Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 14, Hope, Bartholomew County, 28 July 1892 — Page 6

TOPICS OF THESE TIMES. There is No Relation Between Protection and Strikes. Democratic Flnanoeering:—Some Protective Points and Many Other In* terestlng and Timely Thrusts. ; f . — | PROTECTION AND STRIKES. John B. Glover In Indianapolis Journal. The following statement is taken from the Courier-Journal of recent date: “We have in these Homestead pictures the natural and inevitable results of protection.” The writer of the above extract is a man of distinguished ability and wide reputation. He is oue of the leaders of the great free trade party fn this country; and although he does not always name its candidates for the Presidency, he most generally dictates its platforms. Next to Henry George he is probably the ablest and best known free trader in the United States. A man of this character has no business to make such a statement. There is not a syllable of truth in it from the beginning to the end. Protection is no more responsible for the violence growing out of labor troubles than it is for a Kansas cyclone or the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Was protection responsible for the strew car strike in this city a few months ago. and the violence that grew out of it? Was the war in Tennessee against the miners, in which Mr. Brice, chairman of the Democratic National committee, is said to have had an interest, caused by protection? Was the great strike in the Northwest, on the C., B. & Q. railroad, or the still greater one on the New York Central, ‘‘the inevitable results of protection”? Are the frequently occurring strikes and labor troubles iu England to be ascribed to the direful effects of pro tection? The truth is that protection never was, and, in the very nature of things, never can be the cause of a strike in this country, or of the violence and bloodshed "that usually accompany them. What is the free-trade contention? Why, they assert that the profits of our manufactories are not shared with their employes, and therefore protection is responsible for strikes. They assert that profits are much too large, and that protection makes them so. But this is only an assertion. The truth is that, on an average, manufacturers are securing less profits at this time than ever before. Competition has done its perfect work. Protection may preserve a market, but it cannot of itself maintain prices. Is there a wage-worker in all the land who is silly enough to believe that his wages are likely to be,increased by decreasing the income or profits of the man who pays him his wages? If so, he should join the free-trade procession at once. What are the probabilities. If a manufacturer is making 20 per cent, on his investment are not the men in his employ more likely to secure an advance in their wages than if he were making only 5 per cent? Our free-trade papers, such as the Sentinel, say “no,” and they affirm with great pertinacity that profits have no relations whatever to wages; that small profits are likely to result in good wages as large ones. This is the free-trade theory. Let our workingmen consider it. Would a farmer be as certain to pay fair wages to his harvest hands when he gets 65 cents a bushel for his wheat as if he were to receive $2 a bushel for it? Your festive free-trader answers “yes.” What do you wageworkers say? Democratic demagogues are trying to make party capital out of the deplorable affair at Homestead, because Mr. Carnegie is a Republican, but,what are these same blatant demagogues doing when Mr. Bryce and other Democrats were engaged in the cheerful business of turning out the miners of Tennessee that convicts might take their places? Such demagogy should bo spurned by every sensible man, and it will bo. DEMOCRATIC FINANCIERING. Indianapolis Journal. The Journal lias received several inquiries lately in regard to the origin and growth of the State debt, to pay which the present onerous tax law was enacted. The following facts, compiled from official sources, ■will answer these inquiries: At the close of Governor Joseph A. Wright’s administration, in 1857, the State debt, as reported by the Auditor of State, was $7,782,311. Three years later, in October, 1860, just before, the close of Governor Willard’s administration, Mr. John W. Dodd, Democratic Auditor of State, reported the debt as $10,179,267.09. The report of Dodd, in I860, as compared with that of Talbott, in 1S57, both Democratic officials, showed an increase of the debt during three years of Democratic administration of $2,396,956.00 In 1860 the Republicans carried tiia Sjtate and the Lane-Morton a,daiiaktration j l - 1861.

There nan oeer. ne reduction of the debt since Auditor Dodd’s last report. The Republicans, therefore, inherited from the last Democratic administration adebtof $10,179,267,09, as reported by Auditor in I860. The war of the rebellion, which began about this time, added $2,904,875.33 to the debt, caused by warloan bonds, issued for war purposes, and by the State’s quota of the direct tax levied by Congress in 1861. The war loan was authorized by the Legislature in 1861 to place the State in a condition to resist invasion and enable her to do her part in the suppression of the rebellion. Owing to this increase of the State debt during the war, it reached, in 1862, the high-water mark of $13,084,142. But remember that $10,179,267.09 of this had been inherited from the Democrats. During the next ten years the Republican reduced the debt $9,147,321.42. In proof of this we cite Democratic authority. The last annual report of Hon. John C. Shoemaker, a Democratic Auditor of State, dated Oct. 31, 1871, showed the debt to be $3,884,430.88. It had been reduced to this sum from $13,074,142.42 by successive Republican

POOR OLD DEMOCRACY.

