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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-08-09
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WritVen Tor tne Nh~Wb-OEMOOhANs
every obstruction to a free ok
change Of commodities is born of tn,
same narrow and despotic spirit which
planted castles upon the Rhine to plum
der peaceful commerce"
JOHN SHERMAN.
Bob Ingersoll, my 10, Bob,
When first 1 heard OF you,
Your blows for freedom through the land
We're ringing. strong and true;
Thought twas brave and honest Bob,
Your fight to overthrow
The might Of an e~nslaving hand{ n
Bob Ingersoll, my jos
Bob IngersoT, my9o, Bob, 8fss9E
What is this now l see? .ta4 alf}.-
You, putting forth your talents grand
In AID Of Slavery ul'
For. what's this SHAM. "Protection, " Bob,
Our Trade must undergo;
what? but a shameful, slavlsh band,
Bob Ingersoll, my 10.
Bob Ingersoll, my 10, Bob,
What is IT that you fear?
You, in whose generous manly heart
Love for the oppressed burned clear;
Slaves, idiots, need Protection, Bob,
And shall We backward go
To old-time tyrants for that art
Bob IngersolI, my 10?
Bob Ingersoll, my 10, Bob,
Do you-to law no stranger
Rely on Reason for your fright2
Your logic is in danger.
II Freedom is the Law, :" Bob
We start deep down, you know
Free Trade is Of Free Men-THE RIGHT
Bob I%ngersol, my 10.
Bob IngersOll, my 10, Bob.
My Fighter, tried and true,
For Liberty for all mankind"
Be careful what You do
You. who demand the Right, Bob,
In Freedoms way 10 go
VIII you your brothers help to bind,
Bob I~ngersOll, my jo?
Bob Ingersoll, my 10, Bob,
1t surely is not you,
Who, like a slave, win party aid,
Whatever 1t may do?
No, let your voice, unfettered, Bob,
That sets free souls aglow,
Ring out-Free Thought, Free Men, FIRE
TRADEl
Bob l%ngersoll, my 10.
A IL LANCE.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-08-09

THERE appears to be no denial ofthe
fact that Levi P. Morton, when abroad,
imported laborers under contract to
work on his Duchess county farm, IN
violation Of the laws of Congress. At
the same time this same Levi p. Nor
ton is masquerading as the friend of
the American laborer, and is advocating
a policy that he claims will protect the
American laborer from competition
with the pauper laborers of Europe.
| The statistics show that Levi Z. Nor
ton, during the months of April and
May, imported two grooms for bis sta
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-08-09

THE present tariff on jewelry is 20
per cent; on diamonds 10 per cent.
While on common wooden stockings
the tariff is rs per cent, and $50 per
cent. on castor oil. AS the poor man
wears no diamonds, and usually has
more children than the rich man, we
fail to see how this kindo of a tariff is in
the interesto of protection.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-08-09
CANADIAN EPISODE.
How the Tariff Keeps Up the
Wages.

dB6bs
From the Toronto Grip: "Don't
you see," said the manufacturer to
the workingman, "that a duty on i'm
ports protects me, because it enables me
to get higher prices from the home con-
sumner than l could otherwise get"
"Yes," replied the workingman, land
l am a home consumer"
"True," responded the manufacturer,
"but you can afford to pay the higher
prices because the tariff gives me big
profits and / am therefore able to pay
you wages in proportion."
"Why don't you do so then?" asked
the workingman.
Because L am not in the philan-
thropy line of business, and l don't
have to. Labor comes in free of duty,
and the competition oflaborers governs
the rate of wages"
81 see," said the workingman. 81
never could clearly understand before
how the tariff kept up the wages, but
OF course l see itnow."
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-08-09

ALL the daily papers of Canton are
worthy of patronage by our business
men, and are doing their best and work
ing hard to boom the town. Now comes
along an agent of the New York
Graphic, and secures $1,000 in money
from Canton business men; money that
goes out of this city never to return.
At the same time the home papers, all
of them, have scarcely as much adver-
Using patronage as is accorded daily
papers in towns less than one-half the
size of Canton. This is not right.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-08-09

