Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-09-26
OUT EoR CLEVELAND.

A Leading Republican Manufacturer De.
ciares for Tariff Reform and VIII Vote
for Cleveland.
One of the largest manufacturing estab-
hshments in Pennsylvania is that of A. B.
Farquhar, of York, who makes agricult-
ural implements He was warm person
al friend of Garfield, and only recently pro-
nounced for Cleveland. In an interview
with correspondent of the Pittsburgh
Post, he said: Il have not left the Repub-
lcan party; it has left me. became Re
publican because ! believe every man,
woman and child in America, white or
black, had an equal right to liberty and the
untrammeled pursuit of happiness. voted
for all our Republican Presidents. The Re-
publican party has deserted the principles
of its noble founders, and now stands for
the policy of Stacking trade and taxing
labor to give bounties to favored classes. II
has become the party of centralization and
monopoly, imagining the Government was
instituted for its benefit, while i, in COM
klon with its former great lights, Lincoln,
Chase and McCulloch, believe i n the eco
nomic principles of jefferson. No old-time
Republican owes apology for advocating
tariff reform.
. After the war remained with the party
called Republican so long as 1 believed tho
National credit (more important than sys-
OCluo VI WAS SAFER III Unclf
But President Cleveland's Administration
has proved there is no difference between
the parties in this respect, and his tariff re-
form policy is certainly in the direction of
National progress. The effect of high tariff
rates is to encourage monopolies and trusts,
and the farmer is beginning to understand
this very well. Manufacturers seek to ter
rify farmers with picture of the competi-
ton they will have when their factories are
closed and their hands have to go on the
farm. What nonsense! The Mills bill, by
reducing the cost of the raw material, will
open dozen factories where it will close
one. 1t is, besides, demonstrably impossi-
bic to break up any considerable portion of
the manufacturing industry of the country
even under absolute free trade Il am very
sure that l would not have 70 STOP but
would rather do so than have the commun-
ity taxed to support me), while it is certain
that with lower tariff the farmers sup
plies might be more cheaply obtained
I'm short, no benefit is derived by the
farmer from the protective system; it is,
however, very certain that the increased
price he has to pay for supplies impover-
lshes him and makes the monopolist mill
ionaire. If wool was placed on the free list,
1t would simply be what the wool-growing
States desire. The older States are grow
farmers everywhere suffer more from in
creased cost of clothing than they would
gain by tariff on wool, and a reduction of
tariff, therefore, would prove benefit to
the farming community.
Although the prices of agricultural i'm
plements are enhanced by the tariff, the i'm
plement makers suffer by the present war
tariff system in several ways. He is at a
| disadvantage in the export of his wares; he
! is at increased expense for his raw ma
terial. His sales are diminished, and the high
| tariff bearing particularly hard on his GUS
| toners, the farming community, he suffers
| with them. Were the Presidents policy
| carried out, he would, while able to sell his
| implements at lower prices, make more Of
them and better profits upon his business.
"Protection is the father of millionaires
and paupers, and the question simply is,
shall we continue thus to tax labor and
trade to fill the already overflowing Treasury
vaults and pockets of the millionaire, with
| certain following of hard times and disas-
! trous commercial reverses! 1t should seem
that every one must know by this time how
| tariffs are made-lobbied through Congress
| by those who expect to reap the benefit
| Protection is asked for infant industries. but
| the larger they grow the more is demanded
| 1t is eternally dinned into the ears of the
working man that all this is done IN his in
| terest Who is to teach him the truth that
| protection is always tax upon labor, not
upon capitale The duty must fall, indirectly
| or directly, upon the Congressman.
! "As to President Cleveland, his standard
Of duty lifts him above partisanship like
| his Administration well enough to continue
It, He has place in the hearts of the peo-
| pie such as never could have been acquired
| hV anV amount of