Only one crossing, and the “condition” is as bad as the “theory,”—Chicago Inter Ocean,

administrations, from 1863 to 1871. From this time on the control of the Legislature and of the State finances has been in the hands of the Democratic party, and the debt has increased to its present dimensions, nearly $9,000,000. The tax levey, which had been 25 cents on the $100, was reduced in 1871 to 15 cents, in 1873 to 5 cents, raised in 1875 to 15 cents and reduced again in 1877 to 12 cents where it remained until the present law was passed. The low tax levies, made by the Democrats to win popular applause, were the primary cause of the debt increase which has taken place during the last fifteen years. A tax levy of 15 cents was not sufficient for State purposes. The reduction to 5 cents, at which it stood for two years, was a bare-faced fraud. It was finally placed at 12 cents, which was still too low. Along with this inadequate tax levy the Democrats inaugurated the policy of borrowing money to pay current expenses. Revenue had to be raised some way, and as they refused to raise it by taxation there was no other recourse but borrowing. The credit of the State was good, and capitalists were only too ready to lend. The bonds they got were a blanket mortgage on every acre of land in the State. This "borrowing process was easy and tempting, and the longer it was continued the more fascinating it became. Once embarked in that course the Democrats had not the moral courage or political honesty to break off. Everyone knows how interest piles up when an individual or a State is borrowing money to pay current expenses. There is nothing so ruinous as living on borrowed money. This is what the Democrats did for years. The record shows that during the last thirty years the Democratic party has invariably increased the debt when it had power, while the Republicn party have invariably reduced it. At last driven by the force of public opinion to change its policy and make some provision for reducing the debt it had created, the' Democratic party passed the present law requiring all property to be assessed at its full cash value and increased the levy for state purposes 50 per cent. It remains to be seen whether even this will result in any reduction of the debt. Protection pays. It pays the farmer in giving him home consumption for his products, It pays the carpenter in giving him houses to build. The boot maker, the clothing manufacturer —it pays everybody who produces or who has anything—labor or product—to sell. Protection pays. Union labor will (not) rush to the support of Clevelend and Stevenson. Cleveland appointed Benedict, a notorious ‘ rat’’, Chief of the Bureau of Printing, over the orotest of all union printers, and Stevenson employs non-union men in his Illinois mine. A nice pair for organized labor to draw to.

OUR TARIFF PICTURES. 1. The leading mowing machine manufacturers of the United States announced a year or two ago that they did not make discounts for export on the mowing machines for Canadian markets, and yet Canada bought 11,013

mowing machines from this country in one year, and only 50 from Great Britain,although sheTays the same tariff on the products of both countries. Protected America makes cheaper and better machines for the farmer than free trade England. 2. Many people in the South are opposed to the duty on cotton bagging because Southern planters grow cotton, and think they are oppressed. Yet under the policy of protection, two pounds bagging fell from 13-5 cents a pound in 1872 to 6.Sets. a pound in 1891. Will some SoudK ern editor explain to us why a duty that works in that way isn’t a good thing for the Southern cotton planter to keep on the statute books? He doesn’t pay the duty; the duty pays him. 3. We had no tin-plate industry when the McKinley bill became a law on Oct. 1, 1890. In the preceding twenty years we had sent $307,000,000 cross the ocean to buy tin plate. The tin-plate mills already built or protected under the new tariff have a capicity of 243,000,000 pounds a year, which at the present average import value, means about $7,000,000 annually, or in twenty years $140,000,000 ——— ■ * u*. which will stay in this country and pay American miners and turn the wheels of American mills. VOORHEESAND THE PINKERTONS Inter Ocean. In his loose-jointed and demagogical speech in the Senate on the Homestead riots, Senator Voorhees, of Indiana, boasted that in his State and in New York laws had been enacted, against the Pinkertons, adding: “Where is there a Republican State which takes care of its citizens in this way? There is no such law in the State of Illinois. I might say the Republican State of Illinois, although I believe the Senator from Illinois [Mr. Palmer] will resent this, for he thinks it is not going to be Republican any more, and I am disposed to concur with him.” It was a Republican Governor who signed the Indiana Statute referred to, and a Republican Legislature which passed the New York law. As for Illinois, his strtement is flatly false. It not only has such a law, but was the pioneer in its passage. A Republican General Assembly passed it in 1887, and Gov. Oglesby, one of the stanchest of Republicans, signed it. Wisconsin has a similar law, passed by a Republican Legislature and signed by a Republican Governor. Special reference is here made to the tenth section of the Illinois act which is entitled, “An act to secure the peace and good will of society, to quell riots or disturbances, to secure the execution of the laws and to provide for special deputy sheriffs, and for calling out and using the military force of the State for the preservation of the peace and the protection of property.” The statute as a whole enlarges the power of the sheriff and requires the militia to help preserve the peace, if necessary, and placing the military power under the authority of the civil arm of the Governor as represented in the person of the sheriff of the county. The act was the result of the troubles at Packingtown the season before, when Pinkerton private detectives were called in and one man, an innocent passer by, shot and killed by a member of the Pinkerton force. No one ever knew who did that shooting, nor is it certain that the shot was fired with murderous purpose, but the feeling against the Pinkertons was so strong that the bill made it “unlawful for any force or company of private detectives to assume to act as officers of the law without proper authority.” That settled it. The decree which then went forth, “the Pinkertons must go,” has not been violated since then, five years. It is hardly possible that General Palmer, who heard the vaunting of Voorhees, could have been ignorant of the facts, and it was his clear duty, as a representative of the State in the Senate, to have corrected the misstatement. It may afford hungry Democrats a certain thin satisfaction to know that Adlai Stevenson’s record of turning out 150 postmasters a day was never equaled by any other assistant Post-master-General, but their joy must'

