Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 5, Decatur, Adams County, 22 April 1892 — Page 4

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•>-— —n*. ■— —- —r (She democrat jr. BBAOKBUBIf, Proprietor. FRIDA V. A TRIL 22. 1892. Democratic Ticket. ; For Representative—Adams, Jay ;Dem.: and Blackford, ; WILLIAM H. HARKINS. For Representative—Adams and ,lny . ('em : RICHARD K. BBWIN. ; : For Prosecuting Attorney—26th :Dem.: J -dlclal Circuit, ; RICHARD H. HARTFORD. ;: For Treasure”. ;Dem.: DANIEL P. BOLDS. ;: For Sheriff. :Dem.: SAMUEL DOAK. ; : For Surveyor, ;Dem.: JOHN W. TYNDALL. !: For Coronor, :Dem,: OLIVER T. MaY. * Fo- tssescnr. :Dcm.: ANDREW J. PORTER. ;; For Commissioner—First District. ;Dem.: HENRY HOLBROKE. ;: For Commissioner—Thi”d District, :Dem.: SAMUEL FETTERS, Remember the billion dollar Congress. The next President will be a Democrat. Steve Elkins and “Holy Johnny Wanny” have been paid with cabinet positions. Judge Woods has been rewarded for his part of the work of elevating “Little Benny” to thd Presidency. Russell A. Alger's name t ill 1 e • • presented by the Republicans of Michigan to the National Convention at Minneapolis as the choice of the Wolverine state for President of the United States. It is said by the daily press that Michigan is still for Alger, despite his war record and purchase of John Sherman’s delegates. But Michigan \is fooling with lumber and her salt. She will finally vote for Harricon. Ihe war with Chili and England having passed away, our energetic State Department is now about to start one with France. A glorious young American named Harry Phyfe got himself arrested at Niece and wants the whole United States to resent the indignity. Harry may miscarry. It is annonced that Levi P. Morten is willing to accept a renominafor Vice-President. If this be true, it is safe to predict that he will be nominated if Mr. Harrison heads the Republican ticket. Mr. Morton’s barrel is bigger now than it , fras four years ago and it was at that time a very big barrel. A prompt and semi-official denial follows on the story that Brother Harrison warned Brother Wanamaker to have nothing to do with ■ that bold, bad man Quay. The denial is unnecessary. No one credited the story. The indorsement of Pennsylvania is still necessary to the success of the second-term candidate, and Senator Quay is still Republican boss of Pennsylvania. The increase on the duty on wool was made expressly for the benefit of the wool grower, but wool has declined in price since the passage of the,McKinley bill, from two to five cents a pound. The wool growers are wondering what is the matter. Foreign wools are shut out by the high tariff and the monopolists of the east make the prices to suit llmmselves. Thus is the deluded wool grower made to pay for bis own protection. Ninety thousand of the inhabitants of these United States will, it is said, cross the ocean during the coming season. Every mother’s son and daughter of them will without doubt buy clothing where they can net it both good and cheap. Thousands of them will then come homo and vote io continue the present prohibition tariff which prevents European trip from buying the Mine kLJ of cheap and good clothing.

