Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 26 February 1892 — Page 4

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I ®hc gcnwctat >. BLA<ni»VR!f, Proprietor. p IBIDI U, FEB. 26, 1892. Indiana’will send a solid delegation to the Democratic National Convention in the support ot exGovernor Gray for President. ... ’ . . — Mr. [Blaise should say in the cabinet When the publie is thinking of Mr. Blaine it .gets its mind off poor Mr. Foster who has so much trouble with a leaky treasury. The morepower that is placed in the hands of the people the better | This republic is the people’s and if I they are not competent to run it, E it is quite certain that nobody else is. , There is one consolation in the New York situation, their convention will be held early enough to give the party time to concentrate on some other state’s candidate if a hopeless division is revealed at the Albany convention. There is no reason in the world why William Wade Dudley should not be a delegate at large to the Minneapolis convention. The party which honors William A. Woods cannot, with any consistency, draw the line on William Wade Dudley. - It is asserted that Uncle Jerry Rusk will be a formidable candif date for the presidential nomination against Harrison. He will probably demand preferment because of h«s weather record, but ne is un-t dviag much in tbatjine at present, to win him votes. Reciprocity is pretty thin. Let us manage to open the markets of the whole world to our products of farm and factory. Then we can can sell all we can make or'raise and prices will be better. Ask our older people who remember the prices before the war. The Republican Senate keeps right on passing public building bills for the Democratic House to kill. This is going to prove very embarrassing to a great many wellmeaning, conscientious members and they are hardly able to look on it in the light of a joke, but they have nothing else to do. When highwaymen rob an express train in the most populous portion of the country, and a mail wagon is rifled in the streets of Chicago, and a lynching and burning at the stake are reported from the south in one isnuo of news, what wonder that timorous foreigners ask, “Will it be safe for us to go over in ‘93?” The politicians who have made and upheld high tax laws, until the cap sheaf of the business was put on in the thing marked with the McKinley brand, go on sounding their trumpets as to its glory and perfection, while industrial societies are declaring for themsclyes that they will be imposed upon no longer by. such one-sided legislation. There ought to be some fun in Louisiana politics this spring, with five full state tickets in the field, including two from each of the two leading political parties. Yet the , withdrawal of the lottery kings from active participation in the fight may leave the political workers in the position of men invited to a banquet at which there is nothing to eat. ’ g-" 1 .. 1 u. In the search for a point to begin economizing we know of no more promising location than Mr. Harrison’s proposal for a big bond subsidy to Mr. Warner Miller’s Nicaragua canal scheme. If all the g—-Democrats in congress .would raise np With onwaecord sit down hard on this colossal project of larceny the. world would echo the combination seating. Thr,ravages of grip have undoubtedly been very great among the American people, but we have reason to be thankful that we are not afflicted by the descriptive names given to the maledy m Germany,

