The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-31
POLITICAL INTERVIEWS.
Z. F. Ritter for Blaine-Why n. II. Clarke Is
for Standardization in Germany.

A reporter of the Journal met Col. Eli F.
Ritter yesterday and put the question to him,
who are you going to vote for for PRESIDENT
II have no hesitation" said Mr.. Ritter, lin
saying that 1 shall vote Blaine and Logan. l
have said 80 publicly in several speeches. I shall
also vote for Stanton j. Peelle for Congress in
this district"
why do you favor the election of Blaine and
Loganl"
Because I believe the moral and Christian
men of this Nation should do nothing that would
in way assist in the election of a man like Grover
Cleveland. l have great admiration for Gen
eral Logan, as well as a high regard for Mr..
Blaine, but the reason that I have given is all
sufficient to determine my vote on the presi-
dental question"
NATHAN H. CLARK o CALKINs.
Meeting Mr.. E: B. Reynolds, the well-kuown
temperance man, yesterday, Journal reporter
held a brief talk with him on current political
questions. 'tBy the way" said Mr.. Reynolds,
II had a talk this morning with Nathan H.
Clarke, the Quaker preacher, a prominent Friend
of Westfeld, Hamilton county, and our converse
ton turnedo on the candidates for Governor, of the
Republican and Democratic parties in Indiana.
! said to him frankly that while l did not recog-
nize Mr.. Calkins as a temperance man in the
strict sense of the word, that is, as a total alb
stainer, that l did not believe there was a parti-
Gle of truth in the stories so industriously circu-
lated about his drinking habits: | told him the
question presented itself this way: 1T was
either Calkins or Gray for Governor Of Indiana;
that the Republican platform favored a consti-
tutional convention in which we could get the
chance to vote We have so long asked. and in
that party we had always met fair consideration.
On the other hand, Gray stands with a party and
upon a platform that plainly tells us we shall
have nothing. Mr.. Clarke said he viewed it in
that light himself. In whose hands then should
our trust and strength be placed, | asked. To
which Mr.. Clarke ans wered certainly in the hands
of Calkins and the Republican party"
FREE TRADE AND PROTECTION IN MAN
II have visited Germany eight times within
the past few years" said Mr.. Fehr, one of the
proprietors of the Spencer House, to a reporter,
'iand have seen that country both under free
trade surroundings and under the present sys-
tenn of self protection that now prevails"
Mr.. Fsehr returned from his last visit to Ger
many on Wednesday of last week. The reporter
encouraged him to talk.
81 can give you no figures by way of compar-
ing the condition of workingmen under free
trade and under protection, and can only speak
generally, but it is an acknowledged fact that
the German workingman, under the protective
system that now prevails, is much better off than
he was prior to its adoption. His wages are
greater and he lives better. This encourage
ment co labor has opened new industries.
Goods are now made in Germany that
heretofore came from France, and not only
are they now made and sold cheaper in Ger
many than they were sold by France, but their
manufacture gives employment to many work
men who either would not make them at all or
would be making them in France" Here, con
tinued Mr.. Fehr, ''are some articles l bought in
Frankforton the-Main." He showed a beautiful
bronze inkstand, a chatelaiDe of antique design,
and other al ticles. A these things" said he,
were made in France a few years ago, and not
made in Germany at all. They We're imported
into Germany and sold higher than they now do.
This pocket-book, for instance, cost only 1925,
l am told that exactly the same thing made in
France was, prior to the awakening of this in
industry in Germany, fostered and encouraged
by protection, sold at s.. l do not pretend to
say there is no depression in Germany, for there
is in several branches of induf ", notably in
large iron interests; but the country generally is
in better condition than it would be land than
it was) under free trade. The workman is not
only better fed now, but he is better clothed,
and there is encouragement given to enterprise
and ingenuity by the protective system. Bis
marck has not, until recently, been in favor of
protection, but his views have changed to suit
the condition of the times"