Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1886 — THE OLDEST AND BEST. [ARTICLE]

THE OLDEST AND BEST.

Read the addresses of Ex-Sena-tor McDonald and Speaker Carlisle before tli- lioquois Club, in Chicago, on another page in this Sentinel. The Democrats of Indiana have honestly elected Sfjenty-Six members of the next General Assembly. The Republican methods of 1876 must not be permitted to change the result. Last week Bro. .lames issued a message to our Irish and Catholic brethren with a view to stir up a a little feeling amongst them a t the Demccrac . This week friend Marshall starts out in the same direction and with the same laudable purpose in view. George should not follow Horace in such devious ways, or the first thing he knows he will plant his feet in the ‘miry clay.’ A letter written by Mr. Edmunds in 1885 has just been published, in which he gives his reasons why he could not support Blaine in the campaign of 1884. “I could not,” he says, “under any circumstances or temptation, say that I believed something about a candidate I did not believe.”

The legislative vote, which has just been compiled by the Secretary of State, shows that the Democrats polled 2,883 more votes than the Republicans. Under the present apportionment, therefore, it is now found that a Democratic* majority of 3,000 has resulted only in the election of a majority of two in th enext General Assembly. The lesson of the election iv~sult in Indiana is plain to all men. The vote shows a Democratic falling off of over 15,000 and a Republican falling off of less than 6,000. If the Democratic stay-at-home vote had been only equal to the Republican, the Democrats wonld have carried the State by 2 ; ooo maj irity. If the full strength -of the Democratic party had been polled it would have won by 12,000.

At the Arthur residence, on the occasion of the funeral, Col. McMichael, tho life-long friend of the dead ex-T’resident, met Mr. Blaine coming up stairs and conducted him.to the parlor. Mr. Edmunds, who stood nearest the dooi*, at once extended his hand to the man from Maine, but the latter declined to touch the hand of MrEdmunds, the man he hated, and simply bowed stiffly. Mr. Edmunds flushed as he withdrew his hand, but no word was exchanged. After leaving the room Blaine met ex-Secretary Chandler, and, narrating the circumstances, asked if he had not ti*ea ed Mr. Edmunds as he deserved. To this Chandler replied: /‘What you did was anything but right. You had no justification in bringing partisan mai ice into the death chamb r of a mutual friend.” This rasped Mr. Blaine so severely that he left the house and took a carriage to the depot, where he awaited the cortege. Mr. Blaine displayed about as much "gentility ns he is posses; r i : -*>f. ‘ !

J. S. Moore, in theN. T. Times, thus replies to Senator Logan’s tariff views in his Pittsburg speech: “The ancients have left to us a sublime saying: “The greatest object in the universe is a good man struggling with adversity.” T is suggests t at the greatest difficulty in the universe to a brave man is a Btruggb' with figures. Senator Logan, in his Pittsburg speech, gives full evidence of this. The Senator has called figures to his aid to show the wickedness of the “Democratic English free traders” in disturbing the present tariff system, and in an outburst of enthusiasm h said:

“The advance of wages from 1860 to 1880 is 150 per cent.; increase in number of hands employed 108 per cent. The excess in the amount of wages paid at present above the amount they w< uld receive at the rate paid in 1860 is oversl6o,ooo,(400. Now, in order to understand the above, it is necessary to explain, first, inasmuch as our population as increased from 31,643,321, in 1860, to 50.155,783, in 1880, it is by no means v onderful that our empl ymeut of labor should in twenty years have increased 108 per cent. As a actual fact we increased the employment of labor during ten years, under a revenue tariff from iBSO to 1860, as follows: In 1850 the whole number of men employed in manufacturing industries wh,, 906,969, while ten years later, in 1860, under a revenue tariff, tee number bad increased to 1,311,246, or nearly 40 per cent, in ten years, and no doubt, had the revenue tariff been in existence ten Years longer the increase would have 1 eon fully as great. Now, as to the increase of wages. Tne simple, fact is as follows: Theaveiage_ j ay per capita in 1860, according to the statistics, was, as near, as possible, 8290 per year, and in 1880 the average was $348, or an increase of 2o f er cent. Sena r « tor Logan’s struggle with figures would give the impression that the wages advanced 150 percent., but hat he really means is, I suppose, t btw hereas we paid in 1860 8378,878,000 in wages, we paid in 1880 8947,953,000. Having thus far made figures more comprehensible 1 will give a tes A case to show that the laborer is worse off at present under our barbarous tariff than he was in 1860 under a r venue tariff.

Now. Sena or Logan spoke in Pittsburg, and I will therefore take a labor r who works in a forge or rolling mill. This class of labor was paid with $383 per annum in 1860 in Pennsylvania, and in 1880 the same labor was paid $414 per mnnutn. Well, then, if the man engaged in this labor was a single man he had to board and lodge in either period. It so lia[ pens that only a few days ago the Census Bureau issued the twentieth volume, which shows the cost of necessaries of life —house rent, board, etc. If Senator Logan or any other orator on the high tariff will consult volume 20, page 110, line 33 of the census report he will find that in 1861 board per week for men in Philad ilphia was $3 and for women $2.75, and in 188 men’s board was $5 per week and w mien’s board $2.50. In Sharon, in Pennsylvania, the board per week for men iu 1860 was $2.50, and in 1880 it was $4.50. Ihece being statistical facts, which can be verified by consulting the volume, page and line which 1 give, I will just make a little calculation and see how far our friend wor ing in a forge has been benefited by dint of the high tariff. 111 186061 this workingman had to pay $156 per annum, at $3 a week, for his board. His earuiugs in 186061 were, as I stated, $383. If we deduct thesls6 for board from the above the workingman had $227 left for all other necessaries. Now, then, let us turn to 1880. Board, as I stated, was $5 a week in Philadelphia; Ids board, therefore, would h A r o be.eu $260. liis year’s earnings, as I have shown, were $414. If we deduct $260 from $414 we get a balance of $154, or $73 less than under the revenue t riff of 1860. Now, I need hardly say that this increase is still more patent in clothing, blankets, or any other manufactured goods that are enhanced by our tariff system, and as an actual fact the workingman has, as we all know, to pay more for his luxuries of tobacco, spirits and beer. If the workingman is married rnJhas « family, then lam sure

he is worse off, as th increase in his rent and other necessaries of a household is more severely felt. I can not dismiss this subject without calling attention to Senator Logan’s remarkable assertion that “under our system of protec ion farm products are to-day higher, while manufactured goods are lower, than in I 860.” Why, as an actual fact, wheat is 10 cents per bushel less this year than it was in 1860. As for cotfi m,. that is much lower than in 1860 Altogether, the statistics and de auctions of Senator Logan are not a success.” * * * *

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