, The best argument against the ’ present unjust tariff law is the un . conscious admissions of its discriminations by its warmest advocates. This state and that state, this locality and that locality, this , industry and that industry, say they will stand by it because they receive direct benefit. Could there be bet ter proof of inequality and of the fact that the law distributes favors? And it is a truth not possible to contradict, that these favors are made contingent upon return benefits in the way of party support. Phis is written and substantiated history. It is unchristian, unwise, un-American and constitutes the chief menace to the rights and liberties of the people of the republic. Bob Ingersoll remarks that Harrison should be content with one term of office, and that “an eye would better be kept ,on McKinley, of Ohio; he stands for something.” If McKinley stands for something why not Harrison for much more? He approved the robber bill, and in addition he stands for the election force bill and urged its passage, after the defeat of its party in elections that followed, consequent upon such display of sectionalism. He is not on record anywhere as objecting to the waste and extravagance of the Fifty-first congress. His signature sanctioned all. He re warded the Indiana gang which aided Dudley in his proved manipulations and paid the man on the bench who lifted him out- of the mire. Oh, Mr. Ingersol wants a man who “stands for something,” for al! there is in the Repuhcan party and the policy, to-day. Mr. Harrison is the one. A cut of wages among the iron workes is threatened. Low prices and dull trade, according to the iron barons, may necessitate a reduction of ten per cent. There must be something very much out of joint in tax law protection. Under its “beneficent wing” many men have become riclj, and powerful through their riches, but the wage-earner, for whom, it is declared, the law is made and maintained, stands the brunt of every fluctuation in the market. The employer forges to share enhanced profits with the laborers who create his wealth, but he never forgets to take the losses out of their scanty allowance. He employes the cheap imported labor and then grinds it down to the lowest notch. If protection was really intended to benefit the working men, their share in the bounty insured by the law could be paid directly into their hands. There would be no more governmental intereference in regulating the wages of the puddler than there is of taking a fee out of the pocket of the farmer and dropping it into the coffer of-the manufacturers. Congress is just now punching hole after hole into the McKinley bill. Ihe bill placing raw ° wool on the free list has been passed in the House and is now before the Senate. The House bill placing cotton bagging on the free list was also passed last Saturday after somewhat spirited debate by a strictly party vote except that two Democrats voted in the negative. What is commonly called the free wool bill should be called the cheap clothing bill, for what it really is. It is thonght by some that the Senate, since it is safely Republican, will not consider the bill at all. But the Democrats in that body will not permit any dodging of the issue and it is pretty safe to predict that enough Republican Senators are in sympathy with the bill to insure an early disposition of it. The Democratic Senators are eager for the presentation of their views on tariff-reform and it is but putting it mildly to say that the Republicans are in no wise anxious to meet in debate the great Democratic giants, Carlisle, Mills, McPherson, Palmer, Vest, Turpie ■ and others. i The great Secretary of State is reported a- '•ay ng in a recent interview with one of his distinguished Republican friend? that he “was dogged into" writing his last letter

jf withdrawing from the presidential race. Every one who knows Vlr. Blaine, knows that he could only be induced to announce such a conclusion for one of three reasons: En her because he was satisfied that he could not be elected, ill-health or through the influence of the man at the White House. The condition of health, while it may be precarious, would not be likely to control action in the case with a man of Mr. Blaine’s sanguine ternpermeut. The fear of defeat he would more probably risk, hoping to succeed through the manipulations of Dudley’s blocks-of-five. Davenport’s Chicanery, the legerdemain of Quay and Tom Platt, Dors'ey’s'soap, or the fat fried from the manufacturers. . But*that the great lion-tail twister should be “dogged” by Harrison’s understrappers by withdrawing and surrendering his last hope for the golden prize, is asking too much of human nature to believe. Mr. Blaine must cast another anchor to the winckward and write one more letter of withdrawal before the people will really believe him m earnest. A CASE OF PLAIN ROBBERY. It is time to put refined sugar on the free list, to stop the robbery of the American people by the sugar trust. Here are the facts: The sugar trust now owns every active sugar refinery in the United States except three. Those three are owned by large stockholders in the trust, and