The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-09-27
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An old time Canton Republican IN q
Quandary---The Question OF Custom
Houses IN tho North and None In the
Aouth--oood Reading for mnauirlnf
Mindna
Mn. EpITOR:~F0r more than .
quarter Of acentury, We Republicans
have been demanding political suprem
acy land In the greater part OF that
time getting it) on account of our wa
record, The glory Of putting down III,
liebelIion-of preventing the secession
of the Southern states-ia ours. Hat
not this been done, the people Of thest
states would have set up q government
OF their own,
Suppose they had succeeded In their at
tempts, what would have been the In
eyltable result2 Obviously, the i'm
mediate establishment OF q double line
OF Uuatom houses between them ant
ua, aud trllIng would have been other
changes compared with that, We
would have to do Without the Southern
Senators and Congressman at Washing
ton. but would thereby been saved a
tremendous lot Of QuarrelIng and
wranglng. But much more than that
would we have saved, had We allowed
the Southern states 10 aecede, Who
can compute the costly sacrlhceY Four
years of civil war, In which the life
blood Of the North poured out In tor
rents, q million men killed, q million
moie malned, six billions of dollars ex'
pense prevented II and kept that double
line Of custom houses from being es'
tabllshed between MS and the people OF
those states between us and the pau
per labor Of four millions Of dusky
slaves,
But what have we In the North 7
A double line Of custom houses reach
Ing from the Atlantic 10 the Pacific,
which the people on the other side
would gladly help us 10 abolish, and
Join hands with us In commercial
union. That's nearly the same thing
as full union. About the only differ
ence Is that In the former Canada would
not send Senators and COngressmen
TO our menagerle 10 make specialized
lackals Of Themselves, nor would she
get million dollar appropriations from
our national treasury TO eXpend In
scratching up creeks and frog ponds
Commercial union means nearly all the
blessings Of full union without It's cur
sea.
Now, without lbs costing us men OF
money, q drop Of blood or u penny, we
can abolish the custom houses north OF
us. But according 10 the statements OF
some of our bursting. .with.bravery Re.
publican Congressman, our party
would readily again so TO war, sacrifice
another million men and another six
billions OF money 90 prevent the ab0li'
tion of that line of custom houses.
Some Of us have been thinking over
the question, why, If II was n good
thing, land we believe II was) TO prevent
the establishment Of custom houses In
the south, we should be asked TO main.
tain them In the northY Why ale they
good things In the north and bad things
In the south or east or westY The nat
ural differences are no greater between
MS and the north than between us and
the south, and the people compare fa
yOmbly. Why should we be ordered 10
do the opposite thing In the north TO
what we did IN the south; and over this
question we have gotten ourselves
INTO u state Of painful bewilderment
Now that's IN extremely unusual
condition with u.s. We're not used to
II and we don't like II. Why, we got
along all right when we didn't do any.
thinking at all, but just naturally voted
the straight Republican ticket, and the
mess we've made of II ought 10 serve
rs u warning TO our comrades, many OF
whom have minds Of their own, of the
danger of using them Unfortunately
Well, Mr.. Editor In our desperation,
and hoping TO get some relief, we went
TO hear Bro. Ben Butterworth last Sat
urday night, (haylng heard that he
knew lot about the Canada business)
and trusting he would shed some light
on these custom houses, rs likewise on
some other things that taking advant
age of our thinkful condition have i'm
pertnently intruded themselves (e. g.
bibles having TO pay twenty-five per
cent. tax TO get past EN-, playing cards
free,) but alas for the shed, II took so
much time TO perform the great reclp.
rocal toggle.j .jointed end man admira-
tion.act; It's rendition was so superb, |
It's reception so enthusiastic, that all al |
once the meeting blew up In u blaze of |
glory. Bro. Ben disappeared, the lights |
went out, and we remain, as heretofore,
Yours completely
Canton, Sept, 20. INA HOLE,