Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 8, Hope, Bartholomew County, 23 June 1892 — Page 4

HOPE REPUBLICAN. SSutered at the post office at Hope, Indiana, as second class matter. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY JOSEPH CARTER & SON. JOSEPH CARTER, - - Editor. SCHSCBIFTION I "One Year ,...#1.00 Six Uoutlns 50 Three ItloiHlis 25 INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. 5For Advertising Rates, Apply at Office. THURSDAY, - JUNE 237 (892. TO OUR ADVERTISERS. Tliooe advertiser* wi*UJLiig to change their advertisement* mn*t furnish the <dowircd copy to tlal* office not later than Saturday moriiiug to ln*ure change the following week. FOR PRESIDENT, BENJAMIN HARRISON, Of Indiana. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT, WHITELAW REID, Of New York. The question is often asked by the free trader; “If the tariff is not a tax, why was quinine cheapened to the consumer when the duty on it was removed?” That the removal of the duty on quinine had nothing to do with the fall in its price is shown by the fact that quinine did not become cheaper immediately after the duty was abolished, but only when, owing to natural causes, its price had fallen throughout the whole world. In 1879, the year when quinine was put on the freelist, the duty having previously been 20 per cent., ad. valorem, quinine sold in the London market at $3.96 per ounce. Today the price is 40 to 60 cents per ounce. How could the removal of the American duty of 20 per cent, lower the London price87 per cent.? England was free trade; hence the removal of the American tariff could in no way affect the price in her markets. Even the supposition is absurd. The fact is that simultaneously with the great fall of the world’s price of quinine, the American price has naturally fallen. The reason for this cheapening is that quinine, technically called sulphate of quinine, is made from the bark of the Cinchona tree, originally found only in the Peruvian Andes. The stripping off of the bark kills the tree, and it therefore became necessary as time passed to penetrate deeper and deeper into the dense mountainous forests of the country to procure bark. Difficulties increased with each succeeding year, the bark became more and more scarce and the price of quinine kept steadily rising. At last, in the year 1861, experiments began to be made in India, Java and Ceylon, with a view to raising Cinchona trees'from the seed. These experiments proved so successful that by the year 1870 bark commenced to be exported from Ceylon. The supply has gone on increasing ever since until in 1887 the combined exports of India, Java and Ceylon was 8,118 tons. This is the explanation in full of the reduction in the price of quinine. The supply of Cinchona bark has been increasing, the price has gone down and with it also has fallen the price of quinine. It takes the refined lying of the free-trade reformer to ascribe all this to the removal of a 20 per cent. duty. It is such crumbs as this they pick up on which to make deceitful arguments and mislead an honest people, whose only desire is tile good of their country. FROM BISMARCK. “It is my deliberate judgment that the prosperity of America is mainly due to its system of protective laws. 1 urge that* Germany has now reached that period where it is necessary to initiate the tariff system of the United States.”—Prince Bismarck. Thus another one of Europe’s greatest statesmen, bosom friend of the illustrious Wilhelm, one of the twain that united the German Empire, who christened it “Fatherland” arid made it master of Europe, now, in his old age, retired from politics,

