The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-17

| would make safe President, and thought he
| might make able one; but the result is disap-
may congratulate ourselves that he has not
| seriously disturbed the business of the country,
but whatever he has done has been in the direc-
| ton of disturbance and certainly not in the di-
rection of Improvement
He set out with the purpose and under
| promise made in his letter of acceptance. and
| repeated in his inaugural that he would carry
| out the provisions of the civil-service law pre-
| pared by a Democrat and adopted by q Repub-
lican Congress That was the excuse many Re-
| publicans, commonly called mugwumps, gave
| for voting for him. What has become Of that
| promsel Look at your deranged mail service
and the general falling off in the degree OF
service in all branches of the government The
promise has gone with the civil-ssrvlce rules,
| and to keep company with that other promise
Mr. Cleveland made in the hours of surprise
over has nomination, that he would not De
candidate for reelection. The victors have
nearly all the spoils, and Mr. Cleveland
IS violently IN the field as a candidate for re-
! spoils will be persistently used in that direc-
| ton Thus have faded Mr.. Clevsland's prom
| ises. Upon what platform does he propose to
| 60 before the countrya So far as the President
IL concerned. ii is simply to keep the duties on
| what grow and take them off articles that
| come in competition with our products. This is
| the way he proposes to dispose of the surplus
revenue. Thus far. however, his party in Con-
gress has not adopted his free trade policy. and
it is not likely that it will. Congress will leave
| off where it began, without any settled policy
| upon the questions that deeply and directly
| affect the industries of the country"
In discussing the tariff Mr.. Smith said III
| all the industrial nations occupied the same re-
lations to each other that the States of the I'm
ion do If. in other words. those nations were Of
one people regards civilization, tastes, physi
| cal wants. and lived under uniform laws. We
| can readily imagine how q free-trade theory
| could be reduced to practice. But these condi-
| tions are all different and the United States.
regards her people, contrast more strongly and
more favorably than those of any other coun-
try. Besides this Nation is more independent
{hov, fhn 1f
some tropical products it can yield everything
it needs, and its tendency is happily in this di-
rection
Furthermore, under the Republican policy
of protection the country has made a greater
percentage of growth in every way in proportion
to population than ever before. Figures bear
out this proposition fully. They cannot be set
aside by mere theories assertions. The
statistics of your own State Of Indiana prove 1t.
Look at some OF the figures taken from census
reports. During thirty years. which covers the
existence OF the Republican party, manufactur-
ing establishments increased IT'S per cent; CAPT
tai, 828 per cent; hands employed. 392 per cent.
value Of material 900 per cent; total wages
paid, 600 per cent value of products, 1872 per
cent. Is not this fine showing for protectionl
And, says your own statistican: Since 1880
the increase has been steady and gratifying,
and the sum totals, if they could be accurately
obtained, would give to Indiana a proud promi-
nence in the manufacturing industries of the
country
1.-THE foregoing euumerations do not include
mining operations or people engaged in railroad
business other than building and repairs.
Then, in addition. learn from your Secretary
of State that since Jan. /, 1887, 240 new joint
stock companies have been organized in Indiana
for manufacturing purposes, with aggregate
capital of $25, 000. 000 These do not include
mere copartnersflp arrangements, they do
not have to file their papers with the Secretary
OF State. At the present time new joint stock
companies being organized at the rate Of
about ten a week. This elbows that Indiana is
becoming mighty formidable manufacturing
Stale. The progress in mining has been equally
great. And while the home market for agricut-
ural products has thus been increased farm in
dustries have kept going ahead. Look at these
figures:
Total value of farm products $i77 ISL $780, 55317
"Let not forget that the home market is
the great market for product Only per
cent of our agricultural products are exported.
One million people in Indiana consume more
food than ten millions in France England.
1t would be manifestly bad policy to cut off
liberal cons umers at home with a view to in
creasng the number of poor feeders abroad.
That wonld be the effect of Clevelands policy,
if it would secure any increase whatever"
He showed how free trade would destroy
growing industries which were always coming
up. and needed protection to enable them to
tain themselves against foreign cheap labor.
The wisast men in the Democratic party
protectionists, but the party has had no policy
for thirty years. and its thinking men are in the
minority. The time has come. business
grounds, when that party should be turned ont
of power. and that is what the Republicans pro-
10 do. The Republican party is more
united and stronger than it was four years ago,
IL. a
together will send the Democratic party
more to the rear. encourage our industries. and
secure to the country another period of great
prosperity.
The address of Mr. Smith was frequently ap-
plauded, and after it came a paper by George
J. Langsdale, OF the Greencastle Banner on
''The Southern Question" He regarded it as
containing the germ Of tho whole political situa-
ton, as it related to the foundation principles of
the government. Were the present conditions
to continue in the South, aristocracy would
be created more powerful than that which
existed in the palmiest days of slavery
1t has already deprived the people of
political rights, and places them under usurpa-
ton as fragrant and destructive Of the spirit of
Independence and freedom as can be found In
history. The cause of these conditions is ut
tributable to the old spirit THAI controlled the
country in the days of African slavery. When
the freedman endowed with the rights Of
citizenship the ex-rebel was restored to his
citizenship and :he ballot put in his
h ands SO that both were upon the same equality
vantage. and with the habit OF command, rein
forced by the entire organization of Southern
society, the old slave came under bis control
again The freedmen were in the majority, but
the old masters outnumbered them at the polls
through the persuasive influence of the shot
gun, whip, and terror inspired by the midnight
ku klux. Later, the convenient tissue ballot and
dishonest election boards were found the less
Irritating methods of controlling the vote.
Until the defeat of the force bill the Republican
votes OK FIVE Southern States were counted. and
those States were reliably Republican. Since
that event the Republi have not carried one,
Notwithstanding the fact the Republicans of
those States still live. In four South Car
DINA districts in 1870 the Republicans cast
30 231 votes. in 1886 not counted. The
entire Democratic vote in those districts in the
latter year 0,431, which SO 500 less
than the suppressed Republican vote. In
Louisiana, the total Republican vote for Con.
gressmen previous to 1881 was 72, 1S9. In that
year as counted and announced, the vote was
90 793. while the Democrats had 81 ,097 or
9,701 more than the suppressed Republican vote.
The suppressed voters in Georgia numbered
ct the last election for Congressman 65766.
while the entire Democratic vote was 5,666.
1t does not appear from these figures that the
Republicans of Georgia had joined the Demo-
Gratis. The same suppression occurs in other
Southern States, notably Alabama. Arkansas