Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 34, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 September 1888 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, I88&

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nOW LABOR IS PROTECTED.

THE PAUPERS OF PENNSYLVANIA. a. Pitiable Condition of Affairs Natives Driven Oat by Foreign Pauper "Work, men Slavery in the Mining Regions A Heart-Reading Picture. IGaUIUin (Pa.)Correpondenc rbiladelpbla Record. The master workman of the local assembly of the K. of L. at Gallitizin declared to-day that it is a difficult matter for a miner in this region who has a family to keep out of tbe poor-house, and said that the fieures collected for the past few months of the net earnings of the wageworkers in and about the mines here Bhow that they do not average $1 a day. When lome one asked how the miners would be affected by the November election the master workman remarked : "They have got us too low now to hurt us whichever way it goes. The protected workmen here could not earn less and keep body and soul together." Each of the miners here at Gallitzin is paid but forty cents gross for a ton of 2,000 pounds, which, deducting the miner's expenses, will net but about thirty-seven cents per ton. The rate paid in the other sections of the district is about forty-five cents gross, or forty-two cents net, for a ton of 2,000 pounds. Last year this was the average rate for mining coal in this district. In 1S87, according to the official reports furnished to the inspectors of the mines, there were 3,341,381 tons of coal mined by 4,480 miners. These miners received the cross sum of $1,502,621, from which at least 3 cents a ton for expenses must be deducted to exhibit their net earnings, which amounted to $l,403,r,80. or an average of $313 a year. This is just $1 a day. It is a striking fact that in the bituminous coal regions the laborers and coke-drawers are better paid than the miners who are in more danger in the mines, and who do the skilled work. In the Sixth district figures are at hand to enow that the average waes of the drfvcrs and employes about the mines have been $37 per month, when at the same mines and in the same period a miner's wages were less than S'-G a month. The coke-drawers of the ttxth district earned about $112,000 in 1S37, on a production of 774,529 tons of coke. Carefully gathered statistics from the two largest collieries in this region for the months of January, February and March of the present year, when the rate was 45 cents a ton to the miners, show an average of $29.03 earned, less an average expense for powder, tool sharpening and oil of $2 per month, or a net average of $27.03. The figures for May since the reduction from the same mines show an average of $27.92, less a net expense of about one dollar and eighty cents a month. At the mines in Huntingdon and Bedford counties, about the Broad Top coal fields, the average earned by the miners in 1887 was a trifle above one dollar a day upon a yearly reckoning. The miners in the sections of Cambria county, west of this place, averaged over three hundred and twenty dollars a year, but, taking the entire district through, it will be found that the detailed reports furnished from the mines to the statisticians of the K. cf L., based upon the actual cash receipts and days worked, will not show an average of more than from $310 to $315 a year for the miners. Here, as in the Cleartield and Beech Creek regions, the miner pays an average house rent to the operator of $" .a month. iuch houses as rent for $ö are not worth ovar $300 in any instance. Having taken $5 for rent of his $2t of earnings for the month, the miner is left with $ a week upon which to maintain his family. "When it is remembered that nearly all the operators in this district run company Btores, in which the miner hnds it to his interest to deal if he wants to stand well at the mines, and that the store account is deducted from the pay at the mine, the almost utter destitution of the wageworker is apparent. The cheap pauper labor of Europe, which has degraded the condition of the workmen in the anthracite coal regions and in the iron mills of Pennsylvania, has flooded the bituminous coal country alsö, and is one of the elements which enable the operators of the coal fields in the western counties to keep their employes in eubjection. There were enough, and more than enough, miners in the bituminous coal fields in 1SS0 and 1S81, when tho coal operators united and assisted the Hungarians and Poles and other pauper labor immigrants into the mines. Of the total labor supply in the bituminous coal country of this state at the present time, about one-third is Hungarian, Polish and cheap German. Pome of the statisticians of the region place the population at onehalf, but this is too large an estimate, as hown bv the fispires