The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1884-10-30

injuring the glorious cause of free trade
among American voters. Latterly the
English press has had but little to say on
the election. Unfortunately for the Dem
ocrats, citizens of England cannot vote
in the United States. If they could, there
would be no doubt of Mr.. Cleveland's sue
cess The vote of England would be
more solid for him than that of the Solid
South.
The Democratic party is depending for
success on the Solid South and on the
great cities in the North, some of which,
ed as an American city, because OF its
large foreign element. Every nationali-
ty upon earth is to be found there.
The South as section, has favored free
trade, for so years. Should the Demo-
cratic party be successful, that section
will dominate and dictate the policy of
the party. as it has always done.
know that it is claimed by the Democ-
racy that protection does not protect
that the difference between European
and American wages is more apparent
than real-that the excess of wages re-
ceived here is lost to the workman in the
excessive prices which he has to pay, be-
cause of protection, for everything which
he consumes. Now this is not true, and
those of you who have come from abroad
know that it is not. The principal ex-
pense of the maintenance of a family is
for food, which is much cheaper here than
in foreign lands, and wearing apparel can
be bought in the United States about as
cheaply as abroad and it can be bought
to-day, right here in GAINESVILLE. 25 per
cent cheaper than it could be bought in
good old Democratic times from 1850 to
1860.
Then the present hard times are point
ed to as proof that our protection theory
is unsound. Well the times would be a
great deal harder than they are but for
the protective tariff. Remove that and
our people will find out what hard times
really are.
Hard times come at intervals under all
systems of finance and trade. and in all
countries. Good times and hard times
come and go, like the ebb and flow of the
tides, and the wit of man has devised no
universal panacea to prevent the trade
tide from going out. after it has come in.
If free universal trade be the panacea for
all our financial ills, how does it come
that in free trade England about one-half
of all the iron works are now cold and 81
lent, the shipbuilding trade stagnant and
lifeless, commercial distress prevalent,
and the working classes sorely tried?
England produces cheap goods, made so
by her cheap labor. She can send them
to all lands, Why are the English people
not now prosperousY They should be
SO W GuC 1IG6 UIdu0
Apostles.
If they could have control of the Unit
ed States market in addition those they
now have, it would undoubtedly make
better times in England, but we are not
now proposing to legislate for them, eX-
cept to put a barrier around our ports,
which shall compel them to pay good
stiff duty on their goods-When brought
into this countrY-duty enough to enable
the American manufacturer producing
like goods, to pay his workmen such wag-
es as will permit them to have all of the |
of life and many of the luXu-
ries, and uot be compelled to live in squal- |
or and misery like the workmen in for
eign lands.
All classes are interested in the main
tenance of protective sariff, as I could |
show yon # l had the time, but no class
is so Uttdzly interested as workingmen.
With the tariff broken down, down would |
go your wages. No power on earth could |
prevent this. The manufacturers could |
pay no more for work than the prices |
they obtained for their goods would JUS J
tlfy., IT they attempted to &c so. thew
would soon reach a point where they |
t,o t,G bankrupt.
1t has been frequently stated that only
manufacturers and capitalists, usually |
dubbed monopolists for short, by the |
Democratic party, are interested in the |
of tariff. I want to say |
in all sincerity that foreign rates of wag-
es being assured to American manufac- |
turers, they can make goods as cheaply as |
they can be made on this green earth
They have equal it not superior natural |
advantages, as good plants of machinery
as can be found in the world, and invent
i've taleat and skill second to that of no |
other people Whenever American me-
chanicS are willing to work for the for
eign scale of wages, so far as the Ameri- |
can manufacturer is concerned, the tariff |
might all come off, His home market |
cause less wages would mean lessened |
of goods, but he could then
send his wares to other countries in COM
petition with England.
But the American manufacturer does
not believe this the best policy for either
him or his workmeD. He asks protection
not for himself, not for his men exclu-
sively, but for farmers, tradesmen and all
classes as well, whose material interests
are indissolubly linked together and best
promoted by thorough and well digest
ed system of protection.
Such system the Republican party es-
5ablished % years ago, and it has stood
behind it through good times and hard
times, and defended it from the oft re-
pedteu ASSAULTS OIL Un6 D6mOcraC1C party,
and during the time named, we have had
an era of unparalleled prosperity. Do
you want to change and try some other
system? Then you should vote the Dem
ocratic ticket, for if that party gets into
power, there will be sufficient changes
and crude experiments enough tried, to
satisfy the most restless and the worst
soured individual in the land.
Supposing the Democratic party carries
Ohio in October, and the Nation in No
The President will take his
seat next March, and the Congress elect |
ed with him will meet on the first Mon |
day in December, 1884, and we shall have |
to wait until December, 1885, to find out
just what the Democratic party proposes
the finances and the material interests of |
the Nation. This would be a good while |
to wait in suspense. What is to become |
of the business of the country mean |
while? The bare apprehension that this |
uncertain quantity known as the Demo |
cratic party, may come into power, has |
already had a pernicious effect on busi-
ness. l will give you single instance.
The largest single customer of this |
mill and one who has been it's patron |
without a break or intermission for more !
than ten years, when solicited by our
two months ago, to book an Or
der for his seasons iron, declined to make |
any engagement. giving as his reason that |
in the event of Cleveland's election to the |
Presidency, he should not want any iron,
as he would not in that case make a ma
chine. His shop is not running; when |
running it gives employment to 900 men.
Hitherto we have received very generous |
orders from him in August, and which |
came regularly monthly thereafter until |
his season was over. This year we have |
not, to this date, had single order from |
him, and you, ironworkers, have conse- |
quently that much less work.
What kind of a party must this Demo- |
cratic party be anyway, when the bare |
possibility that it may come into power
so paralyzes business? 1 leave that CO.
with you.
On the contrary, should my friend Gen. |
Robinson carry Ohio on next Tuesday, |