Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 September 1894 — Page 10

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TITE INDIANA STATE SESTINfiL, WEDNESDAY MOKN1XÜ. SEPTEMBER 20. 189i.

come tax and the tax on distilled spirits have come to stay. They make lighter every burden of the laboring nun's life; they enabled the friends of tariff reform to secure In their bill, as It be-ame a law, a reduction of taxes en all woolen good3. on blankets, fhiwli. hats and on woolen clothing of all kinij nf fYom 40 to over 100 per rent.; a reduction on Iron or?, pig Iron, bar iron, tin plate, tinware, chains, paws and on all ths principal Implements and utensils needed by farmers of from 40 to 75 per cent. Th? truth is, and It canr.ot be too often stated, nor male too plain, that the internal revenue system of taxation embracing income?, whisky and distilled spirits of all kinds, fermented liquors, tobicco Jn its various forms, playlr.gr cards and other like articles of wealth and luxury hereof cr to be added, is the sure fo;orunner of the downfall of protection tn John the Baptist of the gospel of commercial liberty. As to the defects and hortcnmliic? of th new law, which repealed the McKinley act and has pone Into operation, time and Its practical workings will dl'cu.'S them with more wisdom for their future correction and eradication than they can be discussed now In party heat and bid temper. It is well known that I would hive grne farther on some important points than we went in the bill in the f?nare. and that I struggled hard to do to. I stand with Grover Cleveland on tr.rilT reform, and with hitn, I believe, In lh curative processes of future legislation. Absolute perfection does not be1'T? to any work of human brains or human hands, and certainly was never achieved in man's first effort on any disputed subject But lot us see what has actually been done in th interest of taxpayLTg people. The average ad valorem rat of duty under the McKinley bill was 49.fi; the average rate proposed by the lills ti II. Indorsed by the natlon.il democratic convention only six years aco at fcjt. Louis, was 41.7S; the average rat-e of the Morrison bid, another dem-cratie treasure, was 41. 61, while the average rate cf fluty under the new law. as it row stands, may be stated at 37 per cent, ad valorem. What have r publicans to eay of this comparison wich their odiou la..v of four years ago, and what have democrats also to say when they see that the present democratic congress, in spite f differences within anl incessant assault from without, has maüe a heavier average reduction In tariff duties than ever b fore even proposed in American history? The average rate of the "Wilson bill, as ii passed the house an 1 came to tne senate, was 3?.Z2, while the &.verut; rate cf the senite bi'l, when 1 had the honor to report it on the 20th of March. w..s down to 31.15 th- amendments afterward made Increasing that low rate less than o pr out. A glance ct the free li.-t also dls--lo:?es mot impirt;int addition-? til --re. cotton tie, whether of inn oi steel, fr the p'antcrs cf the Suih, and binding twine fr the farmer-? cf the North and West, are now l.utd-e free f rrm all tariff t-ixat.'.-n. riov.s. troth -ind di-k harrows, h.irve?t?r. r. apers, agricultural drills, planters, mvirr. horserak : cultivator?, thr. h!n.g machines and cnton gins are all n ,v free cf duty ur.der the r.e.v law, when imported from countries which lay no duties on rim:l:ir articles. Tlir.b-v "noma nufactured, timber, h-wn and swed, Fiuird and side!, FiWTl bards. j.'nk. T-Inc cl-r boards, fpru-e ! ipb-vird s. hub IV r wheeis. laths, ricketä an 1 palings, thing!.. s atid staves of wood oi ail ki.Mis are :Uo in the f:v.-e tra.i . clump w ih ail i'.'untr irs w!.K-h imp-- no export duty o:i tvtnni-'roe of thU kind. Then c-.m.s x'uf great and ccmm.anding arti-cl-of W...-.1. on which the i easant-born avl the prince b -rn t. a throne a-e r.I:l;o d pendent, for warmth. Or life and fir corr.r rc. Woo'.i !. wearir.r apparel, a. a necessity to th- civilized r.avn of th-' e ii .ii, i.T akin to the necessity whi h Ii?'r,!- haw f-r fo .l. wa?r, fire ar:d F'uiter; it :k, in !(-?r?, one of I'm- iiecesit! j? cf Hf, riti:out wiilci; iletii ensues. 5iv-ry h'-nc: z.l intcigvnt e'i-n t. tc.i i f r.-. t 4'h qpn th v 'en clcthing cf ti t :v--n. wrne:. and rhilören of th?s iinL.-y and -'f the world, cinn.vt fail t T.v ajr 'Vi I cf th people and ccrra s.ii'ct'.-n and Mstn cf the livi-.c Ma-ter lIlmMf. Civ a;i raw matcr ;il fir t'a. manufacturer rnibl-- h'.m t' ("iiIi'i'L- ld! work at fiir prints even i-i t'.v? f.. rt- i.f the hvy reduction of tariff tii'tifs whirh hte bcn made n hi.; marufatur'i.1 rr.'luct of wool. II'. r in lies the gain of the consumer of t. I'-n g '.is. In raw w."1 1 b'lirg rmIe free. Evfry v.v-olen g"rm::t is mad? ( h .;,,;-r l.y wot-1 b-ing on th fre li-t, 1 et ir of the deep out in tariff iaxeä er. t!:e pm r.ui 'c-turf.-. pr'ii.c, wnl.'h in nil w and j.:.-t .-a-I-rlath-n n: t rlways !.".- ev:t;r;y f Il ,v f;ee tra'.1-- in the ri- m.C'Tial. 'i ;:- firnv-r who hr.s a ficck of thei-p Kj. been t .M in a sort of voh:-irie-t r,u;cry. a l.ystt rieil scream of pro-

end-d iti.lijjia: by tliorou;h-pac?.l. IT. f.-s'loaal nr.-t-;ctiia'i.i?. that he is to b gr.-atly injur-d. r",'Ii'"f! iuin"d. by the removal nf all tar.fi duties from wool Vhich my hereaff-r be in.p.rtel into th's country. My i; saot to thi? false crt-td is ready and conclusive. In the f.rst place the hlrrry cf t..rlff k-sislation In this country shows ir.t explicitly, and beyond th possibility of a denial, that a tariff on wool hs never been, even temporarily, a benefit to the wool grower cr the sheep raiser. Twenty-evn years ago the woolgrowers and th manufacturers of wool throughout the Unitfl Stitei formed a sort of mutual benefit association and secured the passage of the act of 1807, putting an ail-round, ironclad, high protective tariff on wool. To.e matual benefit, however, cf the scheme totally failed. There was no mutuality about it. The manufacturers' class in general has grown rich; the farmers' clais in general has remained poor. The price of woo', has. in the main, steadily declined ever tince. In 1S67 the rric? of wojI