Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1883 — DOES PROTECTION PROTE[?]T? [ARTICLE]

DOES PROTECTION PROTE[?]T?

Here is the O’st “rebel yell” from ths new Congress. The Washington Post says: The firs ‘ rebel yell” of the session Was beard al lhe Deiuoviai c cau«u» Saturday bight, When General Slocum moved, and the caucus unanimously resolved, that tbs et ip pled and disabled Union soldiers <>u the roll of the Doorkeeper be retained. The “Sulib South’'is getting its work Jn promptly. —A Kendallville man has invented a table which by a sudden twist of the stait! IrtViir U'i letu«atu will tarti the op oomp’etely over, so th u waeq a - little poker party is surpass 1 by ’he marshal the thing will be turned over, and an open, bible comes up in front of the dealer, transforming the players from the wicked gamblers to a pious party studying the s« Jptures. A number of our citizens are raking up their small change to invest Tney say they must bave a couple at Uast-—Ligonier Leader, i

The kind of legislation required is that which benefits tbe Snanr rather than the few. It is questionable if, in the long run, protection protects any Interest or any elnss of mev. At any rate it can be shown very cunei isively that at the best it protect, only the few, and this it does st the expense of the many. The New York Herald takes a sensible view of the subject when it asks’ “What, then, is 'he prospect of another attempt* to stake the tariff what it ought to be aau at least remove the many jobs whtah aow make it aa instrument of private profit at nubile cost?” In re> ply the Herald says : * The ecmmerctnl situation is one that is seriously iu u»td of relief, •lowly but surely commercial depressios has been setting in for three years, and with existing inflip aces, there la little reason to look for a re« viral of business in the near future On lhe contrary, it would appear as if the hard times which-followed the crisis of 1873 and again come ajid were here to stay. The evidence of depression is everywhere present. In January es the present year there were 430 Iron furnaces in blast; in October the number had been re duevd to 340, and still the production exceeded the demand. Pig Iron sola for S2O per ton.. The Ir a, men at e votnplalmng, too, ef‘the high a'l’lCu <)f I coni, and predict tuat Penuayivania’s manufactures must be destroyed u« Iris what they call toy coal “ring” euncß down in its prices. 'But this is mly.one spot where the shoe pincn ess. The last auction sale of blankets its this slty realized, it is Said, prices that were from 25 to 30 per can . below agents’prices, and resulta«i in heavy losses to Mie manufacturers. Wage.- are being reduced In nearly every branch of industry, pro dm-tien is vurtaiLd, and a rigid economy is forced. 6kilUd> Über, like the workers In glass is leaving this country and returning to Bel gtuin. The stock markets are abnormally dull in the face of a of ■toney and capital awaiting invest m«-ut. All of these signa tt nd to pt»re that the producing power of the recpie has uui run tbei: capacity for ousumpiion The com me r clal and financial p..lk yot the uiitien h a been such as to make the conu« ctien between the business, interest of the country and the tariff so Close that the op® can hardly be con sjdered without a reference to he ether. For thU reason 11 is rightly juug a that a adlral change .n th.tariff, when made up .n correctpritr< ciples, will result iu an improved vendition in the cotum.er.4al and in bvstrial situat.on. It mast be borne in mind that this unsatisfactory state < f affairs Has beau brought about under the operation of a .Totevtivo ariff, and it is he refore worth while to ask. Who has be n benefited,? Under its operxtlOß, production has been in excess of the demand, idleness has t iken the place es activity, and wages have ■et only boon reduced in numerous instances, but work at any price can net be had and with all the boasted biesvihge es produrlion,. ,w ar e threatened with a return of the pan Jc at 1878 The Bepu 11 can party however, wants more protection, a eontiauaties of oyer-productien and a ll the ills which a high protective tariff entails. The interests of the country demand steady work,J a more extended market, and working men see very distinctly that it is far better to work 300 days at $2 per day than 150 days at $3 per day. Overproduction at high prices for labor, but it also means idleness, when no money at all is earned. Idle’eapital joes not destroy itself—idle laborers, means hunger, nakedness, despondency. death. Legislation, therefore should be in the direction of widermarket, because the demand for pro ducts keeps factory, forge and mine

I !■ fill blait, and futures ths largest possible presyrrity.— -sipolis Sentinel. ,