gathered by the Heoord in the two districts so far covered. In eleven collieries about Phiiiipsburg, of the 1.500 men employed, 41)3 are Hungarians. The Hungarian laborer and miner lives on from $j to $3 a month, house, board and all, herding together in boarding-houses, where he pavs for cooking and a cot about f 1.50 a month. Mr. Edward B. McCormick, of Greensburg, who contributes an article on "Labor in the Conne'.Isville Coke Region" to the report of the department of internal aflairs, thus truthfully describes this element there, which is a fair sample of the entire poft-coal country: "In their habits of life they are filthy. This is partly due to circumstances, büt they seem to be accustomed to it. The writer has seen a dozen of them seated around a table with a soup-dish in the centre, each one forcing his way in, somethingafter the manner of pies at a trough. They suspend the meat from an upper window until it partly decomposes, and then partake of it with a relish. Many of them are worthless, and drink to excess a compound of alcohol, rain-water, brown 6ugar and fine-cut tobacco, which is said to be to them & delicious draught, and is known in Hungarian parlance as 'polinki.' " Editor Kinsloe very forcibly described the manner in which this element drives the English-speaking miners to the wall and affects the condition of laboT in the eoft-coal country. "There are just enough of them," said he, "to give the operators the upper hand in their contests with the miners. These men can live and save money where the old miners would starve. They can exist on $125 a year, including what they pay for clothing. If an operator ha a particularly bard place in his mine, at which the English-epeakinj miner will not work because he cannot make wajres enough at it to support himself, the Hungarian steps in ana takes the job, and thus prevents the other miner from forcing the operator to give him living pay." And there is still another evil in the coal region growing out of the employment of this imported pauper labor from V.nrnre. What monev a man ran save through th wretchea manner in which he lives is absolutely taken away from the country and sent over to Europe. Mr. IcCermick, In speaKing of this feature oi cheap foreign labor element in his rert to the state bureau of statistics, says: The more prudent of them save from LTIO n 1 f . Ml vifh wl-.i' t h A w oithnv r .r the mortgages on Ü.cir property in 'ingary, or they bw a tract of ten or V t ' - 1 I'll "en acres in ineir u, country, uuuu hue and become ; uratively inde.lent."

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A FARMER ON THE TARIFF.

Practleal Illustrations of the Workings of the PreaVnt System. To Tne Editor Sir: Republicans say that the farmers are benefited by the tariff on our wheat, corn, potatoes, and all that we produce. I can't see it that way. They say that the importer pays the duty, and not the consumer. I think the consumer pays freight, tariff, profit-, storage, and all. Thomas II. Dudley said in his Chicago speech that India wheat could be put down at London for 70 cents, and at New York for 75 cents, without the duty, and 95 cents with the duty. He adds tho 20 cents tariff". What will the 20-cent duty benefit the farmer as long as he haa 150,000,000 bushels surplus? We must send it to London and sell it in competition with India wheat at 70 cents: then how can the tariff of 20 cents j;r bushel affect the price in America. It can not, unless wheat is imported to this country in quantity sufficient to affect the price. That cannot be as long as we have a surplus to go abroad. But in case we had a hali-crop iu this country, every laborer, rucchanie and farmer would be forced to buy twenty-five bushels to feed his family and then he would be compelled to pay a tax of 20 cents per bushel. How would this benefit him 7 We would pay 20 centa more in consequence ot the duty per bushel. If the importer paid the duty it would be this way: He pays 70 cents at London and 5 cents freipht to Xew York. At that point it is 75 cents. He pays the dutv, which is 20 cents. Subtract the freight and duty, 25 cents from 70 cents, and he will put his wheat down at New York for 45 cents per bushel ; if he adds the duty and freight, 95 cents. He ships it to Wayotown; the freight and his profit is 25 tents, which makes it worth $1.20. The consumer must pay all expense or do without. Every cent adheres to the commodity from the time it leaves India until it gets to the consumer. Then imported wheat at Waynetown is worth $1.20. I have fifty bushels of wheat more than I want. "My neighbor S. wants to buy twenty-five bushels; neighbor G. wants twentv-five bushels. Thev say to me, "Wha't is your wheat worth?" Would I say 20 cents less than the imported wheat? No ; I would say $1.20, the market price at Waynetown. Republicans will say that I am protected by