The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-08-01

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ening labor, and with increased pros
| perity for the whole country"
Now what puzzles me here is, how the
| domestic competition enables the car
riage manufacturer to sell his goods
| abrOadI l cannot understand how a do
nestle manufactures is forced to sell
| his goods at a smaller profit, and those
goods are cheapened at home and abroad.
Where is abroad, Judge FOrakerP That
means out of the United States, don't itP
! And goods sold out of the United States
| comes into competition with the pauper
/ labor of Europe, don't theyP Now, if
goods made in the United States can sue
| cessfully compete with the product of
the pauper labor of Europe, what is the
sense of the tariff You don't want to
build up "a Chinese wall to keep the
goods from going abroad, do you? And
II they can compete abroad with the
pauper labor of Europe, why can they
not at home as we'll? Considering that
the pauper labor of Europe has to pay
transportation this way to come into
competition with our goods, and our
goods have to pay transportation that
way to get into competition with the
product of the pauper labor of Europe?
Is there any answer to this, Judge For
aker? Have we admitted your premises,
namely: that goods made in Cincinnati
can be successfully sold abroad? Then,
again, my distinguished adversary criti-
cised little speech l made at Toledo,
Ohio, i'll which | cOntTasted the lack of
energy l found at the ancient Toledo in
Spain, with the multiplied evidences of
activity which were i'll sight at every
corner in Toledo on the Maumee. | be-
lleVed, and still believe, this contrast is
the result of so much of the freedom
which, under the JeffeTsOnian system,
every man ought to have, as our legisla-
tiOn has permitted to the citizens of To-
ledO, and that Toledo in Spain, all Spain
for that matter, is dead by reason of the
absOlutism that has crushed out the en-
ergies of the people. Does not Judge
Foraker know that Spain is one of the
most highly protected countries in the
WOrldP That the protective tariff is ter
riticP On his theory Toledo on the Ia
gus ought to be more prosperous than
Toledo on the Maumee, for it is more
highly protected. But, except certain
mOnOpOlies of necessary articles, the
gentleman ought to know that manu-
facturers don't flourish in Spain, not
withstanding protection.
The most remarkable part of this very
eloquent address of my distinguished ad
verSary, is to be found in his description
of the character of our fight. The
whole union (says Judge FOraker) is
watching the fight in which we are en-
gagged, and this interest is due to the
fact that the whole union is to be af-
fected by the result. If Ohio goes against
us in October, the future administrative
policy of the country is unsettled for a
year to come with the dangerous men
ace hanging over us of an absolute
change to follow" What an awful cri-
| sisl A sort of political cholera is coming,
and the undertakers will have to be call
ed upon to bury millions of the dead !
Still, my friends, don't think it neces-
sary to break for the cellar yet. The
earthquake won't come off for three
years yet, unless Judge Foraker says
correctly, that the administrative poll
icy will be changed if Ohio goes Demo-
cratic.
Now, by the administrative policy l
understand the policy of the executive
department. Does he mean Arthur is
going to join the Democrats if Foraker
| is defeated for Governor? If so, God
| help the Democratic paTtyl Unless John
| Sherman and Hayes lied about Arthur
when they kicked him out of Office
kicked him out with dude shoe, the
\ toe turned up so that they kicked him
up into the Presidency. You know Ar
thur was summarily dismissed from the
Office OF collector OF New York; was not
fit to be a tide waiter in the eyes of John
Sherman and Hayes, and now he is
President. Now, Arthur will stay in
Office until March 4, 1885. The present
Senate is Republican. The next House
can do no legislation without the con-
sent of Arthur and the Senate, and Ar
thur can block any legislation unless it
is cOncuTred in by two thirds vote, as
long as he sits in the Presidential chair.
The next President will not take his
seat until the 4th of March, 1855. The
first Senate and House of repre-
sentatiVes under his administration will
not meet until December, 1855. They
can inauguTate no tariff revision and
carry II to completion until at least the
spring Of 1886. The earthquake will be
three years coming; don't run down in
the cellar just yet; keep the family in
the parlOT; there are no signs of huTTi-
cane on the tariff question; the sky is
serene; it is not the real crisis. 1t is a
sham crisis. The Judge (FOraker) still
goes on insisting on the crisis. what
must be the consequence of such re-
suit? The incoming of the next Con
gress is attended by the threat that
there is to be revision of the tariff
laws in the interest of free trade, and
| need not tell you people who live in
this thriving manufacturing city of the
effect this has already produced. Capt.
tai is sensitive, it shrinks from the very
opportunity of danger. 1t always was
so. 1t always will be so. 1t is shrink
ing away. 1t has been shrinking away
from the moment the present political
situation was manifested to the cOun-
try. 1t will continue to shrink until we
are relieved from it," Now my friend,
there is no doubt about one thing, and
that is that the capital f the United
States has been very largely invested
for the past four or five years with un-
productive enterprises, in Northern
| Pacific Railroad stocks and bonds, in
in Canadian Pacific Railroad stocks and
bonds, in Denver & Rio Grande Railway
stocks and bonds, in Nickel Plate, in
Mexican land grants and orange groves,
and thousand other things that are
not furnishing us anything in return.
We have Overinvested, and we must
wait and catch up. But the tariff has
had nothing to do with it. 1t is the
tariff legislation inaugurated and
carried to a successful result by the Re-
publican party through the tariff com
mission and its recent Congress. L don't
| believe there is sane mind in the
United States outside of the charmed cir
Gle of Republican politicians who watch
| the destinies of the State of Ohio, in
sisting that Governor Foster, Judge
Foraker, and the State Republican Exc