0. d, COTTON, Esq., of Columbus, o.,
is in the city, stopping with his father
in-law, Mr.. Eli Miller. Mr.. Cotton is at
the head of the so called anti-saloon
Republican movement in Ohio. 1t
must be rowing up stream on a craft of
that kind, but Mr.. Cotton is a very
clever, genial man and no doubt he will
see after awhile that he is beating
against the air in this work.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-08-09

IT looks like free speech down South
when orators like Mckinley are invited
by Ex- Confederates like Senator Joe
Brown, of Georgia, to go down there
and talk protection. AS Mckinley is
going to 60, it looks as if the better
class of Republicans have concluded
that the occupation Of such fellows as
ingalls, and Foraker, was gone.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-08-09

w. B. MARVIN, of New York, Presi-
dent Of the great Marvin Safe Com
pany, has Topped from Harrison to
Fisk, Prohibitionist. He is a life long
Republican we are told, and reputed a
level headed man. We judge he is dis
gruntled over the free whisky plank
in the Republican platform.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-08-09
WELCOME TO THE HAMPDEN
WORKERS.

You come to us from the Yankee land,
And we're glad to welcome you here;
50 here's a smile, and clasp Of the hand,
And here's a Buckeye cheerl
Our hearts and homes q welcome give;
Your praises loud we sing;
We shall guard you well while you WATCH us
With a Dueber case and a Hampden spring!
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-08-09
Carrara, Italy, fourteen Italian n
cutters, to work for their firm in RdYh.
at pauper European wages, 9sas r

WHAT. nonsense it is to talk offkee1 {
ing American markets for AmericaA0
manufacturers" when last year, under
SO per cent. tariff on wooden manufac-
lures this country imported $44,235,-
0oAworth of the latter, upon which our
peopls pSid nearly $s0e0QgOOQ in taxes
which did not proteG2,l Ana that were
not needed for MISUNDERSTANDING.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-08-09

THE month of July has witnessed a broad
ening market, renewed ~cofdence and re-
Invariably steady appreciation in prices. The
ABSORPTION of Investments was very large.
There is a hopeful feeling respecting tariff
legislation nv Congress and railroad legisla.
ton i'm The West. Farmers have reason 10
he pleased with the outlook, and railroads
will unuuestionably have large traffic. Jht
Presidential canvass is WlthonJ passion anu
sectional feeling .-[Wnn Street News
The passage of the Mills bill by the
House and the proposed action of the
Senate to reduce the tariff taxes, has
had a salutary effect upon the money
and stock market, and a marked i'm
urovement is noted. Business men,
East and West, see that locking up so
much idle money in the United States
Treasury, must, if not stopped, pro
duce a money panic and universal dis
aster. This is why the passage of the
Mills bill has created a more hopeful
feeling in business and money circles.
If it were not for the party utterances
of the Bourbons, who recently pro
claimed a war tariff from Chicago,
everything would boom from now on.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-08-09

ONE of our valued friends in Canton,
a professional gentleman, who occa-
sionally gives way to the sway of the
muses., has contributed a very sparkling
and humorous poem to the NEWS
DEMOCRAT, dedicated to Bob niger
| soil, which will appear on Monday.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-08-09

BUSINESS men of Canton are invited
to our press room to see the daily edi-
ton of the NEws-D DEMOCRAT worked
off. We go to press at 4:15 p. m. We
are always ready to show up u circu-
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-08-09

BOILED down and sheared of its verbiage'
the Republican National platform would
read: "Resolved, That we build n Chinese
wall around this country.-[Coshocton Demo
crat.
And then invite the cheap All Sin
chaps over to run things.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-08-09

THAT HACKING COUGH can be so
quickly cured by Shiloh's Cure For
sale at Weber Bros.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-10-11
WHY WE OPPOSE A PROTECTIVE TARIFF.

