Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 8, Petersburg, Pike County, 6 July 1894 — Page 5

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SECTIONAL PIRACY. MANUFACTURERS ENRICHED AT THE FARMERS’ EXPENSE. Chance* la Wealth Distribution Wrought by Thirty Years of Protection—Minins and Railroad Rings Combine With the Factory Against the Farm. No stronger indictment of protection can be drawn than the one which is set forth plainly on the face of the figures that tell the story of the unequal distribution of the wealth of this oountry between its different sections. Until the civil war brought upon us tho scries of high tariffs that began with Morrill's and ended with McKinley’s the wealth of tho United States was pretty evenly divided not only as between north and south, east and west, but also as between the two great interests—agriculture and manufactures. Tl»e Democratic party had been in substantially continuous ascendancy in the government-|r0in the inauguration of 'Washington to that of Lincoln. Its leadership and legislation were all that time untainted with tho corrupt influences of tho great vested interests that are nowadays based on tho protective system and which, as Senator Voorhees justly said in his speech opening the debate in the senate, have succeeded in placing it “under the duress of a small majority’’ of that body.

Tho censuses of lboO and 18C0 furnish conclusive evidence that tho Democratic party of those days had lived well up to its creed of “equal rights for all, special privileges for nono. ’’ The total assessed "wealth of the nation in 1850 was $8,000,000,000, and $5,000,000,000 of those $8,000,000,000 wore farm values. In 1800 the total assessed wealth of the country had risen to $16,- ; 000,000,000, and the farmers’ share in it was $7,000,000,000. This fairly enough corresponded to the relative numbers of the farming mid manufacturing population. No sooner had the war given tho government into the hands of a section and concentrated its. ( legislative power in tho hands of tho dominant manufacturing interests of that soetion than wo began to have tar- < ins drawn not only on tho sectional but on the class lino. Manufacturers took all the privileges and saddled the i farming industries with all the bur- 1 dens. The result, a3 was intended, has, : been the steady accumulation of wealth in tho manufacturing centers and an j i equally steady draiuago of wealth from i the agricultural states. After 10 years of protective tariffs, i framed by the factory owners against ; tho farm owners, we find that in 1870 the assessed values of tho farms footed i up to only $11,000,000,000 out of a ( total assessment of $80,000,000,000. In j 18S0 the chasm betweon the enriched ■ manufacturing seotion and tho impov- ; erished agricultural sections was still i wider, and the farmers owned only 13,- • 000,000,000 out of the $45,000,000,000, j at which the total wealth of the nation i was appraised. Ten years more made ; the; disparity greater than ever. The ( oensns of 1890 showed tho total of farm j values to be $16,000,000,000, subject j to a mortgago indebtedness of $6,000,000,000, while the total assessed wealth 1 of tho nation was $65,000,000,000. i The progressive results of sectional- i ism and olass favoritism in tariff legis- ' lation stand out with startling clearness i in those figures. Under Democratic rule the farmers in i I860 held seven-sixteeeuths of thewholo ] wealth of tho country. Then came the ] great civil conflict, enormous war ex- 1 ponditures mid revenues, and, under tho i plea of necessity, high duties began to ( be levied on all imports. And when the w$r was oVor tho manufacturing interests seized the standard of protection that had been first raised as a war ; measure, and have used it ever since as ■ tho black flag of privileged piracy nn- ( dor which tho south and the west and j ,

