The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-10-04
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The breezy young men OF the lsepnl
lican persuasion, who are nightly tall
ing 10 the farmers and laboring men O
the benefits OF q protective tarift, don
appear 10 be giving out any soil
chunks of TRUTH on tho contrary the
rely upon eloQuenee, romance, prelude
and sentiment almoat exeluslyel!
These young Cieeroa claim 70 be tall
ing on the tariff, but they fail 10 discus
tho merits Of the Mills bin, but conhn
themselves To attacks upon the author
OF the Mills bill, because they hail fron
tho South. They claim 10 have droppe
the sectional issue, but they are talklnI
IL, all the same. Their talk is all right
from a political standpoint, II the oh
leot IL 10 keep their hlde-bound par
tizans In linei bat political discuasloI
ought 10 aim higher, These politlca
Orationa ought TO be aimed to instruc
the people,
These one idea orators claim The
Mills bill Ia OF Southern origin, and
therefore ought 10 be condemned by
the North.
These orators say II 10 In the interest
of the South and against the North,
How do they prove thisp do You
ask, Why they don't prove II NJ ALL
II 10 not susceptible OF proof, but II an
sweS as q ahibbolith 10 excite the old
time prejudice against the South,
Those who have studied the Mills
bin carefully know that the tariff re'
ductions are more on Southern than on
Northern products, and IL Is easily
demonstrated by the schedule OF re-
duciIons, For instance, the heaviest
cut In the entire schedule is on sugar.
the amount Of reduction on this pro
duct alone being li,750,7O0, sugar Ia
q Southern product, Aud now the Re
publican orators are complaining that
because lumber Is made free and sugar
Ia not, that therefore the Mills bill Is In
the interest of the South, They do not
stop 10 consider that lumber Is grown
by the Almighty, and not by labor,
while the sugar crop is cultivated
by labor, and refined by labor and hu'
man machinery. 0f course they fail
TO say that God makes timber for mans
use, while sugar Is cultivated and re-
fined by labor, and all Republican
labor At that. The Republican orators
fail 10 apply the Blaine doctrine to
the tariff on sugar That the taIlif is
solely to protect labor and sugar Is
both grown and refined by ,d ana
that all The laborer are RepuOticans,
Oh, no, they don't mention that. They
say the sugar tariff is In the interest Of
the South aud against the North. May
we ask who first made this sugar tariff.
Was II not the Republican partyy
When II was enacted, the Republican
party had control of both Houses, Of
Congress and the Chief Executive. II
II Is southern measure, your own
party made II 80.
Again, II Is claimed that the tariff on
lumber does not affect the South,
Here again you are very much mis-
taken. There Is more valuable timber
to-day IN the South than In the North,
The South has as much pine as the
North, and nearly all the black walnut,
cherry, oak and more valuable hard
timbe Is now In the South. Texas alone
has 10000 square miles Of valuable
timber lands.
Again, take the wool tariff, II Is
claimed that putting wool on the free
list IL In the interest of the south. This
claim Is not well founded Texas Is by
far the largest wool growing State In
the Union. She raises more sheep than
all the New England States put togeth.
er, and New England consumes more
woolen goods than North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi,
Texas, Louisiana and Alabama, all
combined.
The State Of Blaine, where overcoats
are fashionable In July, consumes more
wooden goods, than the four Southern
States Of South Carolina, Alabama,
Georgia and Louisiana, While the South
ern people can wear jeans aud cotton
fabrics eight months IN the year,
woolens are worn in the North all the
year round.
Again tobacco Is an agricultural pro-
duct, grown almost entirely in the
South, and much more largely consumed
in the North. The tax is retained on
tobacco.
Again whiskey. This is very largely
produced in Kentucky, Southern
state. The same with hemp. Take
peanuts, aI exclusive Southern product,
that NIL our Republican friends are so
fond of munching. They are also
largely grown abroad. The Mills bill
even makes a reduction on peanuts,
AS we before remarked, no one can
read the Mills bill carefully and make
any just claim that II is the interest Of
the South.
The reverse IA the case,