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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-07-18
The Handwriting ON the Wall.

A republican manufacturer OF cotton
goods at North Adams, Mass, writes very
sensible letter to the Providence Journal,
from which we make the following extract:
As a manufacturer l see clearly that reason
able tariff is necessary TO the life of industrial
New England, but being manufacturer (even
a republican one) does not prevent my also see
ing that our present tariff needs reforming, and,
moreover, what is more to the point, that re-
|. form is bound to come, whether we want 1t or
not
Ii during the past four months the republic
an leaders in and out of congress had brought
TO the question sincere desire to do that which
should be best for the country there could now
be no burning tariff issues. And what is
this going on in congress while l write? The
republican members fighting as if for the
very life of the republic, to maintain the tax
on lumber-tO protect the men who are
killing the immature and insufficient forests
and tax the people to pay for it, is there
man of sense in New England who believes that
the country, as whole will indorse that sort of
protection" when the time comes for them to
pass upon it? | repeat that tariff reform is
bound to come, and if we Will not help to
fairly settle the question it will be settled with
out our help. How, then, shall we successfully
meet the storm and save that which is good?
Can it be done merely with yell against free
trade" and bearing protection idol In one
hand and free whisky in the other, or by
American laborer while we leave the flood
gates of Europe open to pour in american Ia
borers" upon us, or by blindly following the
leadership that is leading us straight into the
ditch, through opposing anything and every
thing not originating with the republican
party? Hardly. If we want any part in this
matter we must ourselves become sincere and
reasonable tariff reformers.
Tariff reform Is coming. 1t is coming
fast. As the writer of the foregoing says,
it can't be prevented by yelling free trade
or singing the threadbare song about pau
per labor The farmers are getting their
eyes open to the iniquities of the existing
system. The workingmen are beginning
to realize how they are plundered for the
benefit of monopoly in the name of 'Epro-
lection" Even the manufacturers are
beginning to see, like the North Adams
gentleman, that if they resist reasonable
reductions in the tariff they are only paw
ing the way for the utter destruction of
the entire protective system. The coun-
try is disguised with the brazen declaration
of the republican party in favor of free
whisky, and against the relief OF the peo-
pie from the intolerable exactions of mo-
nopoly taxation.
The war taxes must 90
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-07-18

laboring man that he would he better off
if he could get whisky at 20 cents gallon
than if he could get furniture for his
house, and shoes for his children, and a
dress for his wife at less than what they
cost now. Let them try to convince the
farmer that with uptaxed whisky he could
soon pay off that troublesome mortgage
and be able to lay by dollar or two for
a rainy day." Perhaps the people can
be brought to see the thing in this
light, but whether they can or not that's
the light in which it is presented by the
Chicago platform, and Ben HARRISON has
publicly announced that the declarations
of this platform are Gin harmony with his
views"
There is nothing left for the republicans
to do but to make the best fight they can
for the infamous platform adopted at
Chicago. To do anything else is to give
up the fight before it is fairly begun.
Down with MONOPOLY taxes
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coward and a demagogue he would not
attempt to shirk his Chinese record. He
would admit what everybody knows to be
true, that he voted against shutting the
Chinese out because he wanted the Chin
csc to come. He would admit what there
is abundant circumstantial evidence to
prove, that he voted against denying them
naturalization, because he wanted them to
be naturalized, and to vote, as some of
them actually did, under the tutelage
of some OF Ben HARRIsoN's closest politi-
cal associates in this city in the election of
1880.
BEN HARRIsoN's Chinese record is that
of an enemy of American labor. He did
all that was in his power to do to expose
American labor to the most degrading and
offensive competition it has ever been called
to meet. While he was doing this he was
also voting to give enormous bounties to
capital and monopoly under the shallow
pretext that in that way he was helping
to protect labor.
The more Ben HARR1soN's Chinese re-
cord is studied by the workingmen of this
country, the more they won't vote for
him.
Down with n1onOno1v tavecf
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-07-18
a Magnificent Demonstration.

