Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 9, Petersburg, Pike County, 12 July 1895 — Page 5

RAISING THE BURDENS. Km) Cwmc of Clio “Tit* la tbo TMo* Woo Wise Eeonoml* laws. None is so blind as those who refuse to see—that is to say, some very intelli* gent observers, recognizing the vast improvement in industrial and business . conditions, nevertheless attribute the ■change to other than the real cause. For example, in a recent issue of Brad* street’s an interesting and in the main valuable article on “The Turn In the Tide” states that the improvement is due to the depletion of stocks of retailers throughout the country during the past two years of depression, to the accompanying period of restricted credits, buying for immediate wants only, and the prolonged, rigid, even enforced economy on the part of consumers and producers. No doubt each of these things became a factor in the change yhich has given 00 much satisfaction. Bnt neither nor all of these were the prime cause. The esteemed contemporary in question correctly estimates the time -at which the rising tide of trade “made itself visible to the naked eye, ’ ’ and that fact should have pointed outthe real cause. It was the better and safer economic policy adopted by the last congress and the restoration .of confidence in the ability of the government to meet its obligations and maintain its honor. The deportation of gold, the draft on the treasury, reserve and the apprehension of national bankruptcy ceased at that time, and the tide turned. But the first and most important step toward the end was the repeal of the McKinley law. That vicious system of taxation drew from the earnings of the people more than $1,000,000,000 a year snore than was required for the support j jp of the government. The people thus deepoiled of the fruits of their labor, enervated by the hopelessness of the future, had abandoned themselves to despair. But the raising of the burdens renewed their strength, and the saving of six mouths under the new law formed the fund that enabled them to set to work the moment that confidence was restored. These were the causes of “the turn in the tide,” and they ought to be plain to every intelligent observer.— Kansas City Times.

THE BALL STILL ROLLING. fna Every Side Come Reports of Increased Business and Higher Wages. A retrospect of the increase of wages -since the latter part of March shows that no less than 278 large business establishments have increased pay from 10 to 15 per cent. < Take the individual wage earners that have tx*en benefited, according to the number of people stated to be employed in these concerns, and they foot np a population of 184,000 workers. All this has been accomplished in a few weeks. And what is all the more gratifying is the fact that in nearly every case the increase has been voluntary. Nor do these facts by any means in themselves alone express the entire increase of prosperity secured. It means enlarged markets—the growth of a faith in the nation that has stimulated consumption and banished conservatism in production. Three years ago under the sway of McKinley ism we began to lose ground. We have now set out to recover it, and the ball is still rolling. The calamity cry is heard no more in the land. The present drift under a Democratic tariff bill is doing more, to bury ultra protection than tons of oratory and high sound-, jng appeal Achieved prosperity is more eloquent than words. The spindles, the lathes And the buzzing wheels are talking now. —•Boston Globe. EASILY EXPLAINED. Why American Woolen* Can Be Sold In English Markets. The treasurer of a woolen mill at Nashua, N. H., is puzzled over the export of certain American wools to Europe and asks this question: “If it takes 80 to 40 per cent to protect onr home production, and even then fails to do it, how can these same goods go into the paarket of onr strongest competitor and eell at a margin of profit?” The explanation is easy enough. English manufacturers have taken np the neglected side of the market, and free raw material now enables American makers to send abroad a fabric to which little attention has been given heretofore at a price below the Bradford figures. The manufacturer has devoted his time to the coarser woolen goods, and since the new tariff bill opens the door to the finer kinds of fabric he is occupying both sides of the market to an advantage never before known. The New Hampshire treasurer is not the only mill owner with a puzzle before him. The woolen goods maker ev- -■ erywhere realizes and recognizes at last that free raw material means an open market both at home and abroad, and that the stone fence to one side competition is down in earnest.—Philadelphia Times.

Notwithstanding the Redaction. Taking the whole quantity of carpets ' and carpeting, cloths, dress goods and yarns together, the total amount brought in thus far is only ?0,6ri7.!»t>2 yards and pounds against 86,042,458 yards and pounds two years nga In other words, with duties reduced 50 per cent on goods, there has been decidedly less of the latter imported than was the case in the corresponding time two years ago, even under the high rates then prevailing.— Cotton and Wool Reporter. W>11 Known at Home. Probably if uny other community outside i f Ohio were asked to make a choice between Sheruum and McKinley on the one sido and Fire Alarm Foraker on the other they would have no hesitancy in declaring for the senator qcd the governor. 'Bat .would be rash to say the Buckeyes have ni. . ohui they don’t know about ail inree worthies is not Worth knowing.—Philadelphia Record. \ 1 .

