Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 13, Petersburg, Pike County, 6 August 1897 — Page 5

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ONE FATAL OMISSION: I* Tariff Tinkers Neglect an Inn portant Item.

dobt psoyide for more hobby. Jteagr to Mark Cy frli^ Wt tkc PaopU Mato No Money to Syad-m^MtM Dolton Mate to* Mate Wag— A Up to date John Wauamaker has sol •explained why he is moved to believe that the Republican tariff bill will restore prosperity, nor has any other Republican ate town an. politician or publicist undertaken to explain the proceas ay which prosperity ia to be reached aa the result of the tariff bill There is one effect the bill will have a tendency to produce, and that ia to | raise the prinaa of tin manufactured product* that are protected. This effect would certainly be produced if the people were in a state of comparative prosperity—that is to say, if plenty of money were in circulation and exchanges were going on rapidly—but the increase of prices of special products would not add to the sum of general prosperity, but would be recognized aa ia hardship even in good times. But under present conditions how can any person whose reasoning powers are in a healthy condition imagine that an increase of prices of special products will make people more prosperous? Why are prices now so low? Simply because the people have not the money to buy. There is only on* way for the people generally to get money, and that is to sell their labor (or. what is the same thing, the products of their labor) for such an amount as it will bring. Owing to special causes that have increased the value of the dollar their labor does not bring fair prices. Consequently they do not have money with which to go into the stores and buy goods. Manufacturers, finding that the demand for their products is decreasing, lower the price ia order to invite buyer*, and this lowering process goes on until the price reaches the level of the ability of the people to buy. Prices are already too low for prosperity, but they are not low enough to fit the pockets of the people. How, then, can a purely artificial increase of the prices of certain manufactured products be carried out and maintained? It is an impossibility. The manufacturers may go through the form of marking up their goods, but that sort of thing will not add to the ability of th« people to buy. We expect to see a great flurry and flutter in tbt newspapers—especially iu the Republican organs—when the tariff bill becomes a law. We expect to sec flaming announcements that prosperity has returned and has come to stay. But there is one fatal omi.-'sicn in the tariff measure—it give* manufacturers an excuse for marking np their goods, but it does not provide the machinery for giving people mere money with which to pay the higher prices. The result will be that the “orgy” of marking up the prices of manufactured goods will not last long. If the protected manufacturers are really deceived as to the results of the new tariff bill, it will produce disastrous results. If they really believe that the people are able to pay higher prices for goods, they will have an incentive to-run their mills and factories to the top notch for a month or two after the bill becomes a law, and this will inevitably lead to a serious if pot fatal collapse. All that the tariff law can do for them when once- it becomes operative is to incite them to nnhappv ventures in the way of piling np stocks. The prices the people are now grudgingly paying for goods are higher than they can really afford to pay; otherwise business and trade would be brisk, if not specially profitable. Bat when the new tariff law has the effect of stimulating the piling np of stocks to be held for higher prices (as it it sure to do) it is leading manufacturers to their own undoing. Already we see what influence the bare prospect of the bill has had in stimulating importations of goods likely to be affected by the tariff. Vast cargoes have been brought from abroad, and these will come more or less directly into competition with the goods the manufacturers will produce. This competition and the fact that the value of the dollar is constantly increasing will have the effect to depress the price of goods below the level at which they are now held, and •o the addition to the unsalable stocks can only reanlt in serious difficulties for those who are led to believe that a tariff law can make prices higher when they are already higher than the people are

A bit' to pay. The final effect of the Republican tariff law, therefore, will be to make times harder in ail lines of trade. Yet its political effect will be very happy, j It will show the people, especially the manufacturers, that protection for protection's sake is a fraud that doe* violence to both justice and common honesty. h will open their eyes to the fact that when our cummer system is out of «ear the tariff is inoperative, and a tariff that is inoperative possesses no for those who advocate protection aolely for aeifiah and personal reasons. The new bill will abow the workingmen and wage earners that a protective tariff does not promote their interests. Therefore it may be said that the McKinley administration will accomplish at toast one good and desirable result It will open the eyes of the prople to the folly and fraud of protection for protection's sake. As far the manufacturers, who have been so busily engaged in arranging the amount of spoils they propose to exact from the public, they will no doubt be surprised when they find that they have prepared for themselves a Barmecide feast Their surprise will he worth something if it shall induce them to turn their attention to the real cause of their troubles—the nonefently increasing vsine of the dollar. I

~ MARK HANNA’S VICTIM.'

