The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1884-04-10

can papers have been harplng upon Tor
40 many years, that a high protective
tariff Ia necessary to give workmen Nv
ing or high wages, Ia a ialsehood thaI
In being understood. For years wagea
have been getting lessi u cut being
made every once In while, In conse-
quence, strikes have been getting more
frequent, mills have been stopped for
months, showing the utter fallacy OF
what IL claimed for the tariff, The fact,
too, of free immigration OF European
labOrers, all tending to cut down prices
and displace American workmen, Ia
tending to correct the Judgment and
open the eyes Of American wOrkmen'
II Ia time the Democratic party was
boldly graphing with this subject The
tariff question was not discussed In
1880, aud the Republicans used II ~ II
bugaboo and scare the last two weeks Of
the campaign, Had we met II NJ the
start. aud met It boldly the scare would
have failed and Hancock been elected ia
spite of threats and intimidation by the
projected bosses, To cOerc0 their EN-
poyees into tho support Of the iepublI'
can candidates, daflleld's majority was
leas than 1000 IN total vote of ten
millions,
The result of the election Of 1880 was
q substantial yindicatiOn Of the iudg'
ment of those Democratic leaders who
have been urging the adoption Of tariff
reform az the axod policy Of the party
II IL certain that not less than 10000
wage workers were bulldO2ad by theif
employers into voting for Garfield, and
these voters were no distributed among
the several States ~ 10 have reversed the
result 10 Connecticut, New York and
Indiana, AT least, II the wage workers
had bOpn permitted TO vote their rcOl
sentiments, The conditions existing In
1850, however no longer exist Wage
workers have found no relief from the
exactiOns Of their employers. Wages
have been cut down, mills have been
closed for months AZ q time, throwing
thousands out Of employment, Strikes
have been even more frequent than
formerly, and the general condition Of
the labOrlng classes Is really less COM
Portable than II has been NJ any time
since 1874 Meantime the press have
been acQuaIntlng the people with the
outrageous injustice Of the present
tariff and hayepolnted out the hypocriti.
cal pretense Of the manufacturing
barOns ~ to protection, 10 show tho
change In public sentiment on the
tarifl question we may instance
the Philadelphia Record, The Re-
cord " not only In favor OF the
reduction Of the tarilI to strictly reyO.
nue. basis, but II has more readers than
any other paper published In Phlladcl
phin, the Ledger alone excepted, Us cir
culation bouy larger than that Of the
Times and Pross together, II IL one Of
the largest and ablest papers published
In Pennsylvania, and the fact that II has
outstrippod all Of rs rivals with tho
exception nOted), although younger
than any Of them, shows that even In
the homo Of protection, pure and sim
pie" the people are aroused against tho
grinding Injustice which compolS the
many 10 share the fruits Of their toll,
without any kind Of compensation, with
the few, In Michigan, Iowa, llIinois
aud Wisconsin, the lgrid reform gnti. |
ment N strong, aggressive, and conf |
dent Of success, In Washington, mem, |
bors Of Congress trembo lest they may
not be returned, and express doubt rs TO |
"tho policy" Of doing anything just now |
to relieve the people, They indorso The
Ohio platform which declares against
any kind Of protection that "fosters mo.
nopOlIes," ~ II the present tariff Law did
not foster mOnOpollea The short aud
the long Of II IL, the Democratic party
must meet thls question and appeal to
the people,