The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1874-09-03

cision Of each local community or neighborhood and
| TO let the majority determine whether such sales
should be permitted prohibited therein. The faii-
ure of laws to promote the cause Of temperance can
generally be traced to the absence Of public
opinion In the particular locality having suih-
Client strength TO enforce them Laws Of
and executed by strong public opinion In their favor
Under the plan proposed Of leaving the decision OF this
question each locality neighborhood, the exist
ence Of such an opinion will be determined In advance
by vote Of the people. If the majority Of the people
in particular locality believe in the tratic in In
oxicating liquors. they have 1t under license reg
ulations lii another community the majority are
opposed TO such traffic, believing IL immoral, un-
healthy and in every way injurious, should not their
wishes prevail? Is not this solution OF the question in
harmony with Republican principles and the Eight of
local seltgoyernmentf If In given community ma
ority Of the people are opposed 70 the traffic, should
they have Il forced upon them by perhaps a very
small minority And II, on the other hand, IN an-
other community majority Of the people are in favor
Of the traffic should lhey be prevented from havngt
| In their midst by a like minorityg
The prelense in the Democratic platform that this
traffic should be forced into community against the
wishes Of majority Of the people ior the protection
of society and the increase o the school fund.- Is ut
terly preposterous, and win deceive nobody Those
who favor the traffic In Intoxicating liquors are willing
to accept license law, and 1t please them and
not to enaR the school fund.- that the Convention de-
large potion Of the people in every State believe
that the traffic in intoxicating liquors Is In urious 10
public morals and destroys the health, happiness and
fore be prohibited. Another portion are opposed to
prohibtory laws upon various groundsj some for the
reason that they eau not be enforced, and do not
diminish inemperance; others alege that such laws
inYasioni of private rights and others again Tor
the that certain liquors classed intoxicating
are not bht are heathfu and the use OF them not
injurious t0pubic morals and good order. The power
TO decide thlse questions undoubtedly belongs TO the
people Of the State In their sovereign legislative capac
ity. Any gneral law, prohibiting or regulating the
traffio In intoxicating liquors, would be offensive IN
some localities, and acceptable in others What is
fairer, and What better be done, than 70 refer
the decision of this question under the law to each
particular lpealityf
TARIFF.
The Dempcratic Convention declared in favor of
tariff for reFenue intending to have i understood that
this was declaration against the policy OF protection
and in favor OF free trade Every man well informed
upon the subject Of the tariff knows that tariff for
revenue necessarily tariff for protection. tariff
Tor revenue is calculated TO raise hundred mill
lions Of dollars II il laid "horizontally" is
at the same rate per cent upon the prices value OF
all articles lmported-would,in in regard great num-
Der Of articles, be absolutely prOhibitory, and In
gard another large class highly protective reve
nue. tariff, not to be prohibory must be discrimina-
ting and varied In its character and not be levied
at equal rate upon all articles imported Several
years ago. Democratic orators in Indiana and else
where, in order TO meet this fact insisted that the tar
i'll should be placed highest upon all imported articles
which were not and could not be produced In the
United States such, ior example, as tea and coffee,
and other articles, which were or could be produced
In the United States we're to come in free that the
tariff upon them should be put at point low not
to afofd protection to home productions against the
imported article II insisted that II the tariff gave
protection to home production 1t would diminish the
importation and thereby diminish the revenue TO the
Government
1t was 80 obvious that tariff levied upon these prn-
cples would be exclusively for the benefit OF foreign
aud against home industry that this line Of argument
has been mainly abandoned Jnstice, common sense
and patriotism alike dictated that, as tariff was
necessity should be levied not in the interest Of for
egn or home monopoly, but so as to afford fair and
reasonable competition between home and foreign in-
dusries relying upon competition TO bring about re-
duction Of prices TO the people, and 1t Is upon this
principle that the Republican party has attempted to
regulate the tariff.
