Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1884 — Page 1

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MORDECAI r. CHILCOTE. Attorney-at-Law Bmrssm.Ann. - . . Ivdxana practices tin the Courts of Jasper and ad•inlng counties. Makes collections a spe4alty. Ofijcc on north side of Washington ■treat, opposite Court Heuse- vml, n.S.DWIOOTNS XIHBT DWIOOXNs R. 6. & z. DWIGGINS. Attorneys -a/t-Ija, w ■xnsselaib - - I - INDIANA Practice in the Courts of Jasper and ad jeimng counties, make collections, etc. t« •fflee west corner Nowels’ Block. v„ni MMONP. THOMPSON. DAVID J. THOMPSON Attorney-at- Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON A BROTHER, • UNSSSUARR, ... XndiaKa Practice in «fl the Court*. MARIO* L BPITXER, Collector and Abstractor. i wfteutar. attention to paying tax- - .MHin». and leasing land*. tints KRANh. tt. * . lOCK, Attorney at Law And Real Estate Broker, ■radices in all Courts of Jasper, Newtoi •U Benton connties. Lands examined Abstracts es Title prepared: Taxes paid. OeUeetlcaa a Specialty. JAMES W. DOUTHIT, ArTORN*rsAT-LAW AND N©TART PUBLIC, ~ H. W. SN rDER, Attorney at Law Remington, Indiana. •OLLEOTIONS A SPECIALTY. IRA W. YEOMAN, Attorney at Law^ NOTARY PUBLIC, M Estate and Collecting tot, Will practice in all the Courts of Newton Renton and Jasper counties. OnriO*:—Up-stairs, over Murray’s Citj ■rug Store, Qoodland, Indiana. DD. DALE, ■ ATTOKNBY-AT LAW aujrmiLj.o. - wbiana. Bunk building, up stulrs. t. m. notronniDox. r. p, sittbbs LOUGHRID GE A BITTERS, Physicians and Surgeon*. Washington street, below Austin’s hotel. Ten per cent. Interest will be added to all accounts running unsettled longer than ■tree months, * vtm DR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician A Surgeon, Renttelaar. Ind. •alls promptly attended. Will give special alter tflbttFiitiQont #f Chroma OitteuA^a. S. D wiggins. Zintri Dwigghn*, President. Cfhier Citisens’ Bank, RENSSELAER, IND., TP!!.!.S eH^ r<U , Btt " kln * business; gives ij».oe*mad« t oB i d l i» ,, J o COl,eet,or >*: *anrftfcmK heSght«B*„i3. UrMt IMWeI; «* This Bank ewns the Bu-glar Safe, whleh numnsMeoT. thomas Thompson. Banking Hons# sucecMors Sues? Buy and mU exehaoge. CoDeclM made an all available polnte. Money loaned Intereat paid on specified time deposits. An WMee same pl*e« as eld firm of A. McCot A Vhempsen. aprls.’ii *

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Gents’ Furnishing Gooifc! N WARNER & SONS . DEALERS IN Hardware, Tinware, "HP "W* South Side Washington Street. RENSSELAER, - - INDIASTr. BEDFORD i, HI, Dealers In Groceries, Hardware, Tinware, Wooden ware, Farm Machinery, BEICK & TILE. Our Groceries are pure, and will be sold as low as elsewhere. foagiirHardware, Tinware and Woodenware Depart meat, mil fee found everything called for. Our Farm Machi Mery, in great variety, of the most approved styles. Brick aud lile, manufactured by us, and kept constantly on hand. We respectfully solicit vo-ur patronage. BEDFORD & WARNER. - —S OQy iL’iVivS MB— yi STOMACH BITTERS DpNHtUHsaiiil duIJ ” Fw £SS w“ se ’Purifier

H J. FARM * Book, Shoes, Bats, Caps,

fe. JTEVEHY PAIR WARRANT'D Bfo w FOR SALE BY * THOMAS J.FARDEN, 3 Doors East of P. O. Rensselaer, Ind. A complete line ot light and heavy shoes for men and hoys, women and misses, always in stock at bottom prices. Increase of trade more an object than large profits. See our goods before buying.

