Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-10-25

Manner In What Way 10 Is Detri
mental to Your Interests.
hArdship but the necessaries Of life used and con
sumed By all the people, the duty upon which addI
TO the cost o. living In every home, should 3,
towards wise conclusion will not be improved b.
dwelling upon the theories Of protection and fires
| trade. This sav0rs too much OF bandying epithets
II is condition that confronts rs not theory. -
| Gr0ver CLeUSIdHds Massage.
There Is no doubt whatever but that
the present system of war taxes is
grinding the farmer between two mill
stones. Ifthis assertion be true every
intelligent farmer should want to in
vestigate for himself.
To begin with, fair sample Of how
the Republican press abuse the farmers
who constitute almost one-half of our
population, is given below. The article
Is taken from the Sunday Capital, the
rankest Republican paper in Columbus,
a paper that goes into Mysteries when
the idea of reducing war taxes Is ad-
vanced. It was cut from o tariff ar
ticIe, and is as follows:
"The farmer, in all climes and under
all circumstances, is q growler, and the
nearest approach to hog of any MEM
ber of the human family. He is never
satisfied and keeps Up continuous
grunting; even in these United States,
where he has more land than he needs
or can cultivate, he kicks and grum-
bles at any and everything. He is gen.
orally q Mossback, Copperhead or
Bourbon; and when he is a Republican
which Is one to three-he first begins
to show evidence that the civilizing
and humanizing tendencies of the age
are working on him after the manner
of nature on the caterpillar"
Has the legislation of this country
during the last twenty-five years been
in the interest of the farmers, or few
of the manufacturers who are to-day
millionaires? Who buys your State,
county and municipal bonds? Where
do you 60 when large sans of money
are wanted to build certain enterprises?
Where does the greater portion of the
money come from that is loaned you
on your farms? Is it necessary to ans
wer that it comes from the treasury of
the large manufacturers and trusts of
the east.
Does not this condition of affairs
prove beyond doubt that the farmers
and laborers who are the great pro-
ducers of wealth are not receiving just
proportion of their products, and that
the wealth of these people is falling in
to the pockets of the highly protected
manufacturers and coming back to be
exchanged for mortgages on your
homes and farms? Is not this the in
axyifa hla rooI1It nf n dyStnnO of tovotinn
which compels the many to pay heavy
tribute to the few?
If we are compelled to export 80 per
cent. of our wheat, is there any man
insane enough to assert that the tariff
on that article can increase the price of
it? If we are compelled to export a
very large amount of our pork, oats,
corn and other farm products, how can
a tariff upon these articles increase the
price the farmer receives for them?
If reducing the tariff on wool reduces
the price of that article as stated by
William Mckinley and Others, then
why will not the reduction of the tariff
upon plows, crockery, salt, threshing
machines, lumber, shingles, window
glass, chinaware, &C., reduce the price
of these goods also?
The facts are, that the tariff cannot
increase the price of home wool, because
foreign wool, being of different
quality, cannot compete with Ohio
wool.
Why is it that the export price of
wheat, under the benign influence of
war taxes decreased from $l.2S per
bushel in 1880, to S5 cents per bushel in
1887, while the price of manufactured
goods under the control of trusts have
increased
If persons who are endeavoring to re-
duce the tariff are enemies of the coun-
try and in league with England, why
was not this charge made against the
Tariff Commission of 1882,
which, after visiting the manufacture
ing centers of the country, and hearing
the testimony of both business and
working men at time when the tariff
was but 43 per cent, recommended
reduction of between 20 and 25 per
cent.
If Grover Cleveland is an enemy of
the soldier why is it that he has signed
a greater per cent. of the private pen
sion bill presented him, than any Re
publican President?
Why is it that during the years 1884
and 1885 of Republican rule the aver
age cost of investigating pension cases
was $52.31 each, while in 1886 two
years of Democratic rule the average
cost of investigating was reduced to
$l3.7S per case?
If under the present system of tariff
taxes, we are raising $113,000,0OO per
annum (which is So per capita for every
man, woman and child in the United
States over and above the amount re-
quired for the economic administration
of the government are you opposed to
reducing the tax on the necessaries OF
life?
The present tariff law taxes every
S1OO worth of imports on the average
Of Al per cent. The Mills bill reduces
that to AZ per cent, and puts a few of
the necessares of life on the free list
Does this reduction of per cent.
change protective law to free trade?
Does this difference make one a pro-
tective tariff party and the other free
trade party?
If all the people agree, as they do,
that there must be a reduction of reve-
nues, and the Republican party says we
favor repeating the internal taxes on
whisky rather than touch any part of
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