The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-09-08
HIGH TAXES AND DEPRESSED IN
DUSrRIES.

The United States has been pointed to
by the Tories as the land of promise, the
country whose statesmen should become
| the guide to the rest of mankind. She
has revived old and exploded theories of
political economy. She has carried the
system of protection to an extent that,
If there was any virtue in it, it certain
ly would have been exhibited. The
United States enjoys very great advan-
tages over most other countries. She
has almost every variety of climate, and
an almost unlimited area for the expan-
sion of her agricultural population, and
the result is, that her skilled Industries
have been wholly unable to avail them
selves of the markets of the world. Dur
ing the past forty years the English
haYe added 80 per cent to their pOpula-
tiOn, pauperism has been reduced 60 per
cent. and the number of criminals by
more than go per cent. The wages of
mechanics have very nearly doubled
their purchasing power since the repeal
of the corn laws. In the United States
the increase of population in the older
states Is small; the number is not much
greater than it was thirty years agO,and
there has been no improvement in the
condition of operatives and mocha Gics
at all, corresponding to the improve
ment which has taken place in the Uni
speaking of the state of the country, says: :
THE great business boom started in
the spring of 1880. The bank clearings
then began to pile higher and higher,
until one week early in the year 1881
they reached nearly 81 $1,8O0,OOO,000. This
morning the Tribune records the small
est weeks business, as gauged by the
clearings since the nomination of Gar
field. One year ago the exchanges at
n NrnsNr ait uN ngWa . -
the total for the whole country last
week. Two years and half ago New
York city exceeded the total for all the
cities last week by $50O,OO0,000. Twen-
ty eight clearing houses during the last
seven days exhibited exchanges amOun-
ting to only 1896, sos, ,222. The shrink
age, however, represented in the differ
ence between eight and eighteen has
largely been effected in that branch of
commerce purely speculative. Business
outside of New York city has not suffer
ed prOpOrtiOnally with trade at the me-
trOpOlis."
We would like the advocates Of high
taxes to explain why it is the people of
the neighbOriDg Republic find industry
so poorly rewarded and trade so dull at
the present moment. How is it their
panacea for all industrial ills is work
ing 80 unsatisfactory across the bor-
uer, ana seems TO ne working quite as
badly here? Have Sir Leonard Tilley
and his colleagues become flies on the
wheelP Are they helpless to grant re-
lief? How is it that their confident
promises remain unfuffilledP How is it
everything has fallen except the amount
of salaries they draw from the public
treasury? rotten and fraudulent sys-
tenn is breaking down under the eyes of
the people. The men who at the mo-
ment of the revival of trade were boast
ing of what they had accomplished for
the country, and were arTOgating to
themselves the authorship of blessings
bestowed by benefcent Creator, are
now shrinking to their just proportions.
The bOasting is laid aside, and as the
storm approaches they are seeking to
turn aside the public observations from
their falsi6ed predictions and unre-
deemed prOmises.-HamiltOn (Canada)
Advertiser.