Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1904 — Page 6

THE COST OF LIVING

What an Intelligent Laboringman Has Learned In the Hard School of Experience. An intelligent laboring man, who is trying to support a family ( of six, writes the Huntington News-Democrat in criticism of the figures of Carroll D. Wright, chief of the National Bureau of Labor, and plainly intimates that the figures have been Juggled to meet the exigencies of the pending campaign. Speaking of his own experience, he says: “Last year I paid |301.25 for clothing, Including hats and shoes. This was for a family of six, myself, wife and four children, an average of a trifle over S6O each. Upon each of the articles of clothing there is a tariff duty averaging 60 par cent., or on the total amount of my purchase, $180.75. This amount of $180.75 was the tax levied and paid to the manufacturers of the articles purchased by me and went to them as a bonus. From this $180.75 I received no value whatever. It was an involuntary contribution on my part to the manufacturer of these articles. What I had to do, every purchaser of the same goods was compelled to do. "I believed in 1896 and 1900 that a high protective tariff was necessary In order to give constant employment at good wages to the American workman, and hence voted as I believed, but have changed that opinion. I see now. from experience, that I was mistaken. The effect that It had on myself and others situated as I am has been to increase the cost of living without a corresponding increase of wages. Without the tariff I would have bad $16./.'<s of my earnings. Its only effect has been to make me poorer. Out of the promised full dinner pail I have lost, by rap reason or fault of my own, this very tidy sum of $180.75, which in addition to the loss of ROO hours of labor, makes the sum total of $420.75 out* of an income of S9OO, or all hut 50 per cent. Each year I And the space between what I can save and Ihe cost of living grows smaller and in another four years it will take all a man can earn to buy the ordinary necessities of life for his family. “In that event what can a man situated as I am look forward to? I have not been able to save anything aside from my home for the infirmities of old age. 1 am to become a burden upon my children. They must become the wage-earners and take my place in the endless chain of hard work, selfdenial, frugality, in order to supply, as we call it, ‘a living.’ It Is neither a cheerful nor a hopeful outlook.”

A DANGEROUS SENTIMENT.

Probably the most dangerous sentiment to the peace of this country that President Roosevelt has ever expressed was in the declaration in respect to the South American states. He declares that “if a nation shows that it knows how to act with decency in industrial and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, then It need fear no interference from the United States.” Commenting on this sentiment, the Indianapolis News says: "This is, of course a plain threat of intervention at any time in the affairs of any American nation that does not govern itself as we think It should do. It is to adopt the European theory that, as we forbid control of South America by European powers, we must be responsible for the conduct of the nations which we protect. And this is a new doctrine — one that no American statesman, as far as we know, has ever held.” Not only do we have to pay more to run the government than we used to have to pay. but we have to pay more for our living. We pay more for clothing, for drygoods, for meat, for flour, for everything we have to eat, drink, wear, or to furnish our homes. The trusts cause these conditions. The high tariff causes the trusts. The Republican administrations gave us the high tariff. The Republican voters, or those who voted the Republican tickets, are originally responsible for all this. Now’ isn’t it about time that the voters should take an account of these conditions? —Columbus Daily Herald. The attempt to throw dust into the voters' eves by the pretense that the Republican national committee is short of cash, is hardly consistent with the report that the lobbyist of the Panama canal steal has paid to Mr. Cortelyou $400,000 that he promised Senator Hanna if the treaty wasratified. There was considerable consternation when Hanna died amongst the principal Republican leaders as to whether that promise to Hanna would be kept, but the chief Panama conspirator kept his word. The people should bear in mind that every statement that emanates from Republicans regarding the payment of the state debt is an indorsement of the Democratic tax law which the Republican managers denounced in 1892. The law has put the money in the state treasury and the Republicans have simply made payments from time to time on the state debt. Secretary Shaw has started out on his spellbinding tour and will tell the voters that high trust prices are a sure sign of prosperity, and that if the Democrats are allowed to push him away from the olßciai trough there will be dire disaster for everyone.

ROOSEVELT AS A FREE TRADER.

president Roosevelt started out In politics as an anti-protectionist and favored the abolition of all tariff duties. He joined a free trade club in New York and continued his membership during all the time he was a member of the assembly and until after the nomination of James Q. Blaine in 1884. In the life of Thomas H. Benton, Author Roosevelt writes, among other things, In regard to the tariff as follows: “Political economists have pretty generally agreed that protection is' vicious in theory and harmful In practice; but if the majority of the people In Interest wish It, and It affects only themselves, there Is no earthly reason why they should not be allowed to try the experiment to their heart’s content. The trouble is that it really does affect only themselves, and In 1828 the evil was peculiarly aggravated on account of the unequal way in which the proposed law would affect different sections. It purported to benefit the rest of the country, but it undoubtedly worked real injury to the planter states, and there is small small ground for wonder that the Irritation over the region affected should have been so Intense.” Again, in speaking of the tariff, he ■aye: "In 1828 the tariff, whether it benefited the country as a whole or not, unquestionably harmed the south, and in a federal union it is most unwise to pass laws which shall benefit one part of the community to the hurt of another part, when the latter receives no compensation.” In commentig upon the speech of Clay in defense of a protective tariff, Author Roosevelt says: “Clay’s assertions as to what the tariff has done for the west were equally ill founded, as Benton showed in a good speech wherein he described picturesquely enough the industries and general condition of his portion of the country, and asserted, with truth, that its revived prosperity was due to its own resources, entirely independent of federal aid or legislation.” No one ever heard of Theodore Roosevelt becoming a protectionist untiil he became the Republican candidate for vice president and now as the candidate for president.

