Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 21, Petersburg, Pike County, 1 October 1897 — Page 5

THE DINGLEY TARIFF,

The McKinley administration will be known in bistory as the creator of an era of high prices and scarce money. These are the conditions most conducive to the growth of trusts and impoverishment of the producers of wealth. High prices that are the result of limiting production mean low wages, for as the opportunities for limiting production arc increased so also are the opportunities for controlling the price of labor increased. The Piugiey bill's high wail of protection will dint the consumer out from the benefits of the world's markets and confine him to a home market constantly narrowed by the operations of the trusts which are fostered by the bill. The prohibitive duties levied by the bill will decrease revenues from imports to the point of forcing upon congress the necessity of enlarging the list of articles upon which are now imposed internal revenue taxes. This means the increase of the price of all commodities of prime necessity without any compensating increase in the price of farm products. Internal revenue taxes do not benefit the produce rs of raw materials. On the contrary, they raise the prices of the manufactured article which the producer has to buy. Tlie farmer, therefore, will have double burdens of taxation placed upon him without enjoying auy of the benefits of high prices which the Lili wil* produce. And the farmer, the artisan and the laborer will alike share the hardships of the scarcity of money which is being enhanced by the conduct of the treasury at Washington. In other words, the first five months of the McKinley administration jneseot the grew some prospect of unnaturally high prices for a period of four years with a constantly contracting currency. Such a eombiuatiou oft atrocities was never before imposed upon a free people. And over it all there is the consciousness that under this anomalous condition of auairamnst -ensue greater prosperity to the trusts thau was ever enjoyed by those con corns. Patriotism and firm faith in the strength of the American nutitutioue furnish the only hope of meeting the difficulties ahead of the nation and of the ultimate triumph of a free government whose benefits are equally distributed.—St. Ison is R public. THE TRUTH WELL STATED.

Source Dollar* Cheapen I.aUor and (he Product* of Labor. Tht* truth cf the fir uncial ntnation ' fc»*» u* vei been better stated than iu the | folloWirg editorial taken from the col- | dims cf the Co\ ii v'U' i fc*t;:r: It has often been sum I by those who ] depend upou other.* fur their idea* au i opinion * ou the tcoa *y qu< srioa that the eiuglo gold standard *»f primary tuouey meet in* th«» b- pi thing for the j ople, because most of the bank1 rs and rich ! fmui who po&s -s la*T> amounts of money at* a m rally in favor of it. Bin tins i- a uastdiio.. It i - not Vcause it is be t for the whole people that these men favor the single standard, but because it is better for th<*m. and enlia ice* the value of their' dollars. They care nothing for the ill- j t* rerfts of the people, only so fur as their d liars may bo ealuiueed iu value by ♦In* itiet a-i d deniaii ! fur them ou ac-• oouu; of tinir scarcity in circulation. . Th • single standard make* a scarce dollar, and a ware* dollar makes a mere valuable dollar and cheaper products of labor. It w a good thiug, of coarse, for the people to get cheap goods, but as SO to 90 per cent uf the p ople are producers of marketable goods a much greater number are benefited by receiving good ; prices fur th* :r products than ure bene- j fit* d by reason of procuring cheap goods. As the dollars become scane they borooie more valuable, and the prices of farm and other product* become lower and cheaper. ENCOURAGING TRUSTS. ■The Dingley Bill Fill* th* Bill In That Kind of 1’rMitprll;. Though the lar prospect of the Dingier tariff failed to start the tidal.wave of prosperity, as the Republicans predicted it would, there is no question that its effect iu the way of trust eucourugeuu nt was -instantaneous, says the Kansas City Times. One proof of protection's power in trust building is furnished by the efforts to organise a tin plate trust. Tiu plate has for several y*ars Uui subject to a duty designed to protect the “iufaut industry. ” v This sturdy infant ha.* fattened on its subsidy, Last summer it managed to pull itself together so as to red ace wages and increase priorssimultaneously. Still it considers that the price might be raised a little inure without letting in th** foreigner. In the vi r !« of Manager * Wheeler of the Great Western Tin Plate company: 4 ‘There is at present a difference of from 50 cents to 75 cents between the domestic and the import price, which the trust, if formed, would proceed to annihilate. In its capacity a* about the heaviest user of .steel billets in the country such a trust would gain the co-operation of the huge steel plants iu crushing presumptuous people who ventured to start independent mills." This programme is being carried out. The trust is being formed and will begin the active work of crushing compe- . tiuon and fieociug the public as soon as the Dingley bill goes into effect. Iu encouraging iufaut trusts the Dingley bill will have no equal. A Dreadful TboafU. Wouldn't it bo dreadful if Aldrich, Allison and tonne of the . other smart senators had fixed things so as to make Tom Reed believe he was run mug the tariff bill when In fact he was not interfering iu the slightest with wie deCigna and expectations of the trust?

