Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 24, Decatur, Adams County, 2 September 1892 — Page 4

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C he gemocrai H&. ■Bri-w.* ", a* Jf. HUCKBW. Proprietor. FRIDAY, SEPT. 2. tS92. Essull—-- ■ —■ ■ Ashcrift says we lie when we say that the Republican party sat down on him. We will wager a bf in new hat that Ashcraft was the biggest, prevaricator when he said there was nothing in it. Asiicra-it is trying very hard to nuke the people believe that he and his sheet are in perfect harmony with p- the Republican party. Ashy, old boy, you can’t come it. The people know you of old, There will be no “Third Party ' Democrats” in Tennessee this year. Whatever Tennessee Democrats may have among themselves, they wdl leave them unsettled until the state is safe from Harrison’s Rad- , icals. , Axn now it is said that vacina- • thin against cholera js possible and would prove efficacious. Inocculated for small-pox, tuberculosis, hydrophobia and cholera, would a '." v ' nun be responsible tor anything he might do? \ . Or course the “Golden Circle’ stones are lies, but Mr. Stevenson iieevi not trouble himself to say so • every time a new one is started. l,ie American people have had experience enough in campaign lies to know them on sight. It is scarcely good logic for the protectionists to insist that everything good that happens in the republic, even to good crops, shall be credited to the McKinley law and all the adverses and failuiesand distresses to natural cauaes. Two'new revolutions are .now (■ revoluting in Central and South . America—one in Honduras and one in Bolivia. The one in Venezuela is still doing business at the old stand. Revolutions are costly," but the Spanish-Americans mast have them. What is the first most pressing material neeJl of the country? Good roads. Our muddy, rutty highways are the most disheartening tiling'.that confronts the farmer. And his loss because of them is no greater than the loss of tradestnen o . in cities. To William E. Ashci»aft of the Decatur Journal. Did you not say on the evening alter the meeting of the Republican party in the after--noon, that the Republicans were damn fools for not putting a ticket m the field and that owing to this the" chance's were very slim for your congressman in this district? Come now, tell us the truth. Tin plate can be manufactured in Indiana and so can the tropical fruits be raised. The surroundings in the gas belt are becoming such that some enterprising, energetic, good businessman can make money. With tree fuel, cheap glass to make h it houses and a protective tariff to keep out foreign products, the bus* . iifes would flourish. , Our Republican exchanges are teeming with articles calling ex--I’resident Cleveland the “great pen- . s’, m vetoer, the enemy of the soldie •” ami all such names as their fa'se minds can conceive, regardless ot the truth that Cieyeland signed • more private jtefision bills than all the Republican presidents in the United States ever had; *" Mil. Jeremiah* B. Osborn, of t ■ l-'airlieid, Conn., a reputible business man, has been arrested for the “vain and and ungodly recreation” of riding a bicycle on the Sabbath t “in defiance of the dignity of the state 1 and to the scandal of the com- ■■■ munity.” C’onnnecticut has iniK proved somewhat'in the.last cenU. tury but there is a good deal of ReU publicauism and original sin in it k i ~ ’ yet.. Wk will venture to say that no t political .topic <Tf the day receives as much discussion and is as poorly understood as the tariff question.

