The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1888-07-20
JASPER, INDIANA. FRIDAY. JULY 20. 1885,
INDIANA AND HIGH TARIFF

INDIANA AND HIGH TARIFF.
Solid Facts for HOosicr Voters.
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Harrieon- moW the Masses Are &ow
fiundersd.
Nee Terk Herald.
Ought Indiana mcs vote Harrison
Of courss good many will vote for
him because they like him, because be
Il from their state, or because they
salways vote the republican ticket. :
Thss's sll right A good many will vote
for Cleveland and Thurman because
they always vote the democratic ticket :
The men In Indiana who mean to vote
the straight ticket anyhow, right Or
wrong, need not read this article. be-
cause il might in some cases change their
minds. and that would make thrm un-
happy and might be dangerous, because
II might give them : rush Of brains 70
the head.
But any Indiana farmer. mechanic or
workingman; any Indiana clergy man,
lawyer, teacher. doctor; any Indiana
shoemaker, butcher, carpenter. cabinet
maker; any Indiana man who would
like house building or furniture, cloth-
ing or blankets. plows or reapers and
mowers 10 be 4 little cheaper, and taxes
seventy millions less, may as well look
over what follows and see whether .
lower tariff will not help him. and
whether, therefore, he had not better
vote for Cleveland rather than Harrison.
HARRISON AND HIGH TARIFF.
Harrison stands for . high tariff
The republican platform rejects . lower
tariff. II demands free vhiskey rather
than any lowering Of the present high
tariff taxes. Gen. Harrison IL good
man. honest and oil that, but when he
comes TO speak about the tariff be will
tell his Indiana friends that IL the tariff
duties are lowered even . little, ~ the
Mills bill proposes, all Indiana will be
ruined. Every republican orator will
tell you that, and . good many Of them
will believe Il because they don't know
any better. In the old slave times and
during the war the white woTkingmen
of the North used in like manner, 70 Be
assured BY very prominent and eloquent
men that II the slaves we're made free
they would all come North and take the
bread out OF the mouths Of all the white
|Workingmcn Of the North. A good
many speakers who asserted this really
believed t. They. too, did not know
any better. But they were mIefaken
and The men Who will presently %
about IN Indiana telling The for0era
mechanics and wofkiDgme1 that tf the
high war tari6 - lowered. evea 90 little
- The Mills bill pfop0see % lover tt. the
bottom will drop ont u Indiana, are
Just q much mistaken.
Indiana depends 90 little on : high
tariff that even under absolute free trade
mot 10 per cent. Of iis workingmen
would be even temporarily hurt, while
100 per cent would be greatly better on
at once But there II no talk or pros
'pect Of free trade now. The Mills bill,
made in accordance with President
|Cleveland's message, lowers the general
rate OF duties only about per cent. snd
adds lumber, salt, wool, copper ore and
some other articles, the raw materials Of
American can industries. to the free list
WHAT The MILLS BILL WILL BRtSG ABOUT.
Where the Mills bill lowers duties IL
|Iesseus the taxes, reduce the surplus rev.
|cnue, and while Il may reduce some
what the exorbitant profits Of capitalists
docs not In any case tend 70 lower the
wages Of workingmen. On the con-
|trary, its whole elect will be 10 raise
wages and 10 cheapen articles Of neces-
|sity, such q clothing and blankets, By
making the raw material (wool) free
furniture and tools, By making
lumber free, etc
Itis, therefore, q viii b shown b.
low By census figures. which don't lie
1.-THE interest Of all Indiana w0rkingmen
land voters that the Mills bill should psss
end that Mr.. Cleveland should Be re.
elected. II i perfectly true that q
lcertain number Of Indiana men ore
in keeping the tariff high up
IS0me mot all, manufacturing capitalists
|ars thus interested, because the tariff
gives them : monopoly, and enables
Them. on the one hand, 70 form trusts,
Ito maintain high prices on their prod
Iucts and on the other hand, to import
cheap Iaborers from Europe whenever
they want 10 cut down the wages ol
their work people and these object
There ID no tariff on imported laborera
land We notice that the republican plat
form, though 10 demands high tarid on
Everything else, does not propose % Isy
d duty on imported chesp laborcrs-
But while there are undoubtedly peo-
Iple In ludians-m0stly rich people wkt
put Z good deal Of money into thei.
pockets BY The help Of high tari4, end
who will, therefore, vote for Mr. Har
rison, and 'spend money = the evi
Laying q, new two dollar billss' per
lhaps, 20 elect him, every voter can consi
der for himself what interest be be-,
what BE- be- to gain BY high taxesf
/ HE fARxTT DUTY A. = TAX
The tariff duty q : tax, and i can't p
profitable 70 pay more taxes than q.
Igovernment nosds- Under the higl
tariff for which Gen. Harrison stand
1.-The woskingnoa of The country arc pay
ling The 100000 100 : year moro than 81
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