The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-10-28

our coal DHuH anu WhloI pOWoI give
their forces tolyour varied mechanism
aad is product. Your indus ries do not
depend on a tariff for protection q sake"
You had that same tariff in 1878. and
where were you thenP Take iron. Is
the iron used in the pigP Are all it's in
terests burned up in the forget Are
they alone to be protected from 48 to
ll8 per cent? Must those who buy iron
and seel for a hundred purposes be
taxed for the benefit of fewP From
needle to an anvil, from trace chain to
an ak, from a railroad to bui ding lit
is to the interest of the masses to have
iron and steel at the reasonable prices
which revenue tariff provides. The
farmers of Muskingum and Ohio are not
IDIOTS, that they should copy the econo-
mics which destroy in Maine; nor are
manufacturers such nies they do not
know their SUCCESS depends as well on a
permanent revenue tariff, and on the
product of the farm and the sale of it's
product abroad in an enlarged market
Do they not know all these interests are
bound together; that to get $4,000 600 in
the Treasury, at least double that amount
is added by high protection to the
price OF every article made abroad, and
which comes into competition with our
ownP Must they not pay the average
tariff on all these articles of 423 per cent
in its enhanced costP In old Wing days
the widest proteCtionist was content
with 25 per cent, and the Walker tariff
of 1846, which gave us go much prosper
ity-by the reciprocity with England
when she repealed the Corn laws to let
in our grain-was only little more than
10 per cent.
Are not the protectionists who forget
revenue too greedy The wisdom of our
fathers which liberaized trade between
the states has allowed your tiles to 20
free from ZAnesville to decorate the cap
itol at Albany. The clay of this county
is fashioned and sent to finish the Gus.
tom house in Chicago, without any tax
save the extra cost of trdDsportion, fore
ed by the tariff on steel and iron rails
and locomotives. What would you think
of New York and Illinois If it were pro
posed to restrict the market for your TILES
by high protective tariffsP You make
soap here in q .nesville. Soap is civil.
izer. Laughter. Some one has said,
Let me make the songs of the people,
and / care not who make the laws"
say, let me make soap for the people,
and make it cheap, and cleanliness and
| godliness with not wax old as garment.
Yet, while you may make and sell your
soap ithout tariff protection in all the
states; yet, when you send II to France
you can not get itin 1t is prohibited;
absolutely shut out. Scent it ever 80
sweetly, stamp it ever 80 Cleverly-the
high protective tariff If France answer.
ing ours in retaiiation-makes soap dear
to France, by crushing out its importance
from your city and country. This is a
fact, for it was tried by one of your man-
ufactoIies. 1t is not alone the case with
soap, as our people will find out sooner
or la.er to their dismay, Senator Blaine
had better go home and revive his own
industries, before desecrating my birth
day aud birth place with his destructive
heresies. There is paper. Y III make it
here abundautly. My father built the
first mill here west of the Alleghanies,
l understand the paper business, But
you have to contend with some patents
owned by Republican members of Con.
gress, who vote high tariffs to keep up
the monopoly. These big mills grind up
wood into pulp, and ought to sell paper
reasonably, but the papers combined
this year, and put up the price all over
the country. Printing paper ran up to
8 cents a pound. Who groaned thenP
The booksellers and newspapers. eve
can't live if you don't reduce the tariff
on pulp and paper" Your Republican
paper here, the Courier, sent on petit
tion asking relief for its advertisers, its
subscribers and itself. Did the editor
get it2 Mol Why? Gen. Garfield wo'd
not allow it; and yet he goes on camor.
ing for protection for everything except
printing paper, and for Garf4 4ld in the
same breath. Oh, when the tariff tou
ches these gent ,emen in the raw, how
they squirm; but when it touches the
great mass, they are clamorous for more
protective distress, from the same pro,
Creant source of disaster
Would you believe it-these protec
tionists who dwell on one word IN N.Y.
-"for revenue only"-would make tar
i'll 80 high as to prohibit impor tation, sc
that neither revenue nor protection, as
its companion, result. Nova Scotia raj
ses potatoe So does Maine. Maine
says: I'VE want potatoes dear to helr
our farmers" So they put duty of q
per cent on each bushel of that esCulent
and over a hundred on the salt that goel
with them, and then come dear potatoes
and salt, and no revenue! This is Maine
protection for Irishmen. Laughter. 1
is as senseless as it is of revenue or trade
NO ABSOLUTE FREE TRADE.
Yet these sophists pretend that Dem
ocrats favor absolute free trade, 1t il
not in our platform nor our policy. Fret
trade and revenue are at outs, they dc
not hitch. Revenue must have a tariff
No one argues for direct taxation. The
Democratic platform and practice are ex
pliciC on this point. Nobody proposes
to abolish the tariff. The proposition il
to make it tariff for revenue, so as tC
support the Government, and at the
same time give that protection to the
product of our industry which such sup
port as duties on articles which compete
with our home production will furnish
The Republicans, reckless of revenue
want protection to few pet industries
not for revenues only, but that the body
of the people shall pay tribute to the few
This policy is dangerous and changeful
The great interest in this country il
not iron nor coal nor cotton fabrics. /
is from that endless factory, in which
sun, rain and soil, and the ceaselest
round of seasons, under human industry
ply their shuttles, weaving the splendiC
fabric of our general welfare; how insig
nif3ant are all the products of our fac
tories which run by water and it's vapor
compared with the immense laboratory
in which our cattle, corn, cotton &C., arr