Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1888 — BEAD THIS ARTFULLY. [ARTICLE]

BEAD THIS ARTFULLY.

New York Star: ommerce between the United States and other countries has not been crushed out. The theory of the high protectionists that we can develop an allsufficient home mnrket has totally broken down. But the foreign trade that we hold in spite of a pernicious system has passed into the hands of outsiders, and the profits of carrying products to and fro between continents go altogether into the pockets of aliens, who also monopolize the benefits of sales in our home markets of goods designed for exportation, as well as of imported merchandise, and the mischief extends even further. Our foolish effort to carry out the bigoted idea of “American markets only for American producers and dealers” results in the transfer of a great part of our Uome trad to the control of foreigners, and we thus lose n< t only the profit on our transmarine sales and purchases, but much of the gain of the traffic between merchant and customer within our own country. As to the shipping interest, even during the war with the South we made a mere respectable showing than we do now. » Last year was the worst ever known to our shippers since the American merchant flag made its appearance on the ocean. • In considering the broad economic vuestion that is now before the country, no considerable division of the population must be left out of account. Protection as it has been practiced, is the friend of very few. In the long run it is the friend of none, as is demonstrated by the condition of workmen to-day in the industries that have deemed t .emselves specially

favored by the war tariff system. How hostile the inhibitive f ax is to the farmers ouraccomplished contributor has demonstrated in articles published during last month. But the case of the merchant and of those he employs has not yet received sufficient consideration in the discussion. Here in New York, amid the recollections of our once great ocean traffic, with the multitude of European flags at our wharves, where American ensigns once far outnumbered all others, we shot Id be able to appreciate the necessity of breaking down the barrier that has destroyed the honest business of which we were so proud, and in which, under democratic government we held the second place among the nations of the world —and, but for the blight of monopoly projection, would now hold the first rank. The reduction of duties on leading imports would bring to our merchant 4one advantage not often considered. The temptation now offered to fraud would be diminished or disappear; undervaluations would no longer prevail, and Americans would not be driven, through the operation (J their own laws, out of business uy xurcignew, who have no other interest "in pur country than the gain they can make by defrauding it. The dut;es named in our schedules are not eollected. To reduce them to a rational basis is the wisest way to insure just receipts and a fair field to American enterprise, so that the industry and commerce of the country may both flourish for the advantage of its own citizens.

Take your butter and eggs to J. W. Duvall, at the new Grocery, and get cash or goods for them. In 188? Senator Sherman opposed the bill to prohibit Chinese emigration into this country. He is now, however, in favor of excluding Chinese cheap labor. . Remember the new Grocery and give them a trial. Two doors east of post-office. J. W. Duvall, proprietor. The Lagrange Register, republican, calls the Prohibitionists of Indiana “a body of politically misguided men.”