Ligonier Banner., Volume 25, Number 25, Ligonier, Noble County, 2 October 1890 — Page 10

- THE FORCE BILL. A Republican Mensure Destructive of the Rights of States and of the People, RAEI U The Most Infamous Measure Ever Devised For the Perpetuntion ot Power in the Hands of a Political Party, Jt Creates OMcers For Life, and Olothes Them With Autocratio Power, It Creates a Returning Board Whose Decisions Are Muperior to All State Authorities, Jt Forces Upon the Country an Army of 275,000 Morcenaries as Odious as il Pinkarton ThuS. ' Drawing Annuasl'y From the Treasury Not " Less Than 828,000,000 to be Pald Out of the Tuil of Farmers / and Other Workingmon, ©Of This Army Indian¥s Share Will Not be Less Than 0,000 Men at a Oost of About $600,000. ‘ The foree bill, brought forward by Congressman Lodge of Massachusetts, and passed by the house of representatives, is regarded by all honorable men as more infamous in its purposes than any act of treason to the constitution that the republican party has previously proposed. ] Chief sonervisors For L fo, - The bill authorizes the appointment of ehiel supervisors by the U. 8, eirenit judges, who hoid office for life, are amenabie to no person, and are election directors in their respective districts. These chief supervisors appoint three supervigors for each election precinet, and they may increase the number of election officers at wiil without consulting congress and pay them from the public treasury without limit as to the aggregate amount. Indeed, the voters of the United States, the treasury, and the ariny and- navy are placed under the control of the chief supervisors and supervisors while they are mauaging and controlling elections, and the chief supervisor may, ater consultation with: the U. S. district marshal, have as many deputy marshals appointed as may seem to be necessary, and in the absence of deputy marsha's the supervisors have the full power of deputy marshals and may arrest a voter if challenging him does mnot accompligh all that 18 absolutely necessary. Here we have a set of supervisors clothed with despotic ‘power. They can arrest and imprison at will. They have at their back the purse and the sword, and are obsolutely a law unte themselves. - Alds.to the Chief Snbarvlsor. Sec. sof the force bill makes it obligatory upon the judge to appoint a 8 nany supervisors as the chief may desire, and while the chief may in his discretion present aditional names to those whe have formeriy applied, the judge has ne discretion, but is bonrd to appoint the number desired from the list furnished him by the chief, three supervisors at least to each precinet or poiling-piace, two from one political party and one from the other, and give full. authority to the two who are agreed to act independently of the other; that is to say, the two repubiican super-. visors mway aet and their action is made lawful if no democratic supsrvisor .at ail ghion!d be appoeinted, and if appointed and be should undertake to expose any rascality practiced by the otheritwo or. should fail to pull smoothly in harness with them the chief may remove him and suspend his pay in his discretion, o

- This section arms the chief supervisor with a complete muzziing process, He can order any amount of cheating and rascality to be perpetrated at any polling-place within his jurisdiction, and if either one of the supervirors or the deputy marshal protests or attempts to expose it, or refures to bear witness that what the majority does is fair and honest, or that what the siate inspectors or peli-clerks do is dishonest or frandulent—in short, for doIng or failing to do anything which the chiei may desire or order—he may suspend or remove any officex within his jurisdiction, stop his pay, and cut off his rations.! In short, this section is framed upon the' idea that the chief supervisor, like the king, can do no wreng. Still More Extraordinary Powers OConferred Upon the Chief sapervirors, Sec. 6 of the force bill authorizes thechief supervisor to transfer his subordipate supervisors througheut a congressional district, ; . The seventh section declares the chief and all of the inferior supervisers and deputy iarshals to be o(’ﬂrers of the United States the moment they are assigned to duty, which puts them within the protection of the Nagle case reeently decided by the rupreme court, the effect of which 18 to exempt them from prosecution in the state courts for any crime they may commit under eolor of their office, or while assuming te discharge the duties thereof. If one of them ghould kiil or ‘ maltreat a citizen of the state he would ‘ aot be amenabie to the state law, but could snly be tried in a U, 8. eourt, and beforea partisan judge, whose ereature he is. Sec. 8 invests the chief with the power, Arough his subordinates, to revise and | japervise the registration of veters; te exumine state baliot-boxes befdre elections Jegin; to keep a poli-list and to pumber she voters; to receive and count ballots reected by the state inspectors; teo make statements and returus te the shief supervisor in whatever forn, manner, and to ‘he extent the chief roﬂuirol, and guch reaurns to be sont up to him by the deputy parshal ; and in a city of 20,000 inhabtants and upward, the chief may require sny of the supervisors and a deputy marhal to make a house-to-heuse eaAnvass, which may begin live weeks before and be sontinued on the day of election, inquir‘ng into the eligibility of veters and whether they bave ever been legally naturalized, which is simply a provision for domicilary visits te de the work of ticket peddiers m the interest of the republiean party. Neither of the men assigned to this work required to belong to the opposing peB party. i 5 fhe Infamons Returning Board Scheme. | The bill also provides for the ?pointment in each state by the judge ef the U. J. eircuit. court of areturning beard or mmn:-;wh receive the re- | Jorns from the precinets in the various ountios and hesr evidense if S et yroper, and then declare aud eertily under .., kéi’su‘g"("f"@‘ «L < m,h(m n’. senaive in congrets, and the individual certified iv to be placed by the elerk of el L ‘fﬁ;a&fgﬂﬁ;ﬁ@' e H 2 ew”’w%é%hm}lf\;@}é‘ P : } H&"ﬂ# o et s»r"/ *«'P ’ 1 o ‘j‘% St 4 o ‘ iyt e i Ly m GUET 0N ; .. 45 L ff’}\“‘ﬁgil{“%‘%}p@@ 4 AT S N ‘,.;Mrf"‘»»wﬁ P ;s:r;%u, ) DO mi M 19 Tecelived only |

