Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1892 — HOW WILL YOU VOTE? [ARTICLE]

HOW WILL YOU VOTE?

Carnegie now with bayonets About bls mills arrayed, And cannon trained upon the men, Is raising the blockada McKinley’s Bill —Bill Pinkerton. The Republican campaign appears to be haWacked. Mr. Carnegie is bringing the grayhairs of the infant industry in sorrow to the grave. Judged from his political utterances, Mr. Platt, of New York, must be suffering from a case of lock-jaw. If high tariff teachings lead to murder in the first degree, or in the second degree, the teachers ought to be dismissed. It is hoped by the administration that good Republicans will not mind the stench from the Pension Bureau, as the weather miy be cooler in the fail. Weaver has been presented with a silver pen with which to sign a free-coinage bill when he becomes President. Why didn’t his friends give him something useful. St. Louis Republic: The present prospect is that Harrison will not come within 25,000 votes of a plurality in Indiana. And it may comfort him to think that Indiana will probably come at least 25,000 votes nearer giving him a plurality than will NewYork.

Appeal-Avalanche: Why should the farmers of the country follow the leadership of the multi-millionaire senators of the silver mining States? Every vote that shall be cast for Weaver will be a vote to make those senators richer and the farmers poorer, > ’2s>4 “What Republican majority do the people of Pennsylvania expect to give this year?” asks the Philadelphia Press, evidently in a spirit of great anxiety. The answer is found in a scrap of history: In 1877, after the great Pittsburg riots, Pennsylvania went Democratic, and Republican anxiety now is due to a general belief that history will repeat itself. It is not at all singular that the violent passions of those who are ignorant enough to be deceived should be developed when their wages are reduced by those who helped to deceive them, but it is rather singular, though it is intelligible enough, that they should be called communists and anarchists by the men who persuaded them that the chief object of taxation in America is to supply them with Brussels carpets and pianos. The Republican organs are saying a good deal about Mr. Cleveland’s “misgivings” as to the advisability of nominating him. They are also industriously circulating the report that he is not quite so slender as Hamlet or Romeo. All we have to say on the subject is that if our Republican friends are depending on these great arguments to elect Messrs. Harrison and Reid they must be in a sad way for campaign material, and have very slim hopes of electing their candidates.

In his castle in Scotland, purchased with the millions stolen from the American people under the pretense of protecting American workingmen, Andrew Carnegie received frequent bulletins by cable, keeping him promptly advised of the fighting as tt progressed at Homestead between his hired detectives and the workingmen who recently left his employ because they would not submit to further robbery. Mr. Carnegie finds it eery convenient to be in Europe at this time. Many Democratic Newspapers are sssailing the Hon. Thomas H. Carter, the new Chairman of the Republican National Committee, on the ground that some twelve years ago he was a book agent in lowa and Nebraska, telling a work called the “Footprints Time,” and that he induced many farmers to mortgage their property in order to acquire county rights in the work. The story goes that the mortgages were foreclosed, and the farmers lost their homes. It will not do to say that this story, if true, shows that Mr. Carter is not a suitable man to conduct the national camP**gn of the Republics » party. The ' c-, ' \

reverse is the case. If Mr. Cartel has been instrumental in ousting the farmers from their homes, as it charged, he is on that account all the better representative of the Republican party and the Republican policy, Wanamaker raised $400,000 for Quay and Blocks-of-flve Dudley spent it—how, everyone knows. It was for this money, expended in this manner, that Wanamaker was given one of the highest offices in the country. And the President ought not to be blamed for this smirch upon the national honor. It is the g. o. p. which is responsible. Harrisori did not pick out Wanamaker as his own choice. The Philadelphia purveyor of boodle was named by the directing powers of the Republican party, after one consultation, as the one to receive the reward for raising the $400,• 000 corruption fund.

St. Louis Republic: Upder the McKinley bill imported woolens used for ladies’ dresses, for men’s coats and for clothing of every description are taxed an average of over 80 cents on every dollar of their price in Europe, and often much more than their price in Europe. The dresses and underwear of our American women are thus taxed on the plea that the taxes mike wages high for the labor engaged in the New England factories, yet we have the official report of the Commissioner of Labor of Massachusetts on manufactures and labor in that State from which it appears that the average earnings of the labor employed in 141 Massachusetts woolen factories are considerably less than $1 a day. __ It is not unusual to hear it asserted that protection means higher prices to the farmer, to the mechanic and to the manufacturer, In the same breath it is asserted that the cost of living is not increased. How can this be? If protection increases the price of the farmer’s productsand of the manufacturer’s products, why is it that the cost of living is not increased? If protection causes wheat, potatoes, butter and eggs to bring higher prices, does it not cost more for the laboring man to live? Possibly- the high tariff prophets assume that the cost of living is not increased because he and his family eat les? when prices advance. This may be the explanation, but it is not a satisfactory one.

If the Pinkertons are to be called in: if the militia is to lie forced into the field every time those who have been told that “a cheap coat makes a cheap man” try to prevent themselves from being competed with, what consistency is there in maintaining laws which are passed to enable strong and wealthy corporations and combinations of corporations to shut out “scabs” and “rats” that is, those who will work cheaper or sell cheaper than they wish to do? We cannot do justice on such a basis as this, which is itself unjust. And as long as this injustice continues there will be no peace in America. We will have these continually recurring brawls in which the communism inculcated by the propagation of the Republican theory that there is no profit except in getting something for nothing will show itself first in fraud, and, when that fails, in violence.

