Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1884 — Page 1

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MORDECAI F. CHLLCOTE, A.’ttorney-at—Law BaNSSELAKR.' - - . . INDIANA Fractiees tin the Courts of Jasper and ad•inlng counties. Makes collections a spe•flalty. Officcon north side of Washington n r eet, opposite Court House- vlnl, I. S. DWIGOTM 0 ZIMEI DWIGGINP It. S. & Z. DWIGGINS. Attorneye-at-Law, Bbnsbmaeb - - g Indiana Practice in th# Courts of Jasper and ad coun ti # s, make collections, etc. to ©fflee west corucr Novels’ Block, v„nl SIMON P. THOMPSON, DAVID J. THOM PSON Attorney-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Binsselaer, - . . XndiaKa Practice in all the Courts. WARION L. SPITLER, Collector and Abstracter. We pay, articular attention to paying tax.sellini, and leasing lands. V2n<B FRANK W. B . COCK. Attorney ®.f And Real Estate Broker. Braotices in all Courts of Jasper, Newtoi wd Benton connties. Lauds examined Abstracts of Title prepared: Taxes paid. C®ll*ctleM.s a, Spaclalty. JAMES W. AVTOBNICYXAT-LAW and n«tary public, Maieever ’ s new h. wTsStdek, Attorney at Law Remington, Indiana. •OLLECTIONS A BPECIALTY. IRA W. YEOMAN, Attorney at Lsaw, NOTARY PUBLIC, Real Estate ant Collecting Agent. Will practice in all the Courts of Newton • Benton and Jasper counties. Oetice:— Up-stairs, over Murray’s Citj ftrug Store, Goodland, Indiana. Dd dale, • ATTORNEY-AT LAW MOMTI«ILtO, - INDIANA. Bank building, up itairs. J. x.LouoiniDan. y. p, bitters LOUGHRIDGE & BITTERS, Physicians nnd Surgeons. ♦ Washington street, below Austin’s hotel. Ten per cent. Interest will be added to all necounts running unsettled longer than fliree months. vlnl DR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician & Surgeon, litntielaer Ind. •alls promptly attended. Will give special atten ties t« the treatment es Chronic Dineuee*. S. Dwiggin*. Ziaari Dwlggias, Prttitut. Citizens’ Bank. RENSSELAER. IND., !)•*• a general Banking business; giv-e U speeiall attention to ••llectiopg; remit , Mates made on day «f pavnieat at turret ■Mt tfexchange Uate.ei pr.ide i aiancts: Srtifltatea bearing iat.im lashed; exMvigebonght and sold. This Bank .was th. Bt-.lar Bast, which W’W* , tk * C "> CR «° Ixp.Mtion 9 ir?r ,, W*J« pr.teeted by .nt .f TMOMAB TXOMPBOM. Banking House BT A- McCOT AT. THOMPSON, suceaMors Jft. A, MtWoy A A. Th.tapm>;. •tatselMr,Tad. Does general laakiag bu■aeee Bey aad teO exthaoge. Colleeuoaa >ade all available polata. Money loaned •Merest paid on specified time deposits, *e. Wffite saipe plate as eld frm of A. McCoy & Thempsea. »prU,*«l

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BENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY. JANUARY 11, 1884.

PAYING BLAINE.

Globe Democrat: Mr. Cessna, of Pennsylvania, implored Mr. Blaine, while the latter was Speaker, to make him Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Mr. Blaine declined and gave the place to another man. A year or two later the Cincinnati Convention came along. Mr. Cessna was a delegate. “I want to be Chairman of the Committee on Rules,” said Mr. Cessna to the antiBlaine men in Cincinnati, ‘and if I don’t beat Blaine you may take my head for a foot ball. ’ Cessna was made Chairman of the Committee on Rules,and in that capacity made a report to the effect that after any State had cast its vote for President that vote could not be changed until after the result of the whole ballot had been announced. Very few in the Convention saw the import of. this rule when it was reported and adopted—but it, and it alone, beat James G Blaine as a Presidential nominee. The original plan of the Blaine men was to force a nomination on the first ballot —to get enough changes from complimentaries to Blaine to make the latters nomination certain before the result was announced. The Cessna rule stopped all that. The stampede to Blaine could not be started, and Blaine was beaten. “I guess.” said Mr. Cessna, as he watched the operation of his own scheme, “J im Blaine is not much ahead of me now.”

HOW THE TARIFF PROTECTS LABOR.

Washington Post: The wages of nearly a thousand men employed in Roebling’s Wire Mills at Trenton, N. J., have beeiistreduced 10 per cent. The tube manufacturers of Pittsburg are considering a reduction of 10 per cent, in the wages ofjtheir employes. A 10 per cent, reduction in the wages of the miners of the Clearfield region of Pennsylvania went into effect on New Year’s Day. The Pioneer Silk Company, at Paterson, N. J., has reduced wages from $3 to about S 2 a day. The workmen are now on strike. The operatives employed in the thread manufactories at Newark and Kearny, N. J., have been informed that they will have to submit to a reduction of 10 and 15 per cent. There is a strike in the Grinnell Cotton Mills at New Bedford, Mass., against a 10 per cent, reduction in the wages of the operatives.

It is not a low tariff that is bringing about this stage of things, for we are still living under a high protective system; it is not the tariff revision of last year, for that, we are told, has not been well enough tested to enable a fair judgment of its merits; it is not the tariff legislation of the present Congress for not a Revenue Reform bill has yet been introduced. It will doubless be found in a gi eat majority of instances similar to those above cited, and that the reduction of wages have been necessitated by overproduction is something always to be feared, so long as the cupidity of producers is abnormally st i m ula te d by high protective legislation. Mr. Hewitt’s letter on this subject will bear reperusal in this connection.

