The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-04-22
THE TARIFF QUESTION AND THE
CHINESE QUESTION.

tariff organ, Oh the plea of intense
for the American laboring
man. To show the utter falsity OF it's
pretensions, we need only state that 1t
ia Chinese organ and it's party is the
Chinese party. The Republican leaders
are favorable to the introduction oil Chl'
nese cooley slave labor in this country,
a system calculated to break down and
enslave the American laboring man.
In proof of the above we refer to the
Record of Congress, when these profess
ed friends of American labor" voted
against restricting Chinese immigration,
and the bill having passed Congress, Mr.,
Hayes vetoed it. Congressman McKin'
lev was one of the members who voted
for the Chinese.
The Free Press and other radical Chi
nese papers are fond of assailiDg the
Stark Co. DEMOCRAT as "free trade or
gan" and the former talks Of our put
ting spear of iron through the labor
interests of this district"
In the first place let us say, that the
Democratic position is ours, and that is
for tariff arranged and adjusted with a
a view to revenue that is, to put money
into the treasury of the Government, in
order "to pay the debts, provide for the
common defence and promote the gem
eral welfare The Constitution allows
of taxation for no other purposes. This
instrument does not say: Congress
shall have power to lay and collect tax
es, duties, imposts and excuses to favor
monopoly, and put money into the pock'
cts of favored few"
The Constitution does say, that Con,
gress shall have power to lay and collect
taxes for the purpose of raising money
to pay the debts, provide for the COM
mon defence, and promote the general
welfare.
Tariff taxation, then, imposed upon
the entire people, is only Constitution
ally and lawfully imposed, when the OBJ
j&ct is to put money into the common
treasury of the General Government.
When the main object is to put money
into the pockets of a few, it is unconsti'
tutional and unjust, for it is IMPLY rob-
bing the people to benefit a privileged
few.
The real sufferers in all these schemes
are the laboring men and men engaged
in honest business. This system of in
iquity invariably works out iniquitous
results. 1t cannot be otherwise. Wrong
begets wrong. A bad tree can not bear
good fruit 1t is not in the nature ofthings.
Right and justice, on the other hand,
harm no one. The founders of thisgov.
ernment designed that all persons should
be equal before the law, and have equal
rights and privileges. Nothing else is
right naught else is safe.
Garry out in practice this principle Of
Justice and equal rights, and general
prosperity is the result, result desira-
BILE for the country, and best for the cit.
izen. The general good is each individ-
ual's good.
The Chinese system, at this time, is
the alarming symptom. 1t is this that
is likely to put spear of iron through
the labor interests of this district" and
this country, Let our laboring men look
this matter fully and fairly in the face.
The cooley slave system of China has
already strong foothold in this count.
ry. 1t appeals to the selfshness ard Gu
pidity of capital. The Mckinley organs
defend the system-and approve Of the
vote of the Major, and the veto of Mr.,
Hayes. Let the laboring men remem
ber, and beware of such friends. They
are wolves in sleeps clothing opposed
to even handed justice, and are the friends
and instruments of grasping monopoly.
The paper monopoly illustrates the
whole question. The great newspaper
and job printing business, as well as the
people generally, are robbed more or
less by this huge paper monopoly,
Thousands are plundered that one man
or so may reap enormous profits. What
right has Government to establish and
maintain such condition of things? This
is the work of the Republican party.
This party favors in this way privileg.
ed class. Congressman Mckinley is one
oftheir little but willing instruments; AMI
his organs extol him as a great man
The tools of monopoly, frauds though
they be, are ever eXtolled and bespat.
tered with praise by the servile organs
of the wrong,
But let us illustrate. A couple of
years ago a lumber man in Michigan cut
the wages he was paying his workmen
down, from 81 50 to$l day, saying ifthey
did not submit, he could get laborers
from Canada, just across the river, who
would be glad to work for him. One in.
dependent fellow told him he might get
his men from Canada, as he could not
maintain his family for such wages.
The man from Canada was got and the
American citizen WAS discharged.
The discharged American, wishing to
be busy, determined to build a house,
and went to his former employer to buy
lumber. Prices were given him, when
he SAID "Why, l can go across the river
into Canada, and buy it for one third
less"
Employer-"Yes, but before you could