Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 32, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 September 1888 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SEIVTINEL WEDINESDa

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GRAY TAKES THE STUMP

AND RIDDLES REPUBLICAN PRETENSES

The Old Wheel ITors Expounds Drraocratlo loetrlne Krora the Outset and Stirs tnte People to Wild Enthusiasm A Telling Ars urn eat.

At a recent large democratic mating held in thia. Gov. Gray made the following; strong appeal to his friends and neigblors: JIT Fellow CmzESS I thank 3-0 a for this friendly greeting and am glad to tee so large an audience of the good people of Marion county present to-night. It is an evidence that 70a are aroused to the importance of the questions involved in this campaign and upon which you will pass judgment by yonr ballots on the 6th of November next. The exercise of the right of suffrage is a crave and responsible duty which the American people have to perform. The little pieces of paper called ballots.

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which yoa will deposit in the ballot-box on that day, are simple things within themselves, but they are the freeman's weapon, and when honestly cast and fairly counted, execute the freeman's will and control the destiny of this jreat nation with the same unerring certainty that the leaves of the forest falling to the ground execute the will of God. At the last presidential election, the people, fn the exercise of their political wisdom, made a change of parties in power in the executive department of iJfe government by electing Grover Cleveland president; and I believe that he people, irrespective of party, feel that the best interest of the country was subserved by the charge, and that the people will eipreM their approbation of his administration byreelecting him for another term. Our candidate for vice-presideut is well known to the people of the whole country. For ability, statesmanehip and integrity of character, he Mands at the very head of the public men of this nation. II has served the people Ion? sind well. No stain has ever touched his official life, and his distinguished services have deservedly won for him the title, "The noblest llomaa of them all." THE STATE TICKET.

fo Better Ever Presented by the Tarty In the Stat. As for Indiann, the democratic party never ? presented to the people of the state a bettor icket. it represents in an eminent decree the intelligence and patriotism of the state, and I have no doubt but that it will be triumphantly elected. I am not here to indulge in vituperation and abuse, or in personalities; this should be a campaign of thouirht. The questions at issue are not 60 many, and the controlling questions are different from thote that wtre at issue in previous cam paigns since the war. Informer campaigns the overshadowing question vr:.s that of honest government, and when corruption pervades the administration of public affairs, honest government should nlwuys be the controlling question in the politics of our country, as free government cannot be perpev uated unless integrity characterizes iu administration and üdeiity marks the conduct of its public servants. Now, my countrymen, let us look for a moment at the past, and then at the present, as experience is always the best guide for the future. The people saw under republican rule the tnost gigantic frauds and peculation stalking with Brazen effrontery through nearly every department of the government. They w millions upon millions of the public revenue stolen by whisky rings and other conriraciea orgarixed to rob the government They aw the nation's bonds lavished as a subsidy on preat railway corporation that have not paid the'r debt to the government, and perhaps never wilL They saw the most unheard of corruption practiced in the mail service by the eta.- route conspiracy. They saw nearly two hundred million acres of the public domain given to railroad corporations. They saw foreign syndicates acquiring immense tract of the public lands ia the territories They saw the cattle syndicates take possession of the territories trampling out the right of actual settlers. They saw the elective franchise debauched by the corrupt use of money. They saw the federal Judiciary prostituted to partisan ends, and a president inaugurated that had been defeated at the ballot-box. They eaw the defenders of the Union paid in depreciated paper money, while the bondholders were paid in coin. They saw a system of tarirl taxation established that has destroyed our ship-building, driven American commerce from the oceans, enhanced the price of all the necessaries of lire, and which wrings from the bard earnings of the people nearly one hundred millions of dollars anually more than is required to defray all the expenses of the government; a tariff that has built up and fostered corporate monopolies, syndicates and combinations of capital which arc seeking to obtain political and business control of the country, and through whose agencies come the Importation of pauper contract lalHr, to the great detriment of American workmen. The people sought relief from corruption and misrule by caling back to power the old democratic party, and three and a half years of democratic rule has fchown that the people did not mistake the means of relief. No whisky, ring conspiracies, no land ring:, no bond syndicates, no treedman's bureau frauds, 00 salary frabs, no corrupt practices in war or navy departments, no giving away of the public lands to private corporations, no foreign syndicate acquiring the public domain, no star route and other corrupt practices that signalized republican administrations, characterize the administration of Grover Cleveland. THE TARIFF.