1,000 votes while his opponent received 10,000 veotes, and the clerk of the house of representatives is compelled under heavy penalty to place the name so certified on his list of cengressmen. Only one remedy is open to the legally elected member and that is the right to contest the election, but it is fair to presume that he would have to wait until “Hepe deferred made the heart sick’” befere he would be allowed a seat in & house of representatives ehosen under this bill,

Here is something infinitely worse than the Louisiana returning board. Under the old regime, the vilest wretches who concocted frands observed some show of secrecy, but umder the republican ferce bill, devised to secure the same ends, the contrivers of that apomimation throw off all disgrace, and with brazen audacity, create a returning board to perpetrate frauds and rob the people of their rights.

Knownothingism Revived.

The twelfth subilivision of sec. 8§ beats: knownothingisin in its palmiest days. It requires the siupervisors, when instructed by their chief, to make a complete list of all foreign-bern persons who have been naturaized, with the date thereof, their place of nativity and present residence, and the name and residence of the witnesses used to obtain naturalization papers; and they are to examine and notethe original aflidavits and applicaiion f)resented to the court, all of which shall be filed in the office of the chief supervicor and there preserved. It establishes political espionaze over all of our naturalized American citizens with & viéw to controlling their vetes for the republican party.

Count ng In Republicans.

Sec. 15 authorizes the chief supervisor to notify the judge of the U, S. circuit court in ' September that he has business for ; the court to transact; and thereupon the judge -shal. open his court the Ist of October, and ghall appoint a board of three canvassers, not more than two of whom shail belong to the same political party, who shall hold their office for ‘‘so long as faithful and capable.” e They shall huve a seal and the power of appointing a clerk who shall receive $l2 per day, and each of them shall receive a salary of §l5 a day for each day actually employed in the work of *‘canvassing the stateruents and certificates of bailets cast at any election, general or special, for a representative or delegate in congress, and and a further sum of $5 per day for their personal expenses.” The-goard is required to convene on the 15th day of Novewmber of each even year, and shail convene at such piace in the state ag is most convenient to them where a circuit court of the United States is heid, and are to have power to finally canvuss and tabulate the statements of the votesin each congressional district of the state according to the roturns made to the chief snpervigors; they may call before them and examine any of the supervisors who acted at the election anywhere in the district as to the correctness oi the returns made by them. - The majority of the board is authorized to act, which is equivalent to saying that. ‘the republican mewmbers of the board may decide any matter to ruit themselves, and the democratic menmber can do nothing more than to protest. When they arrive at a decision t{-\eir finding is to be made public in triplicate! certificates, one to be filed with the chief supervisor, one to be sent (o the person elected, and one to he gent to the clerk of the house of representatives, unless they find that no one was elected ; and then the certificate is sent to the governor of the state.

The Clerk of thw Houss+ of ReﬁrosemuuveMust Obey the Voting Baarda,

Sec. 16 makes it the duty of the clerk of the house of representatives to put on the roll of members-elect the name of the pergon certified by the board ef canvassers to have been elected. And for fai ure to comply with this requirement they make the clerk punishable by a fine of not less than $l,OOO nor more than $5,000, and imprison nent for not more than five years, one or both, and to be forever disqualified from holding office under the United States. The Authority of the State Wiped Out.

A certificate of election from the governor of a state is set at naught and made worthless. Never before in the whole history of congressional legislation were the preat seal of a sovereizn stute and tie certificate to which 't is attached treated as mere waste paper. The certification of two partisan imembers of a canvassing board, appointed by a federal judge, is to be received as gospsl truth, while the certification of a governor, who speaks for a sovereign state, is to be treated as wasto paper and utterly disregarded. Are the Awmerican people prepared to submit to such degradation? : ’

The Force Bill Army and Its Cost to the

Country. It is estimated that the republican force bill, should it beco:.e a law, will create an army of mercenaries of about 275,000, and that they will cost the country for every congressional election not less than $28,000,000, : Indinna’s Share In the Republican Iniquiry. \ Hon. John H. O’Neall, the representative in congress of the Second Indiana district, in' a speech delivered in congress June 30, demonstrated that Indiana has at least 18,000 subordinate supervisors for her 3,000 voting precincts. Ii these supervisors are on duty twelve days, which the law permits, at $l5 a day, which the law fixes as their per diemn, it will cost the eountry for one election the enormous sum of $1,080,000. To this army oi republican heelers another army of depuiy marshals may be added, at a cost of :5 a day, which weuld swell the grand total indefinitely. : L :

“As a climax to all this,” says Mr O’Neall, the state returning board with sls° per day each and $5 each extra for expenses, This returning board iste consist of three persons, “not more than twe ot whom shall be:ong to the same pelitical party;”’ the other may belong anywhere or nowhere, -

