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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-03
NOTES OF THE DAY.

| The tariff tax on a broadclotl
suit is fifty per cent. less than on /;
coarse suit of woolen clothes.-St. Pau
Globe.
IA tariff duty is not q tax
True as the Book of Mormon. Call il
a benefit conferred by the Govern.
ment upon loyal people, or the proud
privilege of the citizen to pay duties
which the Government does not need
or voluntary contribution.-Bufalc
Courier.
-Governor Foraker, of Ohio, is O
magnanimous man. He began his
campaign work this year by attacking
Mrs. Thurman for earring food to rebel
prisoners during the war, but he now
has stopped calling public attention to
the incident. He appears to be willing
to let the country forget Mrs. Thur
mans record as a comforter of people
in Distress Chicago NeWs.
Carl Schurz is as uncompromis-
ing in his support of Cleveland in 1888
as he was in 1884, and he will have
with him tho great mass of intelligent,
thoughtful Americans OF German birth.
Mr.. Schurz's visit to protected Ger
many has only served to strengthen
his dislike to Governmental systems
discriminating between classes. ST.
Louis Republic.
MIR. Blaine says that trusts are
'largely private AFFAIRS" and his
friend, Mr. Carnegie, says: "The pub
lie may regard them with serene con-
fidence." But Democratic Attorney
General in New York, backed by q
Democratic organization, is moving
against the sugar trust on the ground
that it is "illegal, monopol,' and a
criminal conspiracy" We rather
think this is the peoples view.-M Y.
World.
November 6 will be good time
for the American who believes in free
dom and fair play to express his
opinion of
Costly coal, Costly pork,
Costly -four Costly lard
Costly sugar, Costly Clothes,
Anu III sortb ol cosby necebsurlcS.
November 6 will be a good time to
give it to the barons and bosses and
cut-throat monopolists of all sorts and
sizes. .-Philadelphia Record.
"A Government which constantly
raises much larger revenue than it
needs for an economical administra-
tion, and then embarks in lavish ex-
penditures for the sake of spending
the surplus-that Government is in a
very bad way. Such practice, some
time continued, will produce carni-
val of rascality in our public affairs
compared with which the Tweed
regime in New York will appear like
white innocence and virtue. Such a
practice. raised to the dignity OF sys-
tenn, would be the moral ruin of tae
Republic. Carl .Sclsurs's Letter.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-03
HOW WE ARE TAXED.
The Burdens on Voters Outfit for
Election Day.

Election Day.
As, between now and November, the
voters OF the country who can afford
to do SO will lay in their winter cloth
ing. we will consider the taxes on the
articles of dress in which the voter in
this latitude will go to the polls. For
the sake OF the argument we will sup
pose that he can afford them, though,
owing to strikes, lock-outs, trusts,
syndicates and general restriction Of
the market by these laws and their
beneficiaries, the assumption will not
be warranted by the facts in hundreds
of cases.
The dress OF our average voter in
November ought to consist of hat, q
woolen overcoat, q woolen suit,
worsted stockings, flannel underwear,
cotton or muslin shirt with linen
bosom, collars and cuffs and silk
cravat If it rains he will carry an
umbrella, which may be included in
the list. He will have in his pocket
a handkerchief, which we will suppose
to be linen; a pocket knife, watch
and bunch of keys. He may have
other articles OF dress and other things
in his pockets, but whatever he has,
it will be taxed. He is taxed from
the feet up and from the head down;
taxed up for the Government and
its necessary revenue; taxed down for
the beneficiary of the Govern
ment who collects his share OF the
taxes by forming trusts and other COM
binations to establish corners" in
side OF the great corner established
and maintained by the war tariff taxes.
Beginning with the hat, we find that
1t is taxed as per cent of its value, if
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-03

