Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 20, Hope, Bartholomew County, 8 September 1892 — Page 4

hope. BttmicflH at i'bo post office‘-at-Rdpe, Indiana, as second-class inatter. PUBLlSHEO'fiVERV THURSDAY BY .JOSEPH CARTER & SON. hJOSEPH CARTER, - - Editor. SUBSCRIPTION: ‘Bne Year 81.00 INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. For Advrrtising Ratss. Apply at Office. THURSDAY, SBPTOER3,1892. TO OUR ADVERTISERS. Those advertisers wislilug: to change f their advertisements must furnish the copy to this office not later than morning to insure change *the following week. FOIl PRESIDENT, BENJAMIN HARRISON, Of Indiana. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT* iWHITtUW REID, Of New York. STATE TICKET. For Governor, IRA J. CHASE, of Hendricks. For Lieutenant-governor, "(THEODORE SHOCKNEY of Randolph. For Secretary of State, AARON JONES, of St. JosephFor Auditor of State, JOHN W. GOONS, of Marlon. For Treasurer of State, F. J. SCHOLTZ, of Vacdcrhurg. For Attorney-general, J. D. FBBRALL, of Lagrange. For Supreme Court Reporter, (GEORGE P. HAYWOOD, of Tippecanoe, il'or Superintendent of Public Instruction, JAMES H. HENRY, of Morgan. For State Statistician, IMEON J. THOMPSON, of Shelby. For Judges of Supreme Court, ‘Second District—JOHN D. MILLER. ’Third District—BYRON K. ELLIOTT. (Fifth District—ROBERT W. MCBRIDE. For Appellate Judge, First District, A.O. GAVINS, of Green. ’For Appellate Judge, Second District, C. S. BAKER, of Bartholomew. To, Appellate Judge, Third District, JAMES B. BLACK, of Marion. For Appellate Judge, Fourth District, M. S. ROBINSON, of Madison. For Appellate Judge,-Fifth District, EDGAR 0. CRUMP ACKER, of Porter. ■COUNTY TICKET. Representative—THOMAS E. DAVIDSON. Sheriff—RICHARD CONN. Treasurer—HENRY NOLTING. Coroner— Dr. 0. E. REYNOLDS. Surveyor—LEWIS VAN HORN. Assessor—W. H. JACKSON. Commissioner. First District—A. J. ALEXANDER. Third District—WM. E. MOFFAT. Cooper, the congressman and political juggler, Is again renewing his broken pledges to his mislead constituents in the fifth Indiana district. Cooper’s pledges are like the lost sheep of Israel—they have n© assurance that their redeemer liveth. A Republican club with 96 members was organized at Arcade Hall last Friday night, with the following officers:; President, H. H. Hacker; vice-president, David Everroad, Sr.; secretary, A. P. Droaberger; treasurer, J. C. Romlnger. Joe Critchfield, the renowned lecturer, was present and held the vast audience spell-bound for nearly two hours. Labor Commissioner Peck, of New York, a life-long Democrat, who was appointed to that office nine years ago by Grover Cleveland, reports the average wages of the employes in the woolen industry at $52(5.93 per annum, while the British Board of Trade, a government commission, gives $202 as the average annual wages of employes in the same industry in Great Britain. The Democratic party says wages have decreased in this country. They say “not a single workman’s wages have been increased by the McKinley act.” Labor Commissioner Peck, (a Democrat) of New York, says: “My reports show that there were just 289,000 men whose salaries were raised as the result of that law,” (meaning the McKinley law.) Now who will you believe—untruthful politicians who care for nothing

