Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 6, Hope, Bartholomew County, 2 June 1892 — Page 4

HOPE, REPUBLICAN. Entered at t he post office at Hope, Indiana, as second class matter. PUBUSME-D €V©RY THURSDAY BY JOSEPH CARTER & SON. JOSEPH CARTER. - - Editor. SUBSCRIPTION s One U.-iir , ... .8*.00 Six MontUn . 50 Tlirec lUontiiK 25 INVAHIABCY VN ADVANCE. Fob Advertising Rates. Afplt at Office. THURSDAY, - JUNE 2, 1892. TO OUR ADVERTISERS. Those advertisers wishing to change their advertisements must furnish the desired copy to thlsoflice not later than Saturday morning to insure change the following week. THE BRITISH AND THE TARIFF. (Extracts from a speech delivered hy liord Salisbury, Prime Minister of England, at Hastings, May 18,1892.] Fifty years ago everybody believed that free trade had conquered the ■world, and prophesied that every nation would follow the example of England. The results, however, are not what had been expected. De : spite the prophesies of the free trade advocates foreign nations are adopting protection. * * * We live amid a war of tariffs. An important point is that while nations are negotiating to obtain each other’s commercial favor, none is anxious about the favor of Great Britain, because Great Britain has stripped herself of the armor and weapons with which the battle is to be fought. * * * The attitude which we have taken in regarding it disloyal to the glorious and sacred doctrines of free trade to levy duties on anybody for the sake of anything we get thereby may be noble, but it is not business-like. On those terms you will get nothing. If you intend to hold your own in this conflict of tariffs you must be prepared to refuse nations who injure you access to your markets. * * * I shall expect to be excommunicated for propounding such a doctrine, but I am bound to say that I think the free-traders have gone too far. The above startling confession, coming as it does from one of Englaivfs greatest statesmen, should have the careful consideration of every American voter. After a free trade experience of fifty years, he comes to the front and acknowledges it a failure, and says; “I shall expect to be excommunicated for propounding such a doctrine.” England, the greatest manufacturing country in the world, believed all she had to do was to adopt and proclaim a policy and all other nations would follow. For half a century her statesmen and the press have contended that free trade was right in theory and in fact, as well as beneficial in practice, and have spent large sums of money in trying to convert the American people to that policy. . Now comes the prime minister, and in a speech admits that British free trade is a failure. Though his country, like Ephraim of Old, is joined to its idols, yot when he sees the poverty and suffering it has brought to labor, at the risk of losing his position he tells them that free trade is a failure. Again he says that ‘ ‘an important point is that while nations are negotiating to obtain each other’s commercial favor, none is anxious about the favor of Great Britain, because Great Britain has stripped herself of the armor and weapons with which the battle is to be fought.” Beautiful tribute to reciprocity! England has nothing with which to secure commercial favor! She must have our bread and raw material and any imports she lays on them is a burden on labor. Lord Salisbury understands full well if it was an article of which they had an excess the exporter would have the duty to pay. Bread and raw material stands in' the same relation to that country that sugar does to this. They do not produce enough for home consumption; hence the tariff is a tax. Further on in his speech he deplores the depression in British industries and attributes it to the want of protection. With the eye of a prophet and the statesman that he is he sees the star of the empire, that has for ages dictated the markets of the world, fast fading away. He fully understands that it is the British manufacturer that pays the tariff on exported articles to countries that are excessive producers of the same

