The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-10-26

| is? 1t aims to bring into the hands of
Mr.. Hubbell and his committee about
| $2,000,000, all avOwedly to be used in
influencing the elections of the country.
Can anything be more degrading to the
| public service, or more c0rruptlng 10
| honorable politics? The too free use OF
money in politics is to be greatly regret
| ted, but 1t is harmless when voluntarily
| contributed by those who hold no offices
| and who simply wish to forward correct
| principles of government through the
party to which they belong. L believe L
| always send my own check for mOder-
| ate sum to those who disburse it care
fully, and where it will do the Demo-
cratic party, and therefore the cause of
the country good, but, when 1t comes to
a party in power which controls ap-
pOintments TO and removals from office,
| rObbing the servants of the people of
what by right belongs to them and their
| families, it is a spectacle which should
make the people rise in their might and
overthrow the system. You can help DO
| this best and quickest by voting for the
return of Democrat to Congress from
| this District. Civil Service Reform real
] ly means the placing of all employees of
| the Government upon the same footing
| they occupy in private business, and the
tenure of Office should depend upon
! faithfulness and capacity, and not upon
politics, and every clerk in depart
ment at Washington should be as sure
! of his place, so long as he does his duty,
as am of mine. IL this way the people
will have the best service at the least
cost, which is the g eat end to be
reached by our Civil Service, and when
this reform Is brought about, such high
waymen as Mr.. Hubbell and the Con
gressmen who aid and abet him, will be
walked off to Jail as promptly as com
mon thieves are in we'll regulated So
cieties.
THE TARIFF.
We now come to the great question in
An -erican politics question which,
for the next few years, will divide par
ties and be the principal bone of cOnten-
tiOn between them, and as you may
readily conclude, it is question which
involves the interest of every man, WO-
man and child in the entire country.
The TARIFF QUESTION is interesting in
all its aspects and all its details, and is
perhaps less understood to-day by the
people than almost any other question
before them. Upon the attitude of the
Democratic party is the only one which
cOmmends itself to the honest, the toll
ing, the educated, the thinking. the con-
suming, as well as to all the fair mind
ed producing elements in American so
ciety. No man who wants equal rights |
and honest taxation can long remain |
opposed to the Democratic party after |
the tariff question becomes, as 1t Is to- |
day, the great issue between the loose |
Construction Republican and the strict !
Construction Democratic party. We |
favor a tariff for revenue only; first, be-
cause it is the only just tariff, and we
ask that every step upon the part of the
Govern ment from this day on shall be
backward until this basis is reached.
We do not demand an instant return to
a constitutional tariff, and we do not
ask that all taxes which rob the con-
sumner and the public treasury for the
benefit Of the producer shall be taken off
all at once, but that such taxes shall be
gradually, but surely and certainly
lightened, and Americans freed from the
intOlerable yoke they now carry. The
tariff question is so important that /
know you will not object to my giving
half hour or so of your valuable time
to it, and if l am little more dull than
usual, it will be because it is a ques-
tiOn which requires close reasoning and
careful proofs. What is tariff? As all
men know, many things which we eat,
wear, have in our houses and use in
manufacturing, are not produced in |
the United States, but imported from
other countries. A tax levied upon such
imports and collected through our Gus
tom houses is a tariff, and the tax so
collected is called revenue, jus. as the
system of taxes upon whisky, tOba Geo.
matches, bank checks, &c, is called our
Internal Revenue system. Such tariff
as have just described is constitutional
and just, as every dollar arising from it
in any way goes to the Treasury at
Washington, and is from there eXpend-
ed for the purposes Of the Government.
This is the kind of a tariff which the
Democratic party is to-day and always
has been in favor of. A sO-callei pro-
tective tariff is horse of very differ
ent color and is such a tax upon the
consumer as is not contemplated by the
constitution OF supported by justice or
good sense. So repugnant is this sys-
tenn to the people, that it is only by an
unhOly alliance between prOtectiOnists
and the Government, that it can be
maintained for an hour and so long as
it is maintained it rObs one set of citi-
zens and gives their property to another
set in no entitled to it, and without any
consideration whatever.
Let us see how it is brought about.
Suppose you can buy piece of French
cloth in New York at say 81 per yard.
after paying the Government a tariff |
tax of say 40 cents per yard, which 40
cents goes into the public treasury. The
pTOtectiOnists make a cloth in this
country, let us suppose, or equal excel
lenee, but by the time he pays the
farmer the market price for his wool |
and his hands the same wages they can |
earn everywhere else, he cannot pro-
duce his goods so as to sell them as less |
than So per yard, and now, instead of |
taking his men and his capital and en-
plOying both in some profitable busi-
ness, he asks that the tariff on the
French cloth shall be made, say So per
yard instead of 40 cents, which will en-.
able him to sell his cloth at $3.50 in
stead of 81, and thus give him control
of this market and excluding the
French cloth. as the French cloth would
now cost $3.50 instead of 81, and every
consumer now pays $1.50 per yard more
than before, which the American pro-
tectiOnist robs him of by the aid of the
Government, and of course, as the |
French. cloth is no longer impyrted, the |
Government also loses the revenue tax |
of 40 cents yard, so that the American |
manufacturer is thus enabled to kill |
two birds with one stone, so to speak, |
for he not only rObs his neighbOr, but |
steals from the public treasury at the |
same time.
This illustration explains why you see |