The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-02-04

gu tne SERVICE OI monopoly, ana
could not IL it would, and would
not II IL could, shake off this Old
Man of the Sea. In the contest that
Is approaching the chief reliance of
the Republican leaders will be
on the power and influence q I
tariff-fed Monopolies and "Trusts"
that have II strong interest in main
tanning the wrongs and abuses Of
the existing system. While these
combinations of powerful special
interests are expecteu to pour out
their money like water in des-
pairing defense of the policy of
Spoliation, the Republican mana
gers have persuaded themselves at
the same time that the masses of
the American people cannot be
aroused in behalf of great public
cause in which no one of the 60,000-
600 feels that he has any greater
personal concern than his neighbor.
In great political reforms what is
everybody's business too often
proves to be nobody's business.
The Republican leaders also rely
much upon the fallacies, super
stitions, false prophecies and noisy
assertions with which the tariff has
so long been bolstered, as well as
upon the obscurities by which this
process of Spoliation is yelled from
most of its victims. If the taxes
that are being indirectly eXtorted
from the people could be put into a
tax-collector's duplicate and pro-
sented to them for payment the
whole system would be swept away
in an outburst of populas indigna-
ton. But as the operation is hid
den from view there seems to be in
this, as in other things, as much
pleasure in being cheated as in
cheating.
In order to beguile the people
Seuator Frye and other tariff states
men parade long arrays ofstatistics
to prove what no one disputes con-
cerning the condition of the masses
in the crowded centres of Europe.
But those statesmen always halt
short of the conclusion to which
these statistics must lead. They
shrink from their own proofs that
the rates of wages are lowest and
the condition of labor worst under
the most highly protective systems
in gradually descending scale.
They never mention the effects of
the protective spirit upon Spain,
where it has succeeded in convert
ing a brilliantly endowed and en-
terprising nation into one Of the
poorest andfeeblest in Europe, nor
its influence upon China, where the
protective system has obtained the
most complete development that
the world has ever known. If the
statistics which Senator Frye has
gathered with so much industry
prove anything they prove thatpro-
lection is a gigantic curse upon the
populations of Europe, differing
only in degree of destructiveness
from war and other scourges that
affict mankind.
Returning from their excurions
in the industrial fields of Europe,
Senator Frye and his associates are
never capable of explaining how it
comes that in the protected indust-
ries of their own country the rates
of wages are lower than in the in.
dustries that own nothing to protec.
ton. Nor are they able to tell how
it comes that in these protected in.
dustries, employing comparative
ly small portion of the population
of the United States, there are more
strikes, more conflicts to maintain
wages above the starvation line
more unrest and more frequent
; decentralization and distress than in
all the other industries of the count
ry put together. While the protect.
ed Trusts and other combinations
reap large dividends from extor
tions upon the American public
: official statistics show that in some
of them operatives cannot earn 6
living without taking into the fact
cries their wives and children O.
tender years. Naturally enough
hideons facts these did not fit int
Senator Frye's pecan to Protection
-Phila. Record.
Sand so you think you will gel
married when you grow up to be {
young lady, Flossie?" said the
caller.
ooh, haven't doubt of It," as
sented Flossie. Everybody says
l am like my mamma, and she
you know, has been married three
times"
; Inturiated Citizen Ito organ
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