Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1888 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

VOLUME XII

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RENSSELAER JASPER COUNTY.-INDIANA. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14. 188«

PLAIN TARIFF TALK

A Concensus ot American Manufacturing Opinion. Glodstone s Comment on Excessive Prote iiori—English Press Comments on the Mills Bill. Etc. To the Rocky Mountain (Denver) News: The Democratic platform has not only taken up the flgl>< of th“ masses against the clasr-es. It not only contends for the reduction of taxation on the necessarle of life instead of on luxuries, but it comprehends in its scope the removal of those impedim 'nts wit’v which tiriff trusts and robber barons have blocked what would otherwise be the irn Bistable progress of our eoun ry, Our nation is a giant, able to dominate the com w merce of the great globe itself; and they keep her in swaddli g clothes Mr. Gladstone in his address to the English manufacturers and merchants at Leeds, said: “Notning in the world c«in wrest commercial supremacy from you while America continues to fetter her own strong hands and arms, and with these fettered arms is content to compete with you, who are free, in neutral markets. You are perfectly safe and you need not allow, any of you, oven your slightest slumbers to be disturbed by the fear that ’• merica will take from you your •• mmercial supremacy.” ■ G. Sanford of Bridgeport, Conn., a i.r- iong Republican, whose manufactory of woolen hats pays $3,000 a week in duties, says: “Our home market cannot buy all the goods we can make and the result is that part cf the time our factory is closed, and our labor is idle, We cannot sell to other countries, not because their goods are better made, but simply and solely because they can get free wool and we have to pay an excessive duty.” They could, he says, with free wool, compete successfully “with any country on the face of the earth,’ because their machinery is better and their labor “better, q”icker and more intelligent."

THE MANUFAETDRERB TALK . Robert BJeakie, a large woolen manufacturer of Maine, says: “Under the Mill’s bill we get tree wool, and a protection of 40 per cent, which are equal in amount to double the whole labor cost of making woolen goods. If European manufacturers were to g«t their labor for nothing,under t is bill we would still have the advantage of them.” J. B. Sargent of New Haven, Conn, the largest manufacturer in the world of some hardware specialties, employing 2,000 men, sa>s that his works have an output of fifty tons daily. He declar s that with free raw material he could send eut to foreign markets alone 180 tons daily. Stephenson, the world known car builder of New York, and a recent convert to Democracy on account of its position on tariff reform, main-, tains that the markets of the world would be oden to him if raw materi* als were free. The old Republican firm j’ J. B Brewster & Co., of New York, carriage manufacturers, say that the war tariff is a positive nindrance to the development of our foreign trade and a menace to our home market, consequently they wili vote this year the Democratic ticket. That tariff reform in this country is dreaded in England may be seen by the editorials published in t ose great manufacturing centers, Manchester and Birmingham. Our folly in beeping up our high war tariff—that Chinese barrier—is apparent to them. Tne geography of the southern countries would give us immense additional markets but for our fatuity.

SOME ENGLISH EXPRESSIONS. The Birmingham Gazett says: “It is a ridiculous mistake to suppose that English manufacturers are pleased with any reduction of duty which has for its object the free admission of those things which America requires te strengthen her manufacturing resources. We shoul d not only lose she American market te a larger ex ent than we have lost it already but we should in a few years be elbowed out of the colonies, out of South America, Squth Africa, China, and te some de* gree out of India also. We o nnot afford to pit our resources against thoseof Connecticut and Pennsylvania on equal terms.” TkaManehester Guardian of July 23, says: “Far-seeing persons among us Io not look upon President Cleveland’s policy with satisfaction: Having regard to their own interests alone they.would much rather see the pres* ent system of high protection main* mined,”

The Birmingham Daily Poet of July 28. says: The main object of the Mills bill is by lightening and in some instances removing the duties on raw materials to lessen tne cost of the production of American me nufac. <rers, and of course any step in that direction will snake the Usited States a more dangerous competitor of England in ah neutral markets ’ The Democratic party in national council assembled has offered to take a step towards fulfilling our manifest destiny. Sha 1 a