line of goods. It would be well tor our free-traders to procure and study this speech. It is not the lamentations of some little petty office-seek-er or demagogue, but the words of a statesman, who now reluctantly confesses the evils entailed upon labor, and the disaster brought to his country by the adoption of the free-trade policy, which the Democratic party is now seeking to establish in this country. Were these questions of reciprocity, protection and free trade fully understood by our people, we cannot believe that the latter would have any advocates beyond a few of-fice-seekers, who are often dishonest in their professions of devotion to principle, and are anything for the loaves and the fishes. WHY TAXES ARE HIGHER. 1. Because Indiana has a large Democratic interest-bearing debt. In November, 1860, the Democratic State Auditor reported the State debt to be $10,179,267. As the Republicans were never in power until 1861, they had no share in the creation of the debt. It was made by the Democrats. The five lines which follow tell the story of Indiana’s debt; 1860 —Up to $10,179,267 —Democratic 1870—Down to $4,166,507 —Republ’n 1880 —Up to $4,998.173 —Democratic 1884 —Down to $4,876,608 —Republ’n 1889 —Up to $8,540,614 —Democratic Every time the Democrats have been in power the debt went up. Every time the Republicans had control the debt went down. Because there has been Democratic extravagance, mismanagement and waste in the affairs of the State. When a State lives beyond its income it runs in debt just as an individual does. It has been the rule under Democratic control to spend more than collected to carry on the State government. For example: In 1885 they spent $639,617 more. In 1886 they spent $28,499 more. In 1887 they spent $441,760 more. In 1888 they spent $264,940 more. In 1889 they spent $882,992 more. To make up the deficit thus created they resorted to borrowing. Borrowed money bears interest. More money was borrowed to pay the interest. Meanwhile economy was neglected, and the debt grew like a rolling snow ball, until it now takes $273,825 a year to pay the interest alone. Last year more money was borrowed, and three-quarters of a million besides, which had been paid back to Indiana by the general government, was swallowed by the current expenses, instead of being applied to the reduction of the debt and stopping the interest. For a generation the Democratic party has squandered the revenues of the State with a reckless hand, and trifled with the interests of the people by making them subordinate to those of the party. Thus matters have run on until the results of waste and mismanagement frightened the Democratic managers themselves, and the legislature of 1890, forced to do something, enacted a new tax law, whose first fruits are being garnered. The State school tax is increased by it one-third. The increased school money is not needed for the schools and cannot be used for any other purpose. The tax upon land is largely and unequally increased. For State purposes alone Rush county pays this year $22,623 more than last year, as follows: Regular State tax .$4,986.00 Benevolent institutions.... 9,935.98 Soldiers’monument 825.02 State University 210.13 State school tax 6,666.73 Total inc. of tax over 1890..$22,632.86 The county tax is only $111.51 larger than last year. The State tax is nearly $22,000 more. The excuse for heaping this burden upon Rush county tax-payers is that the debt must be paid. But the sad truth is that current expenses and interest eat up the huge annual income of the State except about $88,000, at which rate the tax-payers must bear their present load of taxes until the year 1912 —twenty years more—before the debt can be paid off. Democracy is a tax. —Rushville Republican.

The accidental drowning of George Woehler in Haw creek, near this place, last week, has given some of our county officials an opportunity to commit a legal robbery. No county in Indiana is bulldozed and hoodwinked by hungry officers like this. No incorrigible child or helpless little orphan receives more kicks or abuse from its guardian than does our county treasury from those who should be its protectors. The matter now under consideration is the inquest held over the remains of George Woehler. None doubted for a moment that Mr. Woehler had accidentally drowned. An inquest had been held here and his family was satisfied; but it appears that our coroner was about to lose a fat fee, and he was dissatisfied, and so another unnecessary and uncalled-for raid is made on our county treasury. Just as ’Squire Spaugh was closing the investigation of the death of this subject, Dr. Falk arrives on the scene and has a number of witnesses summoned to appear before him the following day at his office in Columbus, thereby, as we have said, needlessly taking about $100 out of the pockets of the over-burdened tax-payers of Bartholomew county. We ask the people; Is it any wonder that ours is one of the most tax-ridden counties in the State? That our county commissioners will be a party to this needless raid by allowing the coroner’s bill, yet remains to be seen. It is time there was a change in this county, as it is evident that the offices are no longer regarded as a public trust, but simply a huge pile that the incumbent seeks some opportunity to assail. During the last twenty years a number of such cases, costing the county from $100 to $600, have come up, and what have they amounted to? Weespecially call the attention of the voter to this line of extravagant jobbery. A few disappointed party cranks are endeavoring to defeat the ronomination of Harrison. They admit that his administration has been the cleanest and best we have ever had and still they say he is not popular. It will be remembered that the Democrats talked the same way in 1888. They said he was cold-blooded; that a touch of his finger would freeze a pail of boiling water; but, regardless of their advice, we pitted him against the best man they had and won a victory that grows brighter as the ages pass by. The Democratic party and a few disappointed Republican office-seekers are opposed to Harrison, but the great mass of the Republican party are for him and will hail with gladness another opportunity to place him in the presidential chair. FLATROCK. —o— Daniel Wertz was down at Helton - ville last week measuring lumber. Several of our local fishermen came in Monday with a lot of fine bass. Several persons from here attended decoration services at Norristown Monday. Mr. Powell, father of Mrs. Dr. Connelly, is quite sick at the residence of the latter. Chas. E. McCartney has purchased a lot from Wm. Nading and will build a house this summer. Wm. Nading and daughter, Miss Emma, have been suffering from a severe attack of sore throat. It seems that the Sons of Veterans’ Post here has died, as we do not hear of any more meetings. This is a pity, for soon the old soldiers will be gone, and then this order ought to perpetuate the memory of the boys in blue. M. L. Herbert, formerly of this place, now a prominent attorney of Johnson county, was admitted to the Bartholomew county bar last Tuesday in order that he might take part in the prosecution to recover damages from the P., C., C. & St. L. railroad for the killing of James Welch. Several of our hunters were out squirrel-hunting yesterday morning.

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