■—' ~ . . .. _ |hw»M gMriflocd to n*ll»fj Bw la tww of the reports from apparently reliable sources ooooeniiBg Secretary Sherman’* condition charity requires that criticism of his course in the Hawaiian matter and of his pomling utterances be softened. The case of the aged statesman is another pitiable example at heartless sacrifice to political ambition. When the name of Sherman was suggested for the secretaryship of state, those who knew him well were surprised and shocked. Ho secret was made of the fact that age was making ravages in his intellectual powers and that he would be unequal to the burdens uf the offios. His Mends protested against the proposition to bring into conspicuous publicity the growing weaknesses of the distinguished statesman who had served his full time in public life. It was hoped that he would be allowed to serve out his term in the senate, where he was at home and where his failings would be shielded from poblio view. But Bom Banna wanted to go into the senate, and his snly opportunity was to get rid of the old senator from Ohio and take his place by appointment Despite the warnings of Mr. Sherman’s friends the plans were laid to satisfy Hanna’s ambition and the venerable statesman was tempted and betrayed into the acceptance of a high office, where be could gain nothing but humiliation. Humiliation was coupled with the offer in the statement that the work and responsibility would be borne by the assistant secretary. The result is the pitiable spectacle at chattering senility exposed to the view of the world and officially emphasised by the protest at Japan against the deception of her minuter at Washington. Of course something must be done to prevent the holding up of the United States to the ridicule of the Civilised world. The business and the secrets of state cannot be intrusted to an aged incapable who is irresponsible for his utterances. But whatever is done—whether he is relieved of ail but the name of secretary or is forced into retirement— there must be humiliation. The evil has been wrought The sacrifice to Hanna’s ambition falls heavily on the feeble vktim.—St Louis Republic. THE FORGOTTEN MAN. Tartar rtnadcren Should Remember That the Taxpayer la Not JOeecL The most significant utterance in the tariff debate so far was that of Senator Mills when he said. “I come to speak for the forgotten man—the taxpayer from whose labor and sweat this vast fund is to be wrung by legislative rapine for distribution among favored beneficiaries. ” It was high time some one interrupted the tariff grabbers to call attention to “the forgotten man”—the taxpayer, at whose pockete the tariff barons are so eagerly struggling to get, says the St. Louis Fast-Dispatch. ‘‘The forgotten man” is grimly looking on. conscious that he will have to furnish every dollar demanded by these un-American vampires to add to their ill gotten hoards. But tariff plunderers and their agents in the senate will do well to bear in mind that “the forgotten man” is not dead or helpless simply because he is forgotten. He has been extremely patient under the burdens heaped upon him for the benefit of others, but there is a limit to his patience. He was very patient in France daring the first twothirds of the eighteenth century. When at last he decided that patience had ceased to be a virtue, the throne crumbled, the “nobles” were sent into exile, church property was “sequestered” fear the benefit of the community and the gutters around the Place de la Concorde ran with blood. “The forgotten man” had asserted himself. In all ages the man who is so apt to he forgotten when taxes are being imposed is a very dangerous man when he concludes that the time has come to force himself into recognition by the powers that be.

GOVERNMENT BY TRUSTS. lUpaMku* Atkin Pm* oa Rkcord mm ■*. voting Ita Pcrpctutioa. Senator Pettigrew's antitrust amendment to the tariff bill, which be aptly introduced pending the final discussion and vote on the sugar schedule, was, as might have been surmised in advance, laid on the table. The Republicans, under tbe>*hip of Allison, invoked the gag law and the amendment was crowded out of consideration without giving senators an opportunity to discuss its merits. The result, nevertheless, has served the object Seuaior Pettigrew had in mind when he introduced the amendment. Every Republican in the senate has bora pot on record once more as being unqualifiedly in favor of the protection and perpetuation of trusts. The party of high moral ideas which has purchased possession of the national government with the money of the trusts became the sponsor of these commercial cormorants when it stood over the cradle of a protective tariff nearly 40 years ago. It has kept on nursing the ▼empires on special legislation whenever power gave it opportunity ever ainoe, until this has become a government by the monster trusts, with a Republican president and congress as the official agents of these legalized pirates. Senator Pettigrew’s amendment was only one more way of bringing this real stats of affairs before the American people.—Kansas City Times. The farce of a monetary commission is to follow th» completion of the scheme for high tariff robbery. Bav would ft be poariMe far a fairly representative monetary commission to agree? How would fare the great interests of the west and south in a commission ap- ' pointed to carry oat English and eastern

TRUST IWAUDfGROWS. Steadily Spreading Into Every Branch of Business.

