Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 2, Petersburg, Pike County, 22 May 1896 — Page 5

SHAMELESS CROWD JOHN SHERMAN'S BOOK KICKS UP A PRETTY QUARt.EL. af th* Leaden of tin R»p«bParty Laid Ban — Dow Alftt »t a Presidential Boom—Tuna PUit*a Senator Sherman’* book has kicked op just as big a row as we predicted the day after it was published, says the Kansas City Times. Between the lines be has put a lasting and terrible stigma upon the reputation of ex-Preeident Garfield* although ostensibly exculpating him. * Bat when it comes to Boss Platt and the Mew York crowd, and to General Alger with his“bar’l” for the colored southern brother, Mr. Sherman v*ally peels the hark. He prove* as clearly as can be that a dicker was made by the New York politicians, headed by Boss Platt, although be says he doe 11 believe that Harrison was a party to it. by which they were induced to betray him (Sherman) and swing to Harrison again. Sherman’s chuckle is almost audible when he relates how Platt’s ambition to be a cabinet minister was balked afterward, as though by the retributive hand of Providence. - But his “reminiscences” lead to a lot of unconscious fun when Mr. Sherman Mire up General Alger and produces the testimony to prove that he bought the southern negro delegates to the Repubr iican national convention, but that they went back on him (Alger) at the final pinch and voted far somebody else. General Alger may deny the soft impeachment until he gets black in the face, but the faith of the betting public will be pinned on “Honest John.’’especially by those who know the southern colored delegate. Prom t|ie far sunny south come the virtuous tones of Jim Lewis, thecolored Republican boss of New Orleans, protesting his innocence, to far as the charges against Alger are concerned. Lewis is already black in the face and •o he cannot get any blacker, no mattei bow indignant his denials, but to those who are in the habit of attending national Republican conventions and are therefore familiar with the ways of the dusky southern delegate as well as 'o those whos’ay at home in the south and watch his frantic efforts to go as a delegate, and his changed air of prosperity when he returns, the denials of men like Jim Lewis that the colored brother did not wax fat and saucy ou General Alger’s pressing hospitality will create an amused laugh from Virginia to Texas. "‘Honest J&hn” Shei man may have met with a good many disappointments in his long political career, and it uiay be that his old age is not brightened by the grateful devotion of friends, grappled to him with books of steel by many deeds erf unselfish kindle s*:, but his . book Eoves that he is a good hater, and be a not neglected to fill bis quiver with the arrows of a revenge which time could not stale nor old age mollify. What is it the poet say ? Time a* last makes* all thimm even. If wi but,1 t ie the hour. And there never yet wa-. human power Which could e vade, if uaf.»rgiv«n. The patient ►eerrh and vijrtl Iobk Of him who treasures up a wrung. With Senator Sheaman s private animosities or revenges tbe public has little concern, but as he brings his charges against this or that individual, the public cauuot but note with interest how Sherman drags his party down along with his en< tnies. One fact stands out in bold reli*f to the reader of his reminiscences, and that is the shameless and matter of course corruption that prevails and has prevailed for years iu the Republican party among iu highest leaders.

it. OUN T LIKc PHUrtUTIUN. McKinley Hu landed u I'npromlalnc Serllon Fur BalloU H The McKinley forces are making an effort to capture the Minnesota delegation in the next national Republican convention. This is one of the most interesting features of the Republican antecou vent ion campaign, and for more reasons than one. First. Senator Cushman K. Davis is a candidate Though his boom be not of the dimensions in other states which that of'Mr. McKinley is believed to have acquired, he and his frieuds have been hopeful that he would, at the least, pose for a few ballots as the favorite sou of his state. It is possible that the McKinley men may be playing for position as the second choice candidate of the Minnesota Republicans, bat the situation does not bear that construction at the present time. Senator Davis is probably not as much in the way of the McKinley boom in Minnesota as his colleague, Senator Kelson. Keisou was one of the three Republican members of the Reed congress who refused to vote for the McKinley bill Kelson did eves more than refuse to vote for ‘be bill He voted against it. This action may have been doe partly to conviction, bat it was partly due. beyond question, to bis appreciation of the fact that Minnesota is overwhelmingly against high tariffs. That Nelson ganged the sentiment of his state correctly ia proved by the fact that it has smee that vote elected him as governor and sent him to the United States senate. Minnesota would seem to be the most unpromising section of the country for Mr. McKinley to cultivate.—St Louie Bepublta. '&*_" ▲ Stop la Advance. There will be 3 more Democrats in the Massachusetts senate and 11 mere Democrats in the house of representatives than there were last year. That’s In the line of progress. —Boston Globa ___ > LH Protoettoatsto Kxptala. Free trad England pays 50 per cent higher wages than high tariff France gad Germany. America pays a slightly higher rate of wages , than England. Why i* all this?—Kan** City Tune*.