PLATFORM PROMISES. Republican Pledges Still Unredeemed.

TRUSTS OHLY RECEIVE FAVORS. Tariff Law rnunad la Uw Interact off Wealth — Toilers Get Nothin* Vat Increased Taaee—Their Pockets Hold Open Tor the Hoad off the Despoil er. The following paragraph is going the rounds of the Republican press: Jqst one-twelfth off the McKinley administration has passed, bat in that time Republican* have done more in the way of carrying oat the pledges of the platform than eras ever accomplished in double that time by any previous administration. When you consider that this has been done with a senate in which the Republicans are in a minority, you should celebrate the dose of the iirst four months instead of grumbling because the full four years' undertaking has not been completed. A little comparison of Republican platform promises with Republican administration fulfillments will certainly be welcomed by the Republican organs which have given space to the above paragraph cr which may concur in its sentiment*. On the question of sugar the Republican platform said, “The Republican party favors such protection as will lead to the production on American soil of all the sugar which the American people use. ” In carrying out this promise a sugar schedule was framed that gave to the 3ug.tr trust absolute control of the sugar market, and ; at the request of a Republican senator the Republican seuatora voted against an amendment to the tariff bill providing for a bounty to sugar growers. Of Cuba the Republican platform says, “We believe that the government of the United Stutes should actively use its influence and good offices to restore peaoo and give independence to the islands. “ How has this pledge been fulfilled? For three months one man. backed by the known wishes and desires of tho administration and supported by a lot of moral cowards, has thwarted evtry attempt at recognition of the Cuban patriots. “One-twelfth of the McKinley administration has passed” and instead of asserting tbe supremacy of the American flag, protecting Americans in Cuba in the exercise of their rights and using our “goodyifRces torestore peace” and bring independence to the island, we still submit to Spanish insults, offer charity to wronged and outraged Americans and refuse to recognize tbe patriots who are struggling for

freedom. The Republican platform stilted that Republicans "believe iu an immediate return to’the free homestead policy of th* Republican party.” Bat free homesteads have bt; a lost sight of iu the mad rush to do the bidding of the tariff barons. The Republican platform demands that "every citizen shall be allowed to cast cue free and unrestrained ballot and that such ballot shall be counted as cast. " Haw Well the Republican party lias c uipli J with its own demand is shown by the tyranny of Speaker Heed, who refuses to allow members to vote, counts votes never cast mid overlooks. volts east against bis wishes. Tie* II pe.t/ficau national platform says that Republicans “favor the creation of a national board of arbitration to sett Iu and adjust differences which in ay arise between employers and employed engaged in interstate commerce. ” This is one of the nation's most serious problems, and notwithstanding tho fact that “just cue-twelfth of tbe McKinley administration has passed” not one stop has been taken by that administration iu this direction. T» • R> pabiicau party renews the party’s * ‘allegiance to the policy of protection," because ”in its reasonable application it is just, fair and impartial, equally opposed to foreign control and domestic monopoly.” The Republican ideaof “reesonableapplication” and its conception of "justice, fairness and impartiality" are shown iu the sugar schedule, emphasised by the wool schedule and made plain to all men iu the subserviency show u to the trusts. It frames a tariff bill that taxes the exadlc and the oofiiu, the food and the clothes, the erstwhile free gospel of salvation and tbe remedies far bodies diseased. It holds op u the pockets of the toilers that favored men may run their hands therein. It confers favors upon those who ere already roiliug in wealth and throws a few stale crumbs to the toiler? of the nation. It prated about what its tariff law would do for tbe toilers and then framed a law that skims the cream for tin* rich and leaves the skim milk for the poor. This is the way the Republican administration is carryiug out the pledges of its platform. It has violated every pledge given to the people and carried oat every pledge made to tbe trusts and tariff barons. If the Republican organs are prood of this record, thev are easily pleased.—Omaha World- j Herald. ‘ David H. Remarks. David B. Hill, deceased, arises to remark that his "Tiews of party policy are too well known to need repetition.” i Correct, David th*' Defunct. Your views of party policy are known to bo taken from the innermost recesses cf a hole tuto which you crawled during the last campaign._ Not Vat Ripe. “Another essential condition of proa perity,” says the New York Tribune, "is that it must not be plucked before it is ripe. ” Are we to ouderstaud that we have committed tbe green persiux- j mens act as regards tbe McKinley prosperity?—Exchaug & Hud mm) tho Senate. So it seems that Thru Reed didn’t bully tbe senate much after all. Tbe Sugar trust seems well enough satisfied. The senate went a little high on the sug- j ar schedule ao as to be able to drop in conference to about the figure they, wanted. I

ALTGELD VINDICATED.