was CS cents per pound; in 18S8. twenty-cne years later, it had mads a decline of just onehalf ar.d stool at 31 cents per pound: all this time under high republican tariff protection. U.id:r the op?ratbn3 of the McKinley law the condition of th.3 firmer Is Infinitely worse. Haw can the advocate of protection explain that with a tariff of 11 cents p-T pound wool sMls. not only lowr than ever before In thi markets of thi United States, but at lcs3 than one-half the amuunt of the duty paid f?r Us protection, the outbid? pric to the manufarrturr In New York beintr 7"fi cents per pound. This 13 the most miserable and disgraceful Fhowip.sr to b3 found in all the wretch?d h:3tory of tariff protection. Vhit farmer does not feel its shame and humiliation? But what has b??n th; effect on the Fhep-raiser as well as tho wool-grower'.' Have the flocks Increased on a thousand hilLi by virtue of th? combination between wool producers and manufacturers of wool in behalf of a high tariff s-a many years ago? On the contrary in 1817 the farmers of the four state of Pennsylvania. Ohio, Illinois and Michigan owned lS.S4C,7r.O h?ad of sheep. Twenty-one years afterward, in 1S83. the people of thes? same four great states owned but 6,018,781 head of sheep, a loss of 10,827,908. and were selling thrir wool at exactly one-h3lf the price it formerly realized. I have not examined the census returns for lxiH on this subject, but the whole world knows that the situation has not bun Improved but deeply degraded by republican high-tariff legislation so far as the farmer i3 concerned, during the last ?ven years and during many years prior thereto. His fortune have ben downward, and with every tiriff law of republican design and origin, thy will continue in the same direction. Hut in the next pla.ee, my reply to the prophets of calamity on account of free wool, is that while the farmer always lost In the falling prices of wool under a protective tar.ff, he will now, ind from this on, steadily gain by the reduction of duties, and consequently of prices, on the woolen goods he has to buy for him?elf and his family. I make a prediction also in this connection, that the farmer of Indiana, and of the whole country, will sell tlKr wool, within the next two years, at lrgher rat?s per pound than th-?y ever b 1 It for under the McKinley lav.'. I might linsror much longer on the extensive additions made by the new liw ta th free list. Articles 'embraced in eightyelht important paragraphs have ben placed on that list, which msans In each and every Instance, a square r?ductIon of 100 per rent tariff duty. On se c; a paragraphs of the new law an average reduction of tariff duties of between 73 to ICO per cent, haj taken place; on eighty

paragraphs a reduction of between 50 and 75 per cent.; on 212 paragraphs a reduction of between 25 and 50 pt-r cent; 133 paragraphs a reduction to l?3s than 23 per cent. These great reductions are more fully shown by statistical tables prepared by tariff expert?, which are now being circulated, and finding their way throughout the country. On the Subject of Snjjar. In this connection, however, a few word3 are required on another much disputed and much misunderstood subject of tariff legislation. Nothing could possibly surpass the auidaclty and ln-solence of republican leaders in assailing the democratic party on the question of sugar. The sugar trust Is a felonious monitor, sired by the republican party, and damned by every honest man In all the parties that exist. It has no other origin than republican legi-lation, and no othfr creator than the republican party. Under the republican tariff act of 1&04 the duty on raw sugar was Z? cents a pound. On refined sugar th? duty was 5 c?nt3 a pound. Reduced to ad valorem, the duties on raw suar under that tariff were above 70 per cent. Although these duties yielded considerable public revenue, the main object of thi3 legislation was to protect the sugar renner3 now composing the trust by making a discrimination; of Vz cents a pound in their favor. The tariff of 1S72 fixed the duty on raw sugar at 2 cent3 a pound and on refined sugar at 314 cent3 a pound making a discrimination of 14 cents a pound In favor of the refiners. This proving not quite satisfactory to the refiners, the duty or raw sugar was raided In 1S73 to 2 cent3 a pound rlus 23 p;r cnt. ad valorem. If there vu no organized sugar trust in thise days there was a sugar lobby, which was substantially the same thing, and which controlled congress. In the tiriff cf 1SS3 another twit was given to the sugar duties, always keep.ng the interests of the reSners in front. The duty on raw suTar wa3 reduced to 3S2 cents a pound making a di-crlm'.natioa of l1 cent1! in favor of the re.lners. l"nder this tariff th? avenge duty of reficrd sugar was upward of 11 per cnt a J valorem. It ne--d not be said thi during the operation of the tariff of 1SS3 har.Uya pound cf refined 'mrar wi- imported over th? hi?;'a tiriff wall Th? sugar rcones wre th- peculiar objects of the solicitude and favor of its republican author'. In :ool:i:'g Into the McKinley bill you will find tint the sugar tri;?: Was granted a protection .f one-half of 1 cent pr pour.d laid on ail refined .ugars imp;!t2d from abroad, or. as I: i.? often state!, on all surars ab"ve Xo. Iß Dutch standard in co.ir. I'nil-r this lniqultou pr.ovifion the loot and plunder accruing to the trust has ber-n not less than fifteen millions f d oilar.s per annum. N'j giant octopus, or devil fi?h of the sei, was ever more powerful in is native element than th; huge and dar.gr."U3 progeny of rcpub.lcan policy -when ent Mintrred in and arourd th? halls of legislation. Yet the democratic party i.. its ueath grapple with thj sugar trust, and without any rv'.iib'.e majority at all in the Fetiate. when La the face of .-uct' a foe, has cut d vn th 1 pr otccti n on refined sugars from one-half of 1 cn; per pouad lo on eighth ef 1 ten: per pound, thus wiping oa: in our lir?t encounter three-fourths, cr 73 ter cent, of the entire amount uf the trust's protected pillage. It ii r.ocdits for no? to r-ay that we would have wiped It all out if we c-oiiM have dne to. A solid phalanx th:- ivj.uv.ican side cf ;h? Fenat- chamber, allied i a s:nai! Lu; wrll-Ur.L'wn contingenr en our 5iuO, is the only reason why the trut ii.a- ever. one-eighth tf 1 -.'r.t a brand left to swear by. or rather tu swear at, as i: ha been dc ing ever since the .