Tbe Present System One ef Simple Robber of the People. On the question of taril taxation the democratic party, standing with its feet planted squarely 00 the constitution and what it beLeres to be the true theory of the government, demands that the people shall not be taxed to a greater extent than is necessary to support the government, taxing the people not to Huppert the government, not for public purposes, but to protect ai.d make lucrative corporate and individual enterprises is not within the legitimate sphere of governmental powers. It ia simply legalized robbery of the people for the benefit of the few, and if such a system of taxation ia to be con Tinned and maintained, let it be no longer proclaimed that this is a government of the people, for the people, and by the people, but a government administered to Impoverish the masses and enrich the favored lew a government almifiistemi In the interest f the opulent and not ia the interest of the people. In the ease of the Loan aseociatien vs. ToEcka, in the supreme court of the United Utes, Jndge MiLer says: Of si) the power cooVrreH en the fTeramnt that ef taaatiuB i tbe most liable to abuse. The power can be employed again! ene classed iodlvidaeis sod In feror 01 anottur, so as to rain the woe cises and give unlimited wraith ant prosperity te tbe other, if there be no traptiad limitation l the cse for wtdeb tbe power mar lie exercised. To lay with one hand the poweret the government en the property ef the ritixen, and wttb tbe oilier bestow it npoe favored individuals, te aid privat enterprise aa l build up priva'e ferta:i-s Is none tbe les robtery berauM it is done ander the form of law and tailed taxation. There can be 00 lawful taxation which I aot laid for public purpose. That Is good democratic doctrine, if it did oas Irwa a repubiicaa court. Xht lowest

estimate I have seen ot the amount paid annually by the people in enhanced prices, caused by the present tariff is $."00,0; 10,000, which is nearly two hundred million dollars more than the entire expanses of the government, and which is tkJ for every voter in the United Btate. The receipts of the Kverument for the fiscal year ending June 30 im as shown by statement of the treasurer, is a little over one hundred and twelve million and seventy-five thousand dollars more theji the net expenditures of the government, and the total cash ia the treasury on July I, USoS. was $7H,UJ3,. 4u'7' The plea of the republican purty that this system of taxation ii bist, right and ueccv sary to protect American labor is Fhowrj to be false by the history of its workings. It protects capital, but does not protect labor, and of the truth of that assertion we have the indisputable livinj evidence that under its workincs the owners of ninny of the industries it protects from competition iure built up the most colossal fortunes which have ever been accumulated within the same space of time in the history of the world, while the wage-workers, through whose personal toil those gigr.Dtic fortunes have been accumulated, are uo better off, financially, than they wer when the present war taxüi was enacted. THE TRUSTS.

A Direct and Legitimate Offspring ef a Frehibitlve Tariff. Prior to the enactment of the present war tariff, there were uo syndicates and trusts organized by combination of capital to regulate the price of products and the wages of labor, aud to prevent competition by crushing out small industries. There was no importation of pauper Jabor to take the place 01 American workmen. No strikes, no lockouts, and no tramps; and labor, prior to the present tariff, was not compelled to organise for protection against the exactions of overgrown corporate monopolies. Yet we are told that the present tarirl is a creat blesinj, and should be continced for (he special bencGt of American labor. Some of the great steel-rail millionaires

make as high as 1,500, 000 a year, vet ibnr era-

pioyes, wno stanu ia tue neat 01 ttieir ouruing turnaces, and with brawny arms, blackened I II-. J L l I . .