getting 20 cents per bushel of my neighbors money. I nave a farm and can produce wheat. My neighbor has no farm and can't produce wheat, but must buy at the market price; therefore the tariff fixes the price on domestic wheat. How much will my neighbor pay me on the twenty-five bushels of wheat? Just JO. This they call "protection." They are republicans, and will labor for this system of taxation. What is true in wheat in this case is true as to everything else that is imported. The consumer pays the duty, and the corresponding article produced in this country brings as much as the foreign article with the dutv added, or within a tew cents of it. Mr. McKinley, in his famous speech in congress, 6ays so. He gives the price of the golden medal blanket and says the price is $4.53; the cost to make it is $1.05; the duty $3.50, which ia $-1.55. The difference is two cents. Supposing it cost the same to make the blanket in England, it is plain that our domestic manufacturer adds tho duty to the price of his blanket, less two cents. T. H. Duley says he can manufacture nine-tenths of the articles manufactured in this country as cheap as they can in England. Why, then, do they need protection ? The Toledo Blade says the same and names boots and shoes, calicos, hats, caps and some woolen goods exported to England and sold on their free-trade soil as cheap or cheaper than their own and quite as good. Where is the danger then of destroying our import manufactures or lowering the wages of the operatives by reducing the tariff? Mr. Biair said the manufacturers can takecareof themselves. So they can. We have paid them the duty on their products until they can ftand alone. It is time to wean them. Mr. len Harrison talks about protected labor. He admits we can make boots and shoes, hats and caps, and many other things as cheaply as England at present wages, but he says to take off the tariff will reduce their wages to the level of the English laborer. Ii we can make a pair of shoes, such as the plain people wear, as cheap as English hoeraakers can, can they send their shoes here, pay the freight and insurance and undersell us? If they do. they will do it at a loss. Mr. T. H. Duley 6ays we export steel rails to England. He savs the freight on a ton of rails is $2.4) tnIish rails are worth $20 thus we sell our steel rails there at $20 and realize $17.50. He pays the same rail is worth $33 here, just $15.50 more than they get in England. Why don't they let consumers here have them for $17.50? This they call protection. Our loot3 and shoes sell at one price here and another in England. Ben. Harrison's plain people pay more for shoes than the plain people in England for the same ßhoe and this he calls home "protection." The present tariff system says take from the poor and give to the rich. S. G. Bunnell. Waynetown, Ind., Sept. 18. BEWARE OF JARRETT ET AL The Kmlsaarlee of the Pennyslvanla Mon. opolit nt Work In Indiana. To the Editor Sir: We understand there are hired emissaries from Pennsylvaniain your state canvassing for Harrison and Morton. If so, beware of them, for they do not represent our or your interest, but the interest of capital against labor, and are paid by men who wish to continue the present high prices of various manufactured goods, after having filled our workshops with the cheapest laborers they and their hired agents could procure in foreign lands. Go into our mines and our workshops and learn what we know, now the price of labor has been reduced by this competition, and see how necessary, yea, imperative it has become for us to form labor organizations for our protection against the greed and oppression of employers ; how wasres have fallen to starvation priees, while tariffs, etc, etc., have been maintained to keep up tho prices of the producta of our labor; how armed Finkerton police have been used to intimidate us when we were in the peaceable attitude of remonstrating against the reduction of wages. And then, if you can give heed to these hired emisaries of capital wo pity your credulity as intelligent laborers of Indiana. Beware! beware I for they are wolves in sheep's clothing. Yea, worso hired minions of oppressors and extortioners. Listen not to their ingeuious sophistry and misrepresentations of the condition of the wage-workers of Pennsylvania. Vote square and fair for the great reformers, Cleveland and Thurman, who are squarely on labor's side, reclaimers of our public domain, etc,, etc Edwix S. Gciler. Belle Vernon, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, Sept. 16. Anderson Percifield, prosecutor of the Ninth judicial district, made a fine democratic speech at Martinsville Tuesday rieht His han ilinj of republican fallacies and Henry Clay Duncan, republicon eaodidate for congress ia Mr. Cooper's district, is said to have been a very neat piece of platfona work,

FISIIBACK OX THE TARIFF.

