Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 16, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 September 1893 — Page 4

LOUIS D. VANDERVERE, Am «f the beet faun lhuteesi men b> Ohhe(% npi will tin of the greet Bradetroet Oo. HEADACHE, SLEEPLESSNESS, NERVOUS PROSTRATION. JDr. JRZe* WtnUemi Ce., the use of Da. ■itw RWSflTHl Niymtf LeJTend upper P^A**^,**!*} “ . , - " -I lost flesh end wee, Rreeuy p ipr n troubled With deepieamef*. VW tlUl/ your Kerri ne was highly Z2Z5STS* ^co^d^^thTrffl^^ uir medicine. Yel as & last resort 1 consented to rive it a trial. Much 10 my surprise. 1experienced marked benefit; my sleeplessness disappeared; my headache was removed; my spirits and general rSTHOUSANDS /aaiNKD twcmtv pounce. h^LTMie occurred essa^as? Sold on e Poaltlvo Oumrnnte*. P*.MiLES’PILLS, 60 Do*c*25Ct». ®fci Jilt* County Jlcmorrat Br M. BIcC. STOOPS,

t&F Tkc Pike tentj Democrat k» tke Urpat elrcalatlou ot aajr newspaper published U Ike Count} 1 Advertisers will make a note ol lit fact! Entered at the postoffice In Petersburg tor transmission through the mails as seeondplass matter. >KIDAY, SEPT. 8.1893. A Mrs. Jacksou of this city has been {{ranted a pension with back pay amounting to uearly 13,000. This does not look like the present administration has been turned over to the rebels, copperheads and the $olid South as the Press, and other yepublicau papers have>howled so pinch about. Probobly a little pension reform in Pike county would be healthy. As one man says “there i*S man in Petersburg drawing a pension who was never in the service.” Commissioner Lochreu, of the Pension Bureau, has issued an ordei . piodifyiug the practice of tiie office as to suspension of pensions. The most important change is that which directs that hereafter there will be po suspensions except in cases where the repord shows on its face that the soldier was not entitled to any pension whatever. It is believedT(h*»wpver, that the number who will 'come puder this class will be very small. The Democrat of last week was yoted the red ribbon as being the piost wide-awake paper published in the county. The paper was handsomely illustrated ami chuck full of good reading matter, and extra copies were eagerly sought after by the people attending the fair. Nearly pOO extra copies were given out. The Democrat is always to the front with new features. Call aud subscribe. The Petersburg creamery could be moved over here with little expense and trouble There are an abundance of cows that give the finest of milk In this locality and the people are first-class farmers and can stand the Smell of cheese and milk —Monroe City Star. The creamery “could” be moved to Monroe City, but it will remain in Petersburg and be operated. At {east it should be operated. There is jnouey ip the business when tbe faVmere fully understand it.

The fair association will run behind one or two hundred dollars {his year. Jt is a notable fact that (titles* greater attractions are offered (he people ^vlll not atteud. The com(aon old-time fairs of forty years ago will not draw Uie people of to-day. The people want and must have them pr they yvili not lend their presence fit the fair. - W. L. Hargrove, of Oakland City, }a in the city to-day enroute to the (Shoshone agpupy, Nevada, to assume (he dispharge of his duties as Indian agent. Ifr. Hargrove’s many friends )n Qibson county regret yery much to see him go so far away.—Priuce(on Democrat. In supporting the newspapers you are building up the interests of your home and towr. Every business and professional man should be an advertiser, and every citizen asubscribIFt