laces, ousierea nanus ana sweated orowt

manufacture the product out of which thev

have made their immense fortunes, are as poor to-day as lliey were t he d;iv steel-r.iil manufacturing was established. The steel-rail mrnfacturers are enthusiisth-allr for the taritl, not because it gives them $17 per ton protection on their steel rails. No, no, not at all on that account, but Folelv for the benefit of their employes (?). I speak of this simply for the reason that the protectionist places his advocacy of high tariif solely on the ground that it benefits labor. Unman nature is very much the same in all business vocations. It seeks to make all the money possible. The protected monopolist will obtain all the protection be can and buy his material where he can obtain it the cheapest ; employ his labor at the lowest possible price, and sell his manufactured products wherever he can cet the most for them. To increase profits he will enter into combinations, syndiciites and trusts tor the purpose of preventing competition and to depress the price of labor. J t will be remembered that in 1S5-1, when tariff duties reached their higlicnt average, when the protected monopolies of the Last were reaping their greatest profits, and were accumulating a fortune almost every day by shoddy clothing and other contracts with the government", when they were fairly WHllo'ing in the wealth forced into their pockets by legatied robbery of the people, and, notwithstanding thev had procured the eetao!i.hui.-nt of prohibitory duties th&t shut out all competition, upon the plea of protecting American labor, yet in the very face of their professed solicitude for the welfare of the American wage-earner. they sent their agents and lobbyists to congress and procured the enactment on July 4. 18o4 America's natal day when the republican party had a two-thirds majority in both branches of congress of a law authorizing the importation of contract labor, and providing for the enforcement of the contract. That is the kind of protection the republican party favors. It favors protecting from competition the manufactured wares 01 the monopolist and free trade with all the world for labor. BULLDOZING IN THE NORTH.

Some Conditions and Cirenmstanees for Harrison to Inquire Into. Gen. TTarrisoa is much troubled for fear that the elective franchise in the South is not free and tintramtne'ed, but he has not oe word to say. and tlops not seem to be troubled in the least, abo vit the bulldozing methods practiced by the monopolists of Pennsylvania and New lOnx'aiid, who inform their employes that if the democratic party succeeds they will be compelled to close th-ir establishments and discharge their employes, and demand that their workmen hall vote the republican ticket. The laboring people are beginning to understand the electioneering method of the republican party. They are not alarmed by such threats. 'I hey heard thf fame kind of talk in the campaign of 1M4. The cry of the republican 'r;y then wnj tbat der-iocratic success meant the ruin of the national credit, the repudiation of the publio debt, the disruption of business, the paralyration ef manufacturing enterprise, the payment of the rebel debt, the pensioning of rebel soldiers, the return of the negroe to slavery and the ruin of the country generally. The resent predictions of the republican party iave no more basis of truth than its predictions of ix4. The democratic party says that the time has come, that it is here now, when the induct mil classes are entitled to protection at the hands of the law as well as capital, and prooe. to i;ive that class some protection by a reduction of tariü taxation on the nccei-aries of life, so as to cheapen the cost of living and reduce the surplus in the treasury, and on thai question the democratic party has proven its taiih by its works. It has passed through the lower house of conjress the Mills bill, which if the republican senate would allow to beeome a law, would give tbe people cheaper blankets, cheaper clothm?, cheaper suyar, cheaper salt, cheaper crockery, cheaper tinware, cheaper rice, cheaper carpets, cheaper dress goods and cheaper lumber; but the republican senate has always been the bulwark of corjtorate monopolies and the people need expect no relief at its hands, and the repuMican meiu)ers of the house, true to the platlorm of their party, resisted at every step the passage of the bill, which makes a reduction of less than 7 per centum. The reduction is as just to all sections of the country uh it could have been made, and tbe charce of the republican party that it is unfair to the North, beca'ts it puts wool on the free list, is without foundation. Texas alone has over 5,0UO,:0 heep, h ich is more than possessed by New England, New York and Pennsylvania conibineu, and is more than the state of Ohio has; besides, Texas has an immense area of grazing land, and nheeo-growing in that state is in bs infancy, and will increase much more rapidly than in Ohio or any other northern etste. If, therefore, there is any iiiKt cause for complaint in th tt regard, it is Texas that h;is a rizht to complain and not Ohio. The bill reduces the tariff on raw rice 11 per centum, and on rice flour 15 per centum, and alo reduces the tariff on raw sugar 35 per centum, and on refined sugar 20 per centum. The issue between the parties is made up. Tho!e who are in favor of reducing the tax oa the nece-saries of life, so that the cost of living may be cheapened and who are in favor of reducing the surplus in tbe treasury that it may be returned to the channels of trade, stimulating business and increasing wages, will vote the democratic ticket Those who favor fostering monopolies and are opposed to cheaper necessaries, but are in favor of cheap wliUky and tobacco, will vote the republican ticket.