HOT SHOT FOR MONOPOLY TAXEFIS. A Protected Concern Which Made Three Million Dollars In One Year on n Capital of Two Millions How the Monopolist Fixed Up theTarlir Schedules la '83. Hon. Stanton J. reels: I was too far away to reach yon by letter in time for Friday's issue of the Kevct. The time which 6hould have been given to you was occupied in a journey across the Allegheny mountains. Next to the celebrated Horse-shoe curve, the chief object of interest on the Pennyslvania railroad is tho Bessemer steel works at Johnstown. This establishment is proba bly the most healthy and vigorous br&t of all the infant industries in our national fondling asylum, and yet it whimpers like a starvlins in charge of a baby farmer when it is suggested that other infants in the nursery should have some of the pap of which it cets more than its share. In Februarv, 183.3, in a tariff speech in the Ü. . senate, Mr. Clay, "the father of the American system' said: "The theory of protection sup poses, too, that after a certain time the Drctected arts will have acquired such strength and perfection as will enable them subsequently, unaided, to stand up agtiir;t competition." A hundred years before that one Dobbs, who miirut be called the "grandfather of the system," said in his "Essay on Trade," that "premiums are only to bo given to entourage manufactures or other improve ment in their infancy to usher them into the world, and to give an encouragement to begin a commerce abroad, and if, after their improvement, they cannot push their own way by beinc wrought 60 cheap as to sell at par with others of the 6ame kind, it is vain to force it." Assuming it to be correct thata6trufcling industry should be helped until it can stand alone, don't you think this eteel company has attained stature and strength enough to dispense with the milk bottle? It is a matter of record in the courts of Pennsylvania that this company in the years 1880 and 18S1 realized a net profit of more than $3,000,000 on a capital of 2,000,000. "When congress came to deal with this industry a strong effort was made in the senate to increase the rate of duty, but it was defeated. The monopolists went before the conference committee and increased the rate from 30 to 43 per cent, ad valorem, and the report of the committee became the law. One would suppose that this chubby child might have survived without much cuddling, but you voted to continue and increase its supply of pap at the public expense, and by so doing have almost starved other interesting babies of the nursery. Our friend Mr. De Fauw is in tribulation. He is the father of two brats which he has deposited in a hand-basket on the doorsteps of the national nursery. His plate-glass baby has fared sumptuously on its 12) per cent, bounty, but his steelrail infant is like to perish. Ilaving no appliance for converting p;g iron into bloo.iis, his steel rail mill must buy them from other manufacturers. Uy your high tariff you compel Mr. Do Pauw to buy theso blooms from the muchprotected eteel industry of Pennsylvania, and thev come so high that it is almost impossible to run a steel rail mill at a profit. At least that is the story of steel , rail manufacturers who do not make their own blooms. It is edifying to see Mr. De Pauw pleading for more protection for his plate-glass baby and clamoring for free trade on behalf of his rail mill. Your own constituents, the owners of the newlybuilt steel rail mills here in Indianapolis, are considering whether they can afford to buy such high-priced blooms and run their mills. Congress performs its functions of wet nurse to these babies in a perfunctory way, and with small, if any, show of material care. The good mother of twins bestows her tenderest offices upon the weaker child, but congress encourages the pampered and over-fed youngone to impose upon its starving brother. It really seems, my friend, that in fixing the metal schedules of tho tariff law, the steel and iron monopolists had their own way, and that I did not over-state it when I said, in my lirst letter, that your honorable body was a mere puppet in their hands. Brother Peelle, your professed friends make a mistake in assuming that criticism of your official action implies recreancy to our party. I was present on one occasion when a majority of the Indiana republican delegation in congress were insisting upon declaring open war against the policy of resumption. Gov. Porter, then a private citizen, had the "sand" and sense to tell those jrentlemen that they were wrong and would very soon retrace their steps. He birched them as a lot of wayward boys and they lived to thank him for the chastisement. Afterward Gen. Harrison, then in private life, denounced the extreme greenbackers as a lot of idiots, in the presence of the state convention, and our congressmen and lvtsses turned pale and said he had ruined the party. You know how it has turned out. But now, forsooth, congressmen and senators are infallible and an humble member of tbe party who doubts it, and expresses his doubt, is guilty of "flat burglary." There is going to be a larger liberty" of discussion on this question in both parties, you may depend upon it. In its beginnings and in the days of its great triumphs the republican party had the sympathy and support of the