TARIFFS AND WAGES. DUTIES PROTECT THE MANUFACTURER NOT THE LABORER. f allactoa. Argujx «mtn and Absurd Stet*■Mta of . ProtsetlonUt Eiyowi—Protwt the Worker, >\.l the Products «f Hie Skill. The American Economist, the organ of the protected ma.nufhctnrers, has for three months been publishing letters criticising the proponed tariff bill of the Reform club. These letters were solicited by The Economist from manufacturers, workingmen and from members ..of the American Protective Tariff league. The letters from workingmen were a sorry lot Not only were the /criticisms puerile, but the writers are mostly unknown and without Influence in labor circles. Indeed there is in some of their letters internal evidence that they have been used as mouthpieces of their employers. There is one 'letter, however, from workingmen which merits attention. It is from Mr. George E. Murray of New York city. Mr. Murray is chairman of the board of arbitration of District Assembly No. 49, Knights of Labor, and has been master workman and statistician in this district. He is a painter by trade and is recognized among laboring men as an honest, conscientious man even when he is advocating “protection” and other theories and measures not in the interestof the laboring man. Mr. Murray sees a great bugaboo in the increased importation—nearly $183,000,000 worth—which the Reform club estimates wonld occur the first year under lower dnties. Then, upon the assumption that “labor represents 90 per cent of the cost of all articles that man uses” (which, however, to bo liberal he estimates at 73 per cent), he says that “every $2,000 vrorth of goods brought here from another country means that $1,300 worth of labor will be done in some other country; $1,500 worth of labor at a fair average represents the labor

oi tnree woronjpnen ior a year. This is the foundation for all of Mr. Murray’s criticism. He is a full blooded protectionist who rejjards all importations as a curse, becar.se 90 per cent of their value is just so much lost to the laboring men of this country who are thus denied the privilege of making these goods. He entirely loses sight of the fact that we pay for imported goods with the products of our labor, and the sole reason why we iipport some goods and make others is lrecause we can in this way obtain more for our labor. We import tea, coffee, sugar, rice, lemons, etc., and export cotton, corn, beef, pork, agricultural implements, hardware, etc., because it is in this way that we can get more of the necessities and luxuries of life. All men and all conntries are not adapted alike to the production of the same articles, and if they were it would still pay some men and some countries to conGne their attention chiefly to certain^ industries end products, and to exchange to obtain other products. Mr. Murray evidently would stop all of this exohange. He is so anxious to do all of the wcyk himself that he will not trade with a man in Canada or Europe, who can produce the required article for onehalf what It will cost to produce it at home. He prefers to make it himself and to save the labor cost, even though in doing so he must neglect the making of some other article, where his labor would produce twice as much value. •' But let us follow up the application of Mr. Murray’s theory. He says that “under ‘Earthenware,’ etc., the Reform clnb by their own figures admit {hat |4,873,000 in value of additional goods will be imported into this country. This means of course that just that much goods will not be produced at home, and that on the basis above named (75 per cent of the importation representing labor) over 7,300 people will be thrown out of employment, and this result is attained by the Reform's club’s figures. Do potters at Trenton, East Liverpool, Q„ Baltimore and other points want to see 7,300 of their number thrown out of employment?” Let us examine these statements. Mr. Murray omits to notice that under “Earthenware,” etc., the Reform club includes not onl y all kinds of china and stoneware, but also bricks, tiles, etc. Our manufactu res of these articles will probable exceed $1,000,000,000 in value. The value of imports is $3,737,000 under an average duty of 57.65 per cent. The Reform club committee thinks that under a 35 per cent duty the imports would increase to $130,000,000—a frightful showing, thinks our protectionist friend. But as most of the imports are of china and stoneware we will accept Mr. Murray’s figures. Suppose that the potters would lose nearly $4,000,000 in wages, what would the people gain? They would save about 25 per cent on the cost of their pottery wares. As they purchase yearly over $30,000,000 of these wares, the saving would amount to $5,000,000. Hence it would be better to pay the potters then- wages and support them in idleness in order to give the people cheap wares. We will test this in an

Bluer w»j-. . Twenty-two dozen of assorted white granite ware (see Tariff Reform, volume 4, No. 6) cost at wholesale $19.12 in England and $32.01 in New York. The labor cost of making in Trenton is $3.88. The duty on the imported English ware. 90 per pent, as Mr. Murray says; (2) that the duty is about twice the labor cost, leaving a considerable margin for the pottery trust; (3) that by abolishing duties an granite ware we would save about |3 for every $1 paid labor. - Mr. Murray may not know it, but the potters have several times expressed ppinion on the tariff question. They )rave Been wage; go down while the tariff went up. In 1874, when their wages were cut down, they petitioned congress |o reduce tye rates of duty upon unis $10.01. Mr. Murray will observe thatfhe labor cost is here less per cent (about what Porter's census figures will show) and t