FOR AMERICA,

And Being for It, Gov. Gray is for Higher TV ages and Cheap Living. The ery'of the republican party that It Is for America, and ita attempts to use the stars and stripes for party purposes in the place of argument, will not blind the people to the real issue of this campaign, lam for America and American interests, but ! understand that to bo for America is te be for the whole people of America and not for special classes. . Americanism means equal laws and equal and just taxation, fair play, and a living chance for all classes in the business art air of life. I take f reat pride in tbe manufacturing enterprises of my country. As an American citizen I am proud of them and wool I not do anything to injure theia, but evervthing ioesible to Tielp

them consistent with the rrrhts and welfare of i other intermta and occupations of die country,- I and the cry of the republican party that La 5 land is pleased with the prospect of tariff re- 1 netion is sll bosh and simply republican cam- I paigTi stuff. The pauper labor imported to this ! country as every person k no wndoes not come I from hn irland. The skilled operative laborer in j

England is paid as much for the work he performs as the American operative receives. James G. Blaine, in his report dated June 25, 1531, said: "Undoubtedly the Inequalities ia

the wages of English and American operatives are more then equalized by the great efficiency of the latter and their longer hours of labor." The thlnir that England dreads is a redaction of our taritl and the placing of raw materials 00 the free list. When that is done she well knows that her days of trade supremacy are over forever. The markets of the world would then be open to American trade and commerce, giving ample employment to AmPr lean labor and markets for our farmers; would rerive our ship-buildingand restore the nation to that proud position she occupied before the war, when the sails of American ships whitened the seas of everr eli'vie.

to support the government and pay the publio debt and to arrange the schedule so as to, us far as possible, protect infant industries. . There is one thing that the high protectionist never attempts to explain when quoting the fathers, aud that is if. the fathers of the republic, in 17D2, considered an arerago duty of 11 per cent, sufficiently high to protect the then infant industries, why, after nearly a century of development and progress, we need 47 per cent, for protection; and if a century of development and progreee has increased the necessity for proteetiou 403 per cent, why will not the necessity for protection contiaue to increase.

NO FREE TRADE.

ENGLAND'S REAL FRIEND.

The Republican Policy In the Interest of

Foreign Slanufactnrers. Those who favor the continuance of the present war tariff are the genuine friends ot Encl ind. The republican party boasts that it believes in walling America in, which means that England shall continue to have a monopoly of the world's trade. The democratic party favors a policy that would let America out. A policy that would give American resources, skill and enterprise a chance, which is all that is necessary to make America the leading manufacturing nnd commercial nation of the world. A policy that would sjon drive Pritish trade and commerce from the sea. This is not boasting. The trade experience of this country before the the war, under a low tariff, shows what this country can do when she hts a chance. In IS0O, under deaiocratio tariff, we exported, in manufactured poods, 14 per cent, of our tottl exports. In 1S0, after tweri'; years of hiifh tanii; we exported iu manufactured goods only 5'4 per cent, of our total export. From 1S. to I ' jO, uudcr low taritl. American vessels carried 67 per cert, of foreign tonnage entered at American porta. From 1800 to 1S7, under the present war tariff, only 21 per cent, of our foreign trade was carried by American vessels. We imported in 1S7 from North American countries f 130,7tV.S43, and exported to those countries only ir.Vl-.VMS. We imported from Central American states $7,ß.17,röl,and exported only $2.0.V,447. To this condition has the present Chinese system, advocated by the republican party, reduced us even in the trade with our nearest neighbors. If the present tarifl is continued a few years longer, American commerce will he a thing of the pnst, and I fully agree with the Chicago Tribune when it says that the West has paid tribute to Pennsylvania and New England long enough. The present war tariff has been fully as disastrous to the fanning interests of our country as it has been to trade und commerce. In IM50 the census showed the entire wealth of the nation to be $7.ax0OO,ClX); of thut the fanners owned $t,00,()fl0,000. In 1?60 the census showed the wealth of the nation to be $lti,(WO,fXi,000, and of it the farmers owned S,(iOO,UY,(Xh). In 18S0 thecensusshowed the wealth of the nation to be $4'1.(M,()0.0(X). and of it the farmers owned only $ 12,000,009,000. WHERE THE FARMER LOSES.