This board, or any twe thereof, may Yeertify” or ‘““‘count in.” Their certificate confers title, the state returns to the contrary netwithstanding. Their certificate, when it reaches the elerk of this house, must be recorded, and the nanie of the party certified to musi be enrelled by said clerk on the roll of membership, A failure so to enroil him subjects the elerk to heavy penalties, the eertificate of the governor of any state or the law of any state to the contrary netwithstanding,. Has it come to this, that thé certificate of the governar of a stale—a man in whom the peopie of tho state have expressed their cenfidence by electing him to the high offiee—isit possible that the certificates of the gevernor, backed up by the reiurns made by the state canvasscrs, is to pale befere the certificate of this mighty trie, or any two of the trio, a trie, perchance, hatched and brought into existence by a midnight junta of prefessional poiiticians ? Must the people turn their elections over te pelitieians ? : “The force bill debauches the judiciary and brings,” said & member of congress, “the circuit judges of the United Htates and other federal judicial tribunals inte mud and dirt of partisun goliticai schemes. Who l}rpoinu the judge? He is there for life. « He appoints the supervisors, These duties imposed on the courts by this bill are extra-judicial. If judgoes agree te voluntarily perform them, thoy take from the udiciary its high ebaracter.. The judge is’ there without any pewer to direct and eompel his actien. The supervisor is smenable to nobedy, and it is not possible, Mr. Speaker,if this becomes a law, to bring him to account for whatever

he may do, however wrong it may be, however dir ctly against the law it may be. - There is no power to bring him up before a court and question the authority of his aet. The mement yen do this the man who dees it is brought before the same eourt, beeause he complains of injustice and illegality in the supervisor, and he is put in prison by the jury. Who chooses the jury? The supervisor or his marshal ; and theman who dees the wrong goes free., A man cannot step in and interfere, er he may be ‘‘subject te arrest.” This supervisor er the marshal, who are without resporsibiiity, may ge to the polls, may wmake a house-to-ieuse imspection, may see to the registering, ge into the eleetion-room, count the ballots, mark the bailots, and having done that may certify to the clerk of this house the congressional vote. .

The foregoing discloses the essential ineqnalities of the republican force hill, unparalleled in its designs to sweep away the rights of states and of individuals, eee e . X - REPUBLICAN TESTIMONY. Taxing Dinner-FPaills, Ten Potlh and Milk 1 Pans. 2 In the !ntorent of Monopolist Millionalires. The proposition to put a duty on tinplate was denounced by a republican leader in congréss some years ago asa call to protest an infant industry which is as yet unborn. The house of représentatives has voted, and the senate is expected to agree, to tax the people of this country from $10,000,000 to $16,000,000 a year to develop and protect this still unborn infant. For what purpose? To give employment, it is said, to the 24,000 workmen now idle, who would be required to make the tin-plate used in this country. * *' * [t would befar cheaper for the country to pay 24,000 idle men average wages to do nothing than to tax every gquare. of tin roof, every dinner-pail, twa]imt, milk pan and tin can simply to build up half a dozen more monopolist millionairesand enable tiiein to give coaching parties through Scotiand to protection leaders, and to found libraries from the savings of a 15 per cent.-reduccion in their workingmen’s wages.

. THE UNBORN INDUSTRY. in Anticipation of Its Birth the People Pay #15,000,000 » Yrar, [Senator Voorhees.] If this pomewhat elaborate description of the manufacture of one of the great staples of plain domestic life may seem tiresome to senatorg, perhaps it will seem less 8o to the industrious housewives of the country, especially when the amount of tax they are made to pay on their kitchen utensils, and the reasons for such taxation are pointed out and explained. There is not a mill in. the United States, and there never has been, engaged in the manufacture of tin-plate. There are but three American mills which produce even the iron piates, or black sheets necessary for the manufacture of tin-plate, and their annual prodnet does not exceed 12,000 tons. These who make tin cuns, tin buckets, tin pans, tin spoons and tin dishes for the tables of the poor, import ail the tin-plate used in their business. In 1889 they imported 377,000 tons, which was cut up and made into tin-ware for household purposes, and the people of this country paid for this tinware . more than $90,000,000. The diity on tin-plate under existing law is 1 cent per pound, and the net revenue derived last year from this = source amounted to at least $5,541,900, paid by those who purchase and use tinware. But that is a mere tap on the till of- the industrions masses, the bread-winners, the busy bees who gather honey for the indolent, bleated drones of the hive to eat compared with what the McKiniey biil now reposes. The finance committee of this bodyv bas reporied a bill to us raising the tariff tak on imported tin-plate to 2.2 cents per pound—an increase of 120 per cent. over the present rate, and swelling the aggregate of revenue on this one class of goods from a little over five millions and a half annually to over fifteen million dollars.

THE IIN TAX, A Robbery That Will Cost the People in : Ten Years §240,000. ! [Willinm Saul in the Knights of Labor Jouvrnal, Already we throw away $11,000.060 in duty alone on the $21,000,000 worth of tin plate itnported, which, when importers’, jobbers’ and retailers’ profit is added, sweils the amount to $41,520,000, instead of $30,492,000, which it wouid be without the duty, allowing samerateof profit ali round. The McKinley bill will about double the amount of the present duty, and since, at the lowest estimate, this hyrothetical industry, if developed at all in Dakrota, will take at least ten years’ time, the simpletons of the United States will contribute in that time about $240,000 to increase the plutocratic class, whose heels are already on the necks of the community. I speak under correction, but I think there in some $18,000,000 invested annually in the canning industry, which, with the present export trade, will be seriously crivpled, if not wiped out, by the Mckinley bill. - When one considers this one item of tin alone and realizes the injustice and misery it causes, surely it sheuld be a sufficient object lesson for farmers, mechanies and traders alike to unite their marked protest in coming eiections by voting down the fetich of protection to the realins of oblivion and hoisting the banner of free trade, which gives all the right inherent in them to buy in the eheapest markets in the werld and expend the fruits of- their labor to the best advantage of themselves and their families, placing taxation where it belongs, and lightening the toiler of his load imposed by indirect taxation, which has so long robbed the masses of their own.

