Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 7, Hope, Bartholomew County, 9 June 1892 — Page 4

HOPE REPUBLICAN. Entered at the post office at Hope, Indiana, as second class matter. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY JOSEPH CARTER & SON. JOSEPH CARTER, - - Editor. SXBSCUIPXJOtf: One Tear 81.00 Six Months 50 Xhree Months 25 INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. Fob Advertising Rates. Apply at Office. THURSDAY, - JUNE 9, 1892. TO OUR ADVERTISERS. Those advertisers wishing to change tlieir advertisements must furnish the desired, copy to this office not later than Saturday morning to insure change the following week. DEMOCRACY AND PROHIBITION. Our Prohibition friends persist in telling us that the Democratic party has done as much to restrain the sale of ardent spirits as the Republicans have done. We not only point them to Kansas, Iowa and other States that have strong prohibition laws, but call their attention to party record in Indiana. In 1881, when the legislature was Republican, a resolution submitting a prohibitory amendment was passed. The senate of the subsequent legislature, which was Democratic, held that the amendment proposed by the previous legislature was not on record in the proper form, and consequently there was nothing to act upon. The house took the opposite view, but there being no concurrent action the amendment was not sent to the people. In their platform the Republicans, without expressing any views upon the merits of the amendment, urged its submission. The Democrats denounced prohibition in their platform, and their right to defeat that or any other proposition to amend, the Constitution at any stage. The Prohibition party had no ticket in the field and held no convention, but the Indiana W. C. T. U. urged temperance voters to support the Republican ticket, while the liquor dealers organized to help the Democrats. The result was that the Democrats carried both branches of the succeeding legislature. The senate of the legislature which initiated the prohibition amendment stood: Republicans, 24; Democrats, 24, and Greenback, 2. We would respectfully urge the third party man or woman who always claims to be a Christian, enveloped in the garb of sanctification; also the minister, who is so profuse in proclaiming it from the pulpit, to look into this matter before, renewing these assertions. They should remember that their pretentions impel the people to expect from them the truth, and nothing but the truth. THE COUNTRY AND HARRISON. The Grand Old Party of truth, justice aud honor once more points with pride to a record that forms the -'brightest page in the world's history. Mot'-flrst in war; oh, no; but first in a peace that came through years of struggle and sorrow. She rallied to freedom’s standard and saved to the world the best government beneath the sun. She loosened the bonds of six millions of human beings and bid them go forth unfettered and enjoy the free air for which their maker had created them. With parental, tender impulse she chastised into submission her wayward children, forgave their sins and welcomed them back to the festive board. Her mission has been one of “peace and good will to men.” She gave homes to the homeless and made it possible for them to enjoy the fruits of their own labor, and worship God under their own vine and fig-tree. By her wise legislation she has created a market for labor and plucked the crown of thorns from poverty’s brow. She has caused your flag to be loved and respected on every sea and in every clime, and the weary patriot of other lands is invited to seek a home beneath its protecting folds. And now at the close of a quarter century of unsullied rule, conscious that she has kept the faith and been