As the Tariff Has KaUe.l His Wealth Hat Decreased,. InlS50and in 10, under low tariff, over half the wealth of th nation was in the hands of the farmer. In 1SS0, after twenty years' experience under the present war tariff, the larmers owned only ?12,tXX),rKX,00 ot the ?i;5.i0,0u(i,ixjo, being less tVan one-third the wealth of the country. From ISoO to l&v), twenty years of the present war tariff, the farmers' wealth increased $ 1,000.0 10,000, while the other interests of the couutry increased ;tl,iX).000,00, showing that other interests increased nearly six times as fast as the farmers'. And yet we are told that the present war tariff is a great bloins: to the fanner. Yes, a tarifl that taxes common pine lumber now extensively used in the construction of the farmer's dwelling, barn and fences $2 per 1,000 feet, nnd admits free of duty mahogany, rosewood, satinwood and other fine wood used to decorate the dwellings and furniture of the rich, must be a great blessirg to the farmer. Maj. McKinley, one of the leaders of the protectionists in the house, and who, it is alleged, wrote the Chicago platform, in his speech at Atlanta said: Wherever the foreign prodnct has successful eorapetition at home, lh du it Is ranly paid by ths conn imcr. It Is paid from the profits of tbe manufacturer or divided between hliu and the merchant or the importer, and diminishes their pro 3 la to thai extent. Thit is the old argument of the extreme protectionist an attempt to make the people believe that the consumer does not pay the import duty. In other words, that the taritl does not make goods higher; that the importer and manufacturer, out of their love for the dear people, pay the import duty out ef their own pockets and sell their goods for less than they cost them. It belongs to the same class of argument that you often hear used by the high protectionist that the higher the tariff, the cheaper the oods. If the latter proposition be true, why not make the tariff so high that the goods will not cost anything. Why docs not the protectionist say that the consumer does not pay the cost of transponatlon? It is a sufficient answer to all such argument to say that there never was an iniporfer of foreign product that did not add the import tax and cost of transportation tnnscertaiti the cost of his goods, and when the manufacturer buys foreign material, he puys the import tax ai.d freight, and it adds just that amount to the cost of his material, and increases to that extent the cost of his manufactured goods, which the merchant pays when be buys of the manufacturer, and it is all paid by the person who buvs the goods of tiie merchants for consumption. This is true of all goods manufactured in this country out of imported material upon which an import dntv has been paid, and also true as to all imported manufactured goods upon which there is an import duty. The exceptions are first as to goods manufactured wholly or in part out of home material, and could be sold as cheap as the same class of foreign goods could be sold if admitted free of duty.but the tariff duty, keeping out the foreign goods, enables the manufacturer to add to his prices a portion of the import duty, increasing his profits to that extent, and still te below what the foreign goods could be sold at on accouut of the duty that would have to be paid on the foreign goods before they could enter our market. In that ca-e the consumer does not pay the whole tax, only s part of it, and such tax paid by the consumer does not go into the U. S. treasury, but into the pockets ef the manufacturer. The other exception happens when the manufacturers have produced more goods than the market consumes, causing over-production, and the manufacturer and merchant being unable to hold are forced to unload at reduced prices. The latter result is now largely guarded against by the formation of trusts, under the operation f which lactones close np. discharge iheir employes and raise the price of theirproducl to such an extent that notwithstanding the factories lie idle while the over-production is being consumed, more money is made than when the factories were running. Mr. McKinley having but little faith in the position after he had assumed it, virtually abandons it by saying that "duty or no duty, there is not in the long line of staple products consumed by the people a single one that has not been cheapened by competition at home, made possible by protective duties." That competition has cheapened prices to some extent is true; it always does that, but developed resources, improved machinery, experience in manufacturing, cheapened transportation, and the wonderful enterprise and activity of our industrial classes is what has cheapened manufactured products, and not the taritl. To arue that competition reduces prices and then to argue that a tariff that prohibits competition re-luces prices, is to argue contrarily. The hitrh protectionists are in the habit of quoting the fathers of the republic as favoring protection. The debates in congress after the adoption of the constitution on the establishment of a system of tariff taxation clearly show that the principle thing the fathers had in view in enacting a tariif was to raits teveout

A False Cry Raised by Republican Dema.