A WORD ABOUT DEFICIT* McKinley Tariff Fell Behind S70.cXW.000 In IU Lnt I focal Year. In his speech at the Lyman dinner Senator Lodge stated that in 14 months at the Wilson tariff the treasury has run behind $60,000,000, says the C^ton florald (Ind.). That is not a fair statement of the matter. In the first place, the tariff passed by the late congress has never been tested as a producer of revenue. The supreme court annulled the income tax, and this annulment cut off, at a moderate estimate, some $30,000,000 of the revenue which the framers of the tariff act intended to provide and had good reason to suppose that they bad provided for the treasury. In the next place, the customs provisions of the act did not fully come into operation till the beginning of the present calendar year. Thns it is only for the ten months' period from Jan. 1 to Nov. 1 that the revenue derivable from customs duties can be measured with any approach to accuracy. Well, what is the story told by the treasury returns for these ten months during which the tariff act, shorn of the income tax, has been gaugable as a revenue producer? The receipts fear those months amount to $264,772,242, dgainst expenditures of $299,128,514. Here is a deficiency ot j $34,356,272, and of that shortage $30,-j 000,000 is attributable to the repeal of the iucome tax. Thus of the deficit that has arisen since the mutilated tariff act; went into complete operation in its cus- j toms provisions, seven-eighths must be attributed to the unexpected action of the supreme court, and only one-eighth , js chargeable to the framers of the act. . And. even as regards this little rent-i nant of one-eiglhth, we risk nothing in predicting that it will have wholly dis- \ appeared long before the present fiscal I year comes to an end. In other words, j we feel confident that during the twelve- j month ending June 30, 1896, the tariff act, if left in its present form, wall show a deficit very much smaller than the amount lost to the treasury through the annulment of the income tax. One other point before we pass from the subject. It is certainly cool in a Republican senator to try to make political capital for his party by charging the new tariff 1 with causing a deficit in view of the ; fact that during the last fiscal year of , the McKinley tariff the revenue fell! $70,000,090 short of the expenditures.

VAGARIES OF TRADE. On* Industry May Suffer While Another : I'rofits Eaurmotuljr. Owing to the growing competition of j native spinners Japan’s imports of cot- j ton yams from Manchester have dimin- J ished 40 per cent doling the years 1888 to 1894. inclusive, and tbe ] imports of the same comincdity from British India have declined SO per cent. Naturally, i the pinch has caused a gnat ontcry among the spinners of Lancashire and Bom bay. But there is another side to the question, for during the same period i the total erporjsof the United Kingdom to Japan have increased more than 100 per cent, or frojn about $20,000,000 iu value to over $40,000,000. In 1885 the exports of Japan amounted to $36,000,000; iu 1894 they had increased in value , to $113,000,000. During the same peri- j od her imports increased in value from ; $28,000,000 to $117,000,000. Tims j 1 while one branch of British industry ! has suffered, British and foreign pro-1 ducers in general have gained enormously by the results of industrial develop-1 ment in Japan. ! This revelation of trade statistics can-1 not be made -to square with the protec- j tionist notion that international trade is j a system of robbery by which one country is enriched through the impoverishment of another; but, then, it is impossible to square protectionism with common sensa It is clear enough, even to the dullest protectionist, that the trade of an iudiv’iual must increase with the prosperity of his customers, and that the purchases of the latter must be large or small in proportion to their earnings. Prosperous Japan has quadrupled her j imports ;<in ten years, and yet we are asked to believe that large importations | are a sign of national disaster'—Philadelphia Record. ■ THE AMERICAN SHEEP. ;- They Are Still Profitable, and FJporti Are j Inereaelns. To the alarmists who have been la-! menting over the ruin of American j sheep growing through the wicked Do in- i ocratic tariff it -yrill be interesting to! learn that the exports of sheep from the j United States increased in the nine I mouths ended Sept. 30, 1895, to 349,807 j bead from 162,894 bead in tbe corresponding months of 1894, at nearly the \ same prices. As with the cattle and horses, Great Britain is the principals market for these exports of sheep- { Tbe exports of Wool from the United States have increased to 3,856,619 pounds iu the nine months of 1895 from 637,961 pounds in the corresponding period of 1694. So long as the increasing millions of the United States shall preserve their taste for muttoo, j and so lung as the foreign demand shall j continue to expand at the above rates, our tariff wool gatherers need not da- , •pair of sheep growing in the United States. Sheep will be reared an every cmountain range and hillside in this land that may be adapted far their growth, and they will be slaughtered at; borne or E •hipped abroad at profitable prices, in spite of free trade in wooL—Phiiadei- j phia Record. Dtaglcr** Boacwate. ! Congressman Dingier is a good legia- ! Is tor, but he knows perfectly well that the tariff is not going to be tinkered 1 while President Cleveland is in the White House. His talk to the contrary is largely buncombe.—Boston Herald, j A Qw fitted fimmmm. It is said that Boss Quay, if he cannot be president, will expect to be made secretary of tbe navy. Mr. Quay's naval exper euce consists of once having meditated throwing himself into the Sosqoehanna.—St. Look Post-Dispatch. j

