Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1894 — TIME AND TIDE. [ARTICLE]

TIME AND TIDE.

The tide is again turning toward Democracy. The wail of th< Republican calamity howlers is growing weaker, and many of them will be heartily ashamed of themselves before long. Ex senator Ingalls says the Republicans have overdenethe Ihing, and that the era of prospe. ity now dawning on the country, coming as it will after the e ectment of th. J low tariff law, is goin& to mak } the Democratic oarty stronger with the voters of the country than it has ever been.

The most notable convert to Democrat c heories is Col. A. L. Conger, the mil’ionaire manufacture! of Ohio. He ha i been transformed from a calamity howler to a low tariff advocate In an interview published last Sunday he declared in favor of a low tariff, sayi g that he had been educated for a high protectionist, but that he had been engaged in business in some of the leading lines of mam ufactures for a number ot years and had learned some things by experience which have changed his views on the tariff question. “We do not want protection,” he says, “that will foster trusts. We want the McKinle bill revised on the lines mapped out by James G B'aine; such a policy «s will give i s a line of American steamships from American ports to eveiy couutry in the world, such a protection a§ will start the wheels of every nine and manufacturing es tablishinent in the country.” He means by this that we -must have markets for our surplus pro*> ductions, and that tbe surplus must be carried to foreign ports in American vess.ls. He means that American manufacturers, be.ng prepared to produce far more than the home market can consume, mu?!, like the Am rican farmer, find markets abroad for their sur« plus wares. The American farmers sold abroad last year somethi g like $800,000,000 worth of farm products. They were in compe-

tition with and undersold the products of the farms of the world. In many lines of manuractunng> the American manufac nrer can compete with and undersell the manufacturers of the world, just as the American farmer competes with and undersells the farm, rs of the world. Manufacturing in many lines can be carried on just cheaply in this country as farm ing.