We do not mean to say that the tariff .question is such a difficult question but our prejudice do not allow us to consider it properly, even if we do once in a great while fctol disposed to search tor the truth. We do not doubt that every sane man within the limits of the United States, knows that the tariff raises the prices of manufactured articles. I f the tariff does not raise the prices of manufactured goods, how does it enables the manufacturer to pay higher wages. If it decreased the prices of manufactured goods how cin it increase wages? The simple truth is that if the tariff is just what the Republicans say what it is, it would be as detrimental to our industrial system as the cholera is to the human family. The high protectionist tell the farmers that by the tariff his farm produce is increased in value. At the same time they tell him that it decreases the price of articles he is compelled to buy. Their logic runs about this way: It raised the price of wool, it cheapens tin, it will increase the wages ot the laborer and lit the same time it will cheapen the cost of the product produced by the hardy hand of toil. In fact it will do anything and everything, but above everything else it is intended to catch the ballot of the unsuspecting voter. Does it really increase the wages of the laborer? We asked some high protectionist to explain what causes the difference in the wages of the laborer if the tariff really protected him. We felt very Anxious to know why it did not use all alike. From over acrossed the way came the answer from the would-be shrewd, windy editor of the one kidneyed Journal: “This mometous question can be explained in the same language that Mr. Biackburn would use in explaining why he pays his foreman 510 per week and pays his “devii” only S 3 per week.” The truth acknowledged unsuspectingly. It is the laborers skill that protects him. The wages of common labor is reduced as low. as 99 cents per day, skilled labor demands more. The tariff cuts no figure with the wages of labor. Down with monopoly and foolishness. Who pays the tariff? The Republicans say that the foreigner pays it. Democracy says that the tariff is a tax and the consumer pays it. From foreign countries there came to the United States during the fiscal year ending June 30,1891 manufactured cotton goods valued at 129,712,624. Before these goods coqld be entered and put upon the market here our tariff laws required the payment of duties to the amount of $855,150. This sum was paid into the treasury of the United States and added to the original cost of the goods, making their value to the persons who brought them here $415,976.74. The goods were sold to and consumed by the people of the United States. Was not this duty a tax, and did not the people in the United States who consumed the manufactured cotton goods pay it? We ask again, who pays the tax? WORKIITGXLI A”5 QUESTION. If the object .and effect of a high tariff into raise the rate of ■watres,' why have there been more than two hundred and fifty strikes and reductions of wages in the protected industries since the adoptionof the McKinley tariff. [Con; Rec. p.VTSTT BTIWZ’A’ TO SHIRK THE EX- ■ PENSE. ■ _____ The cost to Pennsyvania of Mr. Carnegie’s little episode with his workingmen, moves the Bradford New Era to advance the argument that the troops to supress insurrection in any of the states should be the, regular United States soldiers, riot state militia. Not much will the people of dither states listen to such a proposition. Pennsylvania mill and mine owners are enriched .by government tribute taken from the people: now let her consequent millionaires and the rest ot the people of the state take the responsiblity of their own riots. They fill their workshops with wild ; - ft'. *

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Hungarians and Sicilians, let them manage them as best they can. Mr. Bob Pinkerton said, sneeringly! “Guess the Carnegies can foot the (■ills without trouble.’’ If the people of the state don’t like their - lare of the burden let them protest at the polls. That is their redress. The effort to put these specious monopolies under the military protection of the United States soldiers at the expense of the people of all the states will never be done. TARIFF IS RESPONSIBLE. . The monopoly of business, the centralization of wealth is fostered by a high tariff as hot house air stimulates the growth of plants. As this condition becomes more fixed, men who are masters of it become more arrogant and men who labor for them, being also free men in a free country, meet their employers with defiant air against what appears to them to be taking on the form of oppression. It is thus that the tariff is responsible for strikes in the great manufacturing centers. It places employers in a position to absolutely dictate both the price of labor and the price and amount of output. Men clothed with such power, with very exceptions, arrogate to themselves the airs of lords with unquestioned authority. There being, in this country, no corresponding class of serfs, the clash comes, inevitably. In five states of the Union within’ the last week, laborers have been met with the bayonet, and in no case has arbi (ration preceded the miliarty, to determine who needed or deserved protection—the laborer or the capitalist. The fault lies at the root — in unjust legislation and administration, which gives to capitalists all the favors and to laber all the hardships, and exacts of labor all th.e concession and forbearance. Capital is arrogant with the'military behind it, and the arms of'the protective tariff about it. Labor is powerless against such odds. And if there are no means of equalizing conditions then the republic is no longer the land of freedom and justice. D UTIL S OF THE "VO TER The duties of the voter are few anl simple. The great majority have only to vote. A few will be compelled to register and some will have to “swear in” their votes. Registration. The' voter must register at the County Clerk’s office at least fifty-nine days before the election—1. If having been a resident of Indiana and a qualified voter at any general election therein, he has been absent from the state six months or more since last voting. 2. If since last voting in Indiana be has gone into another state or sovereignty with the intention of voting therein. 3. ILsince last voting he has voted in another state or sovereignty. V 4. If he has fide resident of the county in which he resides for six months previous to the election. The registration should be made after the county commissioners have established the precincts. The certificate of registration must be taken to the polls, as the voter cannot vote unless he produces it on demand of a challenger. (Sec. 13 and 14.) This registration need*not be made if, prior to leaving the state, the voter files with the county Clerk a notice of his intention to hold residence in Indiana. (Sec. 4 3.) It should be remembered that registration does not qualify a voter who lacks the constitutional qualifications or excuse him from proof of qualification if cha’icngi <!. It is merely an additional proof of qualification required in certain cases. Candor compels the admission that the tin .plate industry (American) is looking up somewhat. When the bill to repeal the 2.2 cents McKinley tariff on tin plate Was being debated in the House, which bill passed the House on July 1, all the facts about the success of the scheme to establish a great American industry by the machineof taxation were brought out. It will be remembered that Messrs. Allison and McKinley had promised that the tariff on the tin plate would put that industry on its permanent feet in less than two years; that directly $3,Q00,000 would seek investment in the manufacture; and that the industry would furnish labor to 50,000 workingmen, and bring support to 200,000.”