Many people in Texas, possibly some
of the readers of The STATESMAN, do not
clearly see why such racket is being
raised against the present high protective
tariff, originated by the republican party
and kept up by the bare republican m; =
jority who still control the United States
senate.
Well. here are a few of our reasons for
aiding in the effort to cut down the tariff
to a revenue basis:
Because, a protective tariff imroverishes
the farmer to build up the manufacturer.
Because, out of every five dollars tax
We pay through the tariff only one dollar
goes to support ths government, tie
balance to still further enrich the monop-
olists and manufacturers.
Because unnecessary taxation, by ssriff
or otherwise, is unjust taxation,
Because every dollar the government
takes out of our pockets by means of the
tariff that does not go to its support Is
practically robbery, through governmental
agency, for private ends.
Because it debars us from the benefits
of foreign competition, and therefore
keeps up prices of manufactured
goods, forcing the lsboring men
and others.to pay one-third to twice as
much for the necessaries of life as they
are really worth.
Because protective tariff favors the
rich and Expresses the poor man.
Because the people of Texas, an sgri-
cultural state, are forced by protective
tariff to pay many million dollars year
as pure tribute to the nabobs and manu-
fGcturers of the north ard east.
Because such high tariff is morally
wrong; it takes by force money from one
man to enrich another.
Because, in this latter day, a high tariff
is the mother of trusts.
We don't want or expect free trade, for
the federal government probably always
will collect revenues from import duties,as
at present, but we want the government
to collect in this way only enough money
to pay its running expenses, and this sum
off the articles the masses can best afford
to have taxed.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-10-11
MIR. MOTIONS LETTER.

Mr.. Levi p. Morton has quietly kept to
his banking establishment in New York,
and, other than the brief acceptance
speech made the national republican
notification committee some months ago,
the people have not been acquainted with
his views upon national questions of
present interest, nor whether he is in full
harmony with the platform and principles
of the republican party, whose vice-presi-
Dental candidate he is. For the reason
he has been so quiet he has deemed it ad-
visable to give the public formal written
letter of acceptance of the republican
vice-presidentiaI nomination. The letter
is short and, of course, treats principally
of the tariff question. He believes in pro-
lection and that all tariff reduction
must be maze along that line. The let
ter is a plain document, with no effort al
ornamentation and very little at argu'
ment. It cannot much benefit the plat
form, Harrison's letter or the present po-
sition of the republican party; nor, on the
G ,ntrary, will it injure any of these. Mr.
Morton has unburdened his mind, and the
campaign can now proceed.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-10-11
PARTY DUTY.

Party organization pre.supposes, in
many instances, the sacrifice of individual
preferences. A party is formed for the
support of principle, not men, and, though
there may be differences as to candidates,
there is none about the foundation prin-
ciples. Party discipline provides the
mode of selection of its nominees for
Office, and, when this has been openly and
fairly done, it is of the essence of party
allegiance, it is an essential duty, for every
true democrat to support his party's
ticket. There may be name or two on
that ticket personally distasteful to him.
but, if they are men of honor and ability
and men such as to have deserved their
party's confidence and selection, and their
nomination pre-supposes this, then such
personal dislike should not be allowed to
interfere with cordial support of the en-
tire ticket. Every candidate for Office
has friends who naturally feel injured
when their champion is passed by for
some other more fortunate one. But such
men, knowing that all cannot succeed,
recognize it to be moral and party duty
to bow to the viii of the majority and Sec
ond the cause of their party. On the
Travis county democratic ticket, as now
made out, there may be names personally
obnoxious to this, that or the other demo-
GRAFT. Does that excuse him from voting
for those gentlemen, if they are worthy
of the nomination they have received? We
think not. Such action would mean party
disintegration, and nominations would be-
come farce. The primaries and the
convention are the places for objections
to be made. But, when the ticket has
once been issued, then friction and
captions exception should cease. 1t is
the party's success then ard not merely
that of any one or half dozen names on
the ticket 1t is well for democrats to
remember this principle amid all the in
dependent hurrah that is being raised and
the specious pleading of the worth of
this, that or the other man on the republi-
can, Independent, non-partisan, etc,
ticket.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-10-11