such as “blitz catarrh” (lightning catarrh), “schaafshusten” (sheep cough), “huchuenziep” (crowing), “modefieber” '(fashionable fever), etc. , After mouths of expensive investigation the people of Philadelphia are still unable to find out where the money went that Treasurer Bardsley was sent to prison for stealing. The exact truth in regard to that matter might, if made known, be as troublesome to our national banking system as to certain hightoned politicians and campaign fund handlers. The Senate coinage committee decided to make an adverse report on the tree coinage of silver by a vote of seven to four. .Five Republicans ’ sid two Democrats, Carlisle and McPherson, voted against fat# poinage, and three Democrats and Republican voted for it T ll ® bill, however, was placed upon th# ’ endar, and may be called up, 1 withstandlug the adverse report. , It is not necessary for the Democracy to nominate a New York man aa a candidate for the Presidency, la feet, tjiould either Cleleland or Hill get the cppiination, it will undoubtedly cause a eplit m New York’s Deniocracy, thereby defeat- ' ing the ticket at the polls. What is the matter with ex-Gov. Gray, of Indiana, a true and loyal Democrat, who can easily carry both Indiana and New York] Tur bill before congress to pre vent dealing ui options or futures is receiving sufficient attMstion to indicate that it may pass. The silk hat gamblers have already sent a committee to Washington in their interest. Whether tl>e dealing inoptions has anything to do with the rise and fall in wheat is a question much discussed at the present time, and so far as we are concerned, we are not prepared to say, but at any rate, transactions of this character should be stopped. * Users of pearl buttons pay three prices for them in this country to enable home manufacturers of the same to compete with foreign pauper labor. The proprietors of the largest factory iu the country, at Eau Claire, Wis., are under $1,500 bonds for employing that same pat*: per labor under contract made in Germany. And strange to tell the expose came through she “paupers” themselves, who, once over here, were denied the money promised them when the bargain was made on the other side. Evidently 80 per cent, duty on pearl buttons is not enough to “protect” the manufacturer, he should be given a bonus direct from the treasury to enable to pay costs for suits brought for violation of the contract labor law. A baby was born <n New York the other day. It was in Astor baby, and is heir to $150,000,000. Mr. Bellamy’s Nation thus figures on the wealth and income of this one babe. At 0 per cent, the interest is $9,000,000 per year, ar $30,000 per day for say, 300 working days. It therefore would require 20,000 workingmen at $1.50 per day to pay the incerest, and somebody must pay it, Or look a little further. When this baby is 21 years old, the $150,000,000 has doubled twice, and it is $60.0,000,000, TkflJJ an army of 80,000 men, must work to pay this interest. But we must leave at least $1 per day for the laborer and his family for a subsistence. Then it will take an army of 240.000 laboringmen to keep this fortune n P’ ®aeh laborer to be a man of a family of five to the family, it follows that no less than J,200,000 petsnns are interested in the fortune of that 15.0 times a millionaire baby. The Democratic party is hot Suffering from a dearth of statesmen. It has many good men and true, in fivery way worthy and capable of leading the Democratic hosts to November. New York is not the only hope of the party that she should behave as naughty ’ as she pleases, and think all will be forgiven. Here is the New York : World’s list of nine, any one of

whom, as the World eajS, can “car-. ry the State of New York, and be elected to the presidency on a sound tariff reform and honest-money platform:” Gov. Boies, of Iowa; Gov. Pattison, of Pennsylvania; Senator Palmer, of Illinois; Senator Carlisle, of Kentucky; Chief Justice Fuller, of the United States Supreme Court; Senator Gorman, of Maryland; Gov. Russell, of Massachusetts; ex Gov. Gray, of Indiana, or Gov. Abbett, 0 ( Now Jersey. And the Chicago Times, on behalf of “the Western Democracy,” presents the names of John M. Palmer, Senator of Illinois; the worthy Gray, ex-Govejnor of Indiana. Horace Boies, Governor of Iowa; Wilham F. Vilas, Senator of Wisconsin; the defeated but still aggressive Campbell, late Governor of Ohio. _____

It seems almost farcical to send out a committee to discover the benefits ot a high tariff tax to the farmers of the country. If the history of agiculturists for the last two ' decades isn’t sufficient to demonstrate what the system of taxation - is worth to the tillers of the soil—i both for the men who own (subject > to mortgaged) the farms, and the i wage-earners they employ in their 1 fields, what can this committee dis- - cover? And the same may be said i-1 of the manufacturers. They comm,lt plaints to Washington; L-i the 5P able id send -I and -dw MWp a P ers teeirt volume of , • < * almost source may be increaseu •*'**•’ j • IM any degree. The wool grower, mi.. ’ owner, grain farmer and day laborer will give the same views and opinions to his chosen newspaper that he will express to any committeeman. If partisan bias one repp rt it w ill *he other. Are the census reports on agriculture status ’ valueless entirely? They have cer--1 tainly cost the taxpayers enough to Reliable returns. Investigating S re *be she i government, iwdjpg pPT«B n,t - tees are expensive affair*. final amount of the business is those not pleased with the character of the findinga will slur the . whole matter as campaign polmy, and score congress for the ’waste of mopey ,so appropriated,