CALAMITY IN COPPER ANOTHER INSTANCE OF “FREE TRADE MALIGNITY.”

Loflf mt Bimto Diiprewt thm FrateeftleaM Doebine* of Etfwwj -Wifw of Copper W orkeira Advanced Tea Far Coat. Prediction* Vena* Reunite. A wiring the announcement* relating to the revival of industrial prosperity, says the Philadelphia Record, is the statement of Michigan newspapers that copper mining in that state was never in a more prosperous condition. In conffpnation of this is the further announoement that the great Calumet and Hecla Copper Mining company, following the , example of the iron manufacturers, has added 10 per cent to the wages of its : 8,500 employees. These statements are ! in cheerful contrast with the howls of j calamity organs over the baleful influ- i enoe of the new tariff upon the oopper mining industry. When, in 1888, the Mills bill proposed to reduce the duty cm copper in ingots i and bars from 4 to 2 cents a pound, ter-1 rifle shrieks of alarm arose from the cop- j per mine owners, and the tariff organs printed a chart in which the copper region of Michigan was darkly shaded as a sign of the ruin that threatened its inhabitants. Curiously enough, there was not quite so much alarm two years afterward, when the McKinley tariff actually reduced the duty on copper to 1*4 cents a pound. When the Democrats reduce a duty, it is free trade, but when the Republicans reduce the same duty still more it is quite a different thing. This is in harmony with the doctrine that the revision 6t the tariff should be left only to its mends. Great Republican organs that indignantly denounced the reduction of copper duties in the Mills bill took quite kindly to a greater reduction in the McKinley act. But all former outcries concerning the attacks of free trade Democracy upon the copper industry were gentle compared with the howls of calamity that arose when the Wilson tariff put copper ingots and bars on the free list. The black charts of the copper region of Michigan were reproduced, and this exhibition of free trade malignity toward an American industry was denounced by the tariff organs as without the least provocation. The Hon. Julius Caesar Burrows, then a representative and now a United States senator from Michigan, lugubriously predicted that the abrogation of6 the slight protective duties on copper would make the profitable working of the mines impossible. But the results have again disgraced the predictions of the false prophets at protection. Their croakiugs of calamity have not died upon the air until, within nine months from the removal of copper to the free list, the announcement comes from Michigan that the copper industry was never in a more flourishing condition ! This may well be believed upon reference to- the enormous dividends of the copper mining companies. The copper miners, who expcjrt enormous quantities of their product, had not the least need of “protection,” and the duties were maintained by the Republicans to enable the mine ov;ner3 and smelting companies the more easily to despoil American consumers. Nothing is so embarrassing to the teachers of false doctrines of economy os the hard, inexorable logio of events. Last fall the organs and orators of protection filled the publio ear with their dismal predictions of the fatal effects of the new tariff, and with the most reckless misrepresentations of its provisions. They have scarcely been abashed into silence by the gladsome revival of all industries in ue midst of their croakings. The . popular memory is proverbially treacherous, but it will be long before the American people shall forget the systematic practice upon their credulity fear the sake of maintaining against them a policy of t ariff spoliation and iniquity. New York Is Democratic. Ex-President Harrison should spare us another visit next time he invades the Adirondack^. It is not written in the book of fate that he will be elected to" a second term. The big electoral vote of New York will be cast for a Democrat. New Yorkds at heart Democratic. It will show how it loves the memorv of George Clinton, Martin Van Bnren, Silas Wright, Horatio Seymour and Samuel J. Tilden in 1896.—New York Mercury.

Pat oa Its Feet by the Mew Tuift The latest reported increase in wages is a 10 per cent advance to the* 3,800 operatives employed at the Pennsylvania Steel company’a works, Harrisburg. This magnificent concern went into the hands of a receiver in 1893, daring President Harrison’s term of office and under the operations of the McKinley law. Bat under the better economic policy adopted by the last congress it is getting on its feet again.—Kansas City Times. Let Then B* Mo Strnddllnjr. The Birmingham (Ala.) Age-Herald (Dem.) is anxious there shall be no straddling platforms made by its party. “By all means,” it urges, “let us take a side—be outspoken in defense of that side. — The fellows who desert the party on account of some one unsatisfactory plnnlr in its platform, or on account of personal disappointment at the naming of a candidate, are not Democrats, but floaters.” __ Mo Fat In This Law. Ex-Governor Flower rightly says that this is “the best tariff law we have had for 50 years. ” It is so good that the Republicans will fry no fat out of the manufacturers for repealing it. ^Philadelphia Record. Afraid of tin Biusnw. Republican candidates for the presidency come and go, but it is noticeable that none of them monkeys with the financial buzzsaw, Harrison is afraid, and McKinley dareen’t —New York Mercury. > *

WHAT CAUSED THE DEPRESSION.