FEW BOBBKR BASOKS o nitrolling a rival party lo id us down with burdensome taxation, and cripple our forward march? A Mr. Carnegie makes $1,500.0U0 in a single year, while his poor laborers are ob a succession of strikes to obtain living wages. He buys cast es in Eu* rep? where Mr. Blaine passes a de liehtful time. He returns to Maine and states that neither President Cleveland nor any private individual should interfere with trusts. On the floor of ihe house Mr. Butterworth, the able Republican from Ohio, e aid in i egard to these trusts: “1 am no alone on this floor in the conviction that unless they a;e speedily throt tied they will have upon rhe throat of the republic so firm a grip that nothing short of a revolution will compel them to relax their hold.This is strong language, but 1 mean ev ry word of it.” So says the Democratic party, and next November the revolution will begin.

Gheyeune. August 23,1888.

TWO GREAT IRISHMEN.

Kansas City Times. Th’’ two greatest Irishmen who appeared in public life in the eventful pe/iod from 1775 to 3845, a period which embraces the change from anc ent to modern industrial conditions, were Edmund Burke and Daniel O’Connell Not only tne two greatest Irishmen, but they were the two most accomplished orators in Great BriU ain during that time. Burke’s keen intellect aw through the error of commercial restrictions even oefore dam Smith, and Smith-said of him that lb understood the true principles of commerce better than any living man. O’Gonnell said that protection was robbery, and in his magnificent denunciation asked the Tories, “If protection is such a good thing for the people, are Itish laborers starving ? ” Through the com law repeal agitation he was one of the strongest supporters of Richard Cobden.

OU OF THE RU

(Boston Sunday Bud et.) 3here is likelv to be more indepen dent voting this year than ever before. It is not the business of a non partisan paper like this to say which side will be most benefltted by the changes that will be made. It is, however, positive gain to have so many citizens get out of the old ruts. 5 ven though the first efforts a* political thinking be crude and mistaken the thinking itself is good, and if continued will in the end set them right. Republican National Platform,’6B; It is due to the labor of the nation that taxation should be equalized aud reduced as rapidly a the national faith will permit. - I ■' *■<>>* ■ '■ Republican National Platform. ’B4: The Republican party pledges itself to correct the inequalities of ths tariff and to reduce the surplus. James G. Blaine, June 10, 1868* During the entire war, when we were seeking everything on earth, and in the skies, and in the waters under the earth, out of which taxation oo’d be wrung, it never entered into the eoneeption es Congress te tax bread* stuffs—never. During the most Dress' ing exigencies of the terrible contest in which we were engaged, neither breadstuff* nor him lor ever became the subject of one penny of taxation. * * * Sow, as to the article vs lumber, I again remind the House that there never has boon a tax upon this article I say that whenever the Western frontiersman undertakes to make for himself a home, to till the soil, to carry on the business of life, he needs the lumber for his cabin, for hie wagon or cart, he needs lumber for his plough, he needs lumber for almost every purpose in his daily liie Senator Bon Harrison. gov 28, *B2: The c: oation of the Tariff Commission wai a confession that the tariff needs revision If the report comes in It should be piomptly acted upon My opinion is that no time should be lost after gourress assembles ,ig bringing forward these bmsvim

W. F. SHARPE.

THE REPUBLICAN LEADERS

How the Grand Old Party Has Changed Its Policy for the Benefit of the Plutocrats. Henry Wilson. “Men who have looked with hungry eye upon a treasury overflowing with surplus millions do not wish to see the source from which those coveted millions are derived dried up. Now, as in times past, political ambition is not unwilling to sacrifice the business interests of the country in the hope to win

political power. * * * J think American labor will be best protected by taxing all necessaries of life lightly; placing the raw materials which enter into our manufactures on the free list; raising revenue to support the government upon articles that come in competition with our manufactures and upon the luxuries of life, which are consumed by the more wealthy classes of society. * * * “We want all those articles that enter as raw materials in the manufactures of the country free of duty, so that the country can stand on an equality in the markets of ;he world. * * * Depend upon it, the country will not stand still or consent to keep pace with ;he growth of Pennsylvania railroad iron establishments. This •»U about protection, the history of the past twenty-five years shows las been mainly Tor political effect. Svery public man knows that it las been so. I think the interests of the labor of this c untry will ie best promoted by living as near as we can practically to the declines of sound political economy.” « * *