but :&n office, or a man sworn to do his -duty as a public officer? You can’t fall back on your old excuse and nay that he is a lying Republican. He Vis a Democrat and holds his office by virtue of appointment by the infallible Grover while he was Governor nine years ago. It is time the laboring people of this, country studied the issues that divide the two parties. No longer like old Ephraim “be joined to your idols,” but when you see the right, come out like a man and advocate and vote for it. Qnestlons for Free-Trader*. You say protection caused the Homestead strike. What, then, caused the Buffalo strike? If trusts are springing up under the new tariff, how is it that prices are falling all the time? Does it never shake your faith in Cobden’s creed to contemplate how, under protection, this 'country has advanced from a condition exclusively agricultural to one in which we produce $8,000,000,000 in manufactured goods, while Great Britain, with a start of -centuries, only manufactures about $4,500,000,000? Farmers have always been the mainstay of protection, not only voting for the policy, but actually shaping it through their representatives in Congress. It cannot justly be, called a manufacturers’ policy, can it? When steel rails sell in New York for less than the London price, as they have done in the past, where does the “tax” come in? If ;you are patriotic, why do you ever mourn the establishment of the tin-plate industry in America? How would you raise the money to run the government if the tin-plate duty were abolished? We need every cent now raised by the McKinley law for legitimate expenses. Would you, in the absence of a tin-plate tariff, reimpose the heavy duties of the Mills bill on sugar? Is not a tin-plate duty preferable to a sugar duty as a means of raising revenue? Protection, you say, creates trusts in the United States. Does freetrade create the numerous English trusts? Why did New South Wales, buft lately the sole companion of England in Cobdenism, abandon that policy after a fair trial, and adopt protection? Did you ever hear of an iron and steel worker who made $10,000 a year before the Homestead strike revealed him in the employ of the Carnegie Steel Company? Does not the fact that within the last 12 years 2,000,000 acres of land have been thrown out of arable cultivation in England indicate that free-trade injures farming? Why has scoured wool (fine Ohio fleece) brought on an average 32 cents a pound more than the competing grade (Australia average scoured fleece) in the free-trade London market? Do you think that you can convince American wool growers that their product would not fall in price to the London level if protection were withdrawn? If the new tariff law has not given increased employment to our own citizens, why are foreign industries depressed “all on account of the McKinley bill?” If free-trade is for the benefit of the “plain people,” why is the leadmg spirit of the Standard Oil Trust a free-trader? When George Washington signed the great protective tariff bill of 1789, was he giving his approval to a “fraud” and “robbery?”—American Economist. C. F. Feck, of whom we spoke in another paragraph, is the Democratic Commissioner of Labor of the State of New York, which is now completely under Democratic control. He undertook an investigation into the “effect of the tariff on labor and wages,” doubtless with the purpose in view of supplying the Democratic party with campaign ammunition in the form of an of-

NEW FLOUR & FEED EJ X CHANG El I I have just opened to the public a new Flour and Feed Exchange in the Reed building, Hope, Ind., and will keep for exchange the celebrated COLUMBUS ROLLER FLOUR And will -also keep a large supply of Feed, Meal, etc., which I will exchange for Wheat at reasonable rates. I cordially invite tne pnD" lie to give me a trial. I will treat yon right. BRtJCE L. MIL-LER.

ficial report, specifically locating and describing the numerous wage reductions of which 'the calamity tariff reformer has been prating since October, 1890. But it seems that the facts panned out differently from what Mr. Peck expected. Nevertheless, he seems to have had the honesty to give them to the public exactly as he found them and to allow them to speak for themselves. The I result has been just as in the Senjte report, that a powerful campaign document is placed in the hands of the protectionist. The Coiimissioner says; “There was a nef. increase in wages of $6,33?,925.09; in the year 1891 as compared with the amount paid in 1890, and a net ii crease of production of $31,315,130.68 in the year 1891 over that of 1890.” He further says: “Of the 67 industries covered, 77 per cent, of them show an increase either of the vjages or product, or both, and there were no less than 87,717 instances of individual increases of wages during the s&me year. ” Still, in the face of this Democratic testimony, the freetrade booter will go right along misrepresenting labor and trying to place enmity between it and capital. He says “the total average increase of yearly earnings of the 285,000 employes was $43.96 in 1891 as compared with 1890.” Of strikes he says “the total number reported for the year 1891 was 4,619, as against 6,258 occurring in the year 1890, a, decrease of 1,740.” Yet the Democrat tells you that protection fosters strikes. The Commissioner says “whatever the statistical data collected and tabulated may prove relative to the effects of protection on labor and wages in New York may justly be taken as fairly representative of the condition throughout the whole country." Reluctance at making these admissions —so damaging to his party—is visible in the closing paragraph of this Democratic official’s report. He weill knew that for telling the truth he would be branded by the free-trade humbug as a traitor to his party. LOW EXCURSION RATES. With their customary promptness the Big Four route are already in the field announcing special low rates to Washington and Baltimore for all Veterans.and their friends desiring to attend the National Encampment G, A. R. and the Meeting of the Naval Veteran Assocation in September, With their excellent train services, Union Depot connections and choice of routes tia Cincinnati and the Scenic Chesapeake & Ohio R’y passing through the Famous Battle Fields of Virginia, or via Columbus and the Historic Baltimore & Ohio R. R., the Big Four Route will no doubt prove the favorite line to Washington and Baltimore. Rates always as low as the lowest. Before completing arrangements call on or addresr the nearest agent of the Big Four Route. H. L. Michaels, Agent Big Four Route, Hope, Ind. D. B. Martin, Gen. Pass. Agent, Cincinnati, 0-.

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