The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-11-03

world doubt the success of self government
by the people The thing called trade,
that comes of the fierce competition OF hun
gry humanity, is sharp, shrewd and active.
Its agents tread the world in search OF
ma, kets, and, with unerring instinct, Luy
where they can buy cheapest, and sell
where they can sell 10 the best advantage
For Congress to usurp this right is, to
say the least of it, to throw into confusion
that which otherwise we've orderly and fair
Your COngressmen here, for example the |
Hon. Mr.. Van Trump, is doubtless an able |
man, politically considered; and yet, what |
farmer would consult him in the sale of |
his farm products2 This system Of 50 |
called protection not only calls him into |
consultatI n, but authorizes him TO make |
laws prohibiting sales and fixing prices.
This departure from the legitimate uses |
of Republican Government has brought
about your halls of CoHgresS a hungry
crowd of INSCRIPTIONS men, who, in rings
and Hobbies, seek, through wine and wo'
men, to dehauch your law makers, that
they may thrive at the expense of the peo'
| pie. Every conceivable interest but one
has its unprinciplcd, unselfish representa-
tion, demanding bounties through law -
And what is that interest that remains
without representation Strange to say,
il is the one great interest underlying al
others, that has given Us all our wealth and
prosperity.
To the traveller on our continent, who
passes from Maine to Mexico, who crosses
the continent TO California, or steams from
the lakes to the gulf, sleeping over hund-
reds of miles in the night, and wearying
out the day over vast spaces, s1here is one
great fact that in time fixes itself upon his
mind and that is, that wherever the Amer
ican flag floats, agriculture exists, and
from the nch bosom of the new South we
dig our subsistence.
The agricultural interest is everywhere
but one spot He will not find it in Wash
ingiOn. Among its painted women and
unprincipled men, on the floors of Congress
in the Hobbies, about the avenues are 10 be
found every interest but that. During
six months residence never met an agn
cultural or horticultural man, or the repre-
sentative of such. There is an agricultu-
raj bureau, it IS true, where a man, selected
because of his entire ignorance of agricul
ture, presides. from which immense guam
titles of worthless seeds are issued in small
parcels by designing Congressman, and
from whence comes q report which treats
of everything on Gods foOtstoOl but the
interest we have most at heart.
PULLING WOOL OVER OUR EYES.
l would not advise you, my horticultural
and agricultural friends, to try to remedy
this by the creation of any ring or lobby.
The fellows already there would not only
cheat the eyes out of your heads, but make
YOU the authors of your own ruin. Let
me give you an illustration: The wool
growers of the west sent on q lobby to de-
mand that their wool should be protected
against that of foreign growth. 1t wai
not the interest of the manufacturer to
. grant such protection. and SO fight began
: that continued nine months. and ended in
/ q compromise. And what was that COM
promise Why ring master Of the Iron
, interest told me, with a grin, that ne goi
] duty enough on the shears used in clipping
} to make up for all lost on wool. But this
was not all
The manufacturer, fearing the result,
delayed the passage of the act till the las
| moment, and IN the meanwhile imported
large quantities of foreign wool while the
! ports were open. so that, when under thu
stimulus of the tariff, the farmer rusheC
6 into the business to find no market, anC
here in Ohio thousands on thousands o.
i sheep were slaughtered last fall for thu
q tallOw. The wool would not pay to feeC
- | hASLA AAAOGSA NAO "AANCAs
i RESULTS so FAR ATTAINED.
One day in Washington, when weariet
:. with the sort of thing we call debate il
Congress. which means a vast eXpenditur
: of wind to bad purpose, friend said 1
: me "Come, and will show yOu = states
: man." I followed this friend who mad
: me such q tremendous promise into tn
: cloak room of the House, when l was in
!, troduced to young man st forty, with
clear, bright complexion, blue eyes tbs
looked at you through glasses, light haiI
I, and students' sioop in his shoulders
He had = slngularly winning face, one
love and admire, and his name was Dayi
:. A. Wells. He is the Government COlleC
tor of Statistics. Born, believe, in Cor
a necticut; he is 8 Republican from impulse
an honest man from principle. and is POI
sessed of the clearest brain in Washington
y This parental SORT Of Government we no
= have made him Commissioner of Statistic
0t Entering his Office he devoted himself wit
;, extraordinary industry 10 its duties 1t WI
: his business to collect the facts. he re-
ognized no party, he indulged no theoT,
- he lOOked solely TO getting upon paper Il
= exact condition of the country.
- To prove the power of this man, 'et u
tell you, that after the nomination of n
n Seymour, when the country was begi
= ming 10 feel the dull times and the heaN
taxation, and that gentleman made his Al
= financial speech, the leaders Of the Repu
- licAn party sought for some one of sun
"A cieni ability to show the fallacy and fals
III hood of the candidates. assertions. Tn,
found that man in David A Wells. II
celebrated Atkinson letter was SOW
-, broadcast over the land. Then came
- reply TO De La NJ ar's crude statement, a
into the body of Gov DenniSon's and OF
er leaders financial efforts he injected I
T facts that gave them vitality. The peOp
soOthed for moment, turned from INA
e cial consideration of the canvass to the
sN sues of the war, and Grant actually swu
~ into power on the rib of this single pen.
Now return to his reports, and you v
- find where we are. This system of pl
- lection to manufacturers demands, as a
- sis of its existence, cheap labor and che
= material. We have sought by law TO
- cure them both under our system of leg
lation; the price of labor has moi kept pa
a. with the cost of living, Through this .
/, - ten of financial legislation We are rapi
"a approaching the same condition that ex
a Hnu ed in Europe between capital and labor
"a In a word, the rich grow richer, and
r.. poor poorer.
,L As agriculturists, the heaviest consum
,H,S of the articles protected this matter cor
'Hu home to US all. This must be my exc
- - for referring to it here. don't SEQ
.U uni our agricultural and horticultural ssGo'
tions can do better than to consider It, ;
:, take such action rs to them may seem b
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