The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1874-10-28

and in lieu of it we demand a tariff
for revenue only that will be Just to
all sections of the country"
They sustain and will labor with the
Democracy Of Illinois who declare in
favor of
"Free commerce, and no tariff OK.
cept for revenue purposes"
They are in accord with the Ohio
Democrats who say in their platform,
1--WE are opposed to the unjust and
oppressive features of the existing
tariff laws, and insist on their repeal
or modification, so that a revenue tar
if shall be substituted for them"
A sentiment indorsed by the Pitts
burgh Post, the leading Democratic
newspaper of our State, which SAYS.
! 'the Ohio platform thoroughly EN-.
braces the Democratic idea"
The Democratic party of the nation
threatens TO strike the workingman a
fatal blow, and he will look in vain
for any AID to the cowardly and
treacherous Dem ocratic party of Penn
sylvania. His only hope for the fu.
ture lies in the maintenance of that
liberal policy of protection to home
industry which was enacted, and is
sustained, by the party which saved
and now governs the country.
The Republican party speaks with
no doubtful voice to the workingr1en
of the Keystone State. 1t favCrs
'Just protection and reward to every
branch of industry, and of giving per-
manence to those measures which rec
ognize agricultural, mining, manufac-
turing, and mechanical pursuits, as
entitled TO the dmpleSt protection and
fullest Development" 1t declares that
"The paralysis of business, which has
fallen upon the manufacturing indus.
try of the country within the past
year, is fresh evidence of the neces.
sity of that protection to our manufac
turing Interests for which the Republi-
cans Of Pennsylvania have alwasy
fought"
/ would say to the workingmen of
Pennsylvania, the choice is placed be-
fore you of sustaining and voting for
your friends or your foes. If you
want to keep business unsettled and
disturbed, and knock down prices and
wages still lower, vote the Democratic
ticket.
If you want to still further depress
and ruin home industry, vote the
Democratic ticket.
IT you want to close our own work.
shops and enrich foreign manufactur.
ers, vote the Democratic ticket.
If you love Great Baritain more
than you do your own land and its
people, vote the Democratic ticket.
We have to pay the interest on the
national debt and the expenses of the
national Government, amounting to
an immense sum of money annually,
which must be raised in good part, as
at present, by duties, or wholly by di-
rect taxation. II, like the Maine Dem
ocrats, you object to having this col.
lected at the New York custom house
from duties on German broadcloth,
English iron and steel, and French
silks, and would prefer to have Uni
ted States tax levied on your house
and lot or other property-vote the
Democratic ticket.
have used the duties on iron and
steel to illustrate the worth of the
tariff to US, and it is not less valuable
as defense to our other industries.
Without the ad valorem duty of sixty
per cent. on silks, of thirty to forty.
five per cent. on carpets, of thirty five
to forty'five per cent. on clothing. and
the protective specific and ad vdiorem
duties on all cotton and woolen goods,
our American workingmen in these
industries might sit down in idleness,
and the future would be without hope.
This is what the Democratic party, in
its love for Free Trade, is striving to
accomplish. The struggle does rot
concern Pennsylvania alone; it is of
moment to the whole country. In de-
Tending our own interests, we are dis
charging patriotic duty, for the full
and profitable employment of its own
labor and the ample protection and
development of its own industries can
alone make our nation prosperous and
its citizens united and happy people.
Very Respectfully,
JOSHUA Hunt.
{ Catasaqua, Lehigh county. Pa,
| October Is, 1874.