Lb* Pa* Tim— a—1 Depleted tr—ry. With the tide of business actively rising and prosperity smiling benignant!? on industry in every section of the conntry , the present is a suitable time to review the events of the past with a view to ascertaining by careful inquiry the causes which produced the calamity from which we have suffered during the two years just closed. There is no effect without a cause, and in this country of plenty there can be no widespread distress without some reason for it A careful examination of the events of the past few years ought to disclose the causes which brought about the bnnneas depression. In 1889, when President Harrison mitered upon his term of office as presi- . dent, there was a surplus in the treasury amounting to upward of $800,000,000. Nearly all of this vast sum was in gold, and the credit of the government was higher than it had ever been before. The revenues were redundant and the debts were paid as fast as the holders of the obligations would surrender them. One gear later the McKinley law was enacted. It increased taxes enormously and reduced the revenues. The result was an attack on the treasury reserve, not to pay interest bearing debt, but to meet current expenses. The amount dwindled from week to week, until it was exhausted. Then a sacred trust fund was oovered in, and before the expiration of the term even that fund, amounting to $84,000,000, disappeared. The country was on the verge of bankruptcy. The secretary of the treasury, Charles Foster, appealed to the banks just like an exhausted spendthrift resorts to the pawnbroker, and the consequence was an alarm that led to the panic. When the Harrison administration ended its term of office, the country was bankrupt. The revenues were inadequate to. meet the current expenses of the government, and with an empty treasury there were obligations due amounting to more than $50,000,900. The foreign holders of all kinds of American securities demanded liquidation, which caused a depreciation in' values and resulted in the panic. The inanguratioh of Cleveland checked the j disaster for a time, but in the absence j of materials it was impossible to stay it! permanently. The consequence was that hard times came and ran their course, j The repeal of the McKinley law restored confidence, and prosperity has come! again to reward tlje patience and effort \ of the dull period.—Kansas City Times. End of the Tale of Woe.

<^-^7—^ The calamity howler’s occupation is gone.—Philadelphia Times. THE MAN FROM MAINE. Among Other Attributes of Greatness Be Is Said to Besemble 1<1 Hang Chang. “Tom Reed of Maine” has not lately been getting himself so unconsciously and innocently before the public gaze as have some of his rivals for the Republican nomination for the presidency, but a biographical sketch of him in a recent number of Home and Country has an ominous campaign look. From it we learn that Mr. Reed is now the most interesting figure in public life. This is said without intending disparagement of Harrison, McKinley or Allison, who “are all in their way remarkable men, ” but the writer, as a friend of truth,cannot refrain from pointing out that “none of them possesses the interest which Mr. Reed commands. ” This appears to lie partly in his height and “generous figure. ” partly in the shape of his head. The similarity of that dome of thought to Shakespeare’s has, as the friendly biographer observes, been often noted, but he asserts that he Is the first to point out its “still more striking resemblance to Li Hung Chang.” This seems to make it hopeless for any of Mf. Reed's rivals to angle for either the literary vote or the Chinese vote. But his main title to admiration is his resolute and independent character. “He never falters before new conditions or trifles with responsibility.” We infer, therefore, that it must have been some other Reed whom the Populists chased into the cloakrooms in the last congress when they tried to find ont what he really thought about silver, and whom his honest money friends in the east have in vain besought to pull his ChinoShakespearean head ont of the sand.— New York Post.

Of One Mind—After Election. A party whose leadership embraces such distinguished statesmen as Governor Morton, Thomas B. Reed, ex-Senator Edmunds and Senators Garter, Teller and Wolcott is certain to be a unit on the currency question. It is said the Kilkenny cats were of one min# after the fight.—Kansas City Times. The Load Get tin* Heavy. Steel rails are to be advanced in price to the old figures of $24 per ton. Following so closely upon Foraker’s wicked triumph in Ohio, this is a straw that should give McKinley that tired feeling in the back.—-New York Mercury. A Wild Eyed Delation. “Republicans have hope of carrying Kentucky. ” Rut there are many wild eyed delusions prancing around labeled “hope. ”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Sherman’s Mala Stria*. John Sherman has more than four strings to his political fiddle, but at bottom he is heart and soul for Shy lock.— Atlanta Constitution,

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