-ciatc Mil b -canie a law I rubmlt to vou. however, and to all the pe.-p! of Iruliam, that under the lrcumst.tr.ee.-- a ;;:vat r-ir't ha-: b"er done, ar.d that we have reached a point from whi -h It v.-ill not be so diflicult to iroceed hereafter to a g'.orictts finish. We hive broken th power cf the rugar trust, us have irflicted upon it the wound of which i: will event'iaUy die. I re; i -e in anticipation f it death, ond rircrely pray that try own wary lif ir.jy be ?i a.ed 1 : g er.ough to witness its fjorc.l. Hut thre r'-miin." still r nether point to bo votlc.-l in rrgard to 5u.",ar. In additlon to lh-e enorinoj- pruc.i on pro-v.i-d for the trus. n- I have t-hown. the authors cf ;!;e McK'.r.Iey oil", lev'. el a b .mnty tax on the whole p:-pulation f-i the I'r.ired S;atcs for the benefit of a fer: sugf.r-praj'.icer?. vhe;h?;- In th.rca:aebrakes f Louisiana, amongst the fjgar trres of Verr.nnt. or on the beet fa it.s cf Xebrarka. A tr.ore unjust, nr.equal. u.n-Ar.terinaa ar.d nr.'-af.Piitutlona'. tax than this was nevr-r pa.l by the American peopl3, ar.d yet the auLhort the McKinley t!ll had the brazen hardihood to have sugar prinp-'d in the'u- fre? lit, and have ralUej with frauUuleni intent ever ine about free suger. Thie sugar bounty tax amounted durinjc the last fiscal year to 12,300.000. raid by tho.-e who plant corn and othur farm productions to thoäe who plant fugcir cane, bore augur holes in maple tree?, and cultivate the u,Tar be;t. I see by a recent estimate that it amounted to $33 per acre for al. the land ucd in the South as sugar plantations. The unconstitutionality cf Mich a law is only too manifest. Judge Coo'.ey, In the celebrated case of the people vs. Salem, says: "But It is not in the power of the state, in my opinion, under the name of a bounty, or under any other cover or subterfuge, to furnish the capital to ret private parties up in any kind of busine3 or to subsidize their buslr.evs after they have entered upon It. A bounty law of which this is the real nature Is void, whatever may be the pretense on which it may be enacted. "Every honest employment is honorable; it is beneficial to the public; it deserves encouragement. The more successful we can make it the more does it generally subrerv th public good. But it is not the business of the state to make discriminations in favor of one c'.ass against another, or in favor cf one employment against anrther. Tha itate can have no favorites. Its business Is to protect the industry of all. and to give all the benefits of equal law. It cannot compel an unwilling minority to submit to taxation in order that it may keep upon its feet any buslnes3 that cannot stand alone." It must be remembered also in connection with thi3 cdiou3 bounty tax on sugar production that not a dollar of it ever four.d its way as revenue into tha treasury, but was simply paid in there, to be paid out again to private individuals. a9 a bonus to the business m which they were engaged. The human mind can hardly imagine a worse principle of government than is here presented. There has never been a day since the foundation of this government when sugar was free from tariff duties of some s:rt. but It was never before made the instrument of a tax go mean and thoroughly undemocratic as the bounty tax which we have Just repealed, and it never will be asraln. In the celebrated "SVatker tariff. of glorious democratic memory, all sugars were made dutiable at 30 per cent, ad valorem, which, owing to the higher price of fuar then than now amounted to twice the rate of duty which has been Imposed in the new law. It Is conceded, however, by a.l parties that the duty paid on Imported flugar goe3 more entirely into the treasury, as public revenue, than any other duty known to the whole eyatem of tariff taxation. The people, therefore, have the satisfaction of knowing that the revenue raised from sugar dots not have to be raised aarain from taxes on their woolen clothing, theh- bedding, their carpets and on every other necessary article of life and comfort. The people know. In paying the duty on rugar for the support of the government, that they get their. money back, and more, in tha consequent reduction of tariff taxes on other articles of even greater prime necessity to their existence. I pray and hope for the day and hour of free sugar, but until that time comes the people can better afford to pay a moderate duty into the treasury which lightens their burdens in every other direction, than to pay increasing million of bounty into the pockets cf private individuals for no other

purpose, and with no other result in view than to make a few people rich at the expense of everybody else. General Operation of the Nevr Lair. In regard to the general operations of . the n-ew democratic tariff law and its j ultimate approval by the American peopie there Is neither fear, mlglvlng cr j doubt in my mind. A state like Maine, j whose chief wealth has come from high j protection on lumber and the enormously j protected prices at which it was sold to I the people cf other states, may be expeeted to revolt in high dudgeon agaln3t J tariff reform of all klnd3, and more especially against a measure which makes , lumber free, and consequently 100 per ; cent, cheaper to every family in the

