The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-29
TALK ABOUT THE TARIFF.
How the Great Popular Debate Is Progress
ing All Over the Country.

How the Great Popular Debate Is Progress
ing All Over the Country.
New York Tribune.
II don't object TO the tariff if it helps you
siIk-workers said man on a Jersey City ferry
boat tbut am carpenter, and my father and
brother are farmers, and | don't see how it
helps us
where is your fathers farml Near Paterson,
su't ita'
eyes, They send the stuff from the farm into
Paterson"
ssDe you think it does not help them to have
more people in Paterson to buy and eat their
stuff OF course it must, and they must get
better prices for farm products than they did
twenty years ago
,s'Yes they do But is not that SO all over the
country21
wherever manufactures have built up coun-
try towns where there we're none, or cities
where there were small towns, the farmers get
better prices than they used to get. But this is
not all. How many men at work in the factories
in Paterson used to be at work on farms, do you
Think "A great many / know If your brother
had all those in the way to compete for every
odd job he would not get as good wages as he
does when he goes out to work by the day. Turn
all these men in Paterson out of the mills and
thing. What wages could you get then, as ear
n can see that point; but what has the tariff
done to change the number of people at work in
the factories and mills of Paterson
ssOnly this: it has made it possible to manu-
f6ethfe treat many things without loss which
could made in this country without loss
Fss - the duty was put on. When you Demo
Gratis went out Of power in 1850 we did not make
ayard of silk cloth in the country, and we paid
$34s 0O0. 900 for silk goods from Europe Now
we produce about 81, 900 600 worth of silk goods
and have over Il. 900 persons at work in Pater-
son alone making such goods. They earn over
$4 600 900 ayear, and spend most of it for things
produced right here by our own farmers and
mechanics. Paterson had less than q, 900 peo-
pie when you Democrats went out of power; now
it has over $1,000 Do You think that makes no
difference to farmers and mechanical
After this fashion the great debate goes on to-
day, in every part Of the Republic. There is not
corner Of this great country where the men
who work, in whatever occupation, have not
lirect personal interest in upholding the system
which secures fair returns to those who work.
Whenever the discussion springs up, It always
uoes against the Democrats, because they have
been going against the interests Of the voters.
In Passaic connty, which includes Paterson, the
majority for Mr. Lincoln twenty years ago WAS
only 1863 and this at the very crisis Of the war,
when Democracy meant peace at any price. In
1880 the same county gave ], 300 majority for
Garfield. and men who know it well coy It will
not rest with any such figure this Ycar
It is not strange that the men Of Northern
States see that their interest lies in voting
against the freetrade Democracy. The only
wonder Is that in any Northern State the
result ahould ever be at all doubtful. Il
would not be If the Democratic party did
not lie 30 persistently about IT, intentions.
Every year that party ppetcnds to have some
great moral reform On had 50 that it is