8L" Among all the journals affecting the publishers of newspapers not one is more sought after than is Printer's Ink, published by George P. Rowell & Co., Mew York. Just now that firm is being put to a great deal of trouble by an unreasonable ruling of the Postoffice Department. The ruling is that the journal referred to is not a legitimate newspaper and GBfilWt he admitted to the malls as second-dass matter, but as third-class. The posugg on the issue of January 13 amounted at third-class rates to SBOS, besides the labor of attaching 80,500 stamps to that number of papers. At second class rates the proper Charge for postage would be $69.76, making a difference of $733.24. In the meantime ft owe J J & Co. are paying this enormous earn under protest, until the department can farther consider the case. The trouble is that the postal laws are unsatisfactory and coatrad.iptory and need a general overhauling. 4t the same time the ruling of the department is unreasonable and founded on mistaken promises. As Printout Ink says, “would it not be a good plan for a Congressional committee to study up sopps pf a definition of what shall pass muster as a newspaper or periodical, and then frame such a law as will allow i-te projectors to do what they will with their paper without the present necessity on the part pf the Postoffice Department of (keeping a force of experts to waste Oiniu tissue in studying up what constitutes a newspaper to day, ruining a publisher to-morrow and next week ex pressing regret £,J-having made a mistake?” THE USURY TAX IN ULt A 0 IS. The Porter HkOjstjcs of Illinois home and farm mortgage* much lower in their totals than the total* shown by the Illinois State Bureau of Statistics in its last report, The state census, like the Federal, SU entirely the work of Republicans, and in both casesit was a defensive work. It was undertaken by the State Bureau with the obvious purpose of catting down Democratic -estimates of the annual interest drain on the earnera of Illinois. The same purpose appears in the - work of the Federal Bureau, which has reduced the estimates of ’ the Illinois state administration. Ii

Such‘figures are only to be accepted tinder protest with these reservations. Warning the reader of the Federal census arc probably deliberate underestimates m every case, we give here the annual interest payments made by the people of Illinois on homo and farm mortgages as Mr.. Porter gives them: t l . •••••• • si..w.«en T. Tu.Nll.mT Ts 80.2111.52 S S lu.iiniwa no.fwusi

The increase in the private usury tax is here shown to be over 100 per cent, for the ten years—at the end of which the McKinley bill was passed, imposing .heavier burdens on the exchange of all the exported surplus of Illinois. Os the annual usury tax not over 25 •percent, falls on Chicago, and all is withdrawn from Illinois labor. It does not include interest on railroad bonds or the bonds of such like public corporations or on public indebtedness of any kind. This, too, is very heavy, but what is now being considered is the annual usury tax, exclusive of all this. And after the figures have been cut down as Jow as possible, the Monopoly Census Bureau is obliged to confess that the people Illinois paid from their labor in 1880 $18?,000,000 of annual uaury t« x as a tribute to monopoly—-tbi® altogether aside from their taxes and naunicipel debt? aside from their taxeS J4r county, t° wn ’ Btate and school8 l a«i,de ffo»i the pay ° n f&ilfOftd bonds and the bonds ot other fikC ewpowtlw’i and aßide what they pay in tariff internal revenue taxes to support the Billion Dollar extravagance of District of Columbia tax consumers. This yearly usury tax of #139,000,000 on the people of Illinois stands tor the labor of 1,000,000 men at $1 a day for 127 days in the 365 of the year. For every ablebodied man worker at the average dollat-a-day rale of th? Republican system there are five dependthese 1,000,000 work era *efuired W a third of each year iff W thfe annual wry, tax stands for a popC?*tion of 5,000,000. The population of Illinoi; « 3,296,000 by the Portpr oODims. So that to pay this annual interest tax at til a day would require the labor of jnore heads of families than there are in Illinois for 137 days in every 365. These figure# jnean a great deal. They are worth mw?mbering.—St. Louis Republic. - J..

SUGAR AND WOOL. Opposition to the un-American . sugar bounty is everywhere out- . spoken. As Mr. McKinley, in a speech {£> an jOhio audience once i said in extenuatim* of [tie protect- , ive tax system—the people wo-id , never stand a direct tax; they do *- pp,t feel it (he meant they do not , see and it) under the . protective system. Juai yjiy one . class of producers should be paid millions of dollars bonus money out of |)?e people’s treasury while other classes are left tor em ' . selves, is not clear and no amonojt frf , sophistry can make it so. In fact there is no chance to weave a web around it full of glittering generalities and fine-rp.up such as has clothed the robber tarn# all th® years of its ascendency. Tbis Jw been an exceptionally good year for farmers, but let there come a year of short grain crops, the sugar bounty jpj/jt be paid just the same. The administration of its free sugar, and points witfe pH4.e to Re consideration for the people in urntaxing that commodity. Its pretensions are humbug through ahd fbrppgh, The temper of the people was for op the necessaries of l;fe. To youjd strike the iwuiii, principally, and refiners and northern beet growers and maple-sap boilers were quieted by a yearly donation from the govof the ftepwhliciip creed that the tariff is not a Ux ou th# they halloo early and late, “see how we have lifted a tax of millions a ffrßF from the burdens of the people?' In tlie maintenance of a tax for revenue a low augar Uriff was th* felt and brought the larg est returns for the reason that being an article of universal ponspraption, the addition to each consumer WW infinitessimal and the aggregate was » considerable sum. The argument for protection could never be better applied than to buggy. We do not, and never have, produced anything like an adequate supply; but, if we have climate and soil to accomplish this end, why remove-.the product |