“Excessive profits,” says Mr. Hewitt, ‘ are especially injurious to the workingmen of the country who are the chief sufferers when the inevitable reaction to unnatural expansion narrows the fields for the employment of labor.” It is to the relief of the condition of the workingmen of the country, now being; thrown out of employment in all directions, that Congress should first address itseli. The way to relief lies through a reduction of the tariff—a reform of

the revenue —protection to the weak rather than to the strong.

TARIFF REFORM.

Views of a Notable Business Man. “Protection Force® Down Wages”—The ShortSighted Policy that Has Lost Us the Carrying Trade—A Party’s Great Opportunity. New York Herald: Mr. Royal Phelps, the head of the venerable and well known shipping and banking house of Maitland, Phelps <fc Co., was yesterday asked.by a Herald reporter for his vKws on the tariff question as an issue in 1884. “The question is one involving every interest in the country,” said Mr. Phelps, “and one on which few men can give an offhand opinion worth very much. But, such as it is, I have no hesitatiort in giving it to you if you think it can do any good. There is no issue to-day of such absorbing interest as tbe ta riff. It is an interest that must be met squarely or not at all All over the country I hear of failures in all forms of enterprise. Mills are closing, producers can not dispose of their surplus, and laborers have to be turned away or else accept lower pay.” Do you, connect this state of things with the operation of the tariff?” “I do, most unquestionably. The high duties which are levied at the custom house have the effect of cutting off the competition of foreigners. The result of this is to gi ve the domestic manufacturer the control of the home market, or even in some instances, monopoly. Now, it inevitably happens, where the government gives undue advantage to one set of manufacturers, that these make in the beginning such large profits as to induce others to embark their capital in same form of enterprise. This competition among domestic manufacturers soon result in over production, the domestic market becomes glutted, the people won’t take any more, the manufacture! cannot ship his goods to other

WHY WE CANNOT EXPORT. “Excuse me, but what is to prevent him?” “The tariff again. The very same laws that give him the monopoly of the home market and allow him to force Americans to buy his goods, make the cost of his manufactures so dear that when he has a large stock idle on his hand he cannot ship any of it to Mexico or the West Indies in competition with England.” “Then do I understand you to say that manufacturers are not benefitted cy prosection?” “I have not the figures at hand to demonstrate what I say, but I am firmly convinced that if all the duties of a pro. tective nature were to-day re - moved our [manufacturers would be in a more healthy condition than they were under dur high tariff. You see, a manufacturer pays so much more for his plant, ais tools, his raw material and his labor on account of the tariff that the duty on the manufactured article helps him but little.”

THE WORKINGMAN AND PROTEC TION. “How would the abolition of a protective tariff affect the laborer?” “Here/ again, volumes ofifigures ,co u 1 d be produced to show that ‘protection’ doe,'? not protect the w-oi kingman. But figures are dangerous things to handle; they are sharp tools that need skillful using. This question, however, can be well determined by the experience of any old mill operative. I think any man who remembers the cost of living in 1860, when the tariff was a low one, on nineteen per cent, will tell you that in those days he was better off than he

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is to-day with the tariff at for-ty-five per cent onan average. J mean that he could give himself better clothes, give his children more comforts and all ©round enjoy life more than to-day. Perhaps his wages did not look’so big, but he got more for them.” “But would not wages be reduced if we abolished protection?” “Not at all. I believe they would rise. The protectionists have .for the last twenty years been telling workingmen that if they voted against pro tection they voted against high wages. Well, what has been the result? The wages of men in protected industries have been steadily cut down, and they will go down still further before they go up again. The fact is,” we can not pay living wages so long as the tarifi forbids us to import our raw material free.” HIGH WAGES VS. PAUPER LI’ROR, “But Jean American labor compete with the eheap labor of the rest of the world?” “It does successfully now wherever it is not hampered with the tariff. We raise wheo in comp«tion with the cheap labor of Russia, India ana ■Egypt. The farmer has to pay a tax on all he buys, and yet when he comes to sell he must take free trade prices. The protected manufacturer says to him, 4 you must be taxed high on your iron implements, your lumber, your crockery, your harness, your clot hi n g—in short, all you use.’ But when the farmer turns round and asks for high prices for grain he finds that he must take what he can get for it in Liverpool, in competition with

the wheat of all the world.— Now, the highest wages of labor are those paid in our western grain regions, and yet from there come our great exports. It is so with cotton, rice, tobacco and Ipetroleum.— The rate of wages has little to do with success in production. We export a number of ingenious things made by highpriced American labor and sell them in countries where the people make the very same things with cheap labor.— S witzerland, no doubt, would like 1 ) be protected against the cheap clocks and watches of America; England would, no doubt, be better off if we did not compete with her in the mauufacture of fire-arms. In fact, successful manufacture calls for high intelligence on the part of the operative. The low priced labor of Spain needs protection against the high priced labor ot England when it comes to manufactured cottons. In this country we see that the high priced labor of the north has nothing to fear from the cheap labor of the southern negro, any

more than the English manufacturer with high wages fears the competition of Chinese laborers in starting factories in China. Laborers’ wages are regulated according to their intelligence and strength, on the general principle of supply and demand. “It stands to reason that where a protective tariff raiss the price of everything that a workingman uses, as with us, his wages must be correspondingly raised if he is not to be ground down to a pauper level. But I am satisfied that his wages have not kept pace with the increase in the tariff, and that the workingman of to4ay is a poorer man than the one of twenty-five years ago in the same protected industry.” Notick.—The Directors of the Jasper County Agricultural Society are hereby notified that on Saturday, the 19th day of January, 1884, the officers f "»r the ensuing year are to. be elected. Let there be a full attendance. Ezba C. Nowem. Sec’y. The ostrich is an expert swimmer |