men who wrote and read good literature, "Them dam literary fellers" and their friends have votes, and our party cannot afford to insult or ignore them. They write the text-books used in schools and colleges, and make impressions upon the minds of young men which are not effaced bv'the campaign documents of a heated political canvass. Has it occurred to you that our party is now pursuing a course calculated to alienate and repel men of education and thought? Because large revenues were necessary in past years, taxes direct and indirect were laid upon the people, who bore them patiently without being critical as to the manner in which they were apportioned. Kvery pood citizen was willing to bear his sh ire of the burden. Tho revenue being necessary. the motives of legislators who enacted revenue laws were not scrutinized. When our army was costing us a million dollars a day, tariff laws were needed that would put money in the treasury, and people didn't stop to consider whether the money was raised according to the tenets of Horace Greeley or Prof. Perry. But things are changed now. Existing laws take too much money from the people. We are engaged in the business of reducing taxes. Questions of discrimination confront us now, and they must be met and answered in a way to command the approval of intelligent men. The party that insults the intelligence of th country will be sat upon. The defense ot slavery by the old parties was in the face of the protests of civilization. Is it not a matter worthy the thought of our party leaders that they are adopting a theory and practice in tariff legislation which is at war with the daily teachings of nearly all our schools of learning? The prize oration of Mr. Asher at our recent state oratorical contest is an illustration of the direction young American thought is taking. The denunciation of legislation in the

interests of monopoly, which evoked such enthusiastic applause, reminded me of the anti-slavery rhetoric of Bophomorcs in anti-bellum days, when grave whig and democratic professors shook their heads and smiled at the philanthropic vagaries of the young men. There is a pointer here worthy the thought of grave senators and congressmen. W. P. FisnBACK. Note. Yesterday's dispatches say that manufacturers have agreed to sell quinine at $1.31 per ounce, and thereby hangs a tale. When it was proposed tö put quinine on the free list Mr. Kelley's constituents, Messrs. Power & Weightman. the Philadelphia druggists, demonstrated that it would raiEO the price of quinine from J4 per ounce to $3, and that the country would be drugged with adulterated quinine. But the congressmen from the "ague belt" had it put on the free list, and the rat-catcher from the Kankakee now has all the quinine his family can use at $1.50 per ounce. W. P. F. THE REPUBLICAN POLICY. It is to Foster Trusts anil Cater to the Money Power, To ttie Editor Sir: True protection, as it is recognized by the democratic party, and will be freely accorded by a democratic administration, is that which will allow the difference of cost in the production of any given article, as manufactured ready for use or consumption, and no more. For instance, if 100 yards of cloth will cost in England $3, and the same article cost here say $7 to produce,

then $2 protection and no more should be allowed. If it costs to produce a ton of steel there, and costs $12 to produce the same here, place a duty of S3 on a ton of steel ; if it costs $23 to make a ton of 6teel rails there, and $30 to produce the same here, a duty of $3 per ton on 6teel rails is sufficient to protect the manufacturer of steel rails. And so on throughout the whole list of competing manufactures. It is well for American labor to understand the position of the two parties on this "labor protection" question. Any amount of duty abovo the difference of cost in manufacturing is a tax upon consumers that is not beneficial, even to labor engaged in producing the article, but is appropriated to the use and benetit of the manufacturer only, which no laboringman ought to favor. "ow, in a great many articles of necessity to the consumers of this country, the rates of duty are so high as to cover the difference in cost of production many times over, which we claim is unjust to all consumers, and especially labor. It is."plain that tho republican object in "high protection" ia to prohibit the importation of 6uch articles, which leaves the way open for the organization of all manner of "trusts." And what really is a trust? It is ßimply a conspiracy of a company of capitalists, formed to control the prices of an article, in the interests of the company, which enables it to sell to consumers at any price it chooses to put upon the article. And Mr. Blaine has recently said (since the Chicago convention) that trusts are "private affairs," that the president or congress has no right to interfere with them; then we are to bo cursed with all manner of trusts if we have a republican administration, without any defense; for Blaine is the best authority for his party. I ak all reasonable people to consider the two "letters of acceptance," and esfecially the latter part of Cleveland's etter. Measure every sentence, and weigh each word soberly ;they are words of wisdom. "We believe," says the