News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-11
Talk About the Tariff,

helps you silk workers." said a man
on a Jersey City ferry-boat, "but I
am a carpenter, and my father and
brother are farmers, and l don't see
how it helps u.s."
"Where is your fathers farm near
Patterson, isn't it,"
Eyes, they send the stuff from the
farm into Patterson"
DO you think it does not help
them to have more people in Patter-
son to buy and eat their stuff? OF
course it must, and they must get bet
ter prices for farm products than they
did twenty years ago"
Eyes, they do; but is not that so
all over the country"
| "Wherever manufacturers have
built up country towns where there
were none, or cities where there were
small towns, the farmers get better
prices than they used to get. But
that is not all. How many men at
work in the factories in Patterson
used to be at work on farms, do you
think? A great many, l know. II
your brother had all those men 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 those men in Patter-
son out of the mills and shops and
they would have to find work at some
think. What wages could you get
then as a carpenter?"
81 can see that point; but what
has the tariff done to change the num-
Der of people at work in the factories
and mills of Patterson"
''Only this. 1t has made it posi-
BILE to manufacture great many
things without loss, which could not
be made in this country without loss
before the duty was put on. When
you Democrats went out ofpower in go
we did not make yard Of silk cloth
in the country, and we paid $34 ,000,-
900 for silk goods from Europe. Now
we produce about $44, 100000 worth
of silk goods and have over $4,000
persons at work in Patterson alone
making such goods. They earn over
100000 a year, and spend most of
it for things produced right here by
our own farmers and mechanics 2"
After this fashion the great debate
goes on to-day, in every part of the
republic. There is not a corner of
this great country where the men who
work, in whatever occupation, have
not direct personal interest in up
holding the system which secures fair
returns to those who work. When
ever the discussion springs up, it al
ways goes against the Democrats,
because they have been going against
the interests of the voters. In Pas
sale county, which includes Patterson,
the majority for Mr.. Lincoln twenty
years ago was only 1913, and this at
the very crisis of the war, when De-
mocracy meant peace at any price.
In 1880 the same county gave 1880
majority for Garfield, and men who
know it we'll say it will not rest with
any such figure this year.
1t is not strange that the men of
northern States see that their interest
lies in voting against the free-trade
Democracy. The only wonder is, that
in any northern State the result
should ever be at all doubtful. 1t
would not be if the Democratic party
did not lie so persistently about its in
tentions. Every year that party pre-
tends to have some great moral "re-
form" on hand, so that it is obliged
to sink its opinions ON the tariff ques-
ton. 1t was Tilden and Reform in
1876, and Hancock and Reform in
1880, the reform meaning cipher dis
patches in 1876 and the Morey for
gerry four years ago. But as soon as
that party has control of the House
it always begins a desperate effort to
tear down the tariff, just as it did last
winter. Then, when defeated by the
self interest of about a fifty of the
Democratic members and the solid
resistance of the Republicans, it con-
cocts some new trick of words to
cheat the people, puts up a candidate
selected because he knows nothing
and has done nothing, raises its shout
for "Cleveland and Reform" and sets
all its most INSCRIPTIONS scoundrels
to manage its "Reform" campaign.
But the pretences are thinner this
year than usual. The British free
trade journals, and the free-trade
Pharasees who have bolted, have
helped wonderfully to make the peo-
pie understand the situation.-N. Y.
Tribune.