The democratic demonstration Saturday
was splendid success.
Although very little preparation was
made there was an immense outpouring
of people, and the great speeches of Mr..
ENGLISH, Gov. GRAY, ex-senator McDoN-
ALE and the Hon. Jason Brown were re-
ceived with furore of enthusiasm.
If anything was needed-which there
wasn't-to show that the democracy of
Indianapolis and Marion county are
wide awake and full of zeal and energy
in the great cause OF tariff reform and
honest government, last nights grand
meeting supplied it.
The procession was an imposing one.
In the ranks were represented very fully
the bone and sinew of the city. The
real workingmen-the mechanics, the
laborers, the toilers in all the depart
ments of industry-were out in force.
They we're out to show that they had not
forgotten their old friends nor forgiven
their old enemies; that they proposed, in
this campaign, to stand by those who
have stood by them in the past; to empha-
size their hostility to a man who, as a
senator of the United States, did all that
lay in his power to drown them with flood
of barbarian immigration; to set the seal
of their disapproval upon the candidates
nominated by the recent convention of
boodlers and monopolists at Chicago, and
upon the infamous neutrality-suspicious.
tax platform adopted by that body.
The democrats of Indianapolis and
Marion county are au right this year.
They mean business. They mean to carry
Marion county next November for CLEvE-
LAND and THURMAN and tax reform.
They mean to record majority of 1000
against the can didates of therailroad rings
and the tariff trusts.
We give in our local columns very
full and graphic account of the dem
onstration, together with a faith
full report of the speeches.
We bespeak careful reading of them.
They discuss the issues of the campaign in
an able and effective but plain and
straightforward way. They sound the
keynote OF the great campaign for reform
which has just beeninaugurated, in which
the Indiana democracy is destined to play
such a conspicuous and potential! part.
Down with monopoly taxes.
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Should CofTee he Taxed?

To THE EDIToR-Sir: In this mornings
paper you say in answer to a reader from this
place that there is no duty on coffee but that
there should be. VIII you please explain
yourself and show where the consumer would
be benefited by having TO pay duty on coffee,
as We do not raise any in this country?
CITIZEN.
Knightsville, Ind, July Is.
With pleasure. THE SENTINEL said
coffee ought to taxed because every penny
that is thus collected goes toward the
support of the government, and not one
penny into the pockets of private indi-
viduals or corporations. 1t is a revenue
tax, and the measure of the burden it
places upon the people is the amount it
yields at the custom houses.
This is not true as to most OF the taxes
levied by our present system. These cost
the people at least six dollars-some have
estimated it as high as ten dollars-for
every dollar they yield the government.
These taxes are one-sixth for revenue, and
five-sixths for bounties to private citizens
and corporations, which are taken from
the earnings of the people. If a tax were
to be placed upon coffee, taxes on other
necessaries OF life aggregating six times as
much could be RENTED, without reduc-
ing the revenue of the government sim
gle penny.
THE SENTINEL thinks this is good rea-
son why coffee should be taxed in pre-
ference to many other commodities upon
which duties are now laid. There is an
other good reason, however, and that is
that the abolition of the coffee tax has not
afforded American consumers Of that
article the slightest relief. When the
United States took off the coffee duty,
Brazil, which supplies us with our coffee,
put on an export duty which exactly
counterbalanced it. The price of coffee,
therefore, was not reduced by the aboi-
ton of the tax.
The reason coffee is untaxed while coal
and iron and steel and salt and wool and
lumber are taxed, is that there is no ring
in this country interested in getting it
into the tariff schedules. Ii there was a
coffee ring there would be coffee tax.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-07-18
A Doodle Candidate.

The republican party is not depending
upon the merits of its candidates or the
strength of its platform to carry it through
this campaign. 1t is depending upon
Doodle. LEVI P. MORTON was put on the
ticket for no other reason than that he is
worth several millions of dollars, and is
willing to buy political preferment, which
he never could get in any other way. The
gentleman who placed his name before
the Chicago convention and those whosec-
onded his nomination laid great stress
upon his 'liberality." They wanted the
convention to understand that if MORTON
was nominated he would 'shell out"
freely, and without a millionaire on the
ticket its chances would be desperate.
The language used to convey this idea was
plain-very plain indeed; SO plain that
good many delegates blushed at the
shamelessness of the speakers who used
it. The convention knew what MoRToN's
nomination would mean and made it
without hesitation. If the nomination
had been offered to the highest bidder
without reserve" and knocked down"
to Mr.. MORTON after open competition with
other millionaires, the transaction would
not have been more barefaced or scandal
GUS.
LEVI p. MORTON bought the nomination
just as he has bought every political
"honor" that was ever conferred upon him.
He bought his way into congress years
ago. He bought the French mission with
his liberal contribution to the Garfield
corruption fund in 1880, which, it is said,
amounted to 100000 or more. He bought
the vice presidential nomination. The
exact terms upon which the purchase
was made have not transpired, but it is
safe to say that the empty honor will cost
him at least quarter OF a million dollars.
A goodly portion of that sum will no
doubt be used in an effort to corrupt the
voters of Indiana, the state which Gen.
HARRIsoN was nominated to carry.
LEVI p. MORTON represents the power of
money in politics. He would never have
been thought of for any Office OF trust or
profit but for his wealth. He is not
scholar nor statesman nor a soldier.
laid the foundation of his colossal fortune
by specializing in the necessities of the
government. He calls himself a business
man.. That's what he is. He regards
politics as purely business matter. He
practices craftsmanship" on business
principles. He always demands a guild
pro quo for his political disbursements.
He has the consideration specified in the
bond He never buys "pig in a
poke" either in politics or
in trade. When he was min
lister to Paris ne conducted the
American legation in a manner that
was in keeping with his antecedents.
Perhaps the inside history Of GER
tain peculiar operations at the Amer
lean embassy in Paris during his incum-
bency may be revealed before this CAM
paignis ended. If 80, look out! There'll be
music in the air. and probably a vacancy
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-07-18
Face the Music. Gentlemen.