Lnited btatc3 who wants to build a frame house. Tha same may be said of the action of Vermont when the people found that they were no longer to rob you of 2 cents per pound, tu bounty, on all sujrar they could make in their wel'.worked sugar camp. Rut in the sober, upright appeal to the great mass of our laboring, self-sustaining people we can safely submit our cause on the testimony already given by those who were opposed to the senate bill as it passet! congress .arvi bee? me a law. In a well considered article. HarpT's Weekly, a very distinguished publication, belonging neither to the democratic nor th? republican party, but always devoted to tariff reform! makes the following judiciou3 and encouraging statement: "In the first p'.aeo the law has made certain tho replenishment of the treasury and removed all rlik of a further increase j in the permanent national debt. Again. ! it insures the cheapening, to a substanI tia! extent, of a multitule of the necesJ sarie3 and comforts of life, reducing the cot of living for every household, withI out weakening the resource. of the crovfrnm:r.t. dothlryr of every description, cloths, dres-s good'. blanket3 and carpets will be cheapei and better everywhere for its passage. Imports food, woods and lumber, china and glassware, pocketknives and table knives, nearly all th" cor-.p'.eted good", tho u? of which is s lor ire a part of civilized life, together with the materials cf which they are made. hare in th larsre r-eluctio'ns of duty. These c-honges alone will c.-rtalnly. within a few m r.:hs. make every man's df.i'.y oarnir.;:. m-r? valuaMe to h::r. then r v. Hut tbey viil d far mo.-o than t'r.K They will da much to revive dtjM-eisrd Intlu-.ry and to restore genera". I r. 'i-Te rity. A pre'e.iFc is ma le bv u f-'-v raanufac:ur-rs of anticipated distress fraip the reduction of - certain protective dudes, but Tt tIs we can find no foundation in 'Ji law. Kvcn the f-xorbitant rroilts of certain f.; reel aril petteJ in-dii-tries. which never ouhl hove existed with out artificial subsl.r-s, at the general cr.-t. have been irrntrd tenderly. But cnoc.rrh has b -..n cl;ne to give a real ami important help to those Industrie? which arc not an:l canr.ot b? fostered by taxation, an! which niu-t always constitute by for the prc.ater part of the economic? I activity in any cntmunlty. Thus thf law in all its parts will itso'.f be a continual object K-ss.on to rue voters, tea hlng thein that the 'nipo-iti-m of needless ta.e.s can n-vt-r benefit th po ple as a whole, but that eery removal of them is a natural b - n. "But the b'lglircst feature of this tariff is fourä in the fact that It is a tuiring point in the hisi-.'y f our economic legislation. It .veViiuüzc? '.be final stag? in the .u-j: i-ostiy experiment ever tried by a peaceful nation. Fur an entire gc-nera-ti.j-i of .ncn this country has continued to apply the doctrines of an unseientitle, r.ar.vw, provincial s eh ";! of economists who teach that a people- enrich thornselves by diverting their en-rgies from more to his productive ind-. . "es by taxiny. har.iTV-ric.g and uisceurag.., thofc activities fi.r which the'r seil, dim. : end abilities. ar adapted, anl f.wtrring those V.hicil ar- uuiatutal to them. As ail t-c com'sts of v.rl 1-v.iiJe repute have tauvrht l'.- ni the lir-t. such an ffort must fail, and the enihianc- of success can only be inair talnch s long as the taxes .in! i-.""Ini'n 1 ri tv- cy.-.i '--n'": continue to crew heavier. Accordingly tariff after tcritf has been pissed in succ&che -ars. ea h moie burdf iiscme a:i! more unjus-t thin its pre le-ccssor. until in the alcKtr.ley law f lScO the protective .jt-teni reached it? eulniinatlon arid brok .inwn. 'iite experiment has f tiled. In the n""w law the nation has tc.rne! Its fa -e ; warl justice, tov.ard e-.rn eni.-al truth, tosvar.l lasting r rrp- rity. toward ultimate fr:cdom H trad: and :h movemc-.. henceforth will be in that direction. " .?!:n "NV.tr r. r::n Tier's T"elnerct rrlrc t ntTer Itcdr.cCil Tartu' Pntüci. I will c ;11 y-uc ctt-ntion rext to the adveni.'omerits of the 1 odi'.ier republican wholesale and retail merchant in Philadelphia and also one of the leading republican politicians in the Ur.ite-I States. J.-.in Wana.-viker, lite postmtister-jrrn-eral under President Harrison, a man with pious r.gaed f r the truth, as well as fcr his own interests, advertises in a whele broe aside cf the Philadelphia Record that owing to, and solely on account rf tha new democratic tariff, he can and will, "right o?f. now" make to his customers the following, amongst many other magnificent reductions in prices over his counters: "In new ait-wool dress goods, cheviots imported to sell at J1.50 and 51' per yard, are reducrd to 50 cents; cashmere and cheviot plaids imported to fell at 51.50 and J2.90, down to 73 cents. Allwool ticking goes from 50 cents to 3714 cents per yard; fall cloth, from 75 cents to 60 cents; FrTnch and worst d serge, from 51 2.Ö to $1; t-engaiines, from $t.&0 to Jl; silk-figured t-,mis3 and Latlstee, from $1.50 to 73 cen.s. Broadcloth, In all colors, is cut from 53 to $l..o0. "Women's wash dresses. In duck, pique, ard the like, that have ranged from $3 to 510. are put down to a uniform price of $2. and a vest goes with each suit. All silk satins drop, according to price, as followr: Jl per yard, cut to 75 cents; Sl.SS, cut to 90 cents; 51.50, cut to $1.10; 52. cut to $1.40; $3. cut to 52.23; JJ.SO. cut ta $2.C5. On silks the cuts average higher, ranging from 33 to 50 p-r cent, off all along the line." Wanamaker sells everything. In shoes the reductions are as heavy as in fabrLcs. "Women's calf Oxford ties o from $2 to 51.30. Infants shoes go from tl to 50 c:nt3. II:gh-cut Romeo slippers in all fizs and colors, are reduced from 53 to 51.50. On linens of all kinds the average drop is 20 per cent. On ribbons It is 40 per cent. On carpets it is SO per cent. On stlk curtains It is over 50 p?r cent. On children's clothing it is 40 per cent Wall papers go all to pieces, being from SO per cent, in higher grades to 0 in the lower onts. Men's clothing goes down 25 to 30 per cent., and youths' clothing still lower."' What answer can be made from the standpoint of a protectionist to the force of these startling figure3? No-ne whatever, except to admit that a protective tariff is a tax, not for revenue, not . for the support of our common government, not to go into the treasury at all. but to go, every dollar of it, into the pockets of American manufacturers, who are made majter3 of the American markets and empowered to fix as hish prices as they please In supplying thos markets with protected good'. John Wammaker's sweeping, grand and noble reduction of prices will stand a3 the greatest flJ.'t lesson on which the plain, B0nslbljt. economical laboring people of the United States can possibly look, In the present canvass between lefralised röbbery on the one hand and fair play, with no favors to the robber barons, on the other. Mr. Wanamaker Is known in this country and In Europe as one, of the great business men of the world, and his price reductions are based upon absolute bu3inesa prircip'.es and governed by the unerring laws of trade. The democratic party has made trade freer between this country and the other najtlonas of the earth by lowering tariff taxes on merchandise which seeks our shores for sale in our markets, and Wanamaker and every oher mercaaant of even ordinary intelligence sees at once that the old potected high prices can no longer be maintained over their counters to their customers. All the world knows they can replenish their stock on their Eholve.3 at cheaper rates than heretofore from the manufacturer, and in order to maintain themselves in buslne33 rivalry with each other they are