president, "that these trusts areti nttural r.Tpring of a market artificially restricted; that an inordinately high tariff, besides furnishing the temptation for their existence, enlarges the limit within which they may operate against tha people. Under various names they have been punished by tho common law, for hundreds of years, and they have lost none of their hateful features by having assumed the name of 'trusts' instead of conspiracies." What ringing words these; and how they ought to causa one to "stop rnd think!" And what does Harrison say? "It cannot bo doubted that the legislative authority should and will find a method of dealing fairly and effectively with these and other abuses connected with this subject" They have always "found a method" to deal with questions, but always in the interest of capital. Harrison himself "found a method" to cheapen wages by admitting Chinese laborers to come in, and steadily voted against any restriction of cheap labor. He would also have "found a method" to deal with the railroad men, had ho been governor, by driving them back to work, at the point of the bayonet, fo. $1 a day, while his services were certified under oath to be worth $1,000 for "nearly a week's work." That party is a known "party of methods," while Harrison, its candidate, is pre-eminently given to finding methods, and would find more methods for the oppression of labor than even I could enumerate now if he were president. I am in my forty-seventh year, and I served in "the war" also, and since the war I have been a very close observer of the course of the republican part. Have been a republican myself, but I do not feel like supporting any maa or platform sat up by a lot of capitalists, whose solo aim is, if "they can, to bring the labor of this country to a level with the paupers of Europe by legislating what little means they have over to capital, leaving them entirely at the mercy of capital, as it is in Europe. Just examine the mortgage record over ten of these Western states over $3,000,000,000 and all accumulated during a "twenty-live-year labor protection" period. We have been taxed enough in twentv years to have paid off the war debt five times, and now have a mortgage list over twice as largo as the war debt, and the debt not half paid. I will say to all voters, I will vote the democratic ticket this fall if I am spared. I will do so because I like Cleveland's letter and the St Louis platform. I. Sek. Carrollton, Ky., Sept 18. Right the IHgot's Wrong. To the Editor Sir: My frieud, the Rev. Mr. Messing, must have, according to his own statement, a very unprofitable flack of sheep, for out of the eighty-seven members of his congregation, I am credibly informed, there are siity-thfe black ones. Not belonging to his congregation it perhaps is none of my business, but this much I have to 6ay having once been driven out of one general's department I should not like to risk aeiun such a man es Gen. llovey as governor of this great state. I should much preier some one else, and I think the best place for such men a Gen. llovey is at home, for without Eower they can do us no harm. Once a Jew ater always a Jew hater, and I therefore aik my republican Hebrew friencU ts beware. Look to your ballot and right the bigot's wrong. Xocis Lota. ' Anderson, Ind., Sept 20. The Publlo lebt tn 1831. To the Editor .Sir: Will you bo so kind as to give the indebtedness of the government on the 4th day ot March, 1861, when the republican party came into power? The republicans here claim that it was largely in debt by reason of the recklessness and extravagance of the democratic party. Give me the amount and cause of indebtedness. IIkn'RY Miller. New Paris, Sept. Id. The publio debt on the 15th of July, 1861, was purely nominal only $90,530,873.72. This was not very much more than the expenses of the government for the preceding twelve months, which amounted to $06,650,213. The figures themselves show that there is no basis for the charges of recklessness and extravagance. When this government has been in democratic hands.it has always been economically &d ministered.

HARRISON'S PLAN.

How Subscribers to Ills Campaign Fund Are to be Reimbursed. To TnE Editor Sir: No political campaign can be conducted without money, and plenty of it The great question at the outset is where to get it, and if large amounts are subscribed who will repay the contributors. Gen. Harrison depends upon monopolists and bondholders for the neceasary funds for his campaign, and it will not require a compound microscope to see where tho scheme for repaying the amount comes in. If we notice (Jen Harrison's letter of acceptance, we discover that he proposes to reduce the treasury turplus by purchasing bonds at the market price, which is $1.28 to S1.30 (averaging $1 21;. At the premium, the Si 15,000,000 sitpluss will pcrchass SS9,147,2.5.81 worth of bonds, for which tbe country would pay $2ö,Sö2,745.19 premium. In 1801 the 4J per cent bonds become due and will bo paid at par value, consequently we have three years of interest to pay. The interest on $115,000,000 at 4J per cent, for three years would be $15,525,00, which, deducted from the principal, would fehow the amount of bonds paid at maturity as f.)9,475,000. Now, compare Cien. Harrison's scheme with the proper policy. We will place these figures together tm.noo.OUO less three years' interest at 4)i per cDt 509,475,000 00 f 11-vKw.fiOO less the 1.2a per cent, price of boadi... 