ard not invited by combinations of capt.
tai as a means of restricting supply.
While this is doubtless true in given cases,
the statistics of ''lockoutsn OF labor by
combinations of corporations are valu-
able commentary on the general situation.
Though in 1881 1928 establishments
were involved in strikes, there were only
six lockouts involving nine establish
ments. Since then the increase has been
progressive and rapid. The figures are
surprising in this respect.
In 1881 we had lock outs involving 8
establishments; in 1882, 81 involving AZ;
in 1858, % in III; in 1884, 80 in 354; in
1885, 80 in 1888; IN 1856, 127 in 1,477. 1t
is a most noticeable fact that though there
has been a large increase in the number of
these lock-outs. the increase in the number
of establishments shut down has been
much larger. The average lockout of
1882 involved only two factories. In 1886
it involved l16. Only 4,131 men were de-
prived of employment by the lOck-outs of
1882; in 1886 the number had increased
to 10000
These lock-outs were of two classes.
Wherever possible quarrel of some sort
with organized labor was made the pre-
text. Otherwise the mill or factory was
shut down and the men looked out with
out any excuse whatever of provocation
from them.
The sequence is "high tariff, trusts,
loci outs" 1t is idle to deny in the face
of the figures, showing an increase in the
number of mills shut down in proportion
TO the increase in the combinations of
protected corporations, that it is a
sequence of cause and effect. Our system
of taxation is restricting our manufac-
lures and depriving our labor of the OPP
portunities for employment to which it is
justly entitled.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-10-11

Born ends of the Galveston News, the
young and the old, the editorial and the
ancient estate press" are fearfully exer-
cised over our criticism of its attack
upon Mills for his reference to the fact
that the people elect president on No
vember 6. Wherefore so much hot haste
and blood? Will the News tell us if the
people don't elect the president, who
does! Don't they put the machinery in
motion: Didn't they in the first place,
through the constitution, say how the
president should be elected; and haveh 7
they been electing presidents in that way
ever since: The News argument is
captious and childish.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-10-11
GOVERNOR ROSS A D0UBLET.

As gatherer of news items the Dallas
News is inimitable. In its Thursday s
edition it has a special from Austin say.
ing: "The governor has dispatch from
Abilene saying the people there are badly
disappointed at his failure to be there and
speak to-day. The governor has found it
impossible to get away Ia another
place in the same edition ia a dispatch
from Abilene saying: "The Abilene fair
opened to-day at p. M, and the follow
ing was the programme for the day: Mill
tary, five companies, and school children
formed in procession at 4:3O p. N. and
escorted Gov. l.. S. Ross to the exposition
building. Governor Ross delivered his
address at the exposition grounds at >
O'Clock p. m"
There Is not to make reply, there is
not to reason why some one
has blundered." For pure grit the Abilene
correspondent is daisy; for pure asinin-
ity the telegrsphic editor of the News is a
success. If the daily report of the Abilene
fair continues as perfect as the above
specimen the News will win uDdyiBg glory.
But the wooden and padded special man
n that office should be given holiday.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-10-11

WORD comes from headquarters that the
Austin extension of the Arkansas Pass rail-
road is being rapidly pushed from its
southern end. There is, however, rune
of some difficulty at Luliug as to exteR-
sion of time for the building of the line.
This, though, cannot result in any serious
or adverse action on the part of that town.
For the proposed railroad is too impor-
tant to think of allowing it to pass by
rather than through the town. If LuliDg
Is side tracked by that line 1t will be blow
from which the little town will not soon
recover. Her citizens know this end will
demand the road when the time comes.
The contract calls for the whistle of the
locomotives here in Austin by next May.
and from all that can be learned of the
progress of the work our citizens will not
be disappointed at that time. The new
extension will prove God send to Austin
and she could stand couple more Of
them, one to the north, the other directly
to the west.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-10-11

This table shows that President Cleveland
in four years has approved considerably
more than half as many such private pen
sion bills as we're approved by republican
presidents in the previous twenty four
years. If that lie hostility they can make
the most of it. 1t is true Cleveland has
vetoed many such bills, and he has right
eously done so, for running the con
gressional gauntlet by pension claims has
become huge business in Washington.
Men there, attorneys, make yearly as
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-10-11


