The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-09-01
From the New YORK Morld.l
Senator Sherman's Speech at
Canton.

In the United States Senate; where
fore, he speaks as one having author
tty when he cOngratalates the people
of Canton, (which q few years ago
was sleepY-going town, on having
doubled its population and trebled
Its property. This marvellous change,
and changes like it which have been
going on all over Ohio, Senator Sher-
man dutifuIly attributes to the Re
publican party. Itwas not regarded
as sign of strength in that Prime
Minister who was SO eager always in
taking credit for any piece of good
luck which befell, that, when an
nouncing to the House of Commons
the joyful news of the birth of 8
princess, he so far forgot himself as
to give his administration the credit
for the happy event. -.-..-----i
9i Diversity OF employment and dis
vision of labor are the prOteetionist's
stock phrases with which Senator
Sherman describes the growth of his
State and our national greatness, -
These are the objects which, as 8
{ Republican and prOtectiOnist, he
seeks to accomplish by tariffs and
governmental interference, But the
very terms which he uses are such as
betray the futiIity Of tarihs, the need
Iessuess of government interference,
and the ahsqEdltY Of the argument
which 0tto1lsts maEe-tARt the
higher money cost of 8 home product
does not prove the advantage OF pur-
chasing the cheaper procuct import.
ed. -
''You cannot compete with Iowa
and Minnesota in wheat-grO wing
but the butter, cheese, eggs, and
poultry OF Ohio will-eAch article
realize US more money than our vast
wheat crops OF thirty years ago.
Now a great change has taken place
throughout Ohio, which will contin-
ue until Ohio will be the great man
ufactHring State OF the Union, with
its workshops In every town and its
products In every State and Terrific
ry."
These changes have taken place by
the assistance of no tariff laws among
the States of the Union against each
other. They have taken place slow
1y and in progressive adjustment to
the changed environment Of Ohio.
When, thirty years ago, she paOdue.
ed her great wheat crops, it was be-
cause the people of that State, all
things considered within and with
out, made the most money by pro-
ducing thoSo great wheat crops. And
individual sagacfty was sufficient to
discover and take advantage Of the
fact. Now that Ohio has changed
the proportions and the kind of her
products, and is still changing them,
1t Is because her circumstances, the
surrounding populations, their rival
or superior capacities, and her own
conditions have changed, and because
the purpose of each individual being
to thrive this general change adVanc-
ed the general thrift. And no gov
ernment interference was necessary
to point the way and teach Ohioans
how to take advantage of. those slow
changes about them. Markets and
price currents did the business, and
/ did it ually-happily not being
obscured or faIsified in their teach
ings, as the figures Of our foreign
trade and their lessons are falsifed
! and obscured by the interference Of
q protective tariff, Senator Sher-
man does not hesitate to find in thG
circumstance that 0hio's present
products realize more money thar
her former products, proof of her ad
vantage; yet he would probably lis
ten with q sober face to Horace Gree
ley deScanting upon the advantage
of paying more for an inferior do
mestfc product than the price of /,
superior foreign products as il ciVi
boundaries had in them q quality Il
convert the mutual advantage Of al
exchange into q disadvantage of on
of the parties to it; as if he or AM
other man had surplus intelligence
over and above the amount required
In his own trading, to wisely contro
and fetter the keen intelligence OF 81
other Americans trading the prod
ucts Of their work for the needfu
products of other mems work.
'tNeVer was labor better reWorde,
than now. The rights of the laboreI
his pay, his time, his food, and hi
comforts were never more faVorabl
} than now" -t- .
Senator Sherman would have bee
Missed for that utterancein the mine
of Pennsylvania Missed for it by th
: tailOrs of New York City: hissed fc
} it in the Labor Congress, comprisin
{ all classes of Workmen, which hs
+. Just been assembled in Philadelphia
HE would have deserved to be hisse
] there and everywhere for SO scand.
D lous q misrepresentation of fac
: which he knows or which it is h
. duty to know. Senator Sherma
: voted doubtless for the printing
: an official document which, by
n comparison of wages and prices In q
8 trades and in all articles all over Il
e country, shows that the Mage-recei
l. ing laborer, though in the last eig
e years his wages have advanced, pa,
e for everything that he eats; drink
IS wears, or houses himself With
i prices much more advanced. M
l. ICommissioneH Wells report b
n emonstrated-aud Senator She
1e man is the last man in the .woE
who should be ignorant of it-th
labor was never Tess well reward
than now in any year of the last {
?. cade, And how could it be otht
wise, with protective tariff and
AZ sWindIing paper currency-the lab
N ing mans dead1iest foes? E
~ Senator Sherman is q politici
and perceives, what Mr.. PendIet
e. would have brought to his mind
th he did mol perceive, that
M. 'lOur party contests " Ill again to
,c. upon questions of political econon
10 1 and not upon great questions inVo
lie Ing human rights and the existeI
is. Of the Union" -.4-
Ho In the sense Of the speaker, thi.
III true; butit gives Us a measure
ri the intelligence of the chairman
5et the Senate's Finance Commit
,f;s when he excludes human rights fr
bis the sphere Of political economy;
81 If there were any right of man M
ce fundamental than his right to
the products of his own toll (Which D
N. lection filches from him), or than
al right to exchange them freely W
sg. any other human being (Which 2
he tective tariffs deny TO him).
ed. what else could be expected from
MS statesman who tells his hearers t
of s'the precise distinction between
in revenue tariff and a protective ia
ted l never could make out" We Il
per to see Mr., Pendleton enHghten
Senator on the precise nature of
distinction. ADemOcratie major
of 80, 600 would probably be as eff
i've as q surgical operation.
In Notwithstanding this eonfes
ing incapacity to deal with the problt
OPP of political economy, admitted Il
in pivotal now in our party conte
rnPt MIR. Sherman does not hesitate
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