; TIN ' PLATE, ; ‘ The McKinley Bill More Than Doubles the | Prosent Rate of Taxation. {The Hen. Jason B. Brown.] : The McKinley bill impesed a duty of more than deuble the present rate on tin articles of every-day use, which enter into the humble kemes of the poor as well as the extravagant residences of the rich. The pretext for this is, that in seme future years rome pretected monster may, with the assistance of this bill, give b rth to an infant tin plate industry. Preparation for the event must be made now. In order that people will be woll prepared te nurse, nurture, raise, eare for and preteet this infant, when borm, they mow,notwithstanding they are already over tax-ridden, must pay nearly sixteen millien del ars per vear to give arsurance that the infant will be born, and, when born, that they wiil furnisgh it a princely estate. The rule is that eme must cake enre of and support its own ofispring. Notse with this royal infant, the “‘tinplate industrv,” yette be bern. Unless ‘something interrupts m’a‘hanﬁoning of the event, netwithstanding it will have none of the bloed ef the peeple in it; notwithstandiu{ that its parentage wiil not be ef kin to t c;’moph, either by bleod or marriage, vet tt { must teil and enslave themselves, that It, upon its coming into the world, may live in leyal splender, - y ¥ R £ j ~ . The Tin-Pinte Lifant, £ i (N Y. Werld] il | - The tin-plate infant, vet unborn, wi not Mt&o to u!tci»(m 1896. ,I%m ‘mean time we are te be mercilessly bled, 80 that b *gbﬁ«fﬁmlmm i may gasp out a semblance of life, Bl e S

S UVUPPL ENE N T.

5 - WAILING WOMEN Who Work For the Protected . Industries at Starvation / Wages. . & i o AT A Horritying Presentation of Piracy and Poverty Infl oted by the Repubi lican Party. A Document That Ought to be Read in Every Home Throughout the Land. The following is the full text of & memorial presented in the senate of the United States, Sept. 3, 1890, by Senator Piumb of Kansas for the protection of women and children employed in the mills and factories throughout the United Ssates: _ : The Women'’s national industrial league of America, having carefully watched tariff debates in the U. S. senate, and having from our own observation and experience obtained facts which corroborare the statements made by senators, respectfully submit the fellowing memorial. Women And Chiidren the Slaves of Corporations, e Evidently the intended protection, liberally bestowed by the house and senate, does not protect labor, but is only fruitful to the manufacturers in this counntry. Women and children of tender age are virtually teday the siaves of powerful corporations. : Slave Wages. In:the cotton and woolen mills of Pennsylvania, New York and the New England states, women and children work at from 35 to 75 cents a day; their day’s work consists of ten hours; hence at 33 and 7} cents an hour, According to: the census of Marsachusetts of 1885, 23 per cent. of a'l persons employed in the cotton and woolen mills receive only $£2.10 to $4.50 per week, when attending to fromtwo to three looms each, while in Great Britain they have charge of one or two looms only. The Holy Bible Fafsified to Prevent Education. Familiesin theee aforementioned states fa'sify the entries in their family biblesso a 8 to enable them to put their children earlierto work than the law permits, being unfortunately forced to resort to these means in order to be able to meet current living expenses.

The president 3t the Woman'’s national industrial league was appointed by the chairman of the senate committes on edueation and labor, to investigate the status ot the working women in this country, and she has also, for years past, carefully watched the abuses of these corporations, and from actual facts and statistics gathered appeals to your honorable body to protect these unfortunate women and chiidren. ; The Clonk Manufacturers Reduce Wages. Immedistely after the passage of the taritt bil in the house on May 21 last, when a bountiful provision of an advance of 50 per cent. on the ad valorem duty was granted to the cloak manufacturers, they, on the sth day of June, netified their women-workers that their wages would be reduced 25 per cent. Recviving thenselves an advance of 50 per cent. ad valerem on existing rates, decreasing in turn their women wage-workers’ pittance to a further reduction of 25 per cent., seems like grinning moekery and wanton cruelty. Jlnbhumeanity to <iik We .vers. The silk weavers of Bethlehem, Pa., have been notified, by their employers, thata reduction of 40 per cent. of their wages has been decided upon; ihey, for . self-preser-vation, were obliged to strike. These silk ribbon manufacturers have also been liberaily provided for with an advance of 20 per cent. by the house and senate on their goods, receiving a bounty of 20 per cent. extra, and asking these white saves, by this reduction of their wages, virtually to contribute to their employers 40 per cent. from their already scanty wages, seems almost inhuman. bt

FPrices Which Degrade Wom‘nn;

Your memorialists also respectfully submit to you the fact that women in New York City are making a bov's jacket for 15 cents, in fact a whole jacket for the price of two loaves of bread, and a pair of pants for 12 cents. . | Women finishers in the woolen mills in Pennsylvania, according to the Pennsyivania annual report of the secretary of internal afiairs for 18-8, receive only 54 cents a day—not girls but full grown women—women spinners 71 certs a day, women spoolers [rom 42 to 64 cents a day, women weavers 40 to 40 cents a day, the latter sum being paid to experts oniy. In the knit goods factories women, not girls, receive only 55 centa a day for winding spools; women spinners B 0 cents a day; yarn twisters 63 cents a day; yarn spinners 66 cents a day; reelers 65 cents a day: giris at work in Pennsylvania, in the shoe and boot facteries, receive 50 cents a day. In the textile fabric factories the women spinners and spoolers receive from 47 t 055 cents per day, and the winders 66 cents a day, while the dressers of woven textiles receive only 43 cents a day.