There is panic in the republican ranks
over the free whisky plank in the Chicago
platform. The organs try to ignore it,
swear it isn't there, declare it doesn't mean
what it says, and finally, when they get
black in the face with lying about it, yell
free trade as hard as ever they can The
republicans in congress try to repudiate it,
or explain it away. CANNON of Illinois
denounces it roundly, NELSON OF Mime
sofa disavows it, and only old Pig Iron
KELLEY of Pennsylvania, among all the re-
publican leaders in the house, is ready to
defend it.
But the free whisky plank is there, and
the republicans can't dodge it. or ignore it,
or lie out OF it, or run away from it. 1t
will be remembered that the democratic
party tried to run away from its platform
in 1864 and again in 1880, and
that it got gloriously whipped both
times. We advise the panic
stricken republicans to profit by their ex-
ample. Let them stand up for their plat
form, free whisky and all, and face the
consequences. Let them try to convince
the country that cheap whisky is what it
wants and not cheaper clothing and fuel
and food, and blankets, and shelter and
medicine Let them try to convince the
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-07-18
.wn with mononolv taxesI
Why the Farmers Are Poor.

The current report of the Illinois board
OF agriculture shows that two-thirds of the
farms in that state are covered with
mortgages, and that Illinois farmers are
paying tribute to the extent of $14,O00,000
annually to Eastern capitalists in the
shape of interest on loans. In Indiana
1.-THE number of mortgaged farms is sur
prising," and money can be loaned
on mortgages at any time at per cent,
while 'the profits of farm can't pay such
interest" So says one of the leading agri-
culturists of the state, and not in the way
OF politics. The farmers, he adds, 'spend
less and work harder than any other class
of people" and he can't understand why
they shouldn't be able to keep out of debt
and accumulate a little money. But he
refuses to believe the spoilation tariff is
what keeps their noses to the grindstone.
Well, well, there are none so blind as
those who won't see! The census returns
show what is the trouble with the farmers,
so plainly that wayfaring man, though
fool, can hardly 60 astray. They show
that in 1860, after more than a decade of
free trade" THAT is, low tariff the farm
ers possessed one-half of the wealth OF this
country. In 1880, after twenty years of
high protection, their share had dwindled
to little more than one-fourth. During
the ten years $4,000 dow tariff, thevalue
of farms in the United States more than
doubled During the ten years, 1S70-S0
thigh protection, it increased but 8 per
cent. In 1860 the value of livestock in
the United States was about 81, 100000, 900,
having doubled in ten years 0ow tariffs
In 1880, after twenty years of high tariff,
an increase OF only % per cent was shown.
From 1850 to 1860 the value of farm ma
chinery increased 6 per cent annually;
from 1860 to 1880 it increased but % per
cent annually. If the increase in the
agricultural wealth of the country
between 1860 and 1880 had been in the
same ratio as between 1850 and 1860 the
total would have amounted in 1880 to
So, 200, 100000 instead of only 2,000,-
100000 as shown by the census reports.
1t is as plain as cay that what has all
but bankrupted the American farmer is
having been compelled, for twenty-seven
years, to buy in the dearest market and
sell in the cheapest market. The farmer
is the victim of the monstrous system of
licensed spoliation which the repub-
lican party wants to fasten upon the coun-
try permanently.
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Indiana Under a Revenue Tariff.