all their agricultural industries have been held to a merciless system of tribute and ransom, ^ho farm values that were as seven to rffiie of the total national valuation when Lincoln was inaugurated were only as one to four of the total assessment of wealth when Harrison became president. The farming industries still give employment to twice as many of our people as the manufacturing industries, but the latter have an enormous and unwarrantable preponderance of the wealth of the country. A glance at the details of this wholesale spoliation of the farming by the factory interests is instructive. The nine western and southern states Of Nebraska, Iowa, Illiuois, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina have an area 58 times as large as that of Massachusetts, and their land is naturally far more fertile^ Their assessed valuation in 1880 was twioo as largo and their population seven times as great as those of Massachusetts. Land, labor and capital are the three primary factors in the production of wealth. Yet these nine southern and western states, With all these elements of prosperity and growth far in exoess of the one state of Massachusetts, added to their total wealth in the 10 years 1880-90 $10,000,000 less than was added to the wealth of that one little'stata Add to the nine states already named three more agricultural states—Kansas, Florida and Kentucky—and we find that the 12 states together increased their wealth for tho 10 years ending in 1890 by $897,18i| 160, while in the same period the single state of Pennsylvania, starting in 1880, with only one-four-teenth of their area, one-fourth of their population and one-half of their assessed valuation, added $909,883,016 to its wealth. The one state of New York increased its assessed wealth in the same decade by $1,133,885,983. Fifteen southern and western states, including the 12 already named, and with them the states of Virginia, West Virginia and Tennessee, increased their combined dnrtio$ 1 ]

by |6,000,000 less than Now York** single accumulation. Yet among them those 15 states in I860 had 16 times as much land, lour times as much populates and 1% times as much assessed» value. We might go on multiplying those ‘ comparisons, but these are enough to show what has happened under the prac-; tical policy of protection. There has ' been a rush of the vital fluid of general prosperity to the few favored centers. | And it is by senators from those favored • centers, acting under the pressure of the lobby created by the protected monopolies, that the Wilson tariff bill has been mutilated. The Democratic victory of j 1892 is being thrown away and tho will; of the people frustrated on this great ■ issue of tariff refdrm because the mining and railroad rings have made common cause with all the other tariff fed monopolies to corrupt and debauch congress- » * Andrew Jackson foresaw it all. In his memorable address to the American people on retiring from the presidency; he said; “Tho corporations and wealthy individuals who are engaged in large manufacturing establishments desire a tariff to increase their gains. Designing politicians will support it to conciliate their favor and to obtain tho means of profuse expenditure for the purpose of purchasing influence in other quarters. * Do not allow yourselves, my fellow citi- ’ tens, to be misled on this subject. The federal government cannot collect a j surplus for such purposes without vio- j Lating the principles of the constitution and assuming powers that have not been granted. It is, moreover, a system af injustice and if persisted in will, inavitably lead to corruption and must md in ruin. *’—Baltimore Sun.

Senator Gorman on the Sugar Duty. The speech of Senator Gorman in defense of tho tariff bill, in molding which 10 is reputed to have had so large a share, is an ablo and ingenious performance. A better apology for such a measure and for the Democratic majority in she senate could perhaps not have been put forward. The senator makes the Hazardous prediction that tho bill now ruder consideration will receive tho vote yt every Democrat in tho senate, will be adopted by the Demoeratio houso and will receive the approval of the Demo;ratio president and of the Democratic party. So far as the senate is concerned Mr. Gorman appears to have been sure >f his ground when ho ventured upon ;his bold prophecy. But it is extremely mprobablo that the bill will be permit:od to pass tho houso in its present shape, and should it pass it will never >btaiu the approval of the groat body of Democrats, who regard the measure as a jhameful violation of party policy and party faith. What is least satisfactory in Sonator 3rorman’s speech is his explanation and lefeuse of the sugar schedule. Ho defies with much warmth that this sehedlle is in the interest of the Sugar trust, uid he asserts that the protection on reined sugar is only ono-eighth cent a pound, if this was all, there would be small ground of oomplaint, but in pitting a 40 per cent duty on all raw sugvrs and an additional duty of one-eighth 5ent a pound on refiued sugar the bill jives tho trust a good deal more than appears on its surface. In spite of the confusion caused by :ho substitution of an ad valorem for i specific duty the actual protection to :ho trust is 40 per cent of the difference jetweou the prices of raw and refined sugar and one-eighth oent a pound to >oot. Estimating the difference berween raw and refined sugars at SO cents jer 100 pounds and adding cents xa* 100 pounds, we have 42cents promotion to the trust, or almost as much is that of the McKinley tariff. —-Philalelphia Record.