BENSSELAER, JASPEB COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY JANUARY 18, 1884.

SHORTER TARTFF CATECHISM

Question I.—What is the cnief end of onr tariff? Answer.—To put money into the pockets of the manufacturers. 2. What is a tariff! It is a tax. 3. Who pays this tax? Consumers. 4. Who are the consumers? All the people, but chiefly the poor. 5. For whose benefit is the tax laid? For the benefit of the manufacturers. 6. Who are the manufact urers? Moneyed men and capitalists. • 1 7. Are they a large or a small part of the population? A very small part of the people. ' *! ' ' ‘ 8. Are they the rich, or the poor? Most generally the rich. 9. How is it that so few per sons can get a tax put on so many? Because as a general thing they form corporations. 10. Of whom are corporations generally made up? Corporations are, for the most part made up of the rich, for the purpose of making themselves richer. 11. What do corporations tend to become? Monopolies. 12. What are monopolies? Monopolies, or rings, are men who combine to fix the prices of goods, the rate of wages and to forstall the markets. 13. Isn’t forestalling unlawful? ■mb; forestalling is unlaw- - - 14. Why don’t the law punish such men, abolish rings, etc.?

Because most persons don’t understand that a tariff may promote, in our country, a series of monopolies and rings. 15. Why don’t Americans believe that our tariff is mainly a huge ring? , =he people don’t believe it, because their prejudices are excited by such catch words as “Free trade,” “British gold,” “American industries,” “Home productions,” and that the tar iff raisei wages, and helps to pay the public debt. 16. Does the tariff help to pay off the public debt? Yes; when not prohibitory, and revenue is derived from importations. - - - - 17. Isn’t it an advantage to

get a higher price for our goods? Yes; it is &A advantage to the manufacturer, but it is no advantage to the poor laboring man. The money is taken out of the poor man’s pocket book. In this way the rich becomes richer and the poor becomes poorer. 18. But don’t the tariff go into the United States treasury, and help to carry on the Government and pay the debt? Yes; some of it goes into the National treasury. 19. Don’t the whole tariff go into the treasury? No; only that which is paid on foreign goods. If the tariff is so high as to shut out all foreign goods, then no tariff money goes into the United States treasury: the higher the tariff the less money the United States gets, and the more the manufacturersjget. 20. Where does the tariff money go that don’t go into the treasury? All the money that doesn’t go into the treasury goes into tne pockets of the manufacturers. 21. But if the manufacturer §ets all this money, doesn’t he ivide with his employes? Rarely, law doesn’t oblige the manufacturer to divide his profits with the workmen—and he doesn’t do it, or the employes would not so oft» en go on & strike. 2. Don’t the manufacturers say that they don’t want the

tariff for themselves, but for their workmen? Yes; that is what they say, but at the same time they are always talking about reducing the workmen’s wages; how is this? and while always talking about “the pauper labor of Europe,” why are they using every chance to introduce this foreign pauper labor into the place of the American workman? 23. Don’t the manufacturers want a high tariff for the good of the country? So they profess; but we don’t think the manufacturers love the country so much more than the rest of us do. 24 If protectionists don’t want a tariff for the good! of their workmen, nor because of their greater love of the country, nor for revenue purpose*, what do they want it fori They want it for themselves. 25. What kind of|a tax, then, is the present protectionist’s tariff? It is the old war tax in time of peace; it is a tax on the many for the benefit of the few; it is a tax on the po.jr for the benefit of the rich; it is a partnership between the manufacturer and the Government for the benefit of the manufacturer. 26. Would you have no tariff? Yes; I would have a conati tutional tariff. 27. What is a constitutiofial tariff? We should lay our tariff on luxuries, wines, silks, jewels, etc., on what everybody wants, and nobody must have.

“WHAT CHANGE, AND WHY?”

