Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 12 February 1892 — Page 4

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S—— ■ . w.«— •« I >1 ■l' I " ©he democrat X. KL-iCKRUHN, Proprietor. r' ‘ - ' < FBI DAT, FEB, 12, 1892. HH ■ The expose of the Chilian communication will place the President in a position that will make some of his admirers squirm when they will be compelled to explain the matter. The Loyal Volunteers protest that it is not patriotism to loot the Treasury. They might furnish Messrs. Raum and Harrison with a pair of scales with scruples among the weights. The net decrease in the cash E balance of the Treasury for Jan. was >3,205,669. From month to month the Harrison administration continues to spend more than the gross revenues of the Government for the month. Now that the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House is into the Chilian business it should stay in it until this cour.tr? -is fully informed of what Pat Egan <fc Co. have been doing in Chili in the last three years. Southern farmers ought to raise , their own wheat, Torn and provi-. sions, but if they could buy manti-1 factored goods in Euiwpe with theii cotton at free-trade prices they could better buy wheat, corn and provisions at Western prices than to raise them. A bill putting wool on the free list with a reduction of all duties on Woolens to a .uniform rate of 35 per cent, advalorem might be worth something ibis fall, but any rate on woolens above 35 per cent, will be worse than worthless from a Democratic standpoint If Mr. Thayer had not let go in Nebraska under the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, technicalities he may raise hereafter will be waived at once so that he can be taken by the nape of the neck and slack of the trowsers and pitched out on Lis bead. The Whiskey Trust has put down the price of whiskey two cents a gallon just after the Sugar Trust put up sugar ap eighth of a cent a pound, d his even.s things up, especially for Kansas and Maine, where prohibition makes them glad to get their whisky without sugar. When we get a law that will prevent national bank presidents from lending themselves the bank’s money they will have a larger surplus to lend to members of the Cabinet, whose influence will get them bail when they need the climate of Canada for their health. The people are anxious to hear the report of the committee appointed by the council to investigate and report a suitable location for, and the cost of the water works contemplated. The time of year is here when the matter should be put under headway if the work is to be completed this season. Old books pud boojis-not printed in the Euglisn language are on the" I free list, but if thcyjiave engriiv/ng in them, tie-mlm'! ;> ii.itidti is taxing them .is engrMings. This isj .explainable on 11; t]n-.>ry that ifi . . knowledge c l ’c.taxed out. of the coii’iiry, fl. ■ lc.publican party would feel r- aguualf!-; safe. The prpposgtrol vetgi’ess to ex-, elude from circulation, in the Dis- i trict of Columbia and other places under the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, Puck, Judge and \ other publications that ridicule the; statesmen of the land is one that will produce a great ileal mure ol ridicule than it will prevent. CdNGBFSs will attack the McKinley bill from all points, so as to be sure to give the people some relief in some of the worst steals that they are compelled to submit to. While it will not he able to correct many of the wrongs of the imquitious measure on account of the !<•■- publican senate, the wiU some cf

