The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-09-12
BULLDozlNo IN THE NORTH.
Some Conditions and Circumstances for
Harrison to Inquire Into.

Some Conditions AMI Circumstances for
Harrison to Inquire Into.
Gen. Harrison Is much troubled for fear that
the elective franchise in the South is not free
and untrammeled, but he has not one word TO
say. and does not seem to be troubled in the
least, about the bulldOzinC methods practiced
by the mOnopolist5 OF Pennsylvania and New
England, who inform their employees that if the
democratic party succeeds they will be com.
PEELED 10 close their establishments and dis.
charge their employees and demand that their
wOTkmen shall vote the republican ticket.
The laboring people are beginning 10 under.
stand the electoneering methods OF the repub-
!ican party. They are not alarmed by such
threats. They heard the same kind OF talk in
the campaign Of 1884. The cry OF the repub-
iican party then was that democratic success
meant the ruin OF the national credit, the re-
pudiation Of the public debt, the dis
rupuon OF business, the paralyza-
ton Of manufacturing enterprises, the
payment of the rebel de5t. the pensiOning OF
rebel soldiers, the return OF the negroes to slav.
cry and the ruin OF the country generally. The
present predictions OF the republican party
have 20 more basis Of truth than its predictions
of 1884. The democratic party says that the
time has come, that it is here now, when the
industrial classes are entitled to protection at
the hands of the Law as well as capital and
proposes 10 give that class some protection by
a reduction o. tariff taxation on the necessarIes
of life, so as 10 cheaper the cost of living and
reduce the surplus in the treasury, and on that
question the democratic party has proven its
faith by its works. IL has passed through the
lower house OF congress the Mills bill, which if
the republican senate would allow TO become
q law, would give the people cheaper blankets,
cheaper clothing, cheaper sugar, cheaper salt,
cheaper crockery, cheaper tinwars, cheaper
rice, cheaper carpets, cheaper dress goods and
cheaper lumber; but the republican senate has
always been the bulwark OF corporate monopo-
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hands, and the republican members of the
house, true TO the platform of their party,
resisted at every step the passage OF
the bill, which makes reduc-
ton of less than per centum.
The reduction is as Just 10 all sections OF the
country as il could have been made, and the
charge Of the republican party that it is unfair
TO the North, because it puts wool on the free
list, il without foundation Texas alone has
over 5,0O0,OO0 sheep, which is more than pos
sessed by New England, New York and Penn
svlvana combined, and is more than the state
of Ohio has; besides, Texas has an immense
area of grazing land, and sheep-growIng in that
state is in its infancy, and will increase much
more rapidly than in Ohio or any other north
EN- state. IT, therefore, there is any just cause
Tor complaint in TINT regard, IL is Texas that
has right to complain and not Ohio. The
bill reduces the tariff on raw riee Ii per
centum, and on rice -four Is per centum, and
also reduces the tariff on raw sugar IS per
ceutum, and on refined sugar 20 per centum.
The issue between the parties Is made up.
Those who are in favor of reducing the tax on
the necessaries of life so that the cost Of living
may be cheapened and who are in favor of re-
ducing the surplus in the treasury that il may
be returned to the channels of trade, stimulat
ing business and increasing wages, viii vote
the democratic ticket
Those who favor fostering monopolies and
are opposed to cheaper necessaries, but are in
favor OF cheap whisky and tobacco, will vote
the republican ticket