Morton's Sarcastic Letter. Secretary Morton finds time from his Multifarious duties to do pood platform ,vork, and nothing can bo uiQre piquant, sarcastic or true than his presentation >f the disciple of protection, Senator ^uay, to tho Young Mou’s Democratic jlubof Boston. His picture of thocapi;ol is no heated imaginative picture, rat the result of his everyday experience, and it may veil call a pause in >ur belief in the conserv ative efficacy >f a second chamber. “During this euire winter,” ho said, “Washington has >een invaded by the pilgrims of protection. They have presented’ before the vays and means committees of the two louses a most pathetic spectacle of self lenial. With bonevolent importunity lay after day they have prayed those sommittees to so adjust the laws that hey (tho petitioners) should be comlelled to pay higher wages to their emiloyees and at the same time forced to sell the products of the labor of those imployees at smaller prices and lesser iroflts. Tho altruism of philanthropic irotectionists is a delightful contrast to ' he egotism, ravenous greed of money, if ploasure and of applause which characterize the disciples of commercial feedom. It is the gospel of disinterestsdness, and yet one begins to be weary >f all that, and with a tired feeing sigh !or a lodge in some vast wilderness of voods—some boundless contiguity of ham.”—American Industries. The End Is Not Yet. When a whole souled Democrat, like rohn Do Witt Warner, is forced to the | itterance of the conviction that it may ie better to leave the McKinley tariff ntact than to saddle the Democratic larty with the responsibility of such a riece of protection patohwork as the Borman compromise, the time has come tar serious action. Mr. Warner is not i liven to heroics or to frivolity and sees j tail well the aim and purport of the j iinkerersj or worse, who are imperiling j ;he honor of the Democratic party. But j he end is not yet. Tho senate's dealing j ,vith the bill, has to pass through the ! iery furnace of 'he popular bouse, and j ;here we wot it will bo purged of the j perilous stuff with whidf it has been impregnated in the clique ridden senate > —Exchange.

TRICKY SENATORS. THEY CONCOCT A TABLE TO DECEIVE 1 DEMOCRATS. fttmi Difference Between the WU«on Tariff and the Senate Bill Shovu-Mie leading gtatripenta and Dlahoneat Methods Expoaed. Senators Gorman, Brice & Co., aided by Mr. Havemeyer of the Sugar trust, I have forced the scyato lh*ance commit-! tee to adopt a tariff hill that is very j satisfactory to the Sugar and other! trusts, but very unsatisfactory to . the Democrats at large. The displeasure has become so manifest that the senators responsible have resorted to deceit and | falsehood to still it This clique of MoKinley Democrats are trying to fool the people by means of a table of com par- j isons between the “averago” duties in j the various schedules of the McKinley, the Wilson and the amended senate hills. Having partial authority over! and control of tho national Democratic congressional committee, they had it send this table to all Democratic congressmen, with a request that they send it to all of the Democratic newspapers in their districts. Many congressmen have not only refused to send out the table, but have written letters exp<>sing its misleading and unjust statements and denouncing the methods of thoso responsible for it

'According to this tabic, the average rate of duty in the Wilson bill is 86.52 per cent; senate bill, 86.79; McKinley bill, 49.58. These figures do not begin to represent tho great difference from the standpoint of protection between the house and the senate bills. They aro grossly misleading .in at least two respects: f First—In the senate bill duties are included on very important articles which are free in the house bill. Eero are three of the articles and tho value of the imports of each in 1398: Sugar and molasses............... $1]‘U*52,:£C 55 Iron ores..... 1,244,333 75 Coal and coke............. 3,701,042 30 Total....4C......,*121.SC8,19B 06 The aver»W|bf- 85.52 per cent for the house bill i:P4>mputod upon imports valued at about $600,000,000, while the 86.75 per pent average for the senate bill is computed upon imports valued at about $500,000,000. To tho people who asked for relief from burdensome tariff taxes this difference is about $65,000,000—$5 per family. A fairer comparison would include tho same articles in both averages. Thus, if we include in the dutiablo lists of both bills all articles that are dutiablo under either bill, we will Jmvo about $500,000,000 of dutiable imports. Under the house bill we would get about $129,000,000 of revenue and under tho senate bill about $184,000,000. The average ad valorem duty under the house bill would be about 25 >a por cent against 86 per oent in tho senate bilL The senate bill duties on articles actually imported are, therefore, 44 per cent greater than the house bill duties. Second—Muny duties that produoo no revenue are higher in the senate than in the house bill. Tho protective features of such duties have been greatly increased, but nq effect has been produced upon the average of duties. Thus tho house duty of 20 per cent on steel rails, equal to less than $4 per ton, has been increased to seven twentieths of a cent per pound,, equal to $7.84 per ton. Either of these duties will be as prohibitive of importations as is the McKinley duty of $13.44. The Steel Rail trust in either case will fix prices below the importing point. "The' senate bill simply gives 100 per cent more protection and will enable the trust to fix prices $1 per ton higher than would be possible under the house bill.