Deplorable Conditlon of Affairs in Massachusetts,

The chiaf of the bureau of statistics of labor of Masshc[husetts, in his twentieth annual report, 1890, on page 570, states that 391 'temale children from ten to thirteen years of age are employed in the facteries of that state, and that 69, 807 girls of ages of from fourteen to nineteen vears are doing factory-work. Considering that eut of the 114,223 girls of ages between fourteen and nineteen years in the whele state of Massachusetts, 69,807 girls are factery girls, or ever 61 per cent. of the whole girl- pepulation of that age, it seems almest imcredible, but the facts presented are official.

15,588 Women Work'ng Kor 10 3-8 Osnts a ; Day.

In volume 2, page 215 of the Massachusetts census for 1885 the followimg startling confession is recorded: ‘“During the year ending June 30, 1885, 15,538 wemen were furnished with work home, and the ameunt paid te these women for the whele year was £514,362, or at the averuge of $33.10 a year of 312 working days, equal to 10§ cents a day,” All of which is respecifully submitted, and, earnestly asking for relief, your memorialists will ever pray. : : CrArLoTTE BMITH, President. CaTHERINE Brrerexn, Secy. - Washington, D. C., Sept. 2, 1890,

Democratic and R-publiran Records—Facts For Veteruns To Contemplate. The republican party had cemtrol of the government, from 1861 to 1884, both inclusive. During that. peried of twentyfour ;urs it épald out for pensions the sum of $678,346,834—an average of $28,097,784 2 year, i {,[‘ho democratic party had control of pension arpr‘ofristiom from 1885 to 1888, buth inclusive, four years, and paid out for pensions the sum of $284,739,610—an average of $71,184,902, e ; ! ‘ s paid 4 te.. .....$71,184.902 00 Aaneot srorae s by demrs. .o s ~ Demooratio exeéss over republionn,.sis,oB7.llB 00

Ahuses of Corporntions.

PENSIONS.

JUDGE BALDWIN. HIS PRONQUNCED VIEWS ON THE o . TARIFF, : g i An Honest Republican Who Repudiates War Taxes In Times of Peace, Judge D. P. Baldwin of Logamsport is one of the leading republicans of I ndiana He is a nephew of U. S. Senator Pratt, in whoee office he studied law. In 1880 he was elected atterney-general of the state on 'the republican ticket. Last year he was on the stump for Harrison in Indiana, New York and New Jersey. - ' From an inverview with Judge Baldwin, published in the Indianapolis News of Nov. 14, the following is taken: “I do not believe that the farmers of the United States will ever again bein favor of the present war tariff. My notion is that, without a radical ehange,the farmers in 1890-92 will go against us.

The inequalities of the present tariff are very hard en the ngricultural interests. The farmer is provided®with a spoon, whiie the manufacturers receive protection by the shovelful. Why sheuld the fariner be comyelled to'sell his wheat at the price fixed in Liverpool, in the markets of the world, and buy all his necessities from manufacturers protected from 30 to 75 I)er cent.? Wihile tho latter class is becoming enormously wealthy, the farmer is pulling the cfel-vil -round by the tail and just making a living. The tarifi should treat ail classes as near alike as possible.” - I‘]‘(’l‘his sounds very much like democratic talk.”

“Well, if it does I can’t helpit. lam no democrat. I don’t want to see the republican party go down upon the tariff abuses when they hold all the cards in their own hands.” | : “Put is it not believed that the new states and the proposed federal election supervision have made everything solid ?”’ “Don’t you believe it. There are 20,000 republicans in the state and 1,000,000 in the Uunited States who think as I do abeut tariff reform,and if the present abuses are not eliminated will rebel. If congreses dodges and shuflles and cuts off the tobacco tax and tinkers a little here and there, but makes no radical tariff reform, we shall certainly go to the wall.” :

1 . 100 K AT THIS. What the McKinley Bill Does For the Farmers. Mountains of Taxes on the One Side, and " Bankruptcy on the Other Bide. —_— : | Present Proposed Articles, duty, duty. Common window-glass 10 by 15 per ! apowed ol Gk 861,61 78.72 Common window-glass, 16 by 24 per pouNd; LLG s 11641 123.10 Commonn window-glaes, 24 by 80 per spotmd o LGI i 12858 185.34 Cotton-ties per pound........ccemneereeeee 35,00 115 03 Tiflaplate oo ofen it o 8400 74.00 Steel ingats, ete., above 16 cents per 4 anmd L G TS 45.00 Wire-fenoe rads, No, 6.....ccceviveereens 45.00 54.00 Ben-kiives akp o 0 L 50.00 75 00 Tabloenslery i b 3600 50.00 Hesiary, o g oanidiani s 149,00 60.00 Bhirts and drawers..........c.coonveneenen. 40,00 65.00 Brown and beached 1inen5............. 35.00 50.60 Browu and bleaehed 1inen5.............. 35.00 60.00 TWeRS D LG 69.00 0 100,00 Wonlens acd worsteds, knit geods, BLC el e 459 125.00 Warsted shawle o 0 i 000182, . 93.00 Be!ts for preases (urinting).............. 53.14 101,00 Plankets, flannels and hat 5.............. 69.70 110.00 Woinen'sand children’s dress goods 68.00 163.00 Women's and children's dress goods 68.60. 73.00 Waomoen's and ehildran’s dress goods 85.09 110.00 Clothing, ready-made.....cvereenrnnen, 54.00 84.00 Cloxkx, dolmans, etc......cceevvvereereenes. 80.00 82.60 Webbings, gorings, etC.....cccviveuienine. 64.00 99.00 Cheap woolen shawls............ccceeveeee. 88,00, 155,00 How long will the people submit to such piracy ? L Al 2 9 " . GOY. HOVEY'S SPEECH..