St. Paul Globe: It takes ten columns of space in the New York World to recapitulate all the strikes which have occurred in protected industries in this country since the McKinley law went into effect. The magnitude of the list is astounding, even to those who have long been convinced that “protection” protects capital in its aggressions upon labor. Sixteen days after the act went into effect 1,200 iron miners at Dayton, Tenn., struck against a reduction of wages. That was the first, and it has been followed by no fewer than 473 strikes against reductions of wages under the McKinley tariff iniquity. As the World expresses it, there “has been no instant of time since the McKinley tariff act went into effect that that there has not been in progre-s, somewhere within the United States, a strike, against a proposed reduction of wages in some protected industry.” Nowhere does the Constitution of the United States authorize the levy of taxes to prevent competition, to restrict trade, and to increase the prices paid for the necessaries of life by consumers. Had it been proposed to authorize the levy of taxes for any such iniquitous purpose, nine-tenths of the members of the convention that adopted the Constitution would have voted the proposition down. Such taxes can only be levied by fraudulent pretenses. If the law levying them had been entitled “an act to prevent competition, restrict trade and increase prices,” as it really is, it could be carried on its title in the Supreme Court, which would be obliged on its title to declare it null and void. There is no warrant in America for this un-American system. The system of taxation for revenue only is the only system of taxation that 'is American. All other taxes are foreign to America, and native only to such despotisms aa that of Russia.

k VOTE FOR WEAVER IS A VOTE FOR HARRISON. It !■ a Vote lor the Indefinite Continuance of the Robber Tariff and for Unbounded Extravagance—Why Republicans Encourage the Third Party. Will It Be lor Weaver? A vote for Weaver in any Democratic State is a vote for Harrison, says the Louisville Courier-Journal. A vote for Weaver Is therefore a vote for the force bill and for the indefinite continuance of the robber tariff, which reduces each year the exchange value of the cotton crop at least fifty million of dollars. It is a vote for unbounded extravagance, unnatural expenditures, and brings us no nearer currency reform. An examination of the votes in the Electoral College makes plain to any one that Weaver’s election is impossible; that either Cleveland or Harrison will Ie the next President. Every vote drawn from the Cleveland column strengthens Harrison’s chances. The total vote in the Electoral College is 444; the successful candidate must receive 221 votes. If the States in 1892 vote as they did in 1888, the vote, in-

eluding the new States, will be as follows: Democratic. I Republican. Alabama 11 California 9 Arkansas 8 Colorado 4 Connecticut g ldaho 3 Delaware 3 11 noia 24 Florida 4 Indiana 15 Georgia 13 lowa 13 Kentucky 13 Kansas 10 Louisiana 8 Maine 6 Marylatd 8 Massachusetts 15 Mississippi Missouri UiMinnesota 9 New Jersey 10 Montana 3 North Carolina ll Nebraska 8 South Carolina 9 Nevada 3 Tennessee 12 New Hampshire 4 Texas 15 New York 30 Virginia. 22 t o th Dakota 3 West Virginia 0 Onio 23 Oregon 4 Total 175 Pennsylvania 32 Rhode Island 4 South Dakota 4 Vermont 4 Washington 4 Wisconsin 12 Wyoming 3 . Total 269

To win Mr. Cleveland must carry the States he carried in 1888, and add fortyeight votes. New York has thirty-six and Indiana fifteen, or fifty-one in all. Holding the , votes he had in 1888, and adding New York and Indiana, Mr. Cleveland will j be elected. Every vote for Weaver in any State | in the Democratic column weakens I Cleveland. Giving him New York ind ‘ Indiana he fails of an election if by dividing the Democrats the Republicans carry any Southern State. With Indiana and New York and the solid South Mr. Cleveland has 226 votes. If he lose Florida he .will be two short of the required number, and If he lose Delaware he will be one short, and if he lose West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, or Tennessee it will be all the worse. We are assuming now that the People’s candidate by dividing the vote gives the electoral vote of some One State to Harrison. Now let us suppose the Weaver vote is large enough to capture the electoral vote; the only result would be to throw the election in the House, for it is not conceivable the People’s party can get 223 votes in the Electoral College. Let us give them all the States in which by combination or co-operation they could possibly get and it would stand thus: Georgia. 13 Minnesota » Louisiana n Monti ni 3 Mississippi 9 Nebraska H North Carolina 11 Nevada 3 tout i Carolina t North Dakota 3 Virginia. 1? Oregon * West Virginia. 6 South Dakota 4 Tennessee 12 Washington. 4 California. 9 Wyoming 3 Colorado 4 Idaho 3 Total 147 Kansas 10 It is impossible to believe that the People’s party can muster such a vots as this, but even with such a vote Mr. Weav-rhasno chance of an election, and this House, voting by States, would of course elect Cleveland. This leview shows that Gen. Weaver has no chance whatever. He is an oldtime Republican put up to divide the Democratic vote in the Southern States, and enable the Republicans to secure the electoral vote of either Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina. Tennessee, Mississippi or Georgia. That is why the Republicans are encourag ng the third party movement in the South. Now, as in 1876, they are Dying their plans to capture one of th£ Southern States. They admitted new States, with a handful of votes, hoping to pack the College and make sure the ele ‘tion of President, but the increase of population in Democratic States has checkmated their scheme. They now look to the thi*d party in

the South; they count the votes cast for Weaver toelrit Harrison. In view of such facts as these, where is the Democrat who will vote for Weaver, the Republican Stalking Horse?