Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1892 — DEBATE THE TARIFF. [ARTICLE]

DEBATE THE TARIFF.

M-KINLEY. WARNER AND ST. JOHN AT MADISON, WIS. Henry W»tter»on CompnUed to Bo Aboont on Account of Slcknea*. and Hi* Place Taken by the Tariff-Reform Advocate of New York. AU Three Talked. Madison, AVis., special]: Ten thousand persons gathered at the lakeside to hear the McKinley-Warner joint debate Friday afternoon. A message arrived in the morning that Henry would be unable to take part in the debate, and W. C. Warner, of the New York Tariff Reform Club, who is stumping the State for the Demooratio committee, took his place. Mr. Warner spoke first. He defined Democracy as being “Equal rights to all, and special privileges to none.” The great question whioh had been raised by the adoption of the Democratic platform at Chicago, and which the people were to settle, was “Whether you could tax a nation into prosperity," and on this question he would chiefly dwell. The whole system of a protective tariff is founded on wrong and injustice. The system was instituted because we are a product of the feudal ages, a relic of the barbarous ages of the past. It was simply a means to compel the common people to bear the burdens which tho rioh should bear. If McKinley was rightly-reported to have said that the people do not know whether they are taxed $1 or $1,000,000 by an indirect system, what, then, is the use of making such a fuss about it? If the place of collecting these taxes were only moved nearer home, thore would bo a revolution not exeelted by that of Watt Tyler in England years ago. It is only the ignorance'of the common people which allows the present system to exist. The Democrats propose to put the revenue taxes just as high as possible upon the things the wealthy use and as low as possible upon what the poor use. As a result of the McKinley bill we now have a Democratic majority in Congress of 150 (almost as much as the tariff on seal plush). This 1b simply aiorecast of the mighty avalanche which will descend upon the Republica is next November. The aim of the Democrats, he said, was free trade. Governor McKinley held the vast audience till supper time. Said he: “What is tariff reform, anyway? Who can tell? Cleveland said several years ago that he knew nothing about the tariff. In his Madison Garden speech he told his auditors naught to show that time had brought enlightenment to his mind. And the 150 majority in Congress, what definition has it given to the term tariff reform? It has passed a bill to untax wool for ihe sole benefit of the New England manufacturer and the injury of all farmers, while leaving the duty on all woolen articles that man is counted on to wear. Yes, and it has passed a bill to lift the tariff on cotton ties for the benefit of the South, while the almost identical iron bands used in many other callings still have upon them the old duty. This is tariff reform. This is the economic polioy of the Democratic party, and it might better be called no policy at all, for it obviously represents no system and can Eroduce no uniform result for good or ad.” The speaker then dwelt on the subject of taxation. “This country,” ho declared, “must raise $400,000,000 taxes annually to defray the expanses of the administration. We must obtain from some source or another $1,0( 0,000 every twenty-four hours. There are only two ways possible—by levying a direct tax upon the people or an import duty on the products of foreign nations. Th* nation must adopt one or the other.” The speaker then dwelt on the disadvantage of the direct tax system and quoted Jefferson and Madison as earnest opponents of It in time of peace. In closing, he said that the United States had thirty years of protection, and the country has improved its financial position so that it is unrivaled among the nations, and $200,(i00,000 of the publlu debt has been paid. Thirty years ago 95 per cent, of the hardware of the country was of English make, but now 95 per cent, is American. The tariff or free trade ftas nothing to do with strikes or lockouts. It has nothing to do with differences between employer and employe. Gov. St. John spoke In behalf of the Prohibition party.

BOLD CRIME OF THE DALTONS They Enter a Bank In Broad Daylight and Carry Off AH the Money. The boldest robbery of the notorious Daltons was committed at El Beno, Oklahoma, at about 10:30 Wednesday morning. At that hour people passing along the street were startled by screams for help coming from the Bank of El Keno. The screams were from Mrs. S. W. Sawyer, wife of the President of the bank, who had just been held up by two robbers, who had also robbed the bank of slo,soi>. At 10:30 a stranger entered the bank, stepped up to the cashier’s window and made an inquiry about some town lots, and then stepped to a desk and commenced writing. In a moment another stranger stepped to the cashier’s desk, and presenting a revolver at Mrs. Sawyer's head, demanded that she hand out all the money in the bank. The woman was so frightened that she could not move, but the robber threatened to:oh'qpt if she did not act quickly, and in a dazed way she went to the vault and, handed to him all the packages of in the vault safe and what .was in the daily change drawer," aggregating about $lO,5! 0, and' less, than SIOO of it was in silver, man who was writiug at the desk turned quickly and grabbed the money:,as Mrs. Sawyer handed it through the wicket and disappeared out of the door, the one holding the revolver following quickly. Mrs. Sawyer screamed several times and fell over in a swoon. The robbers mounted horses that were standing at the edge of the pavement unhitched and rode out Bock Island avenue as fa-t as their horses could go. Mrs. Sawyer was the only person present in the bank, the President, her husband, being absent in Oklahoma. He arrived home about thirty minutes after the robbery. The robbery is believed to be the work of the Daltons on account of the manner of its execution.

HAS COST A MILLION. Estimate of Losses by the Great Homestead Strike. The great lock-out at Homestead is one month old, and has already cost over $1,000,000, besides the sacrifice of a half-score of human lives and serious injuries to many times that number. Of the loss in cash the military has oost in round figures $320,000, the workmen have lost in wages SIBO,OOO, and the Carnegie Company has lost and spent as much more in getting new workmen. The workmen at Beaver Falls, Duquesne, and the Union mills in Pittsburg have lost about SIOO,OOO in wages by their sympathy strike, and the firm is out $100,00.1 by the idleness of these plants. Added to this will be the county expenses for deputy sheriffs and murder trials, the expense to the city for hunting anarchists, and to the nation for Congressional investigations.