OLD SOLDIERS READ. Short History of Pengions—How a Republiczn Congress Treated the Veteranas. The following are extracts from Gov. Hovey’s address at Boston, Aug. 8, 1890: For those who fought last, in the rebelifon and unnatural conflict of 1861-65, lands aud iife peusions have been refused, with bil ions of am‘eﬁﬁf pibiie domain, aad a surplus in our treasury that the ingenuity of our statesmeu has hees unable to exhaust! What is the cause of this niggardly and pardmonious conduct of our representat:ves in congross? I can attr:bute it to nething but envy, hatred and the greed of gain. The banks of d-posit of the Uunited States, which now hold many mitilions of dolfars withont paying interest, do not want the deposits removed for any purpose. The shipning interests are elamoring for more ships and "'subsidies” to be 1-aid by the gocernm-nt. Th:river and harbor log-rollers im congress are d .vising schemos for combinng and swallowing up mauy millions to enrich their constituents. ¢ Petitiozs 1y veterans, with hundreds of thousands of names, have been sent to oonfress. and have been buried in the callars of the capitol unread, although the comstitution declares thas ‘‘the right te peitition shall romain inviolate.”” I had the horor of presemting to the present congress petitions ef n arly every grand army post in the United States, representing neariy 500.000 veterans, praying for th- passage of a law in eonformity with these resolutions (for servies pensions). - All th:se petitions were wholly unheeded and a bill was formulated and reperted by the invahid pension e mmittee of the house, which entirely ignored the prarers of the petitioners, the bill repertsd being sanetioned by n eaucus of the majority, prevented all service peusion: legislation. ek The recent act of congress will bring some relief to veterans in the asylums and poer-houses of our county and to many helpless widews, but it wil: reach mo one, net even those who are now receiving disubitlity zcndom, exeapt those who will take the pauper oath pruscribed by the secord section of that act. :

This act is called a disability act fer the purposs, no denkt, of disgui:ing its real character. It{isa disability act, but it wenld have been more apprepriate to have called it a panper gemion :ictl for the disability censists in tho fact that the applicant is unable te earna support by manual labor, There may bo a few wealthy soidiers ard emilors found who are umable te earna msgort by their manual labor, but I doubt if there could be ene such found in a thousand apylieants. = Strip this act ef ite verbiage and hypoerisy, and it could well bo eailed ‘“‘a pauner pension aet.”’ -Let the authors take the censequence. Veterans wiil know how te resent the insult. :

Protection a Burden Without a Benefit,

A tax, properly speaking, is a burden with a bonefit. You pay so mueh water, pelice or sehool tax, and receive its equivalent in -aqueducts, watchmen and educators. But when you pay $1 for a thing and another dellar as duty on it, what de you get for that extra dollar? Strictly speaking, therefore, protectionist orators are right in saying the tariff is not a tax. It is a burden without a benefit, just as if the momey had been lost or stolen,

Depreociation of Heal Estate Uudor a Republiean Robber Tariff.

The official real estate valuation in the state of Ohio hus fallen off more tham £80,000,000 in the last ten years, a decrease of miere than 10 per cent. Suppese we estimate the real estate of Ohio as ene-twentieth of the real estate of the country, In that case, under the influence of protection, the value of real entate of the country has decreased $1,600,000,000. Lt e : Campaign Reciprooity, _ The enly recipreeity really understeod by the republiean leaders is that which liad been estublished between them and the manufachurers. The manufacturers provide the campaign funds, and the republiean leaders reciprecate by taxing ‘consumers to enrich the manufaciurers;

. nNAaxQ 3 { vy REPUBLICANS THROW DOWN THE BARS TO FOREIGN LANDLORDS. The ﬂoﬁ. droon Smith Repeals the Repub‘lican Alien Land Law. : READ THEIR RECORD OF I“A!fSEHO_OD. : | : We believe that the soil of the United States should be reserved fer its own citizens, and such as may become citizens, and faver such legis:ation by congress and tha state legislature as' will prevent aliens beeoming the ewners of the land needed for homes for independent Amerioan farmers, ®* * # Apd we eondemn the conduct of the representatives of the democratic party, both in congress and the legislature of Indiana.—Republican Platform. - This ig a pretty plank to be introduced In its platform by a party which has given away to aliens and corporations 196,000,000 acres of public lands in this eountry, and which, in 18381, when it had & majority in both branches of the legislature, elected Bemjamin Harrison to the U. 8. senate, and enacted the following law, which was appreved by Gov. Porter April 16 ot that year. .

