The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-09-10

Democratic members was called 20 the fact that
the e oSS had n made solemn mn
the restoration OF that duty: hut In answer Il
was tauntinely said that tho Democracy OF
States: that the Democratic party OF the Union
would not recognize or honor any such pledge;
that, on the contrary. the Democratic patty was
cordingly. Afterward Mr.. Morrison introduced
measure which provided for placing some
ticles on the free list, and for q horizontal re-
duction OF twenty per cant. In the tariff duties
upon all other articles, wool included. and for
this measure the whole Democratic rarity, with
practical unanimity, voted. while the Republic
can party, almost to . man. voted against II,
and thus, so far az the House OF Reprs senta-
tives was concerned. It was demonstrated and
made mater Ter Of record that instead Of
were ready to violate their pledge In a re-
fusal to DO so, and to add the further injury,
Of the wool growing interests of Ohio, of still
further reducing the tariff by twenty per cent.
But they vert further. When the National
Democratic Convention met in Chicago I'm June
of last year they refused TO incorporate in their
platform a declaration favoring q iestoration OF
the duty OF 1867 on WOO. and in the same plat
form in which IL contained the declaration that
have referred to, viz, that the Democracy OF
Ohio the friends Of the agricultural and
Woodworking interests of Ohio" is contained
another plank. which approves and reaffrms
the National Democratic platform of 1884. And
so 1t IL. therefore, that alongside of this declar
alton of the platform on which Judge Hoadly
stands, that the Democracy OF Ohio are the
friends Of the wool growing interests of the
State" rs another which refuses. by approving
and reaitrming the national platform. to favor
restoration OF the tarih on wool
In view of these broken pledges, IN view of
the refusal OF the Democratic party to favor
Mr.. Converse's resolution, in view OF the sup
port OF the Democratic party OF the Morrison
bill, in view Of the action of the National Demo-
cratic Convention, and in view Of the approval
OF that action by our last State Democratic Con-
vention. 1t would seem to be the height of i'm
nudQuce apyhO1V N claim that thew
the friends OF the agricultural and wool grow
ing interests Of Ohio" They would be ashamed
to do so IL IL were not that il seems impossible
for Democrat to be ashamed of anything.
When the Republican party came into power
In 1860. as sad in my opening remarks. We had
a free-trade policy established and enforced in
the interests of cotton, the claim of the cotton
planters being that unless they could get their
corn and meat and other articles of food and
farm D. oducts necessary to enable them to feed
their slaves and carry on their operations at the
cheapest possible price, they could not raise
their COT ton and send IL into TIE markets OF the
world in successful competition. The result was
just what they contended Tor, so far as the
farmers of the Middle and Western States were
concerned. that they did get all their farm
products at the lowest possible price. Corn was
so cheap that II would not pay the cost OF trans
portatlon, except 10 the very limited quantity
required by the South. The result was that
each year large surplus was burned for fuel in
some Of the Western States, for the want of q
market in which TO sell it. There were no grow
ing interests, no foundries. no factories, no
mills, no machine shops, no great industries OF
any kind springing up throughout the agrf-
cultural regions at which labor could be en-
ployed, and a non-producing class created to
constitute market for the farmer. The result
was that the farmer had TO contne himself to
the production OF such staple commodities as
could bear long transportation. and he was COM
PEELED to content himself with such unreinu-
neratye prices therefor as that to a large extent
he realized nothing whatever from his labors.
But when the Republican rarity came into
power and enacted tariff law, IL had the wis
dom to see that the policy which it was inaug
uratlng-Drotection-w be as important to
the farmer as 10 the manufacturer or any other
class OF people, and therefore, while levying
protective tariff duties that led TO the opening of
our mines and ere beds, the hui ding OF fur
naces and mills and factories and FORCES and
founGries aud machine shops, and the estab-
lishment of every other conceivable industry of
which our country was capable, thus creating
home markets tor the farmer at which he could
sell his corn and his wheat and oats and barley
and potatoes and all kinds OF garden products,
it also provided that there should b. protec-
tive tariff duty levied upon the importation into
this country OF every bushel Of wheat, rye. oats,
barley, potatoes, corn, and every other kind or
product that the farmer could bring forth. to
the end that after IL had created this home
market, IL should be preserved TO the enjoyment
of the American farmer to the exclusion of our
Canadian brethren, and all the nations of the
earth who might want to come into our country
10 supply them.
And 80 it is, therefore that in the protect We
tariff policy we have pursued there have been
established for the American farmers the most
dDunuuuO hume Indtkcts, anu tQcSt ILuTkctb
have been assured to them "a against all out
side competition by tariff duties levied on all
their products. no language can fittingiy de-
scribe the benefic al results of this policy. = me
idea of IL may be gathered from the fact that In
the twenty -four years the Republican party ad-
ministered the affairs OF the nation, our aggre-
gate wealth was swelled from Sl4,0 900,
which represented the total wealth of this coun-
try accumulated during $50 years OF American
civilization, to the enormous sum OF Si5.0OO,
e0O, 900, which is estimated to be the wealth of
the country as 10 now asses to the control of
the Democratic party In other words, under
the twenty-four years Of Republican rule the
country more than trebled its entire wealth of
1860 Every farmer who Is old enough TO re-
member the price OF his products before the
war can by comparison of these prices with
what he realizes for his products to-day see
that the purchasing power OF his products has
been doubled and trebled horse that brought
$50 before the war will bring $3.50 now:
cow that brought SIS to 20 before the will
bring $40 To $50 to-day: dozen of eggs that
sod for cents before the war will bring from
10 to 20 cents dozen now. Before the war it
took pound OK butter to buy pound of nails;
you can now get pound OF nails for pint OF
skinned milk. And you may run through
the whole list of farm products and the result
Will be found the same. But it is said that while
it is true that what the farmer has to sell brings
him better price, yet it avails him nothing be-
cause all that he buys costs him more. Nobody
says this, however, except only theoretical free
traders, who only read books and never look to
practical results The exact reverse Is the
truth. Everything that the farmer buys, from
a combined reaper and mower to a pocket knife,
Is from 100 to 500 per cent. cheaper than it was
before the war, and while 80 to 100 per cent.
cheaper, IL is. at the same time from 100 to 800
per cent. better Every article OF clothing that
he wears, from the hat on his head TO the shoes
on his feet. costs him less and is better. Theo-
retical free-traders talk about the farmer being
taxed on his clothes. but 1 doubt IL there
Is farmer in all the State of Ohio who
wears single article OF clothing of any kind
that has passed through the custom house.
Everything is manufactured in this country,
manufactured by American mechanics, and
cheapened in price, far below what IL cost when
under free trade, times ID was imported into this
country by American competition. The most
important farming implement is PERHAPS the
combined reaper and mower All who are of
middle age remember when reapers were
first invented and brought into use, and they
will remember also that they were crude. awk-
ward ungainly. and almost unserviceable and
vet cost from 500 to $500 each. They could cut
the wheat, but they did not rake
it, much le~s bind it. But to-day the reaping
machines OF the country not only reap bit rake
and bind also. The machine of to- day In of the
most skilled workmanship, apparently abso-
lutely perfect as n piece of mechan ism and of
the very best quality of material. 1t IL no ex-
/ aggeration TO say that IL IL 500 per cent better
than its predecessor that cost $780, But now
you can buy one of them anywhere for $40
Take another illustration. 1 recently talked
with a gentleman who is connected with the
Columbus Buggy Company. They make and
sell annually about ten thousand buggies
Their standard buggy sold ten years ago for