The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-22
FREE TRADE GREEN GOODS.
Something About the Man Who Furnishes
Supplies for Democratic Statesmen.

FREE TRADE GREEN GOODS
Something About the Man Who Furnis hes
Supplies for Democratic Statesmen.
"Cath's" Letter in Cincinnati En- quirer.
The main parsonage here who has been work
ing up the free-trade issue Is a man by the name
Merchant" In my Juvenile years was some
thing OF free-trader and made the acquaint-
ance of this man under sympathetic relations
was, IN the fret place, surprised at his appear-
ance. 1t looked to me like a man who would
have sold out the origin OF our era for fifteen
pieces of silver, instead of thirty. he might
have stickled for five pieces more. There was
an apparent want of hats around the top OF his
head. To most one hat is sufficient, but
this man seemed to me never to nave his com
plete portraiture adjusted unless he had four
hats on top of mis- head.
Instead of being an incisive, fine. Theoretical
talker, as the general imposter is expected to oc
our chief of the free trade agitation had a sort
of Germanic twang in the midst OF his Hebraic
nature, and he could not talk on the tariff more
dow-glass I used to pause before him and
wonder what in the devil he had 10 do with
wndow-glass Finally the DePauws. of Indi-
ana, wrote to me that Moore was paid by the
wndow-glass interest on the other side Of the
ocean to represent their purposes in this coun-
try. / thereupon called on Moore to sue the
DePauws for libel. He did nothing of the kind.
On the contrary. he stood before me one day
in the attitude of a man auctiopeering off his
different hats, and said that they were . set Of
scoundrels who said that he got anything what
ever for anything. There used to be a person
here by the name of Sands, the son of a sar-
saparilla merchant, who started the Free Trader,
monthly paper, which employed me to con-
tribute to it. 1 knew nothing more about the
tariff than crow which flies over a corn field.
AT that time the tariff interest was so abso-
lutely established that gasconade could not
hurt it particle. So amused myself by cav
ing at it. really supposed at that time that
the Free Trader was sort OF liberal institu-
ton, sustained by the subscriptions of its pro-
prietors. But to my horror. after Horace
Greeley got the nomination for President Mr..
Sands said to
DO yon know that Greeleys nomination
knocked us out of fine revenueY'
"Revenuep said ].
eyes," said he; 1--WE were in receipt of about
$50, 600 year from subscriptions through the
importing merchants. When we went out to
Cincinnati against Grant and got Greeley nomi-
mated our factors withdrew their subscriptions"
From that time my views as to this free-trade
gang changed. saw that they were pirates
working for the importing interest against
the manufacturing interest of the country. Old
Fernando Wood. who was about at the top Of
the ways and means committee at Washington,
said to mo one day: II had just made PROPOSE
ton from my committee few DAVIS ago. when
young Sands, the son of a sarsaparilla manu-
facturer. came to me and said: Mr.. Wood, we
do not want the proposition you have introduced
to pass Whom do you mean by "weF replied
Mr.. Wood. Why, we traders" SWELL"
said Fernando Wood, lyon just corrupt
as the worst American manufacturer can be.
You jobbing for the importing merchants
and endeavoring to appear here in the scale OF
reformers."
To return to the Parsee merchant: he has
mouth nearly as wide as his face. and h is the
particular COMMUNICATE of Morrison and all the
free-trade school at Washington. Most of those
men know nothing about the tariff, not having
the calculating power look into the statistics.
But Moore is just dull enough and mercenary
enough to study the tariff with regard to its
in tereses upon himself. You must understand
that the importations into the United States are
tremendous. They amount to the most magnih-
cent sum OF money which corruption ever figured
upon. Since the 1st of January up to the
tnff nA las oaH fhn
importations into the United States were $37.-
100000 This was in despite of all tariff regula-
tions. Now, man who could have point on
any important item of those importations would
be in better situation than the finest lobbyist
who ever lived at Washington.
Let tnrn to our friend MIR. Moore, the Par
merchant, and what his origin /
take his history from his own lips. He told me
that at the commencement of our civil war he
had some kind of a caravansary, or fair, or shop
in Mississippi. He said that he concluded. from
the people around him. the Nation had burst
up. and that he thereuoon sold every thing he
had at low prices and came to the North
destroyed being Now 1 will tell Mr..
Moore. the Parsee merchant, prophecy which
he may digest slowly, if people of his class ever
digest any thing slower than goose who swal-
lows oyster she'll.
He may think that this country is going to
burst up through his leadership. but he is very
greatly mistaken We took the Confederacy in
hand and twisted its neck We are going to
take the fres-traders in hand and twist their
necks in the same way. We have got altogeth-
OF wv gnu O ssiAbS dS d s0ss coL .iu0htoA A0D"o
lie to allow it to be occupied
by the eypsies of the earth, Parsee and other
wise AS to adaptations of our tariff system,
they will probably be made, and ought to have
been made in the times of the Republican party
when the fri ends of the tariff system were in
control But the Republicans had fatal short
sightednsss to questions of this sort, and they
have devolved upon the Democratic party to ad-
just them. But in the meantime vast labor
population has started up in the United States.
though but few of its numbers employed in
the late slave States Hence, you see the blath-
erskites of Kentucky and other silly common
weaths coming to the North to tell US about
our manufacturing system The same element
was telling US a few years ago that we would be
annihilated Nation and divided into frac-
tions because had not pleased the cyclists
and calf sellers down that way.
/ like Moore because he is so common and SO
humble. There is nothing aristocratic noble
about him. If he would appear to me to-mor-
row morning with four hats his head and
another hat in his hand, l should say: My
humble friend, rather than disappoint you /
would wear one of your old hats"
But will not be able TO wear one of his theo-
retical and jobbing hats which he gets from
Whitechapel in England. On occasion
get some figures which 1 desired to illustrate
certain point. Said he to you go to
Moore. You must pay Moore. because he is on
the make every time Pay him and you will
get the figures much quicker than you
make them out yourself
did not pay Moore, because l was myself in
the line of furnishing these green goods to the
free-traders. But l thought / got the key to
Moorishness.
JONATHAN H GREENE.