Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 50, Petersburg, Pike County, 24 April 1896 — Page 5

ANISHED BUGABOOS. IFTOCK REPUBLICAN ARGUMENTS NO LONGER TERRIrY. SWpl* Bm Lcanwl TkU DenoenUt Bale Mma* Good Government—Benefit* mt Lower TtrtA Shown—A Step Toward Kree Trade. While no loyal Democrat will attempt to defend the tariff Act that Democratic protectionist* permitted • nominally Democratic cou^Tress to pass, and while the rank and file of the party will, as the president mid in his letter to Hr. Catching*, “refuse to accept this bill as the final result of the war. ” the act will have its beneficial results, says the St Paul Globe. Any one whose memory retains anything of the struggles between the two parties prior to !8b5 and since the war will recall the stack arguments of the Republicans. It is well now to briefly recount some of them. The south, when it got into the saddle, would again prepare to secede. The war of secession would be renewed. The negro would be returned to slavery. The treastft-y wuujd be charged wilh the payment of the value of the manumitted slaves. It would be looted to pay eout V orn claims fur damages arising out of the war. The Democrats, once given access to the funds, hungry from their long exclusion, would plunge the country into extravagant expenditures. There would ben turningiout of the BepnbJtkans, and the cold and hungry nialtitnrie of Democrats w ould feast in their places. So loudly and long was this balder- - . dash dinned into the eon of the R£pub- \ lie an rank and file that many, most of them, actually believed it. There was a real and been apprehension of danger to the oountry should one-half of the voters obtain direction of its policies. Ignorant but sincere men actually wept when Cleveland was elected. Fairly intelligent business men cfeclared that they would arrange their business to meet a condition of war. A cold chill ran down the spinal eords of millions of good Republicans. And nothing came that was predicted. No war, no secession, no reeuslavemeqt, no wnr claims paid, no looting of the treasury, no clean sweep of Republican office holders. The scare subsided. The prophets were proved

mine. HWfu mao iuu^uv Democratic administration vai the equal of any Republican iu cleanliness and efficiency and Tastily the superior of many. That scarecrow had the staffing all knocked out of i$aud alarmed do one any more. Then came the tariff issue. Again the alarm was acunded, the atUrecrow erect«d iu the political field, the bugaboo made to gesticulate wi Idly and roar loudly. Democratic control meant free trtfde, British free trade, pauper wages and a deluge of pauper goods, the pauperism at our labor, the destruction of our industries. The scared people again ran j' away in a terror of alarm. McKinley- * Ism followed, and the reaction followed that. People regained ibeir wits, and, ashamed of their folly and oowardice,! restored Demoq^'y. Then again the Ogre danced before the multitude. Tbo panic came because industry quailed at the prospect of reduced protection, which means reduced taxation. If the rates were touched by profane hands, ruin would follow. Again the deluge of cheap goods was threatened. Again our mills were to be silent, their chimneys smokeless and their workers idle. Again the sheep were stampeded. But the rates were reduced. Some were wholly removed, some were reduced tfi per cent, others SO, others still less. Protection was shortened, not cut off. A step toward free trade was taken*—a abort erne, but a step nevertheless. And not one thing that was predicted has come to pass. Instead of disaster there it benefit; instead df ruin there is renewing prosperity, a slow but sure con* falescence. A change of doctors has been decreed, but the old doctor is still in charge of the patient. His medicines are stiU being administered. The pa* tieut is recovering. The second lesson has been taught a generation timid and dull to learn. They learned after li»65 that Democratic yule did net mean anything they had been told and did mean good govern«neat. They have now learned that reduction cf taxation as not disastrous-, but belpful. and the conclusion will follow that if a slight reduction is good greater ones will he better. The bugaboo of free trade has goue to join the bloody shirt. This is what has been permitted the democratic party to get. It is n6t What it would have reaped could it have re* deemed to the letter the pledge it made, boll let us be thankful that we got what we did and gird our loins for an effort to get more.

B«fablkMlMi wad Toryism. It can hardly escape observation how ck*e a resemblance th® Tory party o| Great Britain beans to the Republican party Of the United States. Both favor paternalism, both believe in ca.«tc and privilege and both advocate those measure* of paternalism which coutrihpte to tint interest of their richest and pio*t powerful members. In the game of grab the strong gee the rich prizes aud the weak go to the wait—Louisville Con* Tier-Journal. W 1 ■ 1 1 1 i- 111 rf B«w BarrtMa Wmr Beats—f*1. “President Burriona never claimed." ■ays a friend of that distinguished politician, “any credit for, the success ct hit administration as due to him personally. " Certainly not. President Harrieau'a administration was successful principally in leaving a depleted treasury and adding enormously to the public expenses.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Secretary Morton baa set a leeaon in economy in expenditures in bis department. Out of $5,1'1)2,323 appropriated during the past two fiscal years i 1,136, - 8f8 have been returned to the treasury as the unexpended balance.—-Philadel-phia Time*.