THE JARGoN OF FREE TRADE.
How utterly senseless is the jargon Of free trade
when addressed to the people living in the Mississippi
Valley, far away from the sea coast2 Here we are IN
Indiana 800 miles from the nearest sea ports How
ever great and cheap the facilities for transportation
may become for products to the seaboard this dis
tance can never be diminished, and transportation
must always be great obstacle and expense in our
approach to foreign markets and add largely to the
cost OF all we import. Here In this great valley we
have soil of unsurpassed fertility timber COAL ores,
mineral resources OF every character and all the means
OF sustaining vast population, almost every variety
of industry and production And with these immense
advantages in our possession, how unwise IL is TO
cultivate a policy which is TO make us dependent
upon foreign, distant, and costly markets for our pro-
ductons, and to import from other States
and countries the articles which we can better
produce ourselves? Now when the time has come for
the development OF the resources and industries Of
the West and for the establishment Of prosperity
upon sure foundations, and to obtain that commercial
superiority which our natural advantages give us, II
we will but improve them, met with the insane
cry of free trade and advised to throw down every
protection and home industry to put the labor Of the
country upon level of price aud dignity with the
pauper labor of Europe and to continue depend
ence upon the East and the payment Of tribute TO
foreign countries.
The States of the Northwest have ceased 10 be re-
patches to furnish the marketing of the older and rich
er communities of the East, and have become oppu-
lent, powerful and intelligent communities, capable
of forming their own policies, aud becoming by the
development of their resources the most independent
and prosperous among the States.
LET THE PEOPLE VOTE FOR PRESIDENT DIRECT
Another question of paramount Importance rising
high above ordinary political considerations is the
proposition to amend the Constitution to elect the
President and Vice-Presdent by the direct vote of the
people, The dangers and imperfectons Of the present
system well understood and may plunge the ma
tiOn into civil war at any time
The theory and for the establishment Of the
Electoral Colleges have all failed and the colleges are
but useless machinery potent only for mischief Elec
tors being chosen by general ticket In all the States
small majority may determine the whole vote Of a
State and this has often been controlled by the fraud
uent vote in large city, which was the case in New
York in 1868. There is no provision In aly State for
conesng the election Of Presidential electors, how
ever notorious the fraud violence by which they
may have been chosen. If no candidate receives the
vote OF a majority OF the whole number OF electors
then the election Of President is to be made by the
House Of Representatives in which each State has one
VOTE Nevada with 40 900 people, having the vote
| as New York with 100000. Such an election Of
President being anti-repubcan, grossly inequitabe
presents the grandest opportunities for corruption and
intrigue and is fraught with imminent danger to the
public
In 1925 Mr., Adams, who hsd received less than one
third Of the popular vote elected President by the
House Of Representatives over General Jackson, who
had received large plurality Of the popular and elec-
toral vote. In this election Mr. Clay, member Of
the House. cast his vote and influence for Mr.. Adams
| aferward became his Secretary Of State, and never
recovered from the charge Of bargain and sale. in
the only other election Of President by the House of
Representatives, In 1SOi Mr.. Jefferson was chosen
| after a protracted struggle running through many
days and 1t we'll established historical fact
that three States finally changed their vote to Mr. JEFF
ferson giving him the election upon understanding
in regard and the retention Of certain per-
| sons in Office which would now be regarded cor
| rupt.
The path Of duty is the path Of safety. We should
brush away the cleo machinery and the election
by the House of Representatives and choose the Pres
ident and VicePresident by the direct vote OF the
people, giving the election to the candidate who has
| the highest number Of votes
! CONTROL OF RAILROADS.
The power is given to Congress by the Constitution
to regulate commerce among the several States" and
whatever is necessary to execute the power must be
included in it, II commerce can not be successfully
regulated without regulating the means Of ransporta-
tion the instruments by which 1t is conducted then
| tha mower regulate these must be included or