with no other ambition to gratify, he looks with parental care to the future welfare of the country that has loved and honored him from youth to old age, and tells them “the time has arrived when it is necessary to initiate the tariff system of the United States.” Old patriot and statesman that he is, were he here and make that statement, every little free-trade donkey in the land would call him an ignorant old fraud. The products of Germany are already the best protected in Europe, but not sufficient to bring to them the prosperity that America has; hence the great diplomate looks with longing eye to these shores and tells his countrymen to pattern after them. Is he right and the free-trade party wrong? • This is a question that the American people will soon be called upon to answer. Is it too much to ask the lover of his country to give this matter unbiased, careful thought? REPUBLICAN DOCTRINE. The policy of the Republican party is America for Americans. Their method of accomplishing this great end is by placing such restrictions on imports as will keep all work within their own dominions. The country is to be made self-supplying. What can be produced at home is not to be bought abroad. Articles that cannot be produced here, and have not already been, are to be placed on the free list. That is the keynote of all Republican doctrine, as evidenced by the McKinley bill, that is working but the idea of its designers with the precision and effectiveness of a machine. A sound currency, fostering labor by protecting home industries; a free ballot and fair count, is the motto of the Republican party. They point with pride to their history from 1861 to this day. There is not one page they would have obliterated from the book of remembrance or kept from their children. They have no broken pledges to mourn over. Like Timothy of old, they have kept the faith and have been true to their charge. On that record of good works that speaks for itself the Grand Old Party again comes to the people for a new lease of power, with the assurance that its conduct in the past shall be a guarantee for the future. No backward steps will be taken; no halting between two opinions, but “Forwardj march,” is the watcji-word. If you want your country to play subordinate to the crowned heads of Europe, don’t vote the Republican ticket, for it represents freedom and America. The time is now near at hand when the embryo Democratic statesman will be around telling the farmer that protection is oppression and a burden to his business; that none but the rich manufacturer is benefited by it. Look over this list, not an article of which we do not produce in abundance, and ask him to explain it away; The dutiable imports of 1891 that came into competition with the products of the American farmer were animals, breadstuffs, flax, hemp, fruits, other than tropical, eggs, hay, hops, meat, dairy products, rice, seeds, leaf tobacco, vegetables and wool, all amounting in value to the sum of $52,889,402, or one-seventh of all the dutiable imports of last year. There is not a single item in this list that is not produced in our States, yet the free-trade humbug has the impudence to stand up before an intelligent audience of farmers and, with his hand over his heart, tell them how they are wronged by this iniquitous tariff. The protection given by the McKinley bill to producers and home industries, if let remain in peace, will bring lasting prosperity to the farmer. We believe the farmer, as a general rule, is the most intelligent of all our producers, and that he understands that his interest in protection is greater than that of any other producer. He understands that the tariff not only places duties on competing farm products and thus protects him directly, but also that every mill, every factory and e,very work-shop established in this

country by that tariff is so much indirect protection to him by the market it creates for his products. When the farmer, tiring of the system which makes him prosperous and happy and the most independent of all tradesmen, desires to destroy his home market and place himself at the mercy of the foreigner, all he has to do is to place the Democratic party in power amd he will have accomplished his end. DEMOCRATIC PRESS OPINIONS OP HARISON'S RENOMINATION. We will quote, without comment, from four of the leading Democratic papers of the United States on our presidential nomination: Chicago Herald: The patriotic people of the United States, without regard to political affiliations, will feel like rejoicing at the President’s success. Louisville Courier-Journal: The triumph of Mr. Harrison is overwhelming, and Democrats may as well look the situation in the face. Beyond any question the President is the strongest candidate the Republicans could have put in the field. Augusta(Ga.)Chronicle: Speaking from the standpoint of a Democrat and purely party consideration, the defect of Mr. Blaine is a matter of regret. He would have been an easier man to beat than President Harrison. New York Sun: It would be folly for Democrats to underestimate an antagonist who has manifested such consummate political ability and steadfastness in the campaign just ended, and who can and will promote his re-election by a masterly use of the same agencies as have been employed in the preliminary contest for a renomination. FACTS WORTH REMEMBERING. A square mile contains 640 acres. A piece of ground 209 feet square makes one acre. $13,000 is the average cost of coal burned per trip by an ocean steamer. The average cost of constructing a standard passenger car is $4,000. Alaska cost the United States $7,000,000, and we have received from the fur company already $8,000,000 for seal hunting privileges in its territorial waters. In Calaveras Grove, Cal., there are ninety-two red wood trees, ten of which are over 30 feet in diameter, and eighty-two have a diameter of from 15 to 30 feet. Their height ranges from 150 to 287 feet. Great Britain, the largest kingdom in the world, contains 8,557,658 square miles—more than one-sixth of the entire area of the globe—and embraces under its rule nearly onesixth of the entire world’s population. By actual test it has been proved that a single tow-boat, manned by a few men, can transport at one trip from the Ohio to New Orleans 29,000 tons of coal loaded in barges. It would take 3,000 cars and 100 locomotives, manned by 600 men, to transport this same amount by rail. To supply the demand for milk and its products in this country 15,000,000 cows are required. To furnish food for them the cultivation of 60.090.000 acres of land is required. In caring for the cows and their milk 700.000 men and 1,000,000 horses are employed. Cows and horses consume annually 30,000,000 tons of hay, 90,000,000 bushels of corn meal and the same amount of oat meal, 275.000,000 bushels of oats, 2,000,000 bushels of bran, 30,000,000 bushels of corn and any amount of brewery and starch factory slop. It, costs $400,000,000 to feed these cows and horses.The following enormous sale of binders at Columbus this season has been reported to this office: J. M. Branham & Co., 75 McCormick; Miller & Sharp, 67 Peering; Stephens & Co., 60 Empire; Boyer & Sons, 16 Buckeye, making a total of 218 sold at that place alone, while there has been quite a number sold at other places in the county,

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