have the sad flavor of reminiscence. The knowlege offers them no hope for the future. As Vice-president under Cleveland he would have nothing to give them. Mr. Hendricks only secured a single office for his friends, and that by fairly begging for it. If the great mugwump I Am would insult and humiliate a man of national reputation like Hendricks, it is not probable that he would grant greater leeway to a small potato like Stevenson. TIT FOR TAT. Fort Wayne Gazette. Snatch of a conversation heard in Fort Wayne yesterday. Free-trader —Hello, S—, are you going down to Homestead to help protect Carnegie’s mills and shoot down those poor laboring men? S —No, I’m going down to Tennessee to help Brice shoot the quarrymen and keep the convicts at work who are now taking the bread out of the mouths of honest American citizens and their dependent families. Just now Democratic editors are reading the riot act to Democratic Congressmen for the disposition they show to spend the people’s money. What do Democratic editors expect? What is the use of talking about promises of retrenchment and reform? Say the Democratic candidates did promise to cut down expenses and were elected on those promises. Don’t Democratic editors know that such promises apply only to the expenditures in other districts? Don’t they know the finest way in the world for a Democratic Congressman to get solid with his constituents is to tell them, when he is running, how much of the Government’s money he will save for them, and when he is elected how much of it he will spend for them? If they don’t they ought to. Take the present Congress for instance. A majority composed largely of men who were never in Congress before, with records to make, what more could be expected of them than that they should show their love for the people who elected them than by securing large slices from the Government pie for the districts which heretofore had gone hungry because their Representatives had been neglectful or stingy? Nothing. So when it came to voting appropriations, these amateurs at legislation took counsel together and agreed among themselves that Podunk should have something and Bungtown should have something, and the way to get it was for each to scratch the other's back and get it. They are bound to have it, too, for most of them want to come back, and money talks—particularly Government money. Mr. Holman may yell a lung loose and weep a tubful of tears —over appropriations for other districts than his own —but the Democrats need the cash and they are going to have it, even if they have to make a Trillion Congress to get it. Nothing can check it except a Republican Congress. Often when the Democrats are compelled by force of circumstances to adopt a Republican rule or practice, they seem to think it impossible to get enough of it, and attempt to carry it to extremes that its authors would never approve. Thus, the Supreme Court had scarcely announced its ruling in regard to the equating of a quorum, and approved Speaker Reed’s course in that respect, than the Democrats attempted to stamp the life out of a minority in their party. Not content simply with saying that the minority should not obstruct business and paralyze the House, they announced in effect that it had no rights they were bound to respect. And this only two years after the time when they were howling furiously at Reed for having their names recorded as present and not voting, thus making the record show the truth instead of a falsehood. Protection extends further than the wages of the Homestead workmen. In those mills alone are employed many thousand workmen and the farmer who produces their food, the growers that produce and the workmen that manufacture their shoes, the makers and producers of their clothing and furniture and carpets, and books, and pianos, and all that they have are benefited in those men having work and getting good wages for that work. Protection to workmen means prosperous times for every body. Give all men employment and all men are happy. If a part of them are idle, all are effected. Protection pays. Mr. McLuckie, one of the men em ployed in the Homestead works, and who testified before the House investigation committee, testified when asked the question, that a reduction of the tariff would result in lower wages. Mr. McLuckie knows what he is talking about, too. Workmen wear silk hats and ride to their work in their own carriages only in America. See reports Homestead investigation. All hail to America under Republican protection and reciprocity. Protection ' pays.