PROTECTIONIST IDEAS. — The tfoct Brilliant la Mrnkln* Um Ptnlgan Pay the Tax. In the opinion of the devotee* of protection all that is necessary to relieve, the financial situation ia '‘to sweep this infamous tf’lson bill from our statute books” and restore the McKinley act, says the Philadelphia Record. This, says one Of ..hem, will produce revenue enonsh and turn the balance of trad a Another says that the legislation of the , next congress will be hased on the bril-j iiant “idea” of “making foreign produ-i eers pay theadditional revenue. ” Noth-; isg could be more simple and at the same time more comprehensive. It Would only be necessary to restore the j high duties on wool, for example, and take “the additional revenue out of the pockets" cf the sheep growers of Australia and Argentina.** There is one slight difficulty in the way of carrying out this “idea. ” The American woolen manufacturers would ' very probably stop the importation of the fine fleeces of the Andean and Australian reghms under the notion that they, aod not the foreign sheep growers, pay the duties. This is, of course, a very absurd notion from a protectionist standpoint, bat the American manufacturers have been so strongly impressed with it that they have always abandoned the importation of these fine grades of wool when high duties were levied upon them. In that case these fine wools, now pouring into Ibis country in largo quail- i titles, would be again monopolized by 1 the woolen manufacturers of England. ; France and Germany, while the American manufacturers would be remitted to the coarse and elieap third class wool— the leavings of the London and Antwerp markets. At the^same time the antici-; pated revenues to bo levied from “the foreign producers” would not be realised. If, however, the woolen manufacturers and tho consumers of the United States generally could bo persumled of the beauty ayd excellence idea that foreign producers would pay the “additional revenue” from an increase, of duties, how easily could t^ie wlioja tariff question be disposed of! Instead of debating about imposing a duty here or reducing a duty there, the whole world could be put at once under tribute

to thia.goternment. Instead of a deficit with which the secretary of the treasury is obliged to wrestle, the public coffers would overflow with surplus not onb for internal improvements and the Nicaragua cenai. but for lining the coasts with fortifications from Maine to Alaska, All this simply by compelling foreign producers to pay the additional revenue ! The experiment has been tried, it is true, but its want of success has doubtless been due to its want of thoroughness. M'KINLEY RECIPROCITY. Kxporta Decreased l'ntil the Wilson Bill : Went Into Effect. Mr. B. W. Hollman introduced a res- J elution to the trausmississippi congress,, calling cm congress to re-enact the rec-! iprocity clause of the McKinley bill, I says the St. Louis Republic. Mr. Hollman is probably net aware that the effects of that clause were just the reverse from what was expectedfrom it by Blaine, McKinley & Co. As j we have shown from official statistics on a former occasion, our export trade with the countries and colonies coveredby reciprocity treaties under the Me- j Kinley bill was smaller during the treaty period than before or after it. This trado nas been greatest since the Wilson bill took effect and it was smallest in the four years immediately preceding. The McKinley period included two years and more of a large foreign trade in general, and our exports to the “specially favored" countries should have increased along with our exports to Europe. Tbo fact is, however, lhat they fell off and kept on falling off until the treaties were annulled. This was the result a whole and it was the result, too, of the treaties separately, except two or three. The exceptions were in our trade with Cuba and one or two other islands in the West Indies, Exports to Guatemala, Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua, Brazil, British Guiana and the British West Indies decreased after the McKinley bill took effect and continued decreasing until the Wilson bill was passed. t?iiiee then they have been growing right along, us a whole. If we are to have Any more reciprocity treaties, let them be of a different kind from the sort authorized by the McKinley bilL - *

Wile Democratic Policy. The wise policy, which dates back to Secretary Whitney’s day, of establishing armor making plants in this country has now been vindicated, not only by obtaining for onr ships the best armor in the world, but by the calls made for supplying other countries. Russia, it appears, has added to her former order for Bethlehem annor a neW and larger ball for both Bethlehem and Carnegie plates for two of her new warships. Japan may follow Russia, and thus there are foreign as well as home triumphs in store.—Jf»ew York Sun. ItcpoblteM Hard Lack. A Washington writer says there will be no large appropriations at the present session of congress; that “the Democrats have got the treasury in such a predicament that there is no money to appropriate." Too bad. The poor Republicans had a bursting treasury to loot when they came into power the last time, and now they have to restrain themselvmfor lack of funds. —CincinLooktag Par Other World*. "What is Senator Bill Chandler going to attack next?" asks the Washington Times. Well, doubt lees it is true that Senator Bill has now attacked everything on earth, but if it is a fact that a 3omet is rapidly coming toward ns Senator Bill muy get a whack at that.— ' Umisrille Cornier-Journal.