Presidential year. Four years ago it
went Republican by 1900 majority.
On the 9th the Democrats carried it by
700 majority.
During the campaign the only ques-
ton debated was that of the tariff, and
the Republican managers left no
means untried to frighten the working
men into voting the Republican ticket.
They resorted even to the dastardly
trick OF printing on the pay envelopes
OF the workmen that lower tariff meant
lower wages, and that they must vote
the Republican ticket if they wished
to keep wages up. Every thing that
meanness, as well as shrewdness,
could devise was resorted to, and it all
failed. The working-men do not in
tend to be bulldozed this year. They
are beginning to understand that their
wages do not depend on the tariff, but
on supply and demand that employers
reduce wages whenever they can, and
will always hire the cheapest labor
they can find. They know that it is
better for every body that the neces-
saries of life should be cheap, and they
see that the tariff is tax that makes
the necessaries OF life dear. They are
understanding these things this year
better than they ever understood them
before, and they are voting according
ly.
The election in Newark shows how
the working-men are going to vote.
1t Is n straw that indicates the current
of thought. 1t is preliminary skir-
mish to the great battle in Nov Der,
and clearly determines how that battle
will CO. Chicago Herald..
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-03
DEMOCRATIC SOLDIERS.

Some Valuable statistics Compiled from
Republican Almanacs, Showing That the
Soldiers of the Union We're Democrats
and the Stay-at-Homc Voters We're Re-
publicans.
There Is no evidence that even one
Republican voter in 1860 shouldered
his musket and fought in the Union
ranks during the civil war. That few
did is exceedingly probable; but the
evidence is lacking, and we must ac-
copt the statement on faith. Outside
OF the regular army corps officers but
three OF the prominent Generals were
Republicans. Grant, Sherman, Sheri-
dan, Mcclellan, Meade, Hancock, Slo-
cum, Butler, Logan, Hooker, McPher-
son, Buell., Rosecrans, Siclles - the
whole galaxy of volunteer Generals
were Democrats when the war began,
whatever they may have been after it
ended. But for them and the loyal
Democratic leaders of the North there
never would have been a civil war, or
"more perfect Union" preserved
for us.
In 1860 the total Democratic vote in
the loyal States was 1857, 119; the total
Republican vote was 1856, POI, show
ing Democratic majority in the loyal
North of 100,S53.
These States furnished 1900, TAG
troops under the different calls. If
every Republican voter in the country
had shouldered a musket there would
have been deficiency of S44, 4S5, and
1T would have been necessary to call
upon this number of Democrats to
help them out. II not one Republican
had stayed at home to vote, thirty-two
per cent. of the army must have been
Democratic. If exactly as many Dem
ocrats as Republicans had enlisted,
the Democrats would have remained
in majority in the voting. To find
how many Republicans went to the
war let us see how many Republicans
stayed home to vote. The truly loyal |
almanacs Of the Albany Journal and |
New York Tribune will furnish the
statistics Here is the Republican
vote for five years:
VOTE
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-03
But II the tax ia b,ch eSoueh to bo

= ".Ao "e'A 40 iiiSh thStsSAA w w
"protective"-that is, to check or pre-
vent importation, the home manufact-
lirer will not fully supply the demand
He will even form "trusts" and shut
down mills to prevent the demand
from being supplied. This makes
prices high and adds the amount of the
tariff tax to tho price of articles made
in this country.
There are very few exceptions to this
rule. and where they exist at all it is
only in industries which have not been
able as yet to combine and avail them
selves of the privilege of adding the
tariff tax to their prices--a privilege
on the existence of which the entire
protective system depends
out which tariff taxes would be of no
benefit whatever to our manufacturers.
In considering the items of his cleo
tion-day outfit, the voter must assume
therefore that the amount of the tariff
tax was added to the cost of the article
in every instance, because If it had not
been it would have been of no benefit
to any one in this country and would
have been reduced long ago.-,St Louis
ReD,xbLc
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-03

