Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1888 — A FIZZLE! [ARTICLE]

A FIZZLE!

Posters liberally distributed failed fco draw a crowd at the first meeting of the campaign last evening, and oar republican friends are correspondingly disappointed and unhappy. The pri cipal speaker, T. B. Adams, of Bhaibyvlllejlnd., displayed considerable of the conceited demagogue in his remarks. In his reference to the condition of the country m the decade from 1850 to 1860 he differed very maienaliy with Mr. Garfield, who, on March 6, 1878, in the house of representatives, said: “In 1860 the burdens or national taxation were light. All our revenues, including lean , mounted to only $70,000,000. Our expenditures were 377,000,000, and our vvliole public debt but *65,000,000. In the year 1860 the tonnage of our ships upon the seas was 5,853,BC3 tons, which was more by 149,000 tons than in any other year of our history before or since. Twothircls of our imports were then jrj A w\rvri«n-n Bnffrnyja po were also more than two-thirds of our exports. Our exports that year reached trie gaco vuiae or vloo,uov),000, which .r ' -th roe and onehalf millions more than during any previous year. Our imports were $362,000,000 decidedly more than any other year. And I make this statement on the authority of David A. Wells, that in 3860 we were exporting to foreign countries more American manufactures than in any other year of our history. ******

The fact is, Mr. Chairman, the decade from 1850 to 1860 w its mie of peaca und general prosperity. The aggregate value of real and personal property in the United States in 1850 was Jin round millions, 7,135,000,000; in 1860 it was $16,169,000,000, an increase of 126 per cent., while the population increased but 35 per cent * * * I hold that the facts that I have recited establish, in so far as anything can be established by statistics, that the year 1860 was a year not only of general peace, but of very general prosperity in the United State.”

According to Garfield, under the Democratic tariff for revenue, in 1860 our exports, in value, exceeded our imports $88,000,000, that the tonnage of our ships upon the seas “was more b / 140,000 tons than in any other year of our history before or since, and that twothirds of our imports were carried in American bottoms, as were also more than two-thirds of our exports.” Either Adams is ignorant of the history of our eountry, or he mtentionatiy lied most wofully. We think the latter.

What It Means. —A freer trade means cheaper manufactures.— Cheaper manufactures means a wider market. A wider market means more work. More work means a greater demand for labor, and therefore higher wages. Higher wages better times for American workingmen * * The United States is the only nation in the world that maintains a high tariff on raw materials of manufacture; rnd the only large manufacturing country that has not increased the proportion of manufactured products in its exports during the past twenty-five years. The effect of this absurd war tariff policy has been to glut the home market with inferior goods and to close the markets of the world to our finished products. * Tne democratic policy means a more normal condition of business and better times for everybody.—New York World.