MONOPOLY KOOKHrO StfPKEKE. Commenting on the speech of the Hon. I George Fred Williams of Massachusetts, an the subject of tnmts and monopolies, | neollf delivered before the Louisiana Slate university,the New Orleans TineaDemocrat «j« it believes the subject which Mr. Williams treats so well should be held up before the country as one of the great issues in America. It will be remembered that toward the close of the late presidential campaign, in which Mr. Williams personalip took so prominent port as the Democratic candidate for governor of Massachusetts, this issue of the trusts, combines and monopolies forced itself to the front m one of the momentous problems of the dap. Urn campaign was being waged largely on financial issues, when the trusts issue dropped into the | fight Not content with their control j of our trade and business, the trusts and | monopolise proposed to dominate our j polities also, and they indulged in a j pressure on the voters, closed their fae- j | taries and threatened ruin unless their j j wishes were aooepted bp the people. The trusts were warmly discussed i : during the last few days of the camI paign, but the other issues were so inI volved and so serious arid the time was | so abort that, although it was made | manifest that the people would gladly | .see every trust crushed out of existence, nothing effective was done. Today the I trusts believe themselves all the stronger I as the result of the election and are more in evidence than they have ever been before, no longer disguising or ooncealing themselves, but parading impudently before the country. Mr. Williams, therefore, is right in calling the attention . of the American i people to this danger, the gravest that threatens them today. The trusts will, of course, cry “Socialism!” the moment the public attention is turned toward j them and a serious attempt is made to mush them out, but however much Europe has socialism to fear we need have no dread of it here, and the people have, under our constitution, the clear- I eat right and power to get rid of this j trust incubus, becoming more burden- | some and intolerable every year. The trust malady is steadily spreading to every branch of business, and monopoly is becoming more and more supreme and universal. Mr. Williams notes the many branches^ in which it has entrenched itself and shows at toe same time hew we can get rid of it There is a monopoly in land wbioh can f be somewhat shackled by an inheritance j ten; a monopoly in transportation ! wbioh the people can reach without 1 difficulty through their undoubted right i to fix railroad and similar rates, and i there is the monopoly in trades—the trusts, as we know them best—which control an entire business, fixing the purchasing and selling prices and absolutely dominating every one. He calls attention to the fact that the government not only has made no sufficiently vigorous efforts to get rid of these vampires feeding upon the people, bat that it has encouraged, strengthened, aided and built them up It has done so through the tariff, many sections of which are framed by the trusts themselves and so arranged as to drive all competition out of business, and, under the pretense of encouraging invention, it has, through its patent laws, given trusts and monopolies dangerous powers, enabling them to still further squeeze the public. He cites as samples the telephone monopoly and the case of the American Cotton company, the latter just come into the field under the protection of a patent, and which proposes, as Senator McEnery showed in his great speech the other day, to control if not monopolise the cotton product of this country and reap a rich harvest from the farmers and producers. We feel the tyranny and spoliation of these trusts and monopolies which have fastened themselves on ns. but this is not the worst evil from them. They have corrupted our politics and are endeavoring to oorrupt toe people. “They are,” says Mr. Williams, “the instruments of corruption and intimidation. They have penetrated our legislatures, national, state and local, until toe people feel helpless to resist them, and the pessimist already announces that oar institutions have failed. From north to south people stafid aghast at the subjection even of reputable legislators to

tbe mighty powers wbicb rear themselves shore law and order. The very i corporations which government creates are the worst corrupters of government. “The return of the monopolies to plague the legislatures which created them illustrates bow violations of the principles of liberty bring their sore 1 retribution. Our people must awaken to the fact that monopoly has a stronger hand in the lawmaking of our country than have the milliona of the people i who must obey the laws. Money com- ] mauds talent and can subjugate the , weak and purchase the venal.” These are strong words, bat who will deny them when we see leading members of our congress fighting for the trusts in senate and house, their open if not paid advocates and agents? Mr. Williams believes that the people will be triumphant in the end and crush these trusts and monopolies, and so do we, but he does wall in calling tbs people to arms for this great struggle. It will take brave men to lead them to victory; it will take a long fight to croak out these enemies of our institutions, and therefore the sooner the buttle is begun the better, for the sooner the victory will bu

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