The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-09-08

ornments, but to transfer the gains that some
mon have toiled for 10 others who have not
earned them. tits because an average tax OF
80 per cent is LEVIED upon all the cotton goods
that they buy IN order that wealth and pros
pcrity may exist among the owners OF cotton
mills in Massachusetts, and an average OF n
per cent. is collected from them on all the nee
essaries and comforts they buy in order TO give
extra gains to those engaged In manufactur
ing industries. II Ia because they are i'm
poverishcd in order that other classes may be
enriched; because they are pfeyed upon BY the
monopoiies, and by the infamous trusts and
dishonest combines which have been recently
formed.
From the statistics we are able 10 obtain IL
Is believed that out Of 90 0OO,O 600 OF our popula
tion 5000 0O0 are farmers, who, with these con.
nected with them, constitute over 3O.OOO,OOO, or
more than one.half Of the whole population
They 5000, 900 OF farms worth ei1, ,000, ,000.
on; the products OF their farms amount TO s3,-
nOo OO0, 600 and they own over e 500 10000 worth
o, live stock; their implements Of husbandry
amount to sGOO, 1000, and their Improvements
and fences to s150,0O0,00o.
These figures indicate that tho farmer Is
deeply interested In this subject, and that he
| is entitled to have his interest considered. As
We have seen, protection Is OF no advantage to
him; he Is the victim OF protection; he Is In
jured by 1t. Consider for moment the argu-
ment used by the friends Of protection. They
| say that unless the high rates OF duty now ex.
| listing are maintained some Of the hourishing
factories in this country will be forced to close
| and their business perish because protection
| forces people to buy goods from them ct
higher price than they can obtain them from
| foreigners.
These factories, they say, can not prosper
| II, for instance, we should reduce the tariff
| from 81 per cent. to 10 per cent on the bagging
| In which the farmer sends his wheat to the
Liverpool and other markets, because the
| farmer might exchange some OF his wheat at
l y S-- Fn-
less money than he can in this country. In
order TO maintain the prosperity Of the home
bagging factories they demand that we shall
prevent the farmer from SO doing by forcing
! him to pay 81 per cent. tariff duty on the bags
! when they come into this country; or in other
| words, on each 800 worth Of bags that he may
buy in Liverpool, or exchange his wheat for, It
| is necessary TO make him pay penalty of S54
| for doing so.
In this way, although he is forced to sell his
wheat in the cheapest market OF the world, to
| buy his supplies he Is forced in one OF tbs dear
| est markets Of the world. BY this method he Is
denied the right to purchase his supplies from
| his own customers and compelled TO purchase
| them from some folks in this country who will
| add nearly all the tax which is laid on the sup
plies TO the other profits they make in manufact
| uring them. This Is called protection to the
| American bagging manufacturer. To the agri.
cultor, 1t is the protection that the wolf gives
| to the lamb.
It is the means by which monopolies, and
| those colossal corsairs, the monopoly trusts,
| are engendered, fattened and maintained. It
makes tramps Of men and paupers Of women;
| reduces the laboring man to misery, breeds dis.
| content, foments strikes, ruins business and
| fosters anarchy.
All the experience of thrifty nations goes to
| prove that foreign markets are more impor.
tant, and would bring more wealth to our peo.
| pie than ans others. Our situation is one that
secures to us the greatest natural means OF
controlling the trade OF the world. Eastward,
our commercial front looks toward Europe;
westward, toword Asia, Japan and countless
| islands of the Pacific; southwark, we stand at
the door of the most fruitful OF oil tho tropical
parts of the globe Occupying, between the
great oceans, the midway grounds on the lines
OF the worlds commercial transportation, our
commercial position is uneQualed by that OF
any other country on eartn Our people are
the most enterprising, our farmers and me-
chanics the most skillful and most energetic in
the world. We ought to have no fears OF com.
petition with any people on the GLOBE We
certainly possess advantages douby greater
than any other nation; our flag should be found
above the decRs OF our ships laden with com.
merce in every port on every sea. The stats
tics OF the world should show that there Is a
larger tonnage Of American register bearing
the pr oducts OF our farms and workshops than
can be shown by any other nation.
And 1t would be so II 1t were not for the mar
row policy OF protection which has erected @
Chinese wall around our land, and closed ou,
ports against the riches OF the worlds com
merce. In 1858, under a revenue tariff, the
prosperity OF our merchant marine was one o
the prou dest boasts Of the American citizen
Over 20 per cent. OF our exports and imports
were carried in American vessels. Since thu
enactme mt of the war tariff, our shipping ha
steudily grown less until last year less than 4
per cent OF our imports and exports were
carried on American vessels. 1t is our tariff
ctAr, hat huc ntrfa ivn1L II Nnpop !,
suprem acy OF the seas, her control OF the trade
Of the world. Our western port Of San Fran
cisco is, In comparison with the distance tt
England at the door Of China, and yet England
monopolizes the trade with China. Out of the
nearly $500, 900 900 OF foreign commerce year be
fore last with China we had but $50, 600 600 OF 1t
We are on the coast line Of Southern coun
tries, and yet out Of about S7o0, 10000 of com
merce there, England has about three times u.
much OF it as we We have all the raw mate
rials in inexhaustible abundance within
our own borders the best and most intel
ligent workmen in the world In ou
midst, yet the little island Of Grea
Britain has outstrpped us in all the market
, OF the world in the sale Of manufactured
articles She undersells US everywhere. Sh,
! | sen6s her ships to our ports She buys cottol
OF our planters, transports it back to he
shores, manufactures the raw material int,
articles OF commerce, then comes right to ou
door and undersells us in Mexico, Centra
America and South America; yea, even passe
oontem ptuously beyond us to the other grea
ocean, and wrests from us the trade of th
Pacific. Why is it SO! Is 1t because the En-
! glishman is more enterprising or energetic
| than the Americana All the world knows thai
Is not true. 1t Is because she has established
. friendly commercial relations with the world
, has cast down all her barriers OF protection
and opened her market to the products o.
every country.
Can we hope ever to become the rivals o
our British cousins for this commercial su
. premucy of the world? UnQuestionably-nay
it Is as surely in our Natl nal destiny as it il
that, as . nation, we shall advance in strength
and greatness. But, to both these ends, on
. thing, and only one, is necessary. We mus
, strike from our limbs these shackles of taxa
, ton, which, of every five dollars exacte,
from the earnings Of our labor and skill
transfer four to the Golfers Of men who hav
not labored for them, who have not earns'
them. We must substitute for policy tina
incloses us in casket of iron. represses tn
free play of our enormous energies, sufrocate
us, dwarfs our body and withers our members
, policy that will give to al classes and al
!, men equal freedom in the struggle for exist
! ence. - Richard W. 1oi0ashend, in Chtcag
, | Gl0be.
Blaine and the Platform.
O., ;, 80 h.