James A. Garfield. “I am for a. protection which leads to ultimate free trade. * * * Modern scholarship is on the side of free trade.” 1870. Chebteb A. Arthub. “The present \triff system is, in many respects, unjust. It makes unequal distributions both of its burdens and its benefits. * * * Without entering into minute details, which, under present circumstances, is quite unnecessary, I recommen I an enlargement of the free list, so as to include within it the numerous articl s which yield inconsiderable revenue, a simplification of the complex and inconsistent schedule < f duties upon certain manufactures, particularly those of cotton, iron and steel, and a substantial reduction of the duties upon those articles, and upon sugar, molasses, silk, wool and woolen goods.”

Hugh McColloch “The present tariff was created when the government was engaged in a war of unparalleled magnitude for the maintenance of the rightful authority, it has accomplished the object for which it was created, and now needs careful revision to accommodate it to the present condition of the coilntry. The surplus which it produces and locks up in the treasury to the detriment of business is only one of tke many serious objections to it It is greatly ire judicial to our great farming interests by gradually but effectively diminishing the foreign demand for our agricultural productions at remunerative prices. It stands in the way of the restoration of our shipping interests by duties upon many articles which are needed in ship building. It is anti-republican in its character and its influences; it fosters monopolies; it enriches the few at the ex[ ense of the many. It violates the constitution of the United States, inasmuch as upon many articles duties **re imposed for protection, not for revenue.” Justin S. Morrill. “The tariff was intended to be revised, so that there should be some reduction in the cost of living. It was obvious from the first

that woolens and wools would have have t j submit to thsir fair, equitable and just share.” John Sherman. “We agree that the tariff should be revised and the taxes reduced. That under existing law we are collecting from the people of the United States is national taxes the sum of fifty to one hundred millions of dollars more than is requisite to meet all the proper current expenditure of the government and all our obligations to the public creditors and to comply with the sinking fund act for the gradual reduction of the public debt.” Joseph R. Hawlet. “I will vote in any direction to bring about a resolute attempt to give us a revision of the tariff. I Say that as representing a protectionist constituency.”

Benjamin Butterworth. “Ever / nation that is worthy the name is seeking to enlarge the area of its trade and commerce, to enlarge the opportunity to buy and find new markets in which t o sell.’’ John D. Long. “There are only two ways to reduce the suiplus revenue: one, by raising the tariff to a prohibitory hight, which nobody advocates; the other, the free list. The free list is the Honest revenue reformer’s hope.”

Senator Allisof. “I will say with regard to the duty on wool and woolens, that I regard it not as an intentional fraud, but as operating as though it were a fraud, upon the great body of the people of the United States. I allude to the woolen tariff, a law, the effect of whieh has been to materially injure the sheep husbandry of this country. In a single county in the State of lowa, between 1867 and 1869, the number of sheep was reduced from 22,000 to about 18,000 in two years, and what is true of this county is true to a greater or less extent in other counties m lowa, and during this time the price of wool has been constamly|depreciated. Mr. Lawrence—l should like the gentleman to inform me how a reduction of the duty on wool and woolen goods would inure to the advantage of the wool grower? Mr. Allison—l will tell the gentleman how, in my judgment, the wool grower will be benefited. As the law now is the tariff ui>uu fine wools of a character not produced in this country is 100 per cent, upon their cost. The uuon woolens of the same class is only about 50 per cent., so that the finer woolen goods are imported, and not the coarser fabrics. Before the tariff of 1867 our manufacturers of fine goods mixed foreign fine wools with our domestic product, and were thus able to compete successfully with the foreign manufacture of similar wools. But being prohibited from importing this cl»ss of woo a, these fine g ?ods cannot now be produced in this country as cheaply as they can be imported. Consequently, mills that were formerly engaged in producing these goods have been compelled to abandon business or manufacture the coarser fabrics. If they could afford to manufacture those fine goods, they would make a market which we do not now have, for our fine wools to be mixed with other fine wools of a different character from abroad. This want of a market as I understand it, is the reason why our fine wools now command so low a price. There is no demand for them at home, and we cannot export them in competition with fine wools gro <n in other countries. Warner Miller. “The sooner we have that [tariff ] revision, the better it will be for all industries.”

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