ported pottery, declaring that the only result of the tariff was to raise the price of goods and that it benefited the manufacturer and not the labpper. In 18S3 duties were raised. In 1886, after another strike, the manufacturers succeeded in reducing wages 8 per cent. In 1890 duties were again raised. In December, 1890, the sanitary ware combine, composed of the nine manufacturers in Trenton, East Liverpool and Baltimore reduced wages from 10 to 40 per cent. After a strike of six months an average reduction of about 15 per cent was accepted. During the strike the combine advised dealers to import sanitary ware from England until workmen would accept a reduction. In April, 1801, the .combine raised the prices of its wares. Some of the finest mansions in Trenton axe owned by the manufacturers of pottery who have grown wealthy in a few years. Can’t Mr. Murray see that the reduction proposed would reduce Jlie prices of pottery? That much more would be demanded at the lower prices? That while we might make less of some kinds we would make much more of other kinds than at present? That this would cause a demand for potters and a probable increase in wages? That the reduced duties, prices and profits would probably break the combine which now has the potters at its mercy? That there is no connection between tariffs and wages? That duties ore on goods—what workingmen must buy, and not cn labor—all they have to sell? The same kind <4 reasoning applies to rite glass, woolen, iron and steel and silk' industries, which Mr. Murray mentions. Be dreads to return to “the terrible poverty and starvation of the last free trade period which immediately preceded the civil war,” just aa if statistics did not show, what Blaine ia compelled to admit in his “Twenty Years of. Congress,” that the 14 years previous to 18C1 were, as regards farming, manufactures and wages, the most prosperous in our history.

Mr. Murray 8 ideas on wages appear to be slightly muddled. He says “that labor organizations make the price ah which labor may be sold, and in that way benefit all by keeping rates far above anything in Europe.” He says: ' “Nature in her generosity has placed in her storehouse (the earth) all that man requires for his comfort, and in noplace has she been so generous as in America.” He says: “With the spirit of equality implanted in the heart of every American workingman it is easy to account for the high plane to which he aspires, being far in advance of anything hoped for in any foreign country. This has not been reached without contention and a loss of wages to the workingmen. For the past 80 years the annual strike and lockout occurs in some trades or callings, and in order to protect themselves from the pauper labor of foreigners the. Knights of Labor succeeded in having passed the contract labor law.” He says: “'the government would protect the product of its people's labor in the same way as the trades unions protect their members—viz, the government, by placing a protective tariff on competing imports, says to the importer, ‘Yon shall not sell this or that article below a fair price.’ The trades union says to the unfair employer, ‘You shall not' pay this man less than the minimum rate of wages.”' Here are four or five different causes for the high wages in this country. The first three may be real causee, but we are unable to see how a tariff on the products of labor, when these products are not in the hands of labor, can protect the laborer. It looks as if it wonld lower his wagee by compelling him to pay more for what he has to purchase— perhaps the very articles he has produced. If he could put a duty of $1,000 or more on each immigrant who lauds to compete with him, his labor would then be protected. It wonld also be protected to some extent if the contract labor law which he mentions was not constantly violated by the protected manufacturers. If laborers would object to the dnty on goods half as strongly as the manufacturers object to the contraot labor law or to a dnty on labor, there wonld soon be as little obstruction to the importation of goods as there is to the importation of labor. < ^Mr. Murray says that in no case “are the duties proposed equal to the difference in wagee between this and foreign countries. ” The duties proposed average 25 per cent. According to the census of 1880, the average total labor coet in all manufactures was about 23 pfer cent. It is expected that the new census will show it to be lees than 20 per cent; hence, if there were no labor coet at all in European goods, this dnty wonld still more than cover the difference. As a matter of fact, there is very little difference in wages between this and other countries when the amount and quality of the product are considered. This was the opinion of William M. Evarts and of James G. Blaine as expressed in their reports when secretary of state and is the opinion of many Republican authorities If our $3 a day labor were not cheaper than Europe's $1 labor, we could sot, as we do, sell nearly $1,000,*?orth of our products in compete the products of foreign cheap pe Mr. Murray will begin anew ver all of the arguments for and protection. We think he will ferent conclusions. Byron W. Holt.