compelled to scaie down their selling prices to you. The difference between thje republican merchant of ICoiladelphla and many of his leading rivals in trade is greatly to hi3 credit. He speak3 out bold'.y and ascribes tils reductions In the sale of his goods to their true cause. If you cculd go into hl3 store now, this evening, you would find it placarded tnsid" and out with the announcement in big letter3 and in every form, that he is selling whatever you want' to buy at reduced rate?, becausa of a reduced tariff. Only f our days ago a lady and gentleman, husband and wife, describe! to me their shopping visit to Wanamaker's store, and the wonderful scene, and the still more wonderful purchases, they witnessed there. They went In as republicans, wandered around fhere- for two or three hours as doubters and have now gone home a3 democratic voters, especially the good and sensible lady, if she can only get a chance. Is there anyone here tonight, a laboring man, an Industrious husband and father of a family, who wants Mr. Wanamaker and all other merchints in the United States to mark up their gaols again to the old rates under the McKinley bill and high protection? If so let h.m not only vote the republican ticket this fall, but let him also march In the next republican precession of this city with a placard on his breast and on his back, and on bcth side3, announcing that he wants to return to McKinley bill prices; let him do this and he will be regarded as a lunatic or a freak fit for exhibition 'n a dime museum. I saw a few oays ago that my old friend. Senator Cul'.cm. made a speech over at Robinson, III., in which he took paln3 to a'.lay the fears of his hearers by assuring them that if the republican party should ever again return to power it would never, no. never, re-enact the McKinley law. I have very kind personal regard for the senator from Illinois, but I mu-st say, his penitent confession a.s to the sins of MeKinieyism reminds me very much of the plea of a thief caught In the act. that he would do so no more if the Judge would no: only let him off without punishment, but also put him in control and pos-e--?ion of other people's valuable property, where he could again steal to his hart's content. The truth 1c. the American people will never again trust the authors of the McKinley bill to mike another law on the subject cf tariff taxation, nor will th principle which ?ive tife to that hideous monster be allowed to survive In this land of liberty and e(U ihty. Hut there are still other expect witne?as to th meiits of ihe new democratic law whm I wish to call. Th Hon. William I.. Wilson, thainntn of way.-? and means of the present conjress and author of the bill as it parsed th" house, responding to hl seventh nomination a lew diys ag in a carefully prepared speech, sohl: "The new bill carries with it very substantia! relief to th? American people and must be accepted as a substantial beginning of thorough and progressive tariff reform. It means cheaper clothing, cheaper tools, cheaper pottery and many other necessaries for the people. R mai:s freer and larper commerce with those nations that buy our farm product.", and consequently larger and better markets for our farm It means a transfer of some of the burdens if government .from what goes out for the daily purchase of the necessaries of life to that which -naes in over and above the amount needed for such purchase." You will liten next, and with pisurc, to that grand, veter? n democrat. William Ft. Morrison of I'.lin.:?, once the distinguished chairman of ways and near, a high authority cn the subject of tariff and we'd fltt d by capacity, . ourae.o. and experience, b ith ,-u a civilian an 1 a soldier, to mikrt a gier.t ch'cf executive in the white house. Cel. Morr'son. in ppak!ng cf ur now tariff enactment within a wnk past, said: "The rates are lower than in the Mills bill, which was Indorsed by the mtior.i! democratic convention l;i 1vn3. In the matter u fre-e raw materials th bi'l is far i advance cf any bill pes.-.d in our histo.y by itiy p?:r;y. It puts li;;iibr, wool, ccpp"r, salt and many oth r artl-ch-a on the free list, which many yers ago I tried, but fulled to do. It tuts the tax on coal, irn and lad ore Iu two, and makes reductions in all the schedules. For lllusira'tio.i: On iron and st.el, in all form fcr huiMIr.g. on ir.n ..c! .steel rail? and on p!... iron one-third the tax is taken off. Ol w ;olen goods, under the rd law the tariff tcx wa from CO to PV) p r cent. ::n .overate tax of about 5100 f-n SK'O worth of imi--rt-ed p-ods. Under th new bill the r.ite is frcm 35 to 50 an average ef a'roüt $U tcr importing $100 worth. The redactl -rs !n other schedules are not s 1-rge, but thry are coin'.df r.b'.e in r.ll." Dom I'rntt-rilve Tariff Project Labor? When the protectionist, however, is driven to the wall on the great, outstanding fact that bw priC3S for goDds atway3 ro;ult from law rates of tariff, h:3 last and desperate resort is to persistently esi-ert that tariff protection Insures employment to the manufactorie3. the workshops, the coa! min, the blast furnaces. an" other industrial enterprises of the country, far the working lasss3, ar.d at fair, honest and steady wages. I speak now directly to the wag3 workers of Indiana. 