Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-04

journalists ia the state, died in HarrisburE
yesterday, aged seventy. He was bornin
Harrisburg in 1914, and was during his
life editor of the Pottsville Emporium lin
1912, of the Carlisle Amaricdn and Volun.
teer, which latter paper he founded with
John B. Bratton, and of the Harrisburg
Reporter. In 1867 he was an employee of
the Philadelphia custom house, and in
1870 entered the employ of the Harrisburg
car compay, where he remained until ill
health Obliged him to resign about year
ago.
In 1872 Ton MURPHY won SO, 900 from
GEORGE WILKES on Greeley. Wilkes, in
. letter to the New York Sun, makes the
following offer: 81 will bet my old friend
Thomas Murphy, or any other man, s10,-
600 that General Hancock will be elected
next president Of the United States. He
(Thomas Murphy or any one reading this
offer may close with it instantcr by depOs-
iting $4,000 with Drexel, Morgan & Co.,
of Wall and Broad streets. That distin-
guished house, if am not giving it too
much trouble, will accept the signature at
the bottom of this letter to the editor of
the Sun as my guarantee that they will be
at liberty to pay the above-namcd amount
to any depositor of like sum in favor of
the converse of my proposition
PROTECTION VS.. FREE TR AIDE.
Editor Geist On the lluestion-WI,at He
Thinks Now and What He Used
to Think.
Editor Geist's New Era, August @, 1880
To no other class in the community does
the question of q protective tariff appeal So
strongly rs to the wOrkingmcn. Its bear
ings upon them arc more direct and
immediate than upon any other people.
1t is of the greatest importance, therefore,
that they thoroughly understand the atti-
tude of the two parties towards this
most important subject. The Democratic
party has for half a century been the
outspoken advocate Of free trade. Their
attempts to introduce foreign products
at nominal duties to compete with our
own manufactures arc matters of record.
The past twelve months have wit
messed renewal of their efforts in
W stIGstlu IllS cIlu. VII UlC OGNcI
hand, the Republican party has from the
first been the consistent rs well rs the per-
sistcnt advocate of protection, even as its
honorcd predecessor, the old Wing party,
from which it drew SO much of it's member
under all circumstances in has stood firmly
by the side of the working classes in their
efforts to stem the tide of cheap goods and
p0,non 1a1Nnr <hn% had %1,.o,%nrol %1,n;,
prosperity. This is perfectly we'll under
stood abroad. These arc
some of the results of twenty years of pro-
lection under Republican rule. Docs any
sane man look for such result under
twenty years of Democratic free trade ?
This is the issue that confrOnts the labor
ing men to-day. How will they decide
it?
Protection Does Not Protect.
Editor Geist's Express Dec. %. 1870.
The above figures manifest in the clear
light of facts what we have heretofore Gil
deavOrcd to demonstrate from the nature
of the case that y general system of high
duties does not and cannot ensure to
American productions and manufactures
the possession even of our home market.
while it eifectually shuts us out from COM
petition with foreigners in the common
markets of the world. : :: iecOllect
that it is the consumer who pays the tax
or tariff and that no scheme can be devised
that will enable us to throw the chief
burden of it upon the foreigners.
Avoids Mentioning the Nations.
Editor Gcist's Express, Jan. !, 1871.
In the "rcmark'' that those nations
have been most prosperous that have most
thoroughly protected labOr-meaning
those which have the highest tariffs-thc
message [of Gov. Geary] carefully avoids
naming the nations to which he refers.
wherein he shows himself more prudent
than Senator Cameron, who, as the best
example and evidence of the benefits of 4
high tariff and the delctcrious effects Of 4
low one, instanccd strong and prosperous
Germany on the ono hand and weak and
dccaying France on the other, whereas the
truth is, as VIC have shown by the official
figures, and rs no one has dared to deny,
that prosperous Germany has long had Il
tariff not exceeding 10 per cent, while
weak and dccaying Franco has a tariff
averaging nearly or quite 20 per cent, and
until a very few years ago not less than
double the latter rate. : = Among
those who totally disbclicvc that tariffs for
the purpose of protection are benefit to
any country arc many men universally
recognized as among the clcarcst thinkers,
tho most eminent philosophers and the
purcst philanthropists Of England, France,
Germany and this country.
Tho Salt Monopoly.
Editor Gcists Express, Jan. IL, 1871.
These salt manufacturers, however,
arc rich and influential, and by forming u
ring in combination with those who de-
mand 4 high tariff on other manufactures
they have been enabled thus to obtain 4
rate of duty as advantageous to them
selves as it is oppressive to the whole
community.
Protective Nations Importing Iron.
Editor Gcist's Express, Jan. q, 1871.
Thus the United States and Russia,
the two countries where the highest pro-
tectivc tariffs arc in force, import from Great
Britain nearly tllrcc-fourths of all the iron
that is exported beyond the British do
minions while countries like Prussia and
France, where the duties arc very low in
comparison, import scarcely any British iron
at all. The figures thus given furnish the
strongest confederation Of the opinion that
our high tariff system cannot and does
not give us the command of our own
market, and that it ctfectually prevents us
from competing successfully with England
in the common markets of the world.
STATE ITEMS.
Speaker Randall, cx-Mayor Fox and
others addressed a large Democratic mass
meeting last evening at Eleventh and
Fitzwater streets, Philadelphia.