Jewett a Democrat.

Charles A. Jewett, former speaker of the house of representatives, who left the Democratic party in 1896, has declared for Parker and Davis. In an interview he said: “Parker and Davis are Democrats, and were nominated by a Democratic convention, and it would be very queer if I did not support them. Of course I shall vote that ticket. The man who does not is no Democrat, and I have been one ever since I cast my first vote for Tilden. And it’s the same way with the state ticket. It’s a firstclass one, and is headed by the leading Democrat of the state. From top to bottom it is composed of good men, most of whom are my personal friends, and three from my district.” Under the whip and spur of publie opinion that the trusts needed curbing, the 57th congress appropriated $500,000 for the department of justice to use for that purpose. Nearly two years have elapsed since that appropriation was made and less than $30,000 has been expended. The money spent was used by Attorney General Knox in having some other lawyers, who are notoriously not trust busters, to fight the trusts. Of course under those circumstances no trust has been disturbed since the appropriation was made. Mr. Knox, Just before the corporation elected him for United States senator of that state, said there was no Intention by the administration of “running amuck” against the trusts. Attorney General Moody, who succeeded Knox, seems to be running in the same rut, and the trusts are more oppressive than before congress appropriated the money to fight them. It may be said that President Roosevelt complacently approves this do-nothing policy. Republican prosperity and accompanying high prices that Secretary Shaw thinks is so prevalent and that

“A class of professional noncobatants Is as hurtful to tha real healthy growth of a nation as Is a class of fire-eaters, for a weakness or foiiy Is nationally as bad as a vice or worse, and In the long run a Quaker may be quite aa undesirable a citizen as is a duelist.” —Theodore Roosevelt

ba says is the result of Republican policies has bad a disastrous effect in lowa. When business is good nnd people are prosperous it would naturally be expected that the banks would par* tlcipate in the prosperity, but in lowa It seems to be the reverse. Seven bankers have taken their lives in that state during the past seven months, and all their banks have been found upon examination to be hopelessly insolvent. Judge Parker has set a commendable example by resigning the office ha held when nominated for another. Yet Senator Fairbanks continues to hold on to his Washington job. It ia no secret that he has advised with the party leaders and that they have told him that the outlook in Indiana is too desperate to take any chances. They don’t want to risk the election of two Democratic senators in Indiana. Under Mr. Roosevelt a surplus of $30,000,000 in 1900 has been changed Into a deficit of more than $40,000,009 for the fiscal year just closed, and a further deficit of $17,407,728 for July, the first month of the present fiscal year. This deficit for July is an indication of the enormous deficit that wll be certain for thia fiscal year, which will probably exceed $50,000,000. The three P*a —Parker, Prudence and Peace. The three R’s—Roosevelt, Race-riot and Ruin.

Roosevelt’s South American Policy.

In the letter by President Roosevelt to Secretary Root and Intended to be read at the Cuban anniversary dinner on May lu, was this remarkable language: “If a nation shows that it knows how to act with decency in industrial and political matters, if it keeps order and pays Its obligations, then it need fear no interference from the United States.” Joseph R. Pulitzer, taking advantage of the president’s declaration that, he stands on his “record,” takes up the South American states, shows that they are continually at war and that they are overwhelmingly in debt. Then he comments on the showing as follows: “Thus you propose to make us responsible for foreign debts aggregating $1,386.417,249 —more by 50 per cent than the present bonded national debt of the United States —and this not counting $419,984,658 of domestic debts.i billions of paper money and hundreds of millions due to foreign oitlzens and corporations for subsidies, damages and other claims. You propose to have us keep order among nearly 60,000,000 people of mixed Spanish, Portuguese, Indian and negro blood, divided among twenty sham republics which have had at least 300 revolutions in eighty years. Incidentally you take the chances of embroiling us with several European powers in the Caribbean and other islands. No wonder you want a great army and navy. If the people indorse your policy we shall need them."

Will Support Parker.

A. B. See, a prominent elevator man of New York, simply expressed out loud the sentiments of many other Republicans who are saying nothing but doing a lot of hard thinking, when he said: “I never voted a Democratic before, but this year the business interests of the country demand the defeat of Roosevelt. While no one questions his personal integrity, still he is unfortunate in the possession of a rough-riding nature. He is impetuous and explosive, and is regarded by the best Interests in the country as unsafe. If elected president by a vote of confidence, he is not the man to have supreme power at his command.” It is a perfectly natural thing for Democrats of every shade of opinion to be in line for the Democratic nominees. The personality of the two candidates is such that the choice of every conservative man would naturally fall upon Judge Parker, and when there is added to this the marked distinction between principles as enunciated in the two platforms there would seem to be but one choice for a man who has the welfare of his country at heart.