true to her charge, she drops the mantle at the patriots’ feet that they may once more pass judgment upon her acts, which will be answered next Nove nber in the language of one of old: “Well done, good and faithful servant; come up higher.” Gentle reader, won’t you join the van and give one vote for home and country? "what is it? What is the Democratic tariff policy, is something we would like to have explained. Their State platforms are conflicting on this vexed question and leave the voter to surmise the party position. We give the tariff plank from each of the State platforms of New Hampshire and Ohio. The first says: “We demand a system of taxation so adjusted as to produce the necessary revenue for the adequate requirements of an honest government economically administered, with the least possible burden upon the people, and affording such incidental protection as meets every reasonable demand of American labor.” That is about all that the most ardent Republican asks. To protect labor, the manufactories that foster and feed it must be protected. The Ohio platform says: “We demand such free raw materials for our factories, shops and forges as shall secure emancipation from industrial bondage. We demand a free list made up of many articles of necessity and comfort to the people, and a reduction of import duties all along the line.” This is absolute free trade. It is all that England has ever asked. The question comes up: What is raw material? It cannot be wool, for it takes labor and capital to produce it. The fleece on the back of the little lamp when dropped has caused labor and care. Can it be flax? No; even the seed was a finished product when planted in the ground to produce the fiber. Can it be iron? If so, its value is meager, as 90 per cent, represents labor. Can it be any of our agricultural products? If so, our columns are open to the farmer, and information solicited as to what it is he produces without labor or care. We ask the thoughtful reader, be his occupation what it may, to give this matter one careful thought and see if he can determine what it is of our finished products that raw material has figured in to any great extent. The doctrine of free raw material, as preached by the free-trader, is nothing more than food intended for the ignorant—a vote-catching humbug that none can explain. President Filmoeb, in his annual message to Congress in December, 1851, had this to say in regard to the results flowing from the repeal of the tariff of 1842: “The value of our exports of breadstuffs and provisions, which it was supposed the incentive of a low tariff and large importations from abroad would have greatly augmented, has fallen from $68,000,000 in 1847 to $21,000,000 in 1851, with almost a certainty of a still further reduction in 1852. The policy which dictated a low rate of duties on foreign merchandise it was thought by those who established it would tend to benefit the farming population of this country by increasing the demand and raising the price of our agricultural products in foreign markets. The foregoing facts, however, seem to show incontestibly that no such results followed the adoption of this policy.” This is living evidence of oppression felt by a low rate of tariff, but George W. Cooper or no other Democratic aspirant for office will quote to you from these messages or give you facts in this matter that is of vital importance to you. Their object is to mislead and deceive you. Office is what they want; it is all they care for. Oitr exports for the last fiscal year ending April 30th exceeded one billion of dollars, while our imports for the same period amounted to $832,098,765, of which about 55 per cent, came in free. The balance of trade in our favor was $179,406,514. Dr. N. B. Anderson went to Louisville last Monday on a visit to relatives.

SMOKE Grand Dutchess LONG HAVANA FILLER, Best 5c Cigar on the Market. FOR SALE BY FRANK NELIGH. Political Pointers. Why has not the 3-cents-a-pound duty on Venezuelan coffee, recently 1 imposed by the President’s procla- ' mation, been added to its price, as the free trader told us it would be? * * * It costs $5,000 per day to run the Democratic House at Washington. Last week one entire day was fooled away in a fruitless endeavor to correct the falsehoods in one Democratic speech. * * * The savings banks of Cleveland, O., have $40,000,000 on deposit. The people of that State showed their appreciation of our protective ; policy last November; they will do : likewise next fall. * * * The bonded debt of the Nation, during President Harrison’s three years’ administration, has been reduced $273,077,190 against $223,803,480 in the whole four years of Mr. Cleveland’s term. ♦ * * “W® lead all nations in agriculture; we lead all nations in mining, and we lead all nations in manufacturing. These are the trophies which we bring after twenty-nine years of a protective tariff.” —William McKinley. * * » At a meeting of the unemployed at London, in free-trade England, the red flag of anarchy was displayed. Alongside of the blood-red emblem was a black flag with the inscription: “We demand the right to work.” And this moderate demand is denied them by the wretched Cobdenite policy, which our free trader is seeking to establish in this country. * * * Our American policy of protection was organized by farmers. They cannot sell their wheat and vegetables to one another. They see the land of Virginia—which has few factories —selling on the average at about $11 an acre, while the poorer land of Pennsylvania, with many factories, brings $49 per acre. In Mississippi, land devoted exclusively to agriculture sells for less than $6 per acre, but brings $42 in sterile, manufacturing Massachusetts. So the farmer will continue to vote for protection, because he does not want to vote away one-half the value of his farm. COMPLETE REPORT. Auditor Pence’s annual report is now ready and will be filed with the county commissioners to-day. This report is one of the most complete and systematic ever filed by an auditor of this county. Mr. Pence has changed the entire system of bookkeeping in the auditor’s office, and so arranged every debt and credit that there will hereafter be no time lost in finding any item of expense, no matter how small. By this report the receipts of the county are shown to be $382,572.56; expenditure, $254,700.13, leaving a balance on hand of $129,872.41. Under the head of expenditures there are ninety subdivisions very conveniently arranged. By the change in the system of book-keeping Auditor Pence has placed Bartholomew county at the head of any other county in this State in this line. All who have examined this report pronounce it the most complete one ever submitted to the board of commissioners for approval.—Columbus Republican. We are pleased to learn that the fine brood stock of J. M. Hatton is being well patronized by our farmers.

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