FELIX e. SMITH, w. r. HANDY.
For County Judge-James IL. Burts.
For County Attorney George S. Walton.
For County ColleCtor-John W. Kelly.
For County Assessor-H. NJ. Metz.
For Sherif-Emmett White.
For Clerk of the District Court-Jas p. Hart.
For County Clerks. G. Cranberry.
For County Treasurer-Mst johnson.
For County Superintendent of Public Instruc
lon-J. W. Maxwell.
For Hide and Animal Inapector-R E. Cs
perton.
For County Surveyor-John E. Wallace.
For County Commissioner, Precinct No. /
"a. Il. Rogers.
Fo, County Commissioner, Precinct No =
p. Schneider.
For County Commissioner, Precinct No. g.
Hugh Mcclure.
For County Commissioner, Precinct No. A.
John w. Cloud.
For Justices of the Peace, Precinct No. 3-Georgt
Calhoun and j A. Stewart.
For Constable, Precinct No. walter NJ. Rob
ertson.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-10-11
CONVICT LABOR.

The communication of one I. j. O.,
published in Wednesdays issue of The
STATESMAN. and treating of the convict
question, how best to employ them, sug-
gests matters worthy of discussion and
careful consideration. The state Is under
obligation to safely restrain her convicts
and maintain the whole convict system
with the least expense TO the taxpayers.
There is neither reason nor justice in the
proposition to house the convicts and
support them in idleness at the expense of
the state. Bot, on the other hand,
the problem is presented how best
shall they be employed so as
to prove as near as possible self
supporting and yet not have the results
of their toll interfere or compete with es-
tablished employment of honest and in
dustrious labor. Upon this rock has
split all satisfactory adjustment of the
convict question. I. j. @. earnestly con-
tends against teaching convicts trades,
hiring them out to railroads, placing
them in any manufacturing establishment,
and finally putting them on convict FARMS
In all these lines he contends they com
pete with honest labOrers, greatly to the
detriment of the latter. He suggests as
a method of escape from this unjust dis
elimination against paid labor, that the
convicts be farmed out to the several
counties, and by them used to build good
county roads and bridges. This is
class of work now miserably performed
and neglected under caricature
of a law. Already county
prisoners work these roads, and the plan
proposed would only be carrying an ex-
listing custom little further. The state
has gone too far, however, in erecting
buildings and buying machin-
cry, and also in the purchase and stocking
of farms, for all this work now to be
thrown away. But, at least, the present
system need not be extended, and cannot
an escape from it be found in the plan
But also in this proposition much OBJ
jection is encountered, of which the addi-
tionsl expense, and then the loss of GER
tainity of restraining the convicts are the
most important causes. But the state
will not be at the extra expense, only those
counties who have their roads thus worked.
And surely if there is one thing above an
other Texas and every poPulous county in
it needs, it is good roads. The soil through
SO much of the state being of the
tenacity of mortar heavy travel is simply
in wet weather. And there is
not live, populeus, business county in the
state but what realizes that good turn
pixies would be worth thousands OF dollars
TO it annually. These counties under new
laws would quickly avail themselves OF
cheap convict labor to thus materially
increase the comfort Of 'he:c c!;iEs-: sri
their own business growth ara r--i s=tLi!-
The number Of couyicts is yssc.! @-,.rE.L:-
ing, and will continue TO do 80 a. i-s Eisis
grows in population. This ~i- -f,:ss:,-
tate, if no remedy is found. s;i-=- ias
of the present county farms
and penitentiary buildings or the further
hiring out of convicts TO private parties
Or corporations. This Is a question of
grave importance, and our legislatures
cannot be too careful in handling it.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-10-11
PENSION CHARGES EXPLODED

Much has been said by his enemies of
President Cleveland's alleged hostility to
approving pension elaine. The following
table, taken from the report made by
Pension Commissioner John G. Black,
August %, 1883, will show how much of
truth exists in these charges. The table
gives the total number of special pension
acts that have become laws since 1861. 1t
also gives the nuuber under each presi
dank sinca that raar.