"An act to authorize aliens to hold titles to real estate, eonvey the samv, ete.: %

Seo, 1. Be 1t enacted by the general assembly of the state of Indiana, | guu natural persons, who are aiiens, whether they reside in the United States or any foreign country, may aecquire, hold and enjoy real estate, and may convey, devise, mortgage or otherwise incnmber the same in like manner, and with the same éffeot as citizens of this state, . Sec. 2. All laws or parts of laws 1n econflict with the provisions of this aot are hereby repealed. Lo

Sec. 3. Whereas, an emergeney exists for the immediate taking eflect of this aoct, therefore, it shall be in force from and after its passage. ; | i

In 1884 the fa;‘mér-é of the state, having felt the burden put upon them by reason of the ownership of large tracts of land by aliens,” demanded legislation restricting it. The Hon. Green Smith, who is now the democratic candidate for attorney-general, was a candidate for senator from his district that year, his republican opponent being Col. Wells, the agent of the Dundee (Scotland) land and insurance company. 'l}‘he fight between them was upon that issue, Mr. Smith taking the side of the farmers and the other gentleman endeaving to convince the people it was eminently proper that aliens should be continued in their rights under the old republican law of 1881. G Mr. Smith won the battle, and upon entering the senate promptly introduced the following as genate bill No, 3: An act ?oncem[ug the ownership and aliena. tion of real estate by aliens, and declaring an emerz}:ncy. Sectiop 1, Be it enacted by the general as. sembly 'of ithe state of Indiana, that sll aliens residing in the state of Indiara, who shall have declared their intention to become eitizens of the Upited States, conformably to the iaws thereof, may asquire and hold real estate in Irke manner as eitizens of this state, =

Bec. 2. All other alierms may take and hold land by devise and desecent only, and may convey the same at any time within five years thereafter, and ne longer, and all land so left and remaining uneonveyed at the end of five years shell escheat to the state. ; Sec. 3. Nothing herein contained shall prevent the holder of any lien upon, or inwerest in, real estate heretofore acquired, from taking a valid iitle to thereal ectate in which ke has such interest, or npou whieh he has sueh lien, Bee. 4. An emergency exista for the immediate taking eifect of thin net, therofore it shall be in foree from and after ite passage., ;

This bill was bitterly fought by the republiean wside of the senate, and by as persistent a lebby as ever disgraced the corriders ef a capitel. It passed, however, and went to the house, where it was superseded by an amended bill, numbered house biil No. 13, introduced by Mr. Rebinsen, an independent member. It passed that body by the entire republican vote, and the assistance of a few democrats, who did not payv as strict: attention to what they were doing as they should have done. The bill was then returned to the senate for its approval very near the close of the session. i

Senator Smith, reeing his object was about to be defeated, moved to amend the house bill by satrikingz out the enacting clause and inserting the substance of his original senate 'bill, which amendment made it read as above quoted. Inthe excitement incident to the last days of the session, he secured the adoption of this atmendment by botl: senate and houss, took it to the engrossing clerk, and from there to Gov. Gray, with his ewn hand, and it was approved March 9, 1885. Now the platferm-makers of the republican party come forward with the ciaim that the republican party ‘‘favers a law preventing aliens from becoming ownérs of land needed for the farmers of fmerica.”

This shows either gress false pretenses or densest ignerance on the part of the leaders, and in either case is inexeusable and is prima-facia evidence that the party represented by such aplatformis net eapable of properly managing the affairs of the state. ‘ .

Acain, the law pasgsed by the exertions of Senator Smith contained certain provisions which are most likely being vielated by alien land-ewners, and the present republican attersey-general, imstead of looking after such violations, as his eath of office requires him._to de, puts in his time at republican headquarters writing such piatforme and attempting to so deceive the voters that they will retaim his party minions in the pay of the state.

) SAMUEL J. TILDEN, What He BBald in 1876, Becoming True in 1890, “The democracy advances to fight anew the battle against centralism and corruptien, to which it was first led by Thomas Jefferson in the natien and by George Olinten in the state of New York, “The equilibrium of our whole political system is in danger of being overthrown and a despotic and corrupt eentralism established. : L “The ereed of the demecratic party is comprised in two id-as: Firat, to limit ap much aa possible all gevernmental pewer, enlarging always and everywhere the domain of individual judgment and aetion; seeendly; te throw back the governmental powers necessary te be exercised as mueh as possible upon the states and t&o loealities, appreaching in every eage thue individuals te be affected.

“These ideas dominate over the democratie party and find in it their best representatives. The oppesite ideas, to me&)dlo with everything bolonginl to the individual, and te centralive all gevermmental pewers, expross the tendencies of the republican party. : ‘ - “Under this inspiration the federal govemmen& is rapidly seizimg upem all the powers of human seeiety. It hus assumeod to regulate the sutfrage and threatems te take centrel of the elections,

“I oppone eeniralism bocause it isincompatible with civil liberty. “I oppose centraliam beeause it creates an irrespensible power, and an irresponsible pewer is always cerrupt. A government raling all the adairs of individuals and leealities from the Atlantic to the Pacifie, from the great lakes to the Guif of Mexieo, weuld be the mest inee: petent for what it wenld undertake, the most op_pressive, the most irresponsible, and the most corrupt government oi which history affords any example. - . 0

REPUBLICAN FINANCIERING The Surplus of $100,000,000 Gone, and a Dee flotency of Mure Than $80,000,000 i Has Been Oreated, - HON. W, D, BYNUM ON THEZ SITUATION. The Stiver Bill a ¥raud, and Promises to thg : ~Boldiers Broken, P := < o “It would be impossible to give, from memory anything like a full review of the proceeding of the session,” said Congressman Bynum. “I can only give an outlins of the principal measurés. The pension bill was not what the republican party promised to the soldiers, They were led to believe that a service bhili would be passed, and the limitation clause of the arrears act repealed, if the republicans susceeded. I knew full well when the session began that the repubiicans wonld never-carry out their proniises, and that their excuses would be ‘we are not able tg do Bo at present; wait.' In order that the might have no excuse, I offered an amem{'ment to tlse rules providing that when any general pension bi:l should be under consideration, it might be in order to amend- by providing means to pay the same. Had the amendment been adopted there would bave ‘been no excuse for the failuré to ecarry ount their promises, as revenues could have beeu provided by the issuance of bonds, or greenbacks, or by the levy of an inceme tax. The republie cans, however, voted down my amend« ment, and are new ready to make pledges to Pe broken as soon as the election is over. S

THE 'SILVER BILL A FRAUD.