it is coarse wool. If it is silk hat it
pays only so per cent. This is one of
the thousand "injustices and Unequal
tiles"
His overcoat, coat, vest and trous-
ers are taxed 66 cents on the dollar of
value.
His flannel underwear is taxed rs
cents on the dollar if it is of poor
quality; 67 cents if it is finer material.
His stockings are taxed 67 per cent.
of their value; if they cost him %
cents pair, that price includes over
16 cents of protection.
His shoes are taxed "for revenue"
With taxes running only from 10 to
30 per cent, and with raw material
free, the business of shoe manufacture
ing is one OF the most prosperous in
the country, leading in the amount of
Its exports and the money it brings
into the country. His shoes, then, are
at least 40 per cent. cheaper than they
would have been under the "pro-
tective" policy which taxed raw hides.
His cotton or muslin shirt is taxed
81 per cent. and upwards. The linen
in the bosom, collar and cuffs is taxed
30 pe- cent; the silk cravat, so per
cent; his umbrella, 40 per cent; his
watch. 25 per cent; his keys, 45 per
cent; his knife, so per cent. We had
almost forgotten his suspenders, but
our friends, the protectionists, remem-
bered them and taxed them &C per
cent. With tax of 25 per cent on
every button he has ON or has lost off
even including his collar-button-
unless it is diamond. In that case it
is taxed Is per cent. less. If we have
omitted any thing else the voter may
be sure that it has not been omitted
from the tax list. In recapitulating
we will compare these present taxes
with the reductions proposed in the
Mills bill on basis of the dollars
worth on each articles:
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-03

The close OF the war found the Dem
ocratio vote 1885, ,874 short of the vote in
1860, and the Republican 2S7, 7,817 great.
era natural and normal increase
The Republican vote showed a nor.
nal and ordinary increase over the
corresponding election of 1868. The
Democratic vote showed an extraor-
dinary and abnormal increase. The
Democratic "boys in blue"-what were
left of them-had como home. No
longer fighting, they were voting
again. But they had left over 800, 900
of their numbers in the National cem-
eteries, and they no longer were in a
majority.
While they fought the battles of the
Union they surrendered complete con-
troll of their State Governments to the
Republicans, who had preferred stay
ing at home and voting to fighting for
the flag they called u "flaunting lie,"
and the constitution they believed q
"league with hell" Their opponents
securing all the offices, all the fat con-
tracts, all the plumber, had absorbed
the natural increase and all the party
parasites.
1t has been uphill work to recover
what they had handed over to the
home guard who wouldn't fight, when
they Loyalty shouldered their muskets,
but they have succeeded and will prob
ably keep it.
Here is the history, from the 7rib-
mes election tables, of how the Re-
publican party fought the war by stay
ing at home. Read it; study it; ponder
On it. No wars dissolution is here.
The normal increase from 1860 to 1864
s the same as from 1864 to 1868.
There are none of its voters in the Ma
ional cemeteries. All are present at
he polls to vote and none are to be ac-
counted for:
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-03
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Married men are preferred as off,
GERS on the police force. The authori-
ties want men who have had their
courage tried and proved.-N. Y. NeUs.
81 suffer dreadfully from ennui,
DOCTOR" said Mr.. Bohre. "Do you
still retain your old habit of talking to
yourself, sirp" queried the physician,
innocently. -Harper's Bazqr.
Wendell Phillips once gave the ad-
vice, "Never call a man liar" We
never do. 1t Is much more polite and
just as true to call him gas meter
Shoe and Leather Reporter.
If man sued for breach of promise
were to set up the defense of tempor-
ary insanity he would certainly prove
his case by reference to old love letters.
luck.
Live within your income, says the
practical adviser; but if he would tell
how one may live without it, he would
have the merit and the glory of in
stiucting a larger constituency
ton Budget.
Judge (to prospective grand jury
man-"What is your occupation?" P.
G. J.-"Collector for the gas COM
pany." Judge-"You are excused. 1t
would be impossible for you to bring
in a true bill. ."-Terre Haute Express.
"A little pamphlet called "Humor
in ye Sixteenth Century shows that
yo joker OF that period borrowed
great deal of his wit from ye humorist
OF ye nineteenth century without CIV
ing particle of credit.-NorriStoW
Herald.
First Lady-"I understand Miss
De We're has gone on the stage" Sec
ond Lady-"O. yes; she has been be-
fore the public year." First Lady
HAS she made any reputation" Sec
ond Lady "Some, / presume, but not
nearly as much as she has lost. -
Washington Critic.
Impatient Husband - "Where in
the world have you beenp l want my
dinnerm Wife-''Excuse me, John,
but ran down to the sewing society at
five, and to my surprise it didn't wind
up until eight" Husband-"Yo on mean
IL WIS WOuuu up dJ uVc ana ulun U run
down until eight. IN. Y. San.
-Editor-"You say you wish this
poem to appear in my paper anony-
mouslyw Would-be contributor
''Yes; l don't want any name to it,
"Then can'tpublish it." ''Why not?''
Because am conscientious about this
matter. don't want an unjust sus-
picion to fall upon some some innocent
person. "-Ieras Sittings.
Mr.. Darringer-"I was surprised
to-day to see how our Joe can swim.
1t is necessary accomplishment"
Mrs. Darringer-'I see it argued that
the ladies ought to know how to swim.
Couldn't learnP" Mr.. Darringer-
"If you could manage to keep your
mouth shut long enough, my dear.
-'Local rains, my son, are rains
which fall in the locality where they
occur This information is accorded
to relieve your mind of any uncertainty
which may have arisen in consequence
OF continued and persistent dry weather
In your locality, notwithstanding the
Weather Bureaus oft-repeated predic-
tions of local rains. '"-Boston l'ran-
ScyiDL
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-03
leaders, who would have boon eisd 10