3,H7,23 19 Excess paid out by Mr. Harrison.$10,327.744 81 To whom? Why, to the bond-holders and monopolists. Who are these bond-holders and monopolists? Why, the men who have grown rich by high tariff. The men who have subscribed to Gen. Harrison's campaign fund, and the $10.327,744.81 would reimburse the republican campaign backers in very good fchape. Now, when we contrast President Cleveland's policy of reducing the tariff to the requirements of tho country, and protecting our industries by giving them free raw material, thus placing them on an equal footing with their foreign competitors, then we shall have enlarged production, and with enlarged production increased wages for the laborer and greater demand for our production to tho utmost parts of the earth. "ow, when we compare President Cleveland's honest policj, we hold up our heads with pride. We tnow from experience that he cannot be controlled by dishone-t Eoliticians, nor monopolists, nor bondolders. We know he has stood by the rigid rule the golden rule. Is it best to exchange a certainty for an uncertainty ; for a consort with monopolists; for a man pledged to free whisky and tobacco, or for a man with a Chinese record? 1 6ay, is such a man a safe man for this high office? I believe the people next November will answer no ! G. G. 31. Sept. 18. THEREFORE. The Iteductio Ad Absurdum Applied to Monopoly Logic. K. Y. Commercial Aut. Ind.J Wages are lower in Great Britain than in the United States. Great Britain is a free trade country and the United States h protectionist. Therefore, free trade produces lower wages than protection does, and, therefore, the Mills bill, though it is not at all a free trade measure, ought never to ba permitted to become law, and Cleveland, who is not at all a free trader, ought not to be elected. That is a perfectly fair statement of the republican argument as presented by Mr. Ulaine and the protectionist press. Let us parallel it with other syllogisms equally sound and well constructed, and thus see what it is worth: Wages are lower in Great Britain than in the United States. Great Britain has no hi?h mountains and no Dmiries. while the United btates has both. Therefore the lack of high mountains and prairies produces low wages to workmen. Again: Mutton is better in Great Britain than in the United States. Ureat Hritaia is a free trade country, while the United States is protectionist Therefore free trade improves the quality of mutton. Once more: Waees are lower in Great Britain than in the United States. Great Britain's legislative body sits mostly nt night while the American congress sits mostly Lt dav. Therefore night sessions of the legislative body lower the waxes of the workmen. These syllogisms are twaddle, of course, but thev aro precisely parallel with that which 5lr. Blaine and all the protectionist newspapers are seriously putting forward as arguments in the belief that American workmen are fools enough to be deceived bv such shallow tricks. But let us turn the thing around and nsa the syllogism of Blaine in the other wav. Wages are lower in Germsny than in Great Britain, and the German workman is much worse o3' than the British workman. Great Britain is a free trade country and Germany is a protectionist country. Thereiore protection lowers the wajres of workmen and brings them into bad condition, If the argument ia good ono way it ia good the other. Morton's (iuano Scandal. Detroit Free Press. Was there not, when GarSeld was president a little scandal or you may choose to call it by any other euphemististic title, if you please, about some "guano" in South America? Those who have Ion range memories have not forgotten it Nor have they forgotten that Mr. Blaine was then secretary of state and that Mr. Morton, the vice presidential nominee, was the American minister to France. The two nations of Peru and Chili were involved iu the diplo matic correspondence and trouble which ira mediately preceded this puano business. Mr. Morton urged upon Mr. Blaine with jrreat emphasis the joint action of France and the United States to prevent the overthrow of the Peruvian government. Shortly after Mr. Morton's firm Mr. Morton is now the vice presidential nomm nee of the republican party made a very profitable contract by which the firm of Morton, Bliss & Co. were to have 5 percent royalty on all guanos and articles shipped from Peru. The contract was based on the condition that the United States should step into the breach and help the land of the Incas. Peru was duly protected. At any rate, its dismemberment was prevented. The supposition is that Mr. Morton made a handsome profit out of the scheme, part of which will be spent to help elevate mm into the vice preniüentiai chair. Dyspepsia, Constipation, Sick Headache, Biliousness, Thece diseases constitute three-fourths of the ailments of humanity. I ther a posltlr cure? Tea 1 aV-Wnggggl T snffVrod with Pyspepsla n4 duoriter4 Llrer, sua would frrquantlr tbrow op Mia. 1 preured bottle ot Simmons l.iTer Regulator, and alter uoinj half of it was completely cured. 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