At the time ot the passage of the repealing bill in the House, the fact was brought out that the total amount of tin plate produced in this country was 5,240, pounds. Inasmuch as the entire amount consumed in this country during the same period was about 510,000,000 pounds, it is plain that this country produced enough plate for about two days’ consumption. It was pointed out during the debate that the country paid 115,000,000 tariff tax on the tin plate imported during the time we were producing the enormous quantity of 5,000,000 pounds. That is to say, it has cost the American people about #2 to “develop” one pound of tin. This -fact led Representative Shively to suggest that tin be measured hereafter by Troy weight Recently the Chicago Herald has been looking into the tin business and it finds that 8,525,691 pounds of tin plate have been manufactured since the last report was made, upon which the figures used on the House debate were based. Although this is more than the total previous output, it scarcely affects the tact that the tin industry is a total failure. If the domestic manufacture does not exceed onethird of the importation in some one year previous to 1867, the duty on tin plate lapses. The output must be nearly 20 times what it is now to preserve the duty. The whole has not been told, however. The custom house figures show that every part of the work in making American tin plate except the mere act of (lipping the black plates in melted tin, is performed abroad. In 1889, only 6,224 pound of black plates were imported. During the nine months ending March 31, 1892, the importations W’ere 5,400,000 pounds. This, shows that Mr. Shively’s peredicdiction was true when he said that “black sheets may be rolled in Wales, pickled m Wales, annealed in Wales; boxed'and imported by one of our tin plate manufacturers into this country, dipped into imported tin by imported labor, and returned to the government as tin plate produced m the United States.” 777 J? VOTE THIS FALL. An interesting problem at this time, and one on which much figuring is done in section, is the size of the vote. While no one cares much what the exact total of the United States will be, the party managers in each state are actively interested in knowing what the ex act vote of their own states will be. This learned, those who have made politics a science naturally compute the vote of the respective parties with comparative accuracy. The latest bulletin issued from the census office contains timely ininformation concerning the voting population of this country, and, although the figures are two years behind time, they may be accepted as approximately accurate after allowing the annual increase in the number of voters. The number of males of voting age in the country two years ago is given at 16,940,311. Os these 4,358,459 are foreign born, of whom about 60 per cent have been naturalized, which would make the number of legal voters about 15,200,000. Adding half a million to this total, on account of the increase in the voting population since 1890, and we have 15,700,-’ 000 males qualified to exercise the right of suffrage this year. About 300,000 must be excluded as being residents of the territories or of the District of Columbia. As to the 13,400,000 actual voters, the interesting problemss to find out how many arejikely to go to the polls next November. Eighty-five per cent of all the voters exeicised the right of suffrage in 1888. and if the same percentage is maintained this year, nearly 13,000,000 of freemen will chose the next president. A careful analysis of this shows some startling possibilities of / our electoral system. It shows that, with but two candidate# in the field 28 per cent of the voters of the land, in twelve states, might elect a president over the other 62 per cent living in thirty-two states. On the other haird it shows that 19 per cent of the voters might elect a president by carrying thirty states. With four tickets in the field, if they were about equal strength, it follows that a little more than 4 per cent of all the voters living in twelve states, might elect a president over the combined voice of 96 per cent of the voters living elsewhere. Perhaps the prohibition and the women suffrage parties can get some consolation out of this facte-