I THE NEWS OF THE WEEK, Chicago claims 1,428,318 people. Palo Alto, Senator Stanford’s famous stallion, is dead. Mexico is proposing to lower its customs duties on raw materials. The flour millers of Now York city have combined, with a capital of $7,500,000. Reliable information is received that itrlkers have sworn to kill thirty of the leading mine owners of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Tne convention of the American flintglass workers at Elmira, N.Y., adjourned Thursday, It will meet at Marlon, Ind., next year. The Supreme Court of Michigan upholds the Miner electoral bill, whereby members of the electoral college are elected bv congressional districts. Chicago is very much disappointed over the defeat of the loan bill in the House. It proposes to go ahead and make the Fair a success, just the same. An organized effort is to bo made to enforce the Sunday-closing law at New Orleans, which has been inoperative because of the strong opposition of saloon-keepers. Moses Poliett, the negro who butchered his wife two weeks ago at St. Louis, because he was jealous, has been indicted by the grand jury for murder in the first degree. < Rev. Sam Small was awarded f 500 damages against a saloon man named Miner, who knocked out one of his teeth during a prohibition light some mouths ago at Atlanta, Ga, Ex-State Treasurer B. T. Noland, of Missouri, went to the penitentiary Friday. He declines to talk further about his case, except to say that his mind is made up to take his punishment like a man. Vanderbilt’s yacht, Alva, was sunk in a collision Sunday night. Mr. Vanderbilt with his guests and crew numbering 33 < were sound asleep at the time, but all escaped. The yacht went to the bottom Advices have boen received at the headquarters of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union in Chicago to the effect that Queen Llljuokianl of the Hawaiian Islands, has become a convert to the temperance cause. Three men stealing a ride on the side ladders of a Missouri Pacific freight train wore knocked off while crossing a bridge near Pleasant Hill, Mo, Two of them wore killed outright, while the third was badly hurt. They were evidently tramps and have not boen identified. The total production of pig-iron In the United States in the first half of 1893 was 4,799,036 gross tons, against 4,911,763 in the second half of 1891, a decrease of 112,704 tons. Adding the production of the two half years, the production was 9,810,819 gross tons in twelve months, which is 508.819 tons in excess of 1890. ' A special from Columbus, O., says: In formation of a nature so direct that, its authenticity cannot be questioned was inadvertently disclosed to a correspondent to the effect that Charles Foster, Secretary of the Treasury, contemplated resigning the office, as the result of the conduct of Ohio at Minneapolis. The stone crushing company at Clinton Point, about a mile above Englewood, N. J., on the river front, is said to be in financial trouble. The company employs nearly fifty men, the most of whom have not been paid for a month or more. The men have secured thirteen attachments against the plant and threaten its destruction unless paid this week. Most of the laborers employed are foreigners and do not understand English. I FOREIQM. Six cases of cholera and four deaths have occurred at Kolomna, sixty-three miles from Moscow. Two deaths have occurred In a village nearer Moscow and two within Moscow. Few of the principal merchants intend to visit Nljnl-Noy-gorod fair. Through confession of one of a gang of conspirators, the Paris police have discovered an extraordinary wholesale plot to blow up the Palace d’Elysees, official residence of President Carnot; the Cham her of Deputies, and the Palais de Justice, on Isle de Doite, where are also situated the Cathedral of Notre Dame and Hotel Dleu hospital. Through those revelations the leaders in tho plot have been arrested and a large quantity of explosives seizedWASHINGTON. It is stated that ex-Secretary Blaine will be asked to go ta Berlin as a member of the international monetary conference. Will there be retaliation? Tho bill authorizing the President to retaliate on Canada if It be shown that passage through any canal of that country is prohibited or mado difficult United States vessel, by closing St. Mary’s canal to free passage and by levying tolls upon Canadian freight of from $2 to $5 per ton was passed by the House, Thursday,’ ithout a dissenting vote. The President sent to the Senate Thursday the following nominations: Andrew D. White, of New York, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Russia; A. Loudon Snowden, of Pennsylvania, now Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten tiary of tho United States to Greece, Ronmania and Servia, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain; Truston Beale, of California, now Minister Resident and Consul-General ol the United States to Persia, to be Envoy (Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Greece, Reumanla and Servia.