leaders, who would have boon clad 70
"let our wayward sisters depart in
peace" who branded the flag they now
appropriate as "flaunting lie," and
who denounced the constitution as
a ga covenant with death and' q
league with hell"
They desired a disruption OF tho
Union. They plotted for it. And they
never can and never will forgive the
rising of the loyal Democratic masses
ofthe North under the lead of Stephen
A. Douglas, compelling fight. They
let the Democrats do the fighting,
while they did the voting and stealing.
The facts of history make them insane.
Cor. ~ Y. World.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-03
Experience Teaches.

"Mstsr," said countryman to
Sixth avenue dry goods dealer, IL want
to git shawl fer purity little girl
down at Starin's Corners. You needn't
say nothin' bout it to the newspapers,
cos l want TO keep it quiet, but we're
goin' to be married in IL month an I'm
thinlsin' of givin' her a shawl. Suthin'
bang up-han'soine."
81 can show you fine line of India
shawls, sir"
"N-no, | guess don't want them. I
had pair of moccasins onct, an I'm
dinged If the beads didn'tall come 0 f.n
M Y. Sun.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-03

mo elections Figures OF preceding year.
The total Republican vote fell off in
the State elections of 1862 only 161, 797,
ana in the State elections of 1868,
adding the latest vote of Indiana, New
Jersey and Oregon, it exceeded the
Presidential vote of 1860 by II, ,243.
The Republicans who event to the
war" were certainly not missed when
election day came around. They were
at home and ready to vote. They were
not in the army. In 1864 their vote
increased to 2.174,2 279, showing the
regular and normal increase (31S,01S)
that there would have been in any
four years without war, and with
nothing TO disturb the smooth and
even tenor of Il political party.
How fared it with the Democratic
party? Let the Republican election
tables tell the story:
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-03
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

The call for troops SO depleted the
Democratic runks that in November,
1862, there was Democratic loss of
40i, 45S in voters, against Republic
an loss OF 16l,797. The latter was
merely the natural loss of an off year.
The Democrats might naturally show
the same and even 10000 more. But
the 200, 900 Democratic voters who are
missing and unaccountcd for were in
the Union army. They could be nowhere
else That there were NO Republic
ans in the army The votes show. The
Democrats had 100, 1853 majority at the
previous election. The Republicans
had l4l, ,S03-not by an increase of
votes but by Democratic losses.
In 1868 the Dem ocratic vote dwin-
died down to 1,4S7, 1888, a loss of 469,
7S7, while the Republican showed an
increase of 12,243 The Democratic
majority Of 100, 75l had been turned
into a Republican majority of SSl, ,172,
for every Republican who had voted
in 1860 was at the polls TO vote in 1863
wniie nearly half million Democrats
in The Union army were denied that
privilege.
An 1864 the Democratic vote showed
a loss Of nearly half u million. 1t had
dwindled from 1857, 119 in 1860 to
1,7S9,03s. Why? Where were its
new members? Where were the "old
guard" With its leaders, in the
onion army. 1t had put politics to
yone side to keep till the war was
through.
In 1866 the war was over. The Dem
oerats had returned home to vote.
What was the resultP II was IN off
year. .bu: the Democrats gained 2,207
over the Presidential vote, while the
Republicans lost 30,201, showing that
the bulk OF the soldiers vote had gone
3a ths Democrats.
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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-03
VICTORY FOR REFORM.