Meanwhile Chicago Is Being Swindled by Those Mf be Promised Prosperity. All those terrible criminal inculpations leveled at ex-Governor Altgeld with which the Republican and gold* bog newspapers kept the wires so hot between Chicago and the east last fall, winter and spring appear to have been only so much good money thrown away and so much malice needlessly expended. It will be remembered that the exgovernor was charged with having combined and confederated with one Spalding, a Chicago banker, to rob the Chicago university and the state of Illinois of millions of dollars. It was nothing better than was to be expected of a Bryan Democrat, the slanderers went on to say, and the hubbub that was raised and the defamation that was circulated actually convinced thousands of credulous people that the sturdy old Dutchman, Governor Altgeld, was a plunderer and a rascal. It was all politics.’ The governor made one denial and an explanation of his connection with Spalding and with the fund of public money in question and left the rest to be settled by the> courts. The Spalding defalcation was examined into, and Altgeld was found to have nothing whatever to do with it As for Spalding himself, he was tried in court on one accusation and was acquitted. He has just gone through a second trial an another charge and been acquitted again. Nobody has brought anything before any court affecting Altgeld, and he stands cleared of every imputation, but our Republican and goldbug papers have not beard any of this news yet These immaeuliites are under the same delusion they have all along cherished, and they take euro to leave their readers in the enjoyment of the same. In the meanwhile city railroad swindles and gas swindle# are imposed by the Republican legislature and governor of Illinois and by the Republican common council of Chicago, but cur eastern newspapers of the goldbug faith hear and kuow nothing about these trifles, and their readers nr# equally ignorant of them. The poor people of Chicago are getting awfully swindled, not by Altgeld. but by those who wore going to bring them prosperity.—New York News.

THE TRUST ON TOP. Speaker Reed’s Bluster Was Intended to lieeeive the IVople. The final compromise between the Republican house and senate conferees ou the sugar schedule of the tariff bill is a victory of neither decency nor honesty. It smacks of green goods methods. It is in line with the policy of duplicity and deception which syndicate politics lias introduced into the legislation cf the coo u try. In very fact no compromise was made. The term is used by the administration organs aud the party bosses to allay the keen suspicion of the people aud to induce repose, so that the beneficiaries of the outrogtxms steal cau the more easily get off with the swag. The gush and exclamation of Speaker Reed against the measure as it came from the senate are now easily understood. The speaker in a measure calmed the indiguution of the country with his bluster, apparently f^r no other purpose than to smooth the way for the party majority in the house to offer better excuse for passing the bill than could have been found in boldly defying public sentiment by placing the iniquitous measure on the statutes in the exact phraseology in which the senatorial agents of the Sugar trust attempted to cover up their misconduct. This is essentially the method of the bunko steerer. And Tom Reed has not only acquiesced in those methods, but bus been one of the most potent factors in making them effective. Congressman Swanson of Virginia succinctly states the true relation of the bill to the Sugar trust thus: “The conference agreement gives the trust 4 cents more protection on each 100 pounds of raw sugar brought in than did the house schedule. That is the whole story iu a nutshell. The trust has come out on top ’ ’—ot. Louis Republic. __ FOR TRUSTS ONLY. Tb« New Tartar Law To**# the Poor IW the Benattt of the Rich. The conference committee’s tariff bill is worse than the Diugley bill, as that was worse than the McKinley law. The original house rate on lumber was #3 per l,0y0 feet. It was clearly prohibitive. The seuate wisely reduced it to f 1. At that rate large quantities cl Canadian white piue would huve been imported, paying an important revenue to the treasury. 'Hie conference has restored the $3 rata Under it there can be no lumber imported. The government will get no revenue. But every man iu the land who builds a house ora fcara*>r a board feuce will be taxed on extra dollar ou every 1,000 feet of pine lumber used, and the whole tax will go to enrich the 33 or so millionaires who control our pine timber supply. Incidentally the rate offers a premium for the destruction of our forests, the drying np of our rivers and the lasting ruin of some of the fairest parti of the continent. It is altogether a tariff bill for trusts, monopolies and campaign contributors, ft puts its fiugers into the sugar bowl and gives the choke lumps to the Havemeyers. It taxes the builder and farmer to eurich the lumber kings. It taxes every pair of shoes forth© benefit of the Beef trust. It makes every man pay more for his coat and every woman for her gown in order that the sheep growers may be deluded with the hope of getting more for their wool. Aud none of these extra taxes will go into the treasury. They are not taxes for “the general welfare,” but for private eurickment. It is a tariff tor robbery and protection to trusts.—New York World.

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