WOOLEN MILLS BUST, j CLOTHING *AS NEVER SO GOOD, PUFJE AND CHEAP. XuB&etoxtri Do Not Favor » Rntorv ! tion of the McKinley Dot lea—This Tax Kept Oat the Best Grades of Wool pad Realised Ms Revenue. If the woolen manufacturers of the United States really desire a restoration of the McKinley duties on their raw material, they are taking a most curious way of showing it Daring the ten mouths ended Oct. 81, 1895, the impair- J tations of raw wool amounted to 211.- . 057,038 pounds, valued at $29,135,341. j Thif, is by far the largest importation in quantity, and beyond all comparison the j largest in value, ever* made in the in-! dnstrial history of this country. The; Philadelphia Record invites especial attention to the fact that of these im- j ports of wool 130,714,494 pounds ecu* j sisted of the finest foreign fleeces, val- j ued at $21,399,058. The remainder ecu- j sitted of the coarse, third class or “car- j pet wool,” valued at$7,745,G8$i Under ! the MeKinley tariff the reverse of this I was the fact. The fine wools of Austra* j lia and Argentina were well nigli pro- I hibited, while the bulk of the importa j tions consisted cf carpet wool, Irom ( which a small quantity was sorted to be * used in making clothing. ' If the woolen industries be depressed, if the nulls have been closed and j the weavers thrown ont of employment j as the calamity organs pretend, what has become of these enormous importations of wool? Bow have the American manufacturers been able to send abroad* nearly $30,000,000 in the last ten mouths to buy wool if the new tariff brought disaster to their business? All this foreign wool, mixed with the domestic product, bus gone or is going into the mills as fast as practicable for the making of clothing. The plain truth is that the woolen mills of the United States were never so busy and the clothing of the American pe< iple was never so cheap, pure and comfortable as in this year of our Lord and the Democratic tariff. As a well wisher of the woolen manufacturers, and as a representative’ef their interests as far as independence will permit, The Record, in view of the facts, persists in denying that they favor a restoration of the McKinley duties on their raw materials under tlio shabby pretext of supplying more revenue pr on any ground. It would be'x-just as. reasonable to assume that the American tanners favor a restoration of duties on hides. - j The advocates of wool duties assert that there has been avast decline in thej domestic production of sheep ever smeo free trade in wool was threatened. If this be but half true, is it not evident that a revival of the McKinley duties on wool would have a most destructive ei feet upon American woolen industries? Until the domestic production of wool should meet the demand whence would American manufacturers draw their lie ded supplies under a high protective tariff? The experience of half a century of protection has net only clearly demonstrated that the domestic yield of wool caunot begin to supply the demand in qualities or quantities, but that high duties such as have existed and such as j it is proposed to restore prohibit the importations cf the best foreign fleeces. If the wool duties are to be revived, then the finest qualities will again seek the free markets of Europe, and American manufacturers will again be remitted to inadequate quantities of the coarsest grades of wooL As an inevitable consequence many mills would be closed, and thousands of American weavers would be thrown out of. employment. At the same time the government revenues from a tariff tax on wool would not be realized by reason of the check to importations. If all the alleged benefits of protective duties to the sheep growers could he realized twice over, they would fail to compensate for the attendant evils to the manufacturers and to the rest of the American people. Therefore, until the contrary shall have been proved, The Record will persist in believing that the manufacturers do not, and cannot, favor a revival of the wool duties.

JLM.least! ng iQiincentj. Congressman Bontelle and tbe New York World are very similar. Each is a blow hard, aud each attempts cheap notoriety by trying: to be conspicuous in opposition to tbe president's Venezue- i lau policy. For tbe rabid jingo Bonteile to advise delay in considering the! matter is on its face evidence of the disgusting insincerity of the man.—Kansas City Times. Voter* May Have Somethin* to Say, It is said that Quay, Platt, Clarkson, j Fessenden and Train bo are trying to combine on some man to be the next | president of the United States. But perhaps a country of 70,000,000 of people will not agrye to lei these five men select a president for them. Pennsylvania bossism will not be meekly accepted throughout the entire country.—Boston Globe. Stilt Killing Their Hobby. The Republicans in congress have so far recovered from their outburst of patriotism as to remember their protection urn. Whatever they may do to pre-; pare for war or to alleviate pressing financial difficulty will have a proteoConfident* Mot MUplwnl Messrs. Harrison, Allison, McKinley, j et. a!., are placing considerable dependence in XL. Crisp's ability to make things interesting for Mi. Reed, and the gentleman from Georgia is doing his level bad to warrant their confidence.— Washington Post. McKinlay Waste Tack*. Will some kindly manufacturer please mail to Mr. McKinley a paper of reliable tacks? He wants to get at tbe tire ul Tom Reed's bicycle.—bu Louis Port* Dispatch. . _ _ . _

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