are operated “in harmony” with it. The trust has, therefore, an actual monopoly of the business in this country. The actual valua.of the plants it controls is less than $35,000,000,’ but the trust is capitalized at $85,000,000, and it will pay this year 34 per cent, on that false capitalization, or 73 per cent, on actual investment. It was extorting less while it had opposition but since it bought up the remaining opposition it has deliberately added three-eights of a cent a pound to refined sugar. In other words, it has levied an additional tax of $22,500,000 a year upon the people of the country who consume sugar. This is extortion, pure and simple. There is nothing whatever given in return for the money taken, and the trust is enabled to take it solely by virtue of the tariff duty of one-half cent a pound on foreign refined sugar. Even if foreign sugar was on the free list the cost of bringing it here—about oneeighth cent a pound—would enable the trust to undersell foreign competitors. The additional tariff duty enables it to extort more than $20,000,000 a year from the people. THE HOMELESS FARMER. At the request of Senator Peffer of Kansas, the Census Bureau has prepared a table making a comparison between agricultural conditions in Kansas and in Ohio. Ten selected counties are considered, and the conclusion is that ihe farmers of Kansas have no great reason to complain, as they are about as well off .as those of Ohio. The table is as follows: Percentage Percentage’ of families of hired Counties. hiring farms, farms. 1880. 1890. Kansas (ten counties) 33 25 13.13 Chaser. 33.69 19 23 Clay... t 30.16 13.67 Dickenson33lß 13.06 Geary 29.66 15.38 McPherson32.72 10.73 Mar10n38.73 17.60 Morris 37.79 10 22 Ottawa 36.86 9.59 Ri1ey23.35 15.83 Saline 30.65 12 44 Ohio (ten Bounties)37.lo 24.76 Adams 37.79 18.40 8r0wn•32.19 17.60 8ut1er...,41.33 '30.43 Clermont 36.46 21.80 Clinton3B.34 20.92 Greene 39 28 28.27 Hamilton39,s2 33.51 Highland.A....' 31.44 18.85 Preble. .»...,.57,40.68 29.89 It must be noticed here that of the total number of farmers in these ten counties of Kansas 33.24 per cent, are renters, while 27.10 per cent, in ten Ohio counties are rent ers. It is argued from this astonishing showing (over a third of the farmers of Ohio and Kansas landless) that Kansas has complained too much, since Ohio is even worse. But how are the farmers of Kansas helped by the poverty of Ohio ■farmers under Republican laws? But here is another point for consideration. Percentage of renters Ip ten Kansas countis, 1890 33.26 Percentage of renters in ten Kansas v counties, 1860. 13.13 Increase of percentage of Kansas renters in ten years... 20 12 That is, there were more than twice, and nearly hree times, as many landless farmers in Kansas in 1890. Here is the like table for Ohio: Percentage of renters in ten Ohio counties, 1890...,. 37.10 Percentage of renters of ten Ohio counties, 1880 24 96 Increase of percentage in Ohio in ten 'Years 12.14

—ll ipiiiwm—--8? it is eh own by the figures of the Census Office that while the inorcaee in the total number of land, less tanners in Ohio has been fifty per oont. in ten years of,, Republican ism, the percentage of increase in Kansas has been 153 per cent. Tabulating these instructive figures they will etand thus: , Per ■ ■'•J® Cent. . Increase of landless farmers in Kansastn . ten years of Republicanism 168 Increase of landless farmers In Ohio in ten years of Republicanism' . M Not Increase In Kansu over Ohio In the poverty of its farmers .103 The great percentage increase of Kansas poverty over Ohio poverty is accounted tor by the fact that Kansas farmers made a more recent start as land owners. Republicanism has been turning them out of their homes faster than in Ohio, be- , cause in 1880, when this comparison begins, the percentage of Kansas farmers owning tbeir own homes was much greater than Ohio percentage. It will be seen, however, that evictions have taken place so rapidly in the past ten years in Kansas that over a third of the farm ers in both states, as shown by these ten sample’counties selected by tbo Republican Census Bureau are now homeless. Think of it—an increase of |53 per cent, in the number of homeless farmers in Kansas in only ten years of Republican tariff against return cargoes for farm surplus!., -j'; Think of it—over’a third of the farmery in the two Republican states of Kansas ’ and Ohio homeless under the Republican taxation and finance of thirty years. And remember that these figures of homeless farmers do not include those who have mortgages on theif homes. There is a private mortgage debt of between two and three thousand million of dollars on homes and farms in this country, and the bulk of it is on the producers of the Mississippi Valey. This is some hint of what Repubpublican Plutocracy is doing for us. —St. Louis Republic. THE TRUTH CRUSHED TO DEATH. We hear large, brave talk in a general way about the “establishment of new industries,’ 7 the booming of old ones, lower prices to buyers and better wages to employes, all contingent upon the McKinley tariff law. It is reasonable to suppose that every patriotic American desires