How did Indiana prosper under tariff
very much lower than is proposed by the
Mills bill-the tariff made in 1916, and
revised and reduced in 1857, and which
is known as the "free trade tariff. The
census reports tell the story.
During the ten years, from 1850 to 1862
the number of manufacturing institutions
in Indiana increased from 1892 to 1928;
the amount of capital invested, from
$3.50, 4O2 to S1s,451 ,l2l; average number
of hands employed, from 14,440 to 81 ,S5S;
average amount of wages paid annually,
from IS, 72S,S44 to s., SIS, 1856 average value
of material used annually, from SIC, &c.,
700 to So, 1857; average annual value
of products, from SIS, 725, 423 to So, sos, 400.
1t will be observed that during these
ten years OF ''free trade" the amount OF
capital invested in manufactur in Indi-
ana increased about $50 per cent; the
number of hands employed in manufact-
uring increased about so per cent; the
average amount of wages paid, almost 100
per cent; the value OF materials used
about 175 per cent, and the value of tire
annual product about 1873 per cent.
This record of growth cannot be equaled
or Appropriated by that of any decade
since the protective policy was estab-
lished. During the decade from 1870 to
1880, under high tariff, the number OF
manufacturing establishments in Indiana
actually decreased.
And how about the agricultural interests
of the state? The value of Indiana farms
increased from S136, 3S5, 173 in 1850 to
1856, 7l2, It's in 1880, or more than 150 per
cent. During the same period the value
of farming implements and machinery in
the state increased from IS, 704, 444 to S10.-
,457, 1897: The fs=<%ers of Indiana grew rich
in the fifties because their earnings were
not coniscated by the government to the
use of the manufacturers of the East.
Indiana was never so prosperous as
under revenue tariff.
And now the republican demagogues and
the monopoly organs are telling the voters
of Indiana that reduction of tariff taxes
to point vastly higher than they were
during the years when the above splendid
record of prosperity and progress was
made will bring blue ruin upon the state.
Who believes such rot?
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on the republican national ticket. Mr..
MoRToN's last appearance before the pub
lie prior to his nomination at Chicago was
in the capacity of shark, compelled by
court of justice to refund to widow the
pitiful sum of twenty-four hundred dol
lars, which he had defrauded her.
And this is the man whom the "grand
old party" has pitted against the modest
Roman of them all" for the second high
est office in the government. Ye gods and
little fishes Doodle against brains! Pelf
against patriotism! A vulgar money
grubber against a pure and able statesman
A traficker in official position against the
stern and relentless foe of jobbery and
corruption! Mr. LEVI P. MORTON repre-
sents the very worst that there is
in contemporary politics. ALLEN G..
THURMAN stands for the best that is in it.
More than half century in public life,
surrounded by temptations to illicit gain,
passing through an era of profiigacy and
recklessness which swallowed up the per-
sonal integrity and official honor of scores
OF eminent men, his name is recognized
throughout the length and breadth of the
land as a synonym for purity, integrity
and fearless devotion to public duty. The
party of monopoly, the party of the trusts
and the combines, of the land grabbers
and the money devil, showed when it
named LEVI P. MORTON against this high
minded and incorruptible statesman for
the vice-presidency, how low an estimate
it places upon the virtue and the moral
sense of the American people
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-07-18
Republican Free Whisky Programme.

The Chicago Tribune has very little to
say in favor of the free whisky candidates,
but it has a good deal to say about the
free whisky platform. In Mondays issue
it tells what the consequences would be if
this platform were carried into effect:
The whole country would be debauched with
cheap whisky. There are plenty OF men living
who can remember the 25-cents-a-gallOn whisky
days. They can remember how the farmers
came to the towns some with jugs, some with
kegs, and some with barrels. Some would give
excuses that they were afflicted with all the
diseases to which flesh is heir and which could
only be cured by whisky. They had malaria,
and might have snake-bites to cure. Their
it without mixing whisky with it. Never were
farmers in such an unhealthy and moribund
condition In those days. They could not get
through harvesting, thrashing, blowing, corn
husking, or log-rolling without it. 1t was as
necessary to the hay-mowing and the harvest as
the scythe or the sickle. The whisky-jug on
such occasions was as common in the West as
the rum-jug in New England, when every one,
from the deacon to the Farmland had his wet
rations. In those days of cheap whisky there
were ten drunkards TO one now. Delirium ire
mems was a common disease; now it is rare.
Then every enc filed up with whisky or rum.
1t was one of the stats of life in every house.
The delirium tremens policy is not
going to prevail. The moral sense of the
country is against it. The business in
terests of the country are against it.
From every point of view-moral, eco
nomic, financial and political-it is indie
fensible The country does not want the
days Of twenty-cent whisky and universal
drunkenness to return. Hence it will re-
pudiate Ben HARRISON at the polls next
November, for his election means, as
Parson CUYLRR says, Carnival of Beel-
zebub and Bacchus all over the land'
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RhEHAT 7
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he did Saturday evening. He presented
the controlling issue of the campaign
tersely and effectively, and his tribute to
the democratic candidates was hearty and
handsome. Gov. GRAY will be found in
the front of the fight from now until
election day, and will do the hardest
hitting of his life.