♦ Having decided oil the attack in detail on the McKinley bill, the Ways and Means Committee of the House has done well. Now let the attack begin, with all the earnestness of the Democratic party behind it. Democrats will take great pleasure in voting for a reduction of the duties on woolens to a uniform rate of 35 per cent, advalorem in con-| nection with.free wool- But they are not going to work themselves up to enthusiasm if the cart is put before the horse. The free trade we are having with South America is opening the eyes of a large number of the workingmen of the United States as they are beginning to see what it costs to have a high protective tariff for to build up a lot ot millionaire aristocrats in this country. The tax on wool has never done anybody any good in this country, and it has done everybody harm. But any bill for free wool must cut squarely m half the taxes on clothing and all other forms of woolens.. This is the kind of reciprocity Democrats are most interested in now. Blaine’s withdrawal from the race for President is the first that ' the public ki cw of bis being a can. ; didate. There has be/n ccnsideri aide talk of such a thing by some i ” ? .r 1 i who expected to profit by his being lin the fight, if they could get him in. but Blame well knows that the ■ Ochlocracy wile mak ■ no mistake tins time, and a second defeat he did not want as a record in his obituary. Another form of evasion of our immigrant Jaws is reported by the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury to the Slate Department. It has been discovered by him that the British war office pays the pensions allowed disabled soldiers in a lump, on condition they will emigrate. The pensioners take the money and come to the United States. Os course when the money is gone they become a public charge, here,. One more instancs of the futility of our immigration laws. James G. Blaine again illustrates the fact that he is still the “boss” letter writer. He never fails to make himself interesting. The guesses that will follow his latest publication e ill take on every political hue. The most plausible, perhaps, is that the secretary knows i his physical condition will not per-' mit the attempt, and if Harrison should be re-elected he has the promise of his present position and opportunity to finish the McKinley bill by reciprocity treatment. That would be greater glory than to be president a month or two and then die and give the vice-president the chair- i —l-—- - —■=-“ Debate on Congressman Fithian’s resolution, that agricultural implements be placed,on the free list, will strike into tariff discrimination against the farmer, fie should give it close attention and read the re ports in papers which do not give news a partisan coloring. The American fanner pays more fori i home ni'jp.if'ietured plows and mow- ■ 'era and reapers than does his' , m iiJibotTn C : ada. If he fails to ' i -< e inslice irr t.'a'b inequity, it be-! I h >ove« him now, while the fight is i <>■■!, to inform himself as to the cause of it. He • t discover for him-' self if the axer is really legis-i k ling Lr km uelit. ' 1 j i 'lni: Yemwtrt maple-sap-boilers | got a round -5.1<>.1,000 in bounties as ; the first installment under the new law.. _ And I Ims does, the farmer i who was. to<> sensible to cut down ‘Viiaple groves get his reward., ' The farnipf ~wJ.io'. raises corn and , cabbage alongside bis lucky neighMfrr, will remind himself that he is 7 rolling make up the sugar fund ; which goes to favored ones via the . i United Stalfes treasury. There “is i no tax on saner kraut, to protect us | from competition with the pauper , labor of Gcl.nany,. It is hoped the ■ farmers and laborers genteraily who : voted for iliin law which grants bon- : us-io -some-out of-the pockets-of- otb‘jers, will eventually understand its full significance. •

... rr • rrwyr j.T'i £ 2 JJJ $ -1 / J O Ji . I ha bh is on. Mr. Blaine’s long expected letter is at hand. Il is addressed to the Hon. J. S’. Clarkson, Chairman of the National Republican Committee. In it Mr. Blaine simply says that he is not a candidate for the presidency and that bis name will not go before the Republican National Republican Uonveuuou for the nomination. He does not say that he would accept the nomination if tendered him. The appearance of this letter will, however, in all probability prevent such a contingency from arising. There is no doubt that if Mr. Blaine had said that, while he was not a candidate he would not refuse the nomination if offered him with substantial unanimity he would have headed the Republican ticket in the approaching campaign. This is true despite the fact that to a very large extent the so-called Blaine sentiment in the Republican party is manifestly insincere, and is rather an expression of hostility to President Harrison than of devotion to Mr. Blaine. But making allowance for this fact, it remains true that Mr. Blaine is by long odds the most popular man in his party, and that adding to his positive strength that arising from his acceptability to all the Republican elements antagonistic to the president, regardless of their real preference, his name would have been irresistible in the Republican convention if presented with his consent, or even without his formal disclaimer. But in the face of this letter, and in view of natural advantages of actual possession and the command of the patronage en joyed by Gen. Harrison, it will scarcely be possible to perfect such an organization in behalf of Mr. Blaine as would be necessary to bring about his nomination. We think Mr. Blaine’s announcement has two explanations, either ot which is sufficient. First, he realizes that he is physically a broken man, and he fears that the strain of a campaign would be fatal to him. Secondly, he believes that the chances are decidedly against Republican success m November, and he does not want to take the risk of- another defeat. Probably both considerations influenced his action. The letter virtually leaves Gen. Harrison in possession of the field. There is no Republican in sight upon whom the elements in opposition to the president can concentrate with any hope of success. He is not the choice of his party by any means, but the party has him on its hands, and it cannot throw him overboard without expressly repudiating his administration, and with it the McKinley law, the reciprocity humbug and force-billism. Gen. Harrison has shown respectable i ability as president, but he has not aroused the enthusiasm of his party, I and he is not close to the people. His administration has been stained by a number of gross scandals, has been notoriously in league with the money power, and has lew elements of popularity. There is nothing in Mr. Blaine’s letter that commits him to the support of Mr. Harrison for the nomination, unless his general declaration that “industrial and financial policies of the government will be at stake” in the ap preaching congest can be so construed. Nevertheless the effect of the letter will be to insure Harrison’s nomination. He will be nominated for a second term by acclamation, and if the Democratic party makes a wise nomination at Chi ■ cago be will be' overwhelmingly : defeated in November. I With another quarter of a cen- . tmy under Republican rule, this >untry will be in a worse condition I ‘ban England is to-day. The tax- ■ ing of the poor for the benefit of the wealthy soon will place the i worlfingmen of this country in the same if not a worse condition than the pauper labor of England that we hear so much about. The kind of enterprise that prevails in the District of Columbia is shown by the fact that while that diminutive area furnished only 6,543 three years’ men for the war, it now has 6,132 men on the pension rolls.—Thia, that with the Pension Bureau charity begins at home. A manJ .who is described as the most consummate liar in Washington has just been discharged from the treasury department. It is suspected that he has had a hand in making up the monthly dvbt statement. <