3nd in the light of their owa experience which I call to witness, when 1 say that the claim, by whomsoever made, that protection of th? McKinley kind protects laborers In getting employment, or In keeping It at fair, living wages, without reductions or change of contract on rhe part of their employers, is a falsehood, gross, palpable, transparent; a "tlsehood, brazen, Impudent, and proven to be such in more than a thousand strikes and struggles between capital and labor under th; high protective tariffs, which for the third of a century past have cursed the laboring clas3e3 of the United SUtes. Does any one have tha effrontery to 3ay that wages have ever been Increased in this tariff-ridden country because of th increase of tariff taxes by congre33? There are more than 3ix mllilions peopla men. women and children, employed in the manufacturing establishments of ths entire country, and not one of all of them has ever appeared before a committee of congress, or ever made a statement in writing, or responded to inquiries in public meeting, asserting as a fact that their employers had. upon the enactment of higher tariff duties, ever given, or suggested a farthing's increase of pay for their work. I denied on the floor of the senate, as I do here tonight, that there has ever been a single in3tanc3 in the entire history of tariff protection where labor wa3 recognized In a division of profits, where it was taken Into consideration at all on pay-day on account of the highest protective tariff legislation ever known. I called upon the advocates of protection in the senaie to point out what law or provision of lav the manufacturing Interests, in the last hundred year3, had ever suggested for the protection of their employed laborers in the permanency of their contracts, their right to remunerative wages, or ven for the certain payment of the amount of wages agreed upon. No answer was given to my questions, because none 13 possible except to admit that the republican pretense of tariff protection fr labor 13 a cheat, a fraud, a sham, and a self-evident lie. Every dollar extertd by tariff taxation goes into the protected pockets of manufacturers, and never Into the unprotected homes of labor. Do the leaders of the republican party expect the American peopla ta forget the horrible scenes which followed the fnictroent of the McKinley law only four years ago? With tariff rates put higher in that measure than ever known before Vages were almost at once cut down In all parts of the country, and in every manufacturing pursuit. Have you forgotten the bloody scenes at Homestead where capital hired muider to be dons In ' enforcing a heavy reduction of wages? Manufacturers In 1890, as in 1834, urged high protection In order, as rhey said, to enable them to pay better wages to those who tolled In their service. The whole wcrld has taken notice of their bad faith, their falsehood, and their nerfidy on this point. As soon

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treatment ?t the hnnds cf C3 pit.il tmd?r 1 1.- McKiTil.-y tarin' ihnn cxer before ii double the length of time in the i btury of this government. Thry i-hjW that within two years after tli- C.h of O.Moler, wh-n t-.i- McKinley tariff ! -l-j-ti a law. m ire than live hundred strikes in re-sis-tHtu'C to wat- riNtii tioii tok place in .f." various statrs f th'j viniD-.j; th.it uproar and c;itt-niion Pet eon prot.-t:l capital and imj avori.-h ? 1 la; -or rased almo.t ontiiiii usiy fxi-.i day to d-y, while the homes f hunvhie toil were fiiivd with dlftrt'?.-?. of:cn with T-.'ant. anj ?omctims with cold-blood ?d, brutal murder. The nvaiiufaetnrer, when fu'.'.y protected, always fcls free, v.irhout hcsitaii'.'n .r rem ir?e, atid at his owa will and pleasure, to reduce th workinjr.Titin'i v.ajr., but who ever hoard of him eff.-risivj - reduce th- tarift-r'iii'd prices of his manufactured froonts, neef-aries of life, vviileh the w rkir!.uii'.a.ii is comp'llod t b'iy of him? When Ge-jr; Pullman, a little while at,o. made his heavy, starvation reduction in the wasr'S C'f his workii:-- p--op!-, it never occurred to him to nuk-a a s-imilar rc Ju.-ti'in. or even the reduction cf a Finale i'ai t'd.nrr in ihe r-nt he was nierci-lcs.-ly collecting froai them a-s hin opprcc?d ar.d i:: -c erishd tenant'. Th.? truth is 1 no in. re believe tint labor s-trikes c";ur in this country vithout tho tior.ir provocation of rsnk injv-tice fir.-: frivc-n by arroTant raon 'poly, that I beli'rve that Indian outbreaks take place on our frontiers except when cau;?i Oy the white man's lawbFS acgrePsions and robberies. Amrricün labr.ra are nDt anarchist? and lav-breakers. Thlr manhood. Instincts and training do n t l?ad In the direction of riots and disorder. If they have organizations and labor unions among themselves for their mutual protection and advancement, so hava ;.ational banker?, millionaire rninuf icturers and other moneye 1 mor.opiists of every kind ar.d degree. If there are federations of labor fcr tha purpose of securinghonest pay and fair treatment, so there are also federations of wealth fOi- the purpose of fixing and conotrolling the wahres of labor, ar.d of governing legislation of the coun'ry beside'. What the American laborer most needs Is not the abomination of tariff protection, the bloody reitrn of MeKlnleyL-m, but a strong and carefully prepared enactment In the body of our laws giving legal security in the courts, and before boards of arbitration, to honorable, law-abiding labor of all kind3 in its dealings with 9-lfish, grapin? and Intolerant capital. Such an enactm?nt of Justice and equality is in the near future if tha democratic party continues to hold the power of legislation. When it comes peace and prosperity will prevail in all the hacltations of honest industry from one ocean to the other. The Canrlanlon. But now, as my remarks are drawing a close. perhap3 some one In my audiences, some kind friend, democrat or republican, no matter which, here tonight, wants to inquire ajrain, and something more m detail, what the Fifty-third democratic congress has done thus far. Lrf;t me answer in the splendid language of Speaker Crisp: "While "we luve not done all we hoped to do, we have done more in. the past year to redress the wrongs of tho people, we have done more for their reile.', than was ever done by any party in the eame length of tima In any country