Buaineu at Stake. Dr. Bluepills—Oh, bother your politics! What’s the tariff got to do with 08, Bleeder? Dr. Bleeder—Got to do with os! Well,' it doesn’t take much"iaedical education to see that there won’t os-half the work for ns doctors when they get the duty off from wools and woolens! Protection takes wools off from people as effectually as sheep shears take wool qff from sheep, and yon know yourself that there is nothin? like cotton and shoddy to put folks on their .backs and make them send for the doctor.—Crusade.

CASTOR IA for Infants and Children. TI .tV tw’ 1*1. <k» Id It la llha it. It tMltk. It Will l*T» Hoc In it which 1. ehoKtely ■afcnad child?. Coterie dwtwn Wwmi Cutohmlhurmrhta Cwtori. earn. PUrrh<ne end WM Celle. Coterie wlUw» Twttht TwUm. CutoH. ww Ogggjrtjg cad FhtilwwrCoterie Mtttnluw the cfcct. of eirtato ccld go w Coterie doo. not ooetein morphine, opinm, or« Cotorie o«jmilatp th. food, regelate. the «t—nh. and hewela, String healthy a»d netnrel Jo^. , Cotorie i» pat np in o—-rfw» hottlp only. It t. cat idi in hnlh. Pot allow nr ono to on yon anything alo that Hi. “jot o god" end** will So that yon get C-A-S»T-0-a~I~A. The fhc-rimlle rigaetnro of ‘ uooor Children Cry for PItoher’s Caetorla.

FRED SMITH Denier In a)! klntfg of , • • FUENITURE

Funeral Supplies A Specialty. We keep an hand at Ml times the Bn am Un» 01 Parlor and Household Furniture to be found In the city. Bedroom and Parlor Salt* a Soeulalty. In fnncral supplies ire keep Caskets, Shrouds, etc., of the best make. ASHBY & CB APPELL, INSURANCE AGENTS. f'ollectlon* and Abstntts of Title a specialty. Pension and V. s. Claim Agents. Call on us. offie ou Upper Haiti street.

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LaMAR & RICE PHYSICIANS AND SORSEONS, Petersburg, Ind. ■Will practice In Pike and adjoining counties. Office over J B. Young* Co’s. dry goods store. Office houraday and night. Diseases of women and children a specialty. Chronic and difficult diseases’ solicited. Only 50c a Year. ; MtMMttr Eight pages interesting and entertaiaing > matter. Writ* for sample oopy. Address > ijmco.. ioi!NQiiisume,iM.; wtfyn»r»>ftnrf>iwm»4 THE MODEL Muni Backes & Berridge, Props. n '

Wo have just opened up a Bakery and Restaurant in the room formerly occupied by Frank Battles, on lower Wain street, and where we Invite all our friends to call and see us. We will bake i M hi, Piss and Cate Ever* day. We also serve Lunch and Warm Weals at all hours of the day. GADDIES AND ICE CREAK We will make a specialty this summer. Don’t f and see us. [Backus &

And a Car Load of Groceries. BIG STOCK AND LOW PBXCES "Which will suit the customer to a dot. Don’t forget that fact when you go to buy groceries. *- - c.a.:e3 x-o-A-id o:e* Farmers don’t forget that fact when in nfced of that commodity.

Remember that we are the only Firm that sells Ten BARS OF SOAP FOR Twenty-Five CENTS! Think of that fact before Buying. We buy everything in the Produce and Poultry line and pay in cash or trade. See us before buying. KIME & HILLMAN. Drugs and Medicines. Toilet and Fancy Articles. The “old reliable” drug firm of Bergen, Oliphant & Co. are headquarters lor a lything kept in this line of business. For that hacking cough try Bergen’s Asthma Cure. ' V . Wall Paper and Curtains. Paints, Oils and Tarnish.

THE STAR LIVERY STABLE % YTNMAN & SELBY, Proprietors.

Having bought the Livery Stable formerly owned by McDowell we are prepared to let out flrstclasa rigs for parties, pic nics and funerals. Commercial travelers given V special attention.

Farmers, when in the city, should put their horses up at our feed yard. Plenty of feed and good water. Call and see us when in need of anything in our line. v K ' . ‘ .v . ■ Corner Fifth and Walnut Sts., Fetersbu-g,