in me same way mo nouso auiy oi au per coat on structural iron and steel is increasing about SO per cent in the senate bill. The duty on starch is increased from \ to 2 cents peij pound;, the duty on linseed or flaxseed oil from 15 cents to 30 oents per gallon. The duties on boracic acid, wash blue, vermilion red, t strychnine and ou many other chemicals have been increased, though they were already prohibitive. In fact, tho majority of the 400 increases in the senate over the house bill are increases of protective and nourevenuo producing duties, which would produce a scarcely perceptible effect upon the “average” ad valorem dutios ou all schedules. The unfairness is conspicuous in the comparison of the rates in the sugar schedule. The rate in the house bill Is given as 28.48 per cent, in tho senate bill as 80.59 per cent. As is well known, the house bill makes all cane and beet sugar free. The 2S.48 per oent represents only the duty on confectionery and on glucose or grape sugar. The total value of these imports in 1898 was $53,019. The senate duty of 89.59 per cent represents the duty on the total imparts of all i kinds of sugars. These in 1898 were ! valued at $118,2S5,047. Tho house duty ; would produce $15,073, while the sen*! ate duty would produce $46,839,050 in i revenua It will he observed that tho ' discriminating duties of one-eighth and : one-tenth cent per pound on refined sug- i ars cut no figure even in bringing up the average rate of duty in the sugar sched- j ula Byron W. Holt. Aye, There’s the Rub. Protectionists often say they want all the work done here. They don’t j want to see “our workmen standing , idle while foreign workmen artf em- | ployed to make things we wan.fi ” But j did they ever stop to ask themsfc&xes how wi could get any of the things tnu j foreign workmen made .unless “mi- . workmen” made something with which f to pay for them? The foreigners certain- j ly would not give us the things, and if j they would where would bo the calam- { ity? And again what is it that prevents ( any man from working who lacks and [ desires the things which work brings j forth?—Single Tax Courier.'

The Great Triumph Sale Commenced June 8th and will continue until July 8th.

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DPEHEEBSIBTXIRa- $ I will sell for Cash Only*. believing it to be for the best interest of both the buyer-ami seller that all transactions be conducted on a cash basis/ I have arranged that on and after the above date I will sell only for Cash or Produce. You will see the advantage this plan will afford you. C" I ** enable me to buy all my goods for Cash, thereby I I I O L« securing the lowest prices and discount that the wholesale merchants allow for cash. f Second. YOUR ADVANTAGE—You will get the very lowest prices going. You will not have to help pay the bad debt account, for all grocers take the loss of bad debts into consideration when marking up the cost of their goods.

PAY GASH FOR POULTRY, EGGS AND MEATS Call and see for yourself. Coupon Books for sale. 1TOTE peicbs; 20 pounds of Light Brown Sugar for $1.00. 19 pounds of Granulated Sugar for $1.00 Arbuckle’s Coffee, 25 cents. Syrup, 30 cents per gallon. Sorghum, No. 1, 40 cents per gallon. Clover Hay, $3.00 per load. DON'T ACCEPT lniTATIQNS. tks prKxrrn ft gamble co.. cinti.

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