CHBONIC HOWLERS. CALAMITY EDITORS MAKING DOLOROUS PROPHECIES. Will Not 8m That tha Krvtval of Prosperity Is • Reality—People Are Not Stupid, end Foots Csonot Bo Blddoau Protection's Only Bulwark. The newspaper writers and orators who are devoting their services to the cause of protection seem to be afflicted with a mental peculiarity that belongs to them alone—no amount of truth makes the slightest impression upon them, says the Philadelphia Record. Whenever their complicated arguments in favor of special privilege are demolished by an exhibition of the most convincing facts and figures, they simply ignore the whole display and go on concocting lies as calmly as though they never expected to be found ont. Not even the smoking chimneys and the roar of machinery have been able to persuade them that the factories are at work. The reports of railroad companies and of clearing housed have no significance for them, and the news and advertising columns of their own journals, which are daily giving' the lie to their editorial pages, they seem never to read. Their disease of calamity howling has become chronic. They are uuuble to realize that the time for lamentation has gone by, s and now, when every body else is rejoicing at the present prosperity and looking hopefully to the future, they are still weeping over the country’s ruin and giving vent to dolorous prophecies. Fortunately, however, the people.who do business—the people who make things and buy and sell things—are uot quite so oblivious to their own prosperity as their would be instructors would like to have them. Judging by the thronged streets, the busy stores, the crowded theaters and tho good clothes" which the ladies wear, the people have something to be thankful for, even if the gentlemen of the protectionist press and the gentlemen of the protectionist plutform cannot perceive it. Their cheery facts as they go about their business or pleasure are sufficient evidence that they have recovered from the disasters in which Messrs. Sherman, McKinley and

their coadjutors involved them, and -whether or not they have yet recognized the true cause of their past afflictions the fact remains that the present revival of prosperity is a tangible reality, and that common sense will sooner or later, in despite of multitudinous lies, reveal the wisdom of the Democratic legislation in which that revival had its origin. Manifest facts are great educators, and the American people of this countjy have never been suspected of that form of stupidity which refuses to see and hear. People who hud their earnings constantly increasing, who find the purchasing power of their dollars almost doubled, while the goods they buy are better than ver before, will some time or other take the trouble to investigate as to the cause of their happy condition, and when they do they will have no further use for the gentlemen who may then be repeating the venerable and audacious lies m which protection finds its only bulwark. It is true that the recent elections would seem to iudicate that the old methods of deception are as effective as ever, but there are, nevertheless, many signs that the hobgoblin of foreign competition is losing its terror inspiring power. The makers of cloth and of clothes are feeling the revivifying effects of free wool and have already discovered that they are not only able to retain their home trade, but that they can actually invade the terri4oxy of their foreign rivals. So it is wfth the makers of iron and iron wares, while the tinplate makers and the shoemakers would probably rise in rebellion if anybody should propose to levy a tariff tax on block tin or bides. All these things are signs that the people are regaining the common sense that impelled their forefathers to maintain free trade and sailors’ rights even at the expeuse of fighting for them. They are beginning to realize that commerce is the handmaid of industry and agriculture and that the demands of worldwide markets are none too great for Yankee enterprise to satisfy. This awakening to the truth, stow though it has hitherto been, is almost^ here, and not less than the bountiful harvests and renewed business activity with which this happy land has once more been blessed is its approach a cause for thankfulness at this gracious and joyful season.

The Turn of the Tide. So far in politics tbe “nineties” hare been years of landslide. In 1390 and 1892 tbe elections were overwhelmingly Democratic. In 1893, 1894 and 18^5 the Republicans have swept tbe couptry. In 1896 the turn of the tide should be toward tbe Democracy. If tbe Republican congress shall not, before it adjourns its first session, make the people sigh for a change, it will prove a body very different from some of its predecessors, notably the billion dollar congress of fragrant memory. — Philadelphia Record. ;_ Th# Republican Conscience. Psychologists “might find a profitable field for investigation, ’' the Providence Journal (Ind.) thinks, “in a study of the contemporary condition of the Republican conscience,” which tolerates Quay to “do tbe dirty work of the campaign,” being snre that he will “do it shrewdly and well. ” but which does not relish the suggestion that he be made the party candidate. Make tbe 1mm Clear. Mr. Halstead declares that the recent elections mean “McKinley and more protection. ” All right. Let ns have the issue clearly drawn.—St. Louis Republic Mast Sweeten Cnete John. If the Republicans want John Sherman to be president, they will have to •end him a boo of candy. —Atlanta Constitution,