EXTRAVACANCE

Partial Record of the Last Legislature Shows an Increase of $95,000 For Official Salaries and Expenses. i Year t>y year the Republican legislatures are becoming more and more careless in appropriating the money of the people, and the session of 1903 stands out with special prominence in this respect. Four new positions were created, with salary attachments and the Increases over two years before aggregate the enormous sum of $95,116.78. This reiers only to officers and office expenses and does not include many appropriations, the necessity for which may be seriously questioned. Here ia the list of increases made at a single session: Office and Officer. 1901 1903 Inc. Governor $ 5,000 $ 8,000 $ 3,000 Governor's clerk .. 880 1,000 140 Governor's mes'g'r 800 1,000 140 Governor’s clerk, additional 100 106 Governor's messenger, additional... 106 166 Governor's emergency fund 80,000 30,000 Adjutant general. salary 1,500 2,250 750 Adjutant general, additional salary. 500. 500 Adjutant general, stenographer .... 480 600 120 Secretary of State, enforcement of corporation laws. 2,000 2,000 •Secretary of State, additional stenographer 600 000 Secretary of State, distribution of laws, reports, etc. 600 600 Secretary of State, file cases 2,000 2,000 Actuary, State Auditors Office .... 1,500 2,000 500 •Second Assistant Attorney general 1,800 1,800 Second Assist't Attorney General, additional salary. 1,050 1,050 Attorney General, office expense ... 500 750 250 Attorney General, deficit, office exp. 200 200 Attorney General, telephone bills .. . 145 145 Clerk. Supt. Public Instruction 900 1,200 :iOO Stenographer. Supt. Pub. Instruction. 600 720 120 First Assist. State Librarian 900 1,100 200 Second Asst. State Librarian 900 1,100 200 •Messenger, Stute Librarian .... 720 720 Office Lxpns., State Librarian 1,000 1,200 200 Books & Binding. . 1,000 3,000 2,000 •Stcudg., Librarian 900 900 •Unskilled help. Librarian 300 300 Rebinding books & papers 1,000 1,000 Reprinting 1,000. 1,000 Stenog., extra sal.. 525 525 First Assist. Librarian, extra salary 116 116 Second Asst. Librarian, extra salary 116 116 Pub. Library Commission 2,000 7,000 5,000 Reporter Supreme Court, salary 4,000 5,000 1,000 Deputy, Bur. Statis 1,200 1,500 300 Clerk hire, do 1.500 1,600 100 State Board of Health, expenses. 6,000 10,000 4,000 Ass ts to Custodian 12,420 15,000 2,580 Repair 4 Sup Fund 3,000 5,000 2,000 Water for atateh'se 2.000 2,800 800 Ass'ta to Engineer. 4,620 5,220 600 Whitewashing .... 150 150 Clerk of Supreme Court, office exp.. 750 850 100 Five Judges of Supreme Court .... 22.500 30,000 7,800 Six Judges of Appellate Court .... 22.500 36,000 13,500 State Forester .... 1,200 1,800 600 Flab 4 Game Commlsloner, exp.... 3,000 8,300 4.700 Total $103,290 $198,406 $95,116 •New office created.

THE CONGRESSIONAL OUTLOOK.

Representative Babcock, chairman of the Republican congressional campaign committee, declares that his party is not fighting “General Apathy" in this campaign and not "since 1888 have the Republicans found conditions so unfavorable for the congressional tickets as this year.” Continuing, he says: “In each of four different congressional districts we have two Republican candidates, and this division of strength will almost certainly result In the election of the Democratic candidates. Out In Nebraska our opposition has fused on the congressional ticket, and we are liable to lose some districts. In Indiana we have several real contests, and I am not at all satisfied with the situation there. Rodengrew down in the Bast St. Louis district and Smith down in Egypt and Lorimer up in Chicago may be defeated. We are more likely to lose than gain strength in Illinois.” This interview ought to stimulate Democrats everywhere to effort. Mr. Babcock may have intended that those utterances should nerve Republicans to greater exertion and the admissions may have been made for that purpose, but, be this as it may, Democrat in this state snould leave nothing undone to cut down the representation in congress from Indiana.

The Full Dinner Pail.

The full dinner pail Is not so frequently mentioned by the Republicans this year. Many people .are working short hours and strikes are numerous. What does it all mean? The Republicans delight to refer to the soup houses that were established along about the close of President Harrison’s administration in 1892. Are their policies bringing on another such an era? Everything is becoming so trusted that there is now but one employer, where formerly there were a hundred. The high tariff has stimulated production in many lines until the home market is glutted and shops are being closed until the over-supply is gotten rid of. And the fullness of the dinner pail languishes while the oversupply is being disposed- of. Labor, seeking to organize to maintain a full dinner pail, is locked out or foced to accept reduced pay. In the meantime millions of the cheapest laborers In Europe are coming to our shores to take the places of American workingmen.—Logansport Pharos. Senator Fairbanks continues to Illustrate how hard it is to let go.

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