To make our country a leader in the market* of the world our manufacturers must have the same privilege that England gives her manutaoturers. Raw material onr factory proprietors must have the right to purchase free of all taxes. No wonder our workingmen have to pay 100 per cent more for their woolen clothing than the workingmen of England when the traiff on wool and woolen goods as fixed by the McKinley law is one of those measures the reason of which is beyond the comprehension of the ordinary man. It fixes on all raw wools a specific duty equivalent from 25 to 125 per cent. Now, the United States, like all other countries, on acclimatio influences, cannot raise all kinds of wool, especially carpet wools, which are imported yearly to the value of many million dollars, subject to a duty of trom 30 to 50 per cent. Os conrse this advanced price of raw material enters into the manufactured product, curtails our market, while forcing the consumer to pay more for every article he i buys. The duty on the yam required to i make a yard of doth is equivalent to about 105 per cent. Rate of duty on the cloth, in i which more labor is involved, about 90 per cent. On ready-made clothing about 85 i per cent. i How does such a schedule as that protect American labor? i Considering the fact to be that the employes in our woolen mills are so poorly paid that the unskilled laborers in our streets are better paid, bettenjioused and better fed than they are. The question arises who derives the protection on wool ' and woolen goods. It’s the capitalists for whose benefit alone it was enacted into a law. “Wool is the keystone of the arch of protection/’ says Henry Waterson. And New England is hammering at the keystone. The plea of the Wool Consumers’ Asso ciation to be presented to congress, makes an honest tariff reformer smile. “You may retain the tax (modified somewhat) on the manufactured product, m the interest of protection to labor!” The confessed selfishness and favoritism of the whole system is wrapped up in this little plea for free raw wools. Every individual and every corporation would like to arrange protective taxation to suit their business profits without regard to the rest of the country. Os course, when everybody is equally favored, nobody is benefited. It takes a long time for some of those who “get left” to understand this foundation in the ethics of tariff protection. During the Harrison administrathe Republican party has usurped the Governorship in Nebraska, the United States Senatorship in Montana, the Governorship in Connecticut and a United States Senatorship m New Hampshire. The record is consistent in both northeast and northwest, but in the northwest the law has vindicated itself against their ursurpation in at least one case, while in Connecticut and New Hampshire the law is impotent against them. In Connecticut they are keeping in a Governor whose only title to the office is that of the fraud and threats of force by which prevented the inauguration of the Governor elected by a vote greater than the combined vote of all other candidates. Their “holdover” Governor is a usrper, and the state has no constitutional government, It is controlled by a fraudulent dictatorship: To read some of our Republican exchanges a person would think that the party they represent would not be guilty of the wrongs that are charged to political parties, and especially to hear them whine because they have but two congressmen from this state axd are in the minority in the general assembly of Indiana. While it is true the two parties are near equally divided here, but to a close observer the cause is a plain one. It was a revolt of the taxpayers against the money sharks and the party that represents them. The people seeking their rights, the people letting the bosses know that they are stiH here. The Washington Post notices that Ex Czar Be«d puts on “a sealbrown expression” every' time he hears a reference to the nomination of a dark horw at the Minneapolis ; convention.

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