man of even common a sense would for a moment suppose f that the protected manufacturer v pays higher wages on account of r j"t-ueb protection? » n ... -Z'T . .... .■ ’• ...

“THE GREED OF LABOR." The American Oarpet and Up holstery Trade is the organ of the Philadelphia Carpet Trust and of curtain manufacturers who succeeded in getting Mr. McKinley and his friends to tax lace curtains 60 cents ou the tariff for their benefit. These latter gentlemen now bave a grievance which is very caiyjidly stated in the current number of their trade organ under the heading “The Greed of Labor.” It appears that they have been importing workmen from England, and that these as well as the Americans employed are beginning to demand wages on the scale of the McKinley prices for their product. This is considered an outrage. The organ of the corporations says that lacemakers are demanding much more than is paid to “the bright and accomplished young women” who “work in stores like Wanamaker’s from five to eight dollars a week,” and that “the imported labor has demanded rapid increasees.” .One of the corporation managers, Mr. Joseph Bromley, gives his opinion that the demands of his helpers are astounding. Some of his young girls who were getting good wages informed him one day that their york was worth four times what they were getting, and he was compelled to let them go rather than use them at a losing rate. From all of which it is concluded that “when a weaver is draw ing more money per week on some special fabric than his or her services could possibly command in any other sphere of life things are running on an artificial basis.” “Artificial basis” is particularly good from men who have got a law passed to have their shabby cotton lace curtains taxed up to the price of goods of superior quality. When they have got, under their law, the privilege of charging on every dollar’s worth of their goods 60 cents more than tbe goods are worth at a fair and profitable price, they are sure to attract attention when they Complain and “wages exorting on account of the scarcity of certain classes to help is unjust to the manufacturer, since it tends to depress old and retard new industries.” The Boston Globe gives these figures: A bushel of wheat during the low tariff period of 1855 would buy 21| yards of heavy brown shirting. To-day it will buy but 12| yards of the same quality of cloth. Such an argument weighs more with the farmers tlpm tons of fine-spun high prelection sophistry. Thirty the farmer exchanged his wool for cloth, and knew little of high protected factories, for he patronized his home factory in the neighboring valley. He got more cloth for his wool than he gets today; and it was pot cloth that was one-third shoddy. Lq 1855 a bushel of wheat would buy 18 3-4 yards of calico. To-day it will buy 15| yards of the same grade, and the farmer asks: What have I gained by high protection? Thirty-five years aga a bushel of wheat would pay the taxes on S2OO. In 1891 Jit took 3| bushels of wheat to pay the taxes on S2OO. The bushel of wheat in 1855 paid taxes on ten acres of land. Now it pays the taxes on but a little over two acres. Slowly but surely the dawn of economic enlightenment c’omes to tbe people, and by such arguments as that above the light is spread. Once let this fundamental doctrine ot sound economy be understood, that tbe prosperity,of an individual depends upon the purchasing value of his own product, whatever that product may be, and the primer teachers of prohibitive tariff prosperity will be out of an occupation,. A bushel of wheat is the farmer’s natural measure of value. Is he satisfied with its present purchasing power? Four subjects have been proposed by General Master Workman Powderly for discussion in the local assemblies of Knights ot Labor. They are: - First—The restriction of Chinese immigration. Second—Ti e election of United States senators by popular vote ot the people. Third—The invWkation ot the matter relating to the condition ot the working people in cities of not less than 200, 0 h> population, Fourth—Th-'repeal ot the present tariff laws. The first of these is proposed on account of the near expiration of the present restriction act on Chinese immigration, which act the knights were instrumental in haying enacted, and which they think should be renewed. The others are natural and legitimate subjects for consideration in an organization which claims to seek all industrial reforms through legislative enactment. ■ 1 —- . ■'■ •

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