Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1894 — DEMOCRATIC TIMES NOW. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC TIMES NOW.

THE VOICE OF THE CALAMITY HOWLER IS HUSHED. Reviving llnuiueu Under the Tariff Lid Put* a Stop to the I>l«tnal Croaking* of Republican Kdltora and Orator* —An Attempt to Cheok the Rnilnea* Revival Until After Election Record of the Week, The industrial situation, which has been such a thorn in the side of the Republican editors and orators since the enactment of the new tariff law, and the repeal of the McKinley law continues to emphasize the fact that “Democratic times” have but just arrived. Nowhere in the United States is the business revival more marked than in the state of Indiana. Such a complete answer has this proven to the calamity howls of the Republicans that they have become panic stricken and have set about, with an utter disregard of the people’s interests, to advance their partisan ends by preventing the return of good times until after the election. This movement is not entirely confined to Indiana, but it seems to have its origin in the fertile brain of tho Republican state central committee. The fiflJt indication of tho movement came in an interview with tho Indianapolis Journal, in which the proprietors of tfce Merritt woolen mills expressed their intention of dosing their mills for a few weeks to “investigate the prospects under the new tariff bill” and determine what reduction in wages they will be compelled to make as a result of tho enactment of the new tariff law. It will be seen at once that this is a subterfuge, for the raw materials from which woolen goods are manufactured have been made free, the price of fuel has been reduced and the mills are in a better shape to operate at a profit than they have been since the McKinley bill wasjpassed. Following up this announcement from Indianapolis comes one from Bt. Louis that the Neideringhatis tin plate works contemplates a similar shutdown. Neideringhans, it will be remembered, was formerly the Republican congressman from one of the St. Louis districts. It was for his benefit that the Rev. "Billy,’ Owen, then commissioner of labor under President Harrison, but now Republican candidate for secretary of state of Indiana, violated all the provisions of the alien contract labor law and permitted the importation of Welsh tinplate workers. The ridiculousness of the attempt of Neideringhaus to make political capital in this way is amply demonstrated by the dispatches constantly coming from the Indiana gas belt which show increased activity in the tinplate industry sinoe the enactment of the tariff law. Within the last week all the factories which have been idle have gone to work and arrangements nave been completed for several new ones. For instance, the Atlantic tinplate company has been organized with $150,000 capital and will immediately begin the erection of a plant at Atlanta, Hamilton county. Anderson has just secured the location of what is to be the biggest tinplate factory in America, and among the citizens’ committee which secured the plant is Charles L. Henry, the Republican candidate for congress. This will be a 12-mill factory and will employ 1,000 men. Another new tinplate factory will be started in Alexandria. These facts prove that the Neideringhaus shutdown is but a scheme to work up political capital and at the same time gouge the employes of the factory. The fallacy of the claim made by the Merritt mills people, that they must close their woolen mills, is made clearly apparent by the fact that since the new tariff law went into effect the woolen mils at Peru, Ind., have had orders growing upon them so fast that they cannot fill them without lengthening the hours of labor. But the tinplate industry is not the only one in which great activity is being shown. From all over the state, from all over the country, for that matter, business is reported as improving rapidly in all lines. It would take a volume to enumerate the evidences of this, but one thing is peculiarly striking and that is the improvement in the state of Indiana, especially in the line of manufacturing. At Dunkirk oar repair shops have been erected which will require 12 large buildings and have a capacity for employing 1,000 workmen. The McCoy-Howe company of Indianapolis is erecting a 8-story addition to its plant on West Georgia street. Railroad earnings of 132 railroads for August show a big increase over the corresponding period of last year. At the latter time the world’s fair traffic was at its highest. Thursday last was the busiest day in the history of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad. Returns for August show the greatest number of loaded freight cars handled in any month in the company’s history. The Columbian spring works at Hammond, whioh has been shut down for a year, started up Wednesday. They will run double force to fill ordeiis. At Anderson the Victor wiadovglass works resumed cperatichs Thursday. The Anderson ana' Union companies started up on the 22d and 25th inst. Four hundred skilled workmen will be employed.

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The McKinley tariff made raw sugar free and gave the Louisiana sugar planters a bounty of 2 cents par pouud on all the sugar they produced. Thtn the McKinley law provided a duty of one-half a cent per pound on refined sugar in the interest of tho sugar trust. Let us see how the thing worked. The government got no revenue from either raw or refined sugar, while under the old law the government received $60,000,000 ans uuilly from the sugar tariff. In the next plaoe the government paidoutas a direct bounty last year to the sugar producers about Sl7,** 000,000. In the next place the half a cent tariff on refined sugar prevented the importation of refined sugar and gave tho sugar trust amonopoly of the sugar business, and the profits of the trust were $28,000,000 last year. Under the policy of a tariff for revenuo, the Wilson tariff repeals the bounty clause of tho McKinley law, provides for a revenue tariff of 40 per cent on imported raw sugar and reduces the tariff on refined sugar fromone half cent per pound to one-eighth of one per cent. Of oourse tho HUgar plant* rs are equaling because they are deprived of their 2 oeats per pouud bounty. The Wilson tariff still gives them one cent a pound advantage over foreign produced of sugar. Ayer's Sarsaparilla is not a ee * cret preparation. Any physician may lmve tho formula on application. The secret of its success ns a medicine lies in its extraordinary powor to cleanse tho blood of impurities and cure the most deepseated cases of blood-disease.