the advance of his country in all that makes for solid prosperity and enduring strength. When an organ of any brand, says an individual, class or party is disappointed because a tin factory has been established or a field of sugar beets planted, it descends to a very pitiable sort of political 'pettigogging. Any industry, and any chance, established on a just basis, is pleasing to every loyaLcitizen. To say that Democrats affirm that the tin plate cannot be made in this country, and then batter away at the unpatriotic declaration, shows a very small conception of the magnitude of the question of the right to tax some industries for the benefit of others, instead of giving all an equal chance. As foolish is the assumption that Mr. McKinley framed his unwise and unjust law purposely to bring ruin on the labors and farmers of the country and build up a moneyed aristocracy by means of governmental discrimination. Governor McKinley is a man of honest convictions, but he is, also a narrow man, politically, not versed m an underlying knowledge of the science of economics, and while he sees the conditions named, he is able to persuade himself and others, that unjust commercial laws are not to blame for it. Unfortunately it has come to be the nil’, that whatever will prejudice a mind,£gets paid for the temporary benefit of that prejudice, though plain facts stand out against it. Perhaps tire most striking illustration of this is the treatment of the tin question.. In a recent number of the Engineering Magazine, the value of the tin ore mines m this country and their probable development is scientifically treated. Some mines, the names of which have become familiar throughout the trunjpetings of journals which labor for effect rather than the diffusion of information, are found to be of very doubtful value; the Temescal, for instance, which was going to flood the country with rich ore. Th is expertprospector finds that the Temescal “has yielded small quantities of tin and a few rich specimens. * * * So far as is yet developed the conditions of the occurrence of the mineral do not . 7 ... ' JLaik,.1'14.2.4

differ fro’" «hn*e obtained I” Maine, Alabinvi, ilassobusetts, a;i<l Virginiii; these have al various* inn- <• yielded a show ot cassiterite. Everybody would be glad if the richness of the Black Hills mints and of the San Bernardino mines equaled the reports made of tbirn for political etlect. But “the tin plate liar” is become so persistent a character, one seems to be unable to get honest information before the public. There is a flourish of trumpets over a hundred tin plate campaign badges, and a tin coffee pot presented to Gov McKinley; lucked away in a c.irrier ot the same paper which exploited these incidents, is noted, in the official reports of the custom house receipts, that in one day different firms in Chicago pant double duly on 4,(198 cases of tin. I’he question is one of justice only. Should the canning industry be taxed for the benefit of stock mining companies? Shall every man who buys tinware for use, Y a y his tribute to that end? Mr. McKinley explained in an Ohio campaign speech, the addition in cost was so trifling it was not felt. But these mites aggregate a big sum, and it is this same total that is taken unjustly from the body of consumers. Moneyed men understand what one per cent, more interest or dividend means; it is the man of small means who doesn’t trouble himself to keep debit and credit account, who can bear to be told that “here a little and there a little will never be felt.” Poured into the monopolist’s coffers, it makes a big showing. The tin-Plate Consumers’ Association has asked the tin plate manufacturers for a statement of quantities they are able to supply, along with a schedule of prices. Themanu facturers decline to comply with rhe request. Yet, according to the law, these facts are to be presented for governmental inspection before a very great while. Will this presentation take on a political hue. ' 0* THE w w •Vertical Slide-back Suspenders* N. B.—ls, from any ccum, the Vertical Slide should Break or become Damued, a new pair ot Suspenders will be fiven, Free of Charge, upon return of the broken pair to the Furnisher from whom purchased. If-aac Rotenthal, The Modern Clothier sole agent. ■ NEW lIT MARKET, Madison St., Opposite Court House. Schneider & Nichols. Fresh, Smoked and Salt Meats of all kinds. Bologna and Sausages U/RNTCn SALESMEN. Local and TravelI Lv. Ing. To represent our wellknowu bouse. You need no capital to represent a firm that warrants nursery stock firstclass and true name, Work all the year. Mix) per month to the right man. Apply quick, statingage. L. L. MAY. 4CO. Nurserymen, Florists and Seedsmen. St. Paul, Minn. 1-9 (This house is responsible.) FARM FOR SALE! , 1 . • — ( A farm of 145 acres in Blue Creek township, Adams etiunty, Ind. Ninety acres : cleared. fa : r buildings,plenty of good water. Would make an excellent STOCK FARM, Will sell for I£m than | sqes j&czixa. Terms very reasonable. For farther,, particulars call on or address, Schurffgr, Reed <® Smith, 1 ,■* ' ■

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