Pronounced Hopeless, Yet Saved. From «lei ter written by Mrs Ada E. Hurd, of Gioton, S. D., we quote. “Was taken with a bad cold, which settled on my lungs, cough set In and finally terminated in conaumption. Foor doctors gave me up, laying I could live but a «hort time. I gave myself up to my Savior, determined that if I could not* atay with my Iriendt on earth, I would meet my absent ones above. My husband was advised to get Dr. King’s New Discovery tor consumption, coughs and colds. I gave it a trial, took in all eight bottles; it has cured me, and thank God that I am now a heartv woman.’, Trial bottles free at A. R. Pierce's diug store, regular site, 50c and 11 co. ; Great Democratic Baroecue At Shelbyville, Ind., Sept. 38, 1893, The Democracy, of Shelby county, Ind., the old home of the late Vice President Hendricks, will hold its usual mammoth Democratic barbacue on Sept, 28, Heretofore, more than 60,000 people attended each of the barbecues at that place and, from present indicationsjthis one will as sume national proportions and eclipse any thing ot th'* kind ever attempted in the countrv. Hon. Adlai E Stevens in, the running mate of Grover Cleveland, wbl be present and make a speech on that oc casion. This fact alone gives the meeting a national significance at <1 insures an im tnense gathering of the unterrified Democracy. Hon. W. C. P. Breckenridge, Senator Jchn G. Carlisle, Senator David B. Hill, Senator Wm. F. Vrlas, Ex Gov Isaac P. Gray, Ex-Gov. Jas. E. Campbell, Hon. Lawrence T. Neal, Hon. Henry Watterson, Governor Horace G. Boise Governor Jamss Boyd, Don. M. Dicker son, Hon. Burk Cockran, ot TammanyHall, N. Y., Senator John M. Palmer. General Black, General Sickles, AttyGeneral A. G. Smith, Hon. J. W. Kern, Hon Leon O. Bailey, Senator D. W Voorhees, Congressman G. W. Cooper, J ison B. Brown and many others havr been invited and will be present. Fifty cattle and Hundreds of calves, sheep and poultry will be slaughtered for the occa sion, and, profiting by past experieace, the committee will be prepared to feed all who attend. Cheap rates on all railroads have been secured. Thos. Taggart, chairman, Democrat! State Central Committee, says. “I will do everything in my power to assist you in making your meeting a success. Command me and I will be at your service.” A Cure for Paralysis. : Frank Cornelius, 01 Parcell, Ind. Ter. says: “I induced Mr. Pinson, whose wife had paralysis in the face, to buy a bottle of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm, To their gn at surprise before the bottle had all been used she was a great deal better. Her lace had been drawn to one side; bin the Pain Balm relieved all pain and sore nets, and the mouth assumed its natural shape ” It is also a certain cure for rheumatism, Isme back, sprains, swell ng. and lameness. 50 cent bottles for sate Uy W. H. Nachtrieb. s The Greatest Discovery of the Age. Catarrhal deafness cured. No more use for ear trumpets. Triumph at last. An infallible remedy for the cute of catarrh and deafness in all its stages, by one who has been a great sufferer from catarrh and almost total deafness. No catarrh or slimy green and yellow sticky matter discharging from the nose. No deafness. No ringing crackling sounds in the head. No mucous matter lodging in the throat. No occasional hacking cough with throwing up slimy green and yellow sticky matter. It is a blessing that words cannot derc-ihe. For further informa’io'i w it -for circulars. Address, Frank Wut'z & Co, Wausau, Wis. Drawer 1039 24 4 Next Sunday Mon.lng At ten o’clock or a>y day this week, you can buy at any driigeist a bottle of Dr Marshall's Lung Syrup for your cough ar. it is guaranteed to cure and re ii-ve nil chronic and acute coughs lor less money than any other, a< t’>e price is only 25 . it enables all to give th s great medicine 1 trial. A fiesh supply at all druggists. Want to Seethe “Scrap?” The Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City R. R., “Clover Leaf Route” will sell ex cursion tickets to New Orkans, September Ist to 6th at one fare, return limit Sept. 16th. Special train from St. Louis, Sept. 4th. Reserve sleeping accommodations be fore 10 a. m. Saturday 3d. C. C. Jekkins, V • fjy- * V 7 Gen'l Pass. Agent, Toledo, Ohio. One Way To Be Happy. 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