THREE REPUBLICAN 'LEADERS. What Don the Independent Voter Think of Thia Fine Trio? The Chicago Tribune quotes Senator | Sherman as saying. "It is known that j Mr. Elkins had in his pocket a written j promise from Mr. Harrison pledging j that ex-Seimtor Platt should control the j federal patronage of Kew York state in j case of his nomination and election. ” i The Tribune, commenting editorially cm j this extraordinary statement, says: j "The three persons mentioned above do | not seem to be in any haste to deny the I senator’s statement. It may be assumed, j therefore, that it is true. ” Thia is not a I Democratic accusation. It is a quota- j tiou from a great Republican leader, ac-] cepted by a great Republican newspaper. And all that: it has to say in the way of condemnation is to express the feeble hope that this method of securing ! votes may not be employed in the Republican convention next year. And why not, pray? Wbo are the parties to this deal and what treatment j has the Republican party awarded to them? Mr. Harrison has been once its president and twice its candidate for that high office. He would like that hones: again^and it is no certainty that he will not get it. Mr. Elkins, after suffering temporary eclipse for just such transactions as this, in the days when t there were Republicans who would not tolerate them, is now a senator of the party from West Virginia. He is also understood to be again the custodian of the Harrison boom and stands high in the inner councils of the bosses. Mr. Platt is the Republican party of New York. If he ordered its delegates to repeat this trade next year, they would do it at bis command as unhesitatingly as any other servants obey their master. And Mr. Quay, who is worse than any of the lot, is the only other man who compares with them in influence in the Republican organization. These are, we say, the days of independent voting. Iff that is true, what does the independent voter think of a party controlled bjr such influences— j confessing openly,; without apparent j shame or promise of reform, to a gigantic speculation in patronage? The peo- , pie have time to reflect within the next year on the men and the impulses that j pow dominate the Republican organization. We are mistaken if they do not : think to a purpose.—i?t. Paul Globe.

CONCERNING COTTON. - I Ibhmm bf Import* of Raw Material Is a Favorable Indication. One of the latest charges against the wicked Democratic* tariff is that “under ; it” the imports of raw cotton increased j 10,000,000 pounds in the nine months ended Sept. 30, 1695, but no mention is mode of the fact that the exports of raw cotton increased upward of 350,000,000 pounds in the same period, says the Philadelphia Record. Since cotton has always been free of duty, it is not easy to perceive why the new tariff should be blamed for a slight increase incottou imports. Possibly the log rollers of protection imagine that they cau persuade the southern planters to favor res^ toration of the duties op wool in reciprocity for the imposition of a duty on raw cotton. Any one but the dullest of calamity howlers cannot fail to see in this increase of imports of raw cotton a most favorable industrial indication. This imported cotton, which comes for the most part from Egypt, 4s of the finest fiber, and is especially designed for the production of certain fabrics for which the domestic material is not adapted. Instead of affording an occasion for ululatious of calamity, the increased importation of this cotton is evidence of the increased manufacture oflfine fabrics in the mills of the United States and of the increased consumption of such fabrics by the American people. Formerly little or none of this Egyptian cotton was imported, its ufee baviug'boen monopolized by English, French and German manufacturer^. But now, with the best machinery American ingenuity can invent, intelligently superintended and 1 handled by highly skilled and well paid labor, the manufacturers of the United ^States have wrested this monopoly of producing the finest tissues of cotton from their foreign rivals. It is not like--i ly that the cotton manufacturers of New England would favor a duty on the | Egyptian fiber for the sake of protecting the sea island cotton, which has the industrial world for its full market. Such a proposition could hardly emanate even from the Home Market club of Boston. i _____ ______

[Bribery or Btaokmiiil. General Grosvenor of Ohio proposes I rebelling against the Republican national committee should it select San . Francisco as I he place for holding the | presidential convention next jear. Genj eral Grosvenor objects to such a choice I on the ground that San Francisco's offer to par the hotel bills of t ie delegates is in the nature of a bribe. But if that is a bribe, what is the committee's demand that the city selected for the con- ! vent ion must pay about $5C,000 indebtedness incurred by the committee during the last presidential campaign? Blackmail ?—Louisville C ourier-Jour-nal i -1..— i Tba Tariff on App: etw The shipment of, great quantities of apples to Europe goes on. And yet if you let the McKmleyites tell it a deadly blow was struck atthe Am iricau farmer when an ad valorem du y of 30 per oent was substituted far the McKinley duty of 35 cents a bushel on apples grown in the pauper orcl ards of Europe.—Boston Herald. Keaplng It Wtthia Bundl. Up to the present time Mr. Sherman's enthusiasm over the prospect of having Mr.; Foraker as a colleague has shown no disposition to assume a r iotous form. —Washington Post. . -1—A Prolific JawM»i ftu The rain need dot think it can compete with the Hon. iBill Chandler. The Hon. Bill never dries up. —Louisville Courier-Journal ’ ; i

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