from under “the benign wing of a protective tariff” and torment people with the plain injustice of a bounty to producers? Republican i argument was: “made free because we cannot supply the home demand | and “bountied to stimulate production to the end that we raise our own sugar.” Consistent, very. I The argument for free sugar is applicable in every particular to “free wool,” yet the duty was increased on raw wool when it was removed from sugar, acknowledging

that in the latter case it had proven a failure—a discovery very suddenly made. Has not the tariff tax proven a failure the same in the case of wool? A constantly increasing duty has failed to stimulate production or bring better prices. On imported woolen goods amounting in valuation to forty-three million dollar, at tax ot 134,650,926 was collected— something more than 80 percent. The revenue from raw wool amounted to six millions and a half dollars. In view of these figures and an empty treasury, ! the organs drop all attempt at justification of their inconsistencies and say simply, “we must have this income.” A pretty mess they have made of it, and the reckoning has just begun. T4nm genpwn Harrison, WillijW Kinley and other dopuw of twno? my who teaoh thßt foWgM* pays the tariff taxes, or tliai American pays any of them he is . , , . G-om the enjoynot thereby debarrvu. ment of any of the Comforts of hfe, may find something to think about in the recent statements of our im« porlatioiis. J?ira( Jet them look at sugar. Everybody kiwi jyhen the tax on raw sugar was abolished the price to consumers fell to the full extent of the removed tax or rather more, Therefore there would seem to be no escape from the popclnsion that it was the American consumer and not the foreigner, nor yet the American refiner, who paid the tax. Now, how about consumption? Do the people Oyflfnjge more sugar because they get it cheaper# The government ceased to collect tax on raw sugar at the end of last March. Purlhff the D ’ ne months following, to the end oftbh yp»r 1891, the custom house records show that we imported 2,913,477,289 pounds of sugar, or an average of 32 3,y 19,698 pounds per month. During each y/sars 1889 and 1890 the average .wap abo.itf jtw# hundred and seyenty million pounds or ad average fjro hundred and twenty-five mHfioa pounds pey month. It appears, therefore, that the average monthly importation increased 88,700,000 pounds, or nearly 44 pey cent. The domestic product is usually from to one-eigth of the total consumption. But this, too, has increased the stimulus of the bounty, so that ft is wlhbj& Ba 7 that consumption has increased at i least 40 per cent m consequence of i the removal of the tax. Nothing more u to prove that tariff taxation means privation, commercial freedom means abundance.

Put now let us turn for confirmaJiqn t,Q lj),e of woolen goods, on which the licgintey bjll greatly increased the taxes. The new wool; en schedule took effect on the 6th of October, 1890, so that it was in force during part of that calendar year, gut since the imports were nnnsnallF Iwge in jntjpipftt’fin of the higher taxes a comparison pf the two calendar years 1890 and 1891 will be pretty fair. The statement of the values qf wo >len goods |rnpqrte<i during those years furpished py th,e Tmgpry bureau of Statistics is ps follows: • o 1891. 18Wf). Carpets, etct 1.428.577 » 873.W8 Clothing, etc 1.730.488 1.180 789 Cloths 14,489,972 14,095.955 Dross goods Dromon's and chl'dicn'sl 15,190.083 24.541.2fiK Knit fabrics 1,022.548 1.800.395 Mbits, etc.. 58.027 1.235,772 Shawls..l 807.81 S • 900.420 yarns,. tsoooo 1.807.245 ♦b'WPT- 1787,778 0.183,275 Total . I- ■ . .1■ ■ ■ .... ... «fi3,898.1)}4 This shows a decrease of nearly twenty million dollars, or 37 per cent. The statistics of domestic production for the two years are not available. But this pt Ipst we may gather from the above comparison- Jf the foreigners pay the taxes these IS pp why we should not have bought as much in Iflfil aa in 1890. We most conclude that we Americans paid the ta<es, and they were so high that we bad to go without goods that wp bought when the tapes were lower. — Chicago Heralts.

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