under the sun. These are bold words, yet I hold myself at all tlmo3 ready to defend them. Coming into power a; a time cf panic, when business was at a stand-still, when la-bcr wa3 unemployed, when our treasury was empty, with courage and fidelity we entered upon a struggle with üie enemies of the people. We emerged from that struggle victorious In this: "We have repealed the McKinley law. "We have greatly reduced taxation. "We have made living cheaper. "We have made all money taxable. "We have taxed surplus Incomes. "We have restored freedom of elections. "We have reduced public expenditures, and we have declared undying hostility to all trusts and monopolies organized for the oppression of the people. On fchesa foundations we bui!d our house; on these Issues we go before the people. For them we have 'fought the good fight, to them we have kept the faith, and we have no fear." Turning from national affairs, however, at this point to the affaire of our own great and foIoved state, I am ready to make answer a3 to what the democratic party has also done for the people of Indiana, During the Ust ten years democratic legislatures In Indiana have enacted the following laws for the benefit and protection of wage workers and employed laborers: 1. The law protecting labor organizations. 2. The law giving laborers a Hen upon the product of their labor for wages ajid material furnlshei. 3. 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what are known as 'V.uek-me" stores. 8. The law regulating the liability of enip!o es. :. The law against the Importation of ali-n or foreign laborers. 10. The law repealing the so-called conspiracy act of lsi. 11. Th? luv requiring employers to provide seats for female employes in t? tores and factories. 12. The law protecting labor union label?. 13. The law providing for a standard coal screen for the protection of miners. 14. The law providing for the payment of wages every two we-ks. 13. The grat and just law miking It a penal offense to bring into this state armed men, whether P.rikerton detectives or any oilier organized force, for the purpose of shooting down laboring pe.-ple. These fifteen wholesome laws, just specified, oonstitute euch a record of practical friendship to the cause of labor on the part of the democratic party as can be found to the credit of no other party at any time in the history of the Unit d StJtes. Hut the democratic party hos a legislative record on other great subjects in Indiana which challenges the admiration, and support of her Intelligent people. It enacted the Australian ballot low and other lawö for the purity cf elections. It enacted the present tax law by virtue cf which the working, tax-paying people of the state will, as the years roll on. be the gaineis by many millions. It enacted the school book law and took the supply cf books to our school children out of the hands of trusts and speculators. It enacted the fee and salary law now in our statutes. It enacted the law for a state board of charities. These are some of the leading features cf democratic policy, and they constitute some of the powerful reasons, among many others, why Indiana will remain a democratic state. The Issues, both national and state, which govern this canvass are neither new ncr sträng to the people of Indiana. They have led the democratic party to victories in the past, and they will do so again and again in- the future. Xo backward step will ever be taken by the American people on the democratic tariff legislation as It now stands. It Is not possible for th? republican party to touch the new tariff law for its destruction or repeal within less than two years and a half from this time, even if every election in the United States, should go republican from now until then. In the meantime the business of the country will become solidly adjusted to Its provisions and details, and a grat business prosperity will everywhere prevail. In fact, the tide is rismg now; a business revival is seen and felt on every hand; activity in trade Is sweeping over the entire country; unemployed labor i rapidly going back to work and all Is bustle, hope. encouragement and good Chser, where but a few week3 apo thero was gloom, stagnation and despair. I see that in the last few days Senator Sherman and Senator Davis of Minnesota, hoth men of high ability and acknowledged leaders of their party, practically surrender In thflr public utterances and further contest on the tariff and declare that the country will b content to take a peaceful rest under th? new law. Thre is no marvel in all thi3 to my mind, and I here predict, and procliim my prediction, that there will be many yearä of steady, growing business prosperity for the great body of American people under the recent democratic tariff enactment before another general tariff revision i attempted, or another general tariff agitation take' place. Amendments in the future will here and there be made whore experience points out their wisdom and the lines of democratic legislation will b? pushed up at certain points, on riw material?, n little closer to ;in abofute freedom -f trade, but it is due to the reviv'ng business interests of the whole land to say that there is no reserved purpose in any party to recast the tarff schedules again or to rip up by general legislation the present law, unless, efter a fair, practical test, it should be found necessary to do so. Cut of the future workings of the law we have so recently made I have neither fear nor doubt. Although born amidst the bitter scenes of party strife, and fierce, avaricious contentions, yet it contains the spirit of liberty, equality and Justice liberty for the commerce of nation?, equality for American citizens, without protection for any which is not given to all, and Justice to American labor, which upholds everything and pays for all. CHARLEY JEWETT AT LAFAYETTE. State Issues Discussed and nn Era of Prosperity "ow Predicted. LAFAYETTE, Sept. 22. Special. The democratic campaign in Tippecanoe county was opened In this city this afternoon. The Hon. Charles L. Jewett of New Albany was the speaker. The meeting being in the afternoc-n only a fair-sized audience was present. Col. Joha S. "Williams, ex-third auditor.