Chicago Times: To the Editor: After leading the newspapers and several political economies to get light on the tariff, I am yet unable to see clearly. Is a change from present rates best? If so, what change, and why? This is no idle request on my part, but arises, on the one hand, from an intense desire to know the truth, and on the other hand from disgust at the course of some would-be leaders. I have learned much from yeur pages on the finances of our country. On all points of that subject I believe your course has been correct. By anin P, ll1 * R a P ray Ra-

tion you will not only oblige, but benefit, yours respectfully. Frank M. Dyer, ’ Plattcville, Wis. One who has read “several political economies” worthy of the name should be able form an opinion upon this subject without much assistance from any newspaper. If Mr. Dyer has not read Bastiat’s “Sophisms of Protection” or Perry’s “Political Economy,” The Times would recommend

him to possess himself of the contents of those works at his earliest convenience. Any man who once gets a firm grasp upon the fnndamental doctrines of economies will be able to think in straight lines not only about the tariff,.but about most other economic questi ns. The first thing in this, as in every other science, is to get a firm grip upon the rudiments. The rest, will follow in the natural order of ratiocination. t . Why does any man exchange Droducts with any other man? Because each has a relative advantage in his production. The carpenter exchanges with the shoemaker because each possesses natuin I or acquired skill and dexteri' v f n his own trade, taols, facilities of one kind or another—in short, advantages in his own trade. The carpenter can get more and better shoes for a given amount of labor by exchange than he can by making them himself. • The shoemaker can get a better house with less labor by con- j fining himself to his own trade and exchanging with the carpenter than he can by building the house with his own

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hinds. And so it is through tae whole round of varied occupations. These diversities of advantage extend to different nations and races, and to all parts of the globe. The free-trader saya let every man, every nation, every race, produce those things which he or his group can best produce by Teason of the favors of natuie, or of natura l oracquired taste, skill, capacity, and exchange freely with every other individual and group. In that way each gets the most because he gets the benefit of the special advantages of any other. Any obstacle to free exchange is an injury to all whom it affects, because it prevents them from reaping the full benefit of their diversities of relative advantage arising out of soil, climate, and individual capacities. Coming to the specific questions asked. The Times has to say to the first, emphatically, yes; a change from present rates is best. In answer to the second question—hat change, and why?”—only general views can be presented. It is not practicable to draft complete schedules. One thing can be said most distinctly: The aim should be at perfect commercial freedom at the earliest moment possible without producing an indus trial shock. We have placed ourselves in an artificial position. we are, so to speak, on the roof of|a high building.—* we want to get to the ground, we have to choose between jumping off and going down Btairs. Better jump than not get down, as the building is on fire. But the stairs are wayif we Only let it be understood that we are going to the bottom before we stop, and the rat*, of progress is not of so much importance, we may go 10 or 26 percent.at a time if we please, only let us understand distinctly that wq are going to the ground be fore the building bums down To drop the figure of speech’

say that we must get rid of the artificial system we have created just as soon as Ve can without doing damage to the general economic interests.— we m ust return from the artificial to the natural, because the natural—commercial freedom—Will Certainly give the best economic results, because cause there is sure to be injurious agitation so long as we uphold an artificial system, and because men have a right to sell their labor where they can get the most for it. The thing called protection is no more nor less than a form of slavery. No man is a free man who is forced by law to sell his products ‘in one place in preference to another—to sell for one dollar when he could, if permitted, get two dollars.

There is no need of going into details. But this may be said, that we can get from the artificial' to the natural without hurting much sooner than is commonly supposed., Take, for example, woolen goods.— The writer of this has not less than fifty samples of suitings sent him by an American now in Europe, giving the prices per suit, men’s wear, in London and in Heidelberg. Prices range lower in London than in Heidelberg, as Germany indulges m the supposed luxury of protestion while England does not. Good judges of cloths who have inspected the samples agree in the Opinion that, q ality for quality, suits can be bought in Heidelberg for half, and in London for less than half, what they can be bought for in ChicagoThat means that Mr. Dyer, in comm >n with the rest of Us, is taxed over 100 per cent, on every suit of woolen clothes he | buys. Let Mr. Dyer once comprehend that fact, and he will ibe able to give a partial anI ewer to hi* question, “W hat change?” He may well ask himself why he should be

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