The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-08-16
ramELY.TAKIFF TALK.
mo. 3.-lsss. I

FRIEND HAERIs.-In the continu-
alton o, our ,ariff talk, let US at this
time for a moment glance back over
the t qua.ier of century. We see
tue most varying scenes ever known ;
to a nerica life. At the commence
ment of said lime, we find in our
whole county but few, very few, mil
and they were mostlymillion
heils, the accumulations of long lives,
and in some sses, several generations.
Still among the people, there was a
vest amount of wealth. How is it
now? M.lionsires by the hundred
wealth gathered from the laboring
classes. See these deceitful. crafty,
cunning frauds, politically. they are
barnacles upon any party though they
may contribute TO its expenses. They
are sntie and all agog now, they say |
they have discovered q sure road to |
gold and glory, aad that it is by the |
aid of high tariff. (Get what others
have earned and do earn.) They know,
as everyone knows, that they, as
| rule ale set of superficial louts, for
| the doings of whom the world of man
kind has never been the better off. I'll
excuse the honorable exceptions.)
These barnacies are shouting paans to
the continuation of the old war tariff
patting the republican party. with
vive la republican party; vive la
war tariff; die individuel rights, and
and individus prosperity. Here
then, read their actions. They say that
with the republican party in power.
aud tariff that cripples our trade
abroad, they have got and can get
money. How? Why, go into basi
ness, pool the trade, form syndicates
land trusts, control the markets, con
troll the plice of labor, control the price
of far IN productions, control the price
!, of all such wares as their servants shall
= meke and to accomplish these ends
+ they will bu or bear the markets, as
\ their interests may suggest, make Goa
;. How in sU m mer, when the rich cal
4 stock up, make it high In winter whel
). the poor must buy; me Ike the ricl
richer aud the poor poorer, force cor
ners on sugar, wheat. and every article
.. so they can buy it cheap then bull tn
r. market up, SO they can sell high
"a which the consumer, the labOrer, mus
pay. In this way they gather in mil
. lions of do lars they never earned. Th
n poor laborer earned it. These effect
l.,criF. Of of th
no hot bed Cal ed Protective tariff. Th
NJ democratic parry is and ever his bee
,d opposed to tnese monopolies, they d
and ever have fought them. AS WI
seid by Thorn Jefferson, and tt
early fathers of our country, and agai
" by Andrew Jackson, "eternal vigi
ne ance il the ice of liberty" We ha'
ne ever said, swsy with class Legislation
in any form, it ) blight and cur
before wi ich the hopes and prospec
jill of the laboriDg man. farmer or M
ay chanic must ia lie and die. By the a
le- of this destructive tariff these mono
rs o les turn the thumb screws periodics
no ly little tighter on the poor mar
,at waoes and wallet. Yes mora. on |
WaSCS duO Go lAOA0t OA
ali and b f. n lies hopes and liberty 81
makes them servants, slaves, ma
their wages and productions low. tn
wn Hviag d. sessaries high. And If thu
an laborers, in initiation of these mone
on o e, dare to join hea-.s and hands
We lcombina,ion agE inst these syndic
no Iopprs ssioI p, away some monopolist
he his agent goes to the land OF ''Cel
the tia 50 I'D imports the yellow pig ts
cen to AXE the place of these laborers "
the dared t. quit the employment of th
has monopoiies. No difference how orde
ma and peaceful these Iaborers may
,le the gu stion is. do they belong to q
in organized body of working men? II
inn put their face to the grindstone,
has them TO submit or they and their lii
oort ones at arve. And if these lsbOrers
,nts lanyfhing against such unholy oppl
bar sion, if they scorn to be slaves,
edl, monoro ist SWEETS up and explsi
one we are S1Tstd OF a riot !' '"These
ms1 cattle are idle, come sheriff, co
posse com tatus, come State mill
keep these idle beings from interfer
1" With say, with what ?-our wo
men," (scabs.) Such scenes. dear re
H., er, are the iegit: mate and certain {
growtbs of the Capitalization and C,
. bination of capital ia these great trl
and moDopOlies, and any laws
favor and aid such combinations
49, he
well being of 81 intelligent peo
We say that this protective tari
just such law in its most powe
form. Some repub lean says no,
not so. Well, let Us see. 1.-The p
of the pudding, &C." Is it not a
~ that the democratic parry has atW
~ warned the people that such woui'
the Results of such laws? that it q
the macy for the benefit Of the #
~. that it favored the few at the exp,
of the many that it favored capits
the expense of labor and that by
ing these things it would centrs
capital aud create combinations
would seek to monOpOlize business
40 of stump and read them in the de
ON cratic oracles more than forty v
sftx ago. Have we not for sil the tim
and our existence fought the very ide
tariff for protection, and class leg
,en. ton in any and every form. And
VS. have answered, oh, no. it is polil
clap. trap" Well, we have said
CON. proof of the pudding was, DC n
we did not have this Protective {
until you got into power, did we?
say no. We |, we have these cen
,oot izaIions aud combinations of Yves
18th and consequent monopolies and
ixtv arrogance of the newly made mill
tba aires and their newly imported pal
dino laborers, and the consequent comb
yod tiOns of labor as ag. inst the comb
,o;n tions of capital and strikes, and all