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presided. Mr. Jewct: s speech was main ly devoted to state issues. He give a h!tory of demoer.-:e Ifgisl.iti and exc 'Hated the repuh.ican ;; sl;i ,n t j tha stale tax, school bk arl flection law. I iMssmg to nitiona; arrairs r, aoj n.-ainee-d what he termed republican cai luvuity campaigning; defended th-? new ; tariff law. ar.d rrc--i:t.cd still further re ductions in tariff duties by succeeding democratic c.r.gr"-es. He exprs"fl his gratifications that th? Iyniisiana, lK-gg.ir?, the receivers of bounty on sugar, had cone over to a nartv J 'that believed in th- .! trin of t:.x:" the many to help the indivdual Lu:-::'.--s of the fvw. In closing he predicted an era f pr at prosperity t confound the republican political pessimi?!.. Iir.M, AT Ml"CIR. Tli Democrat onlnalf n Cuonty Ticket. MUXCIE, Sept. 22. Special. Tha democrats of old Delaware county assembled In mass convention at the Wal-nut-st. opra house thl? afternoon in ons of the m ist enthusiastic m- tlngs ev r conducted in th's republican stronghold. The following ticket was nominated. t be voted f:r in November: Representative, Lon J. Hickman; prosecuting attorney. Will II. Hickman; sheriff. liven. Weir; clerk, Thomis J. Williams; auditor, DavIJ Kilgore; treasurer, Iiaac Humphrey; recorder. Andrew C. Gray; surveyor, Victor E. S.lverburg; coroner, Dr. Georg H. Searcy; commissioner, first district, C rge X. Parkinson; commissioner, third district, Elishi Bartlett. The Hon. R. C. Bell, an elocvant attorney, now of FL Wayne, tut a Delaware crusty product, addressed th? meeting, op?nlng the democratic campaign la Delaware county. He made one of hl3 able efforts and explained mitters In euch a puzzling manner that the host of republicans present hung their heads In despair and Bneakel off. He stated that no congress in th past half century has passed so many beneüclal measures as has the one that Just cdjourned. He closed by stating that ha had mada an cpen offer to any person of 510 fcr the production of a democrat In Allen county who voted for Cleveland at the last election who would not vote the democratic ticket In November. The enthus!asm was sickening to republicans, and democrats are happy at the start they hava mida In this campaign. THE D IS StXLIVA. AU h? Issue Ably Presented by Mensrs. Mills and Foley. SULLIVAN. Sept. 22. Special. A large and enthusiastic crowd of democrats greeted the Hons. J. J. Mills anj Mike Foley of Crawfordsville here today. The court rocm was crowdel with voters Oger to hear the democratic gospel. Mr. Mills gave a thoruttgh dis.-U5?bn of the "hard times." showing plainly that republican legislation was the cause. II is an entertain!.-g sneaker and tha audience was well pleased with his exposition of democracy. The silver-tongued orator cf th Elehth district, Mike Foley, was then introduced by Committeeman Thomas J. Mann and fcr over an hour he poured hot. shot into the camp of the enemy. His deiittnciatlrn of the vicious legislation of the republican party was a masterpiece of truth and oratory, and at times the great audience greeted h'.m with ranturcus applause. The tariff and ! . täte issues wore ably discissel and most of the veteran demo-rats pronounced it one of ihe finest speeches they had ever heard. Sullivan county's democratic day wag a success. ntnivu at Mir.tnvviLLK. Jinxes nn Illnqnent Address to the Democracy. SIIELBYVILLE. Sept. 22. Special. This has been a great evening for tht democrats of She'.by ciunty. The orera house was crowded to hear the Hon. Frank B. Burke, district attorney for was the opening speech of the campaign In the Fourth district and democrats cam? from every corner cf the county to listen to the eloquent and d.stinguished citizen. H address was a clear, pointed and forcible lta?ion cf the workings cf his party, the C -oper bill, the school book lav.-, th? fighting trust and monopolies ?nd the adding of 2 030 pensioners to the Tndiira lh-t within the last two years. Wh.n he showed his large audience how the school bo k law, enacted by the democratic party, had saved Shelby county aPne ciurirg ih past four years over S4.000 and that every