-ognes. The republican party meets every attempt of the democratic party to modify the tariff by raising the cry of free trade. The democratic party came into existence in 1793, under the teachings of Thomas Jetferson, and it controlled the administration of the government for more than sixty years before the republican party was bom, and it never establid;ed or attempted to establish fret trade. No democratic

couvention ever declared in favor of tree trade.

nnu no declaration lavormg tree trade, bearing the irnpre?s of party authority, can be produced. The democratic party believes in a tariif for re venu; a tariff for public purposes, and not a tariff to increase private interests, and the wisdom of that policy was exempliiied by the democratic tariff of 13 Id, which brought the highest degree of general prosperity and the greatest increase of wealth during its exists ence in the history of our country. Under the tarid of 1Ö4S the increase of wealih was diffused among all the industries of the country. Agriculture, labor, commerce and manufacturing, all felt the impetus of prosperity imparted to them by the tari.11 The present tariff aggregates

;he wealth of the country in the hands ot tne f?w, creates monopolies, and prevents the diffusion of small industries. The industrial clashes are beginning to understand this, and are becoming educated on the question of tariff taxation. The 15,000,000 of the 17.CH O.OUO of the l-ilioring people who do not work in protected industries are beginnng to inquire Low and in what war the 4 per cent. war tarifl benefits them. 1'he farmer knows it increases the cost of his clothing, agricultural implements and buildings, and that he has to take Inst such prices for Ins products as the map ;et of the world give him, and therefore is unable to see just how and where he gets back again what the tariff has cost hira. The 1,000,000 of men employed on railroads, the conductors, engineers, firemen, brakeiuen, section hands, eiichnea. watchmen and train-dis-patchcis, all know that the tarifl enhances the price of their clothing and house-keeping, but they do not just see in what way the tariff benefits them, f he carpenter, blacksmith, mason, plasterer and shoemaker kuow that it iucreases the cost of living, and the tools with which they work, but adds nothing to their profits, and thev, too. are unable to understand why the tarill should be considered a blessing to them. The day-laborer, while working on the streets and in the trenches, knows that it increases the price of bis hat, shoes, clothing, fuel and other necessaries, but docs not increase his wages, and also knows that labor is free and unprotected, that wages go np and down according to the supply and demand, and he therefore does not understand why he should continue to bear the burdens of the war tariff twenty-five years after the war, to benefit the monopolist of the East. AJ1 these classes will do some voting in their own behalf at the coming election. FREE WHISKY.

What the Adoption of the Republican Policy Would Bring About. The proposition of the republican party to abolish the tax on whibky, rather than surrender any of the monopoly tax on necessaries, is abominable and an insult to the intelligence of the American people, and is an open, unconcealed sell-out and surrender to the tariff monopolies. Grant, Arthur and Garfield advised tariff reduction. The repahlictn national convention in its platform of 1851 pledged the party to correct the inequalities of the tarld and to reduce the treasury surplus. Mr. Blaiue accepted the nomination for president, indorsed the platform, and pledged himself to carry out Its principles. . In l&Si the party düclares there are no inequalities to correct; that no redaction of tnrirt taxation should be mnde, and if any reduction of taxation is made it must be made on tobacco and whisky. The whisky tax is a voluntary tax, for the reason that it is not one of the necessaries of Ii To. lie who drinks whisky pays the tax and he who does not drink pars none of the tax, and there can be no question that the high price of whisky caused by the tax has decreased its consumption as a beverage. Of all the drinking beverages used in this couutry whisky is the most hurtful. It stands at the head as a stomach destroyer, brain-racker and crime-producer, and ytt the republican party to procure the aid of protected monopolies is willing to make it free. The prospect now is that we will have the greatest corn crop produced during the last quarter of a century. A prominent distiller informs me that from four and one-fourth to four and one-half gallons of whisky is manufactured from a distiller's bushel of fifty-six

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malt und rye. U tne republican party succeeds in abolishing the tax, the pries of whisky will not exceed IS cents a gallon. It will be as cheap os a glass of soda water, and, us the Indianapolis AVvw has well said, will create a generation of drunkenness