“The silver bill, about which the repube licans boast 8o mueh, has proven a frand, The only effoet of the bill will be to susvend coinage of the silver dollar. The promised increase of currency wiil never come; while the iaw provides that treasury notes shall be issued in payment of the purchese of bullion, the treasurer issues {ﬁa' check, which may be paid 1n gold; and treasury - notes of large denominations, which -cannet girculate, are issucd and stored away in the treasury. In short, the people are taxed to purchase silver ballion which cannot be coined. I notice the socretary says this will be corrected just as soon as possible, = This is the same oid republican eampaign promise.

THE GOVERNMENT BANKRUPT.

‘YA full exposition of the appropriations, etc,, of the present congress.was made s short time a%:), in a speech by Gov. Sayer ot Texas. The appropriations by the present congress exceed those of the first session ofi. the fiftieth congress by $52,018,~ 700,50, and those of the szcond session by $72,352,784.41, The secretary of treasury estimates the- receipts of the government. from all sources R)r the present official year at $#450,415,347.34. The appropriations for this year, including the indefinite and permanent, -~ amount to $461,824,779,80, which will leave a deficiency of $11,430,442.55. -No approvpriations whatever have been made this yvear for the payment o‘ additional pensions. From the number o claimms already presented it will require at least forty millions wiore for this purpose, Also publie buildings, to the amount of £4.741,639.54, kave been authorized, for which no appropriations have heen made, In addition to- these, war vessels, with armaments amounting in cost to $25,225,000, and heavy ordnance to the value of §3,775,000, have been provided for. The amount eof * extimated deficiency and authorized expenditures for which no appropriations have been made amount in the aggregate to $32,841,649.54,

DEBTS CONTRACTED,

“In short, the present republican congress has contracted debts, over and above theé total revenues of the government, for the eusuing year, in ten times the amount of the entire public debt of the state of Indiana, about which it appears tohaye so much conecern. -

.. OFFICERS AND SALARIES, “The number of offices created by the present congress -is 1,270, with 'safariqs,, amounting to $1,391,211.50.”

’ N 3 miny a\ ™ THE STATE DEBT. Who Oreated It and What Beoame of the . ' Money., 4 The Books Opesed and the Fnots ; i i Stated. e ! The foreign debt of Indiana as stated by the republican au:litor is $8,056,615.12. Of this ‘amount the republican party created ,853,783.12 and the democratie party $3,202,832. ; When: the question is asked what heeome of the $4,853,783.12, the debt which the republiean party created, organs and orators are gilent. There are no assets, How stands the case when it is required to know what beeome: of the $3,202,832 fer which the demoeratic party is respon~ sible, S o The anawer is: Tlie new state-house re. quired £700,000, the hospitals for the insane at Evansville, Richmond and logans ort' $1,600,000; total, $2,200,000, The sold‘i)ers and sailors’ orphans’ home at Knichtstown, the institution for the feeble-minded of the state at. Fort’ Wayne, the new normal building at Terre Haute, the new additional building for the institute for the blind at Indianapolis, the new school building for the deaf and dumab at Indiane apolis, the soldiers’ menument at Indiane apellms b i These splendid monuments of benevolence and patrietism account for the ex penditure of the. debt whieh the democratie party ereated. But fer the debt of 54,853;982.12 whieh the republican party created, there is mothing in sight,

MORTGAGES

Io Six States, $3,49(,000,000—-Annual In. terest, §308,369,000, The following is the ameunt of the mortgaged ' indebtedness em farm lands in states mentioned, with interest at 6 per eent.: : ; - Farm Moriy KCanMßN.hiiaiiisiitvaeiines ‘tr;‘umn%“' Sil;n‘m Imdisome i canasniiaias \w.u'ﬁ,m - 38,700,080 POTa oo uunianncsrasnes covens 67,000,000 84,020,000 Miehigan. v i, 800,000,000 80,000,009 Wiseonßif i sossseen 867,000,800 22,020,000 OBlo.ious sorrerivisissnscvnnne 1,187,000,000 07,620,000 The above figures are takea from the Bankers Monthly, and as the bankers hold the mortgages, our anthority eannot be digputed. w&ith Indiana’s £38,700,000 an- . nual injerest at 6 per eent., it is fair to presume that the amount charged by the money sharks abeve that wseale would make the aggregate at least $40,000,000 wer annum. With wninetytwo eounties equally divided, amnd each farmer having the ‘same ameunt of lands equally incumbered, the imtarest paid annually by i’nrg farmer in the state would be $2OO. “In other words, the ‘‘real owuer’! is paying $2OO annual reut, while ; %b'o,:r:n’%&yho It;lvli ﬁ?ﬁlgﬂiﬂf?&th these figures, Unele Jeorry. R ﬁ#ﬁ'&% teach Lis depondent brethren who #ll the soil how to reverse the creps se that they SN o i