An Election That Shows How Working
Men Are Going to Vote.
The city of Newark, N. j., is city
of working-men. 1t is one of the
largest manufacturing centers in the
United States. 1t is the place where
the " free-trade scare was played for
all it is worth, and where the high
takers hoped to repeat 1880 over
again. Besides this, it has always
been a Republican city. Not in thirty
years has it gone Democratic in a
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-03
Present ,car As reduced

It IS claimed by protectionists that
the Tax collected at the custom house
on the imported goods is not also col
lected by the seller on goods made in
this country. This is true of taxes for
revenue, which do not corner the homo
market. If this market is not corr
nered on any articles by high Gov
ernment tax, American manufacturers
are forced to manufacture enough OF
that particular article at a reasonable
price to supply the home demand.
Otherwise the consumer or his agents,
the Wholesale merchants. would send
abroad for it.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-03
Totals ee0O, 14e l,o57, li0 1,sso. .o38 a,el4, 1851

What would be the natural and
rational explanation of any keen
witted foreigner, who never had heard
of our civil war, who should be
shown these tables? Would he not
say: This country has been visited
by great famine or great war
which has not affected the Republican
party in the slightest, but has fallen
entirely upon the Democratic party"
Ii he knew of the war, would he not
take the tables and point out that the
Democrats plainly had furnished all
the Northern troops and borne all the
Northern losses? Would he not point
to Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky,
Missouri, for absolute proof of his as
sertion?
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-03
I'VE propogA too. by oxtendino

We PROPOSE too, by extending
the market for our manufacturers, TO
promote the steady employment of
labor, while by cheapening the cost OF
the necessaries of life we increase the
purchasing power of the working
mans wages and add to the comports
of his home.-Presideat Clevelaad's
Letter of Accepsaaes.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-03

An impression is really gaining
prevalence that Blaine desires the de-
feat of Ben Harrison. He is contrib
uting very much to that end. Arkansas
Gazette.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-03
-The men in opposition to th,

Tho men in opposition to the
Republican party certainly represent
the honored names identified with
Massachusetts history this year.
Here are II portion of them: Adams
Quincy, Andrew, Garrison, Everett,
Hoar, Higginson. The Hoar family
is divided, but the younger branch OF
1t takes the progressive side. Bosta1s
Herald
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-11-03

THE REPUBLICAN, VOTE.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-07-05
CARL DUNDER.


Der possession of an eight-day clock
seems 10 make some folks forgec dot dare
vhas an eternity ahead
Vhan a man shumps Up und waves
his arms ind cries ash loud as ne can,
dot vhas not argument. Dot Who's
some wind which makes up der lack Of
argument.
ffIhaf bird in my hand l vhas all
right for quail on toast. II dot bird yhas
in some bushes, maybe ! doan' catch him
in two weeks.
One off der troubles mid some mems
vhas der difference in opinion. No one
else but der selves beliefs day yhas so
VERY shmart und so der pooblic yeas de-
clared ungreatful.
Somepody says to me dot riches haf
wings. SO has goose, und yet nopody
goes back on goose on that account.
like a man wish he would Keep
ayhey from me. If ! shmeu onions nit
der breath Of a United States Senator he
yhas gone COP shu5t so queek as II ne
yhas only q constable,
We must all bend g leedie 20 puoilc
opinion. Dot yhas der reason l hat my
bottled beer come into der house by way
of der ally.
know some families dot / Should be
lief vhas Dext door to Heaven il day
gouldonly keep their windows down when
day quarrel.
When you tsll me how we can make
some buildings of Canada thistles | snail
tell you how some good can come from
loafer.
II vhas surprising how much easier i
7has to forglf a man who has done you a
real injury dan one who wrongs you nm
Intentionally or one you hat wrongeC
yourself.
1 like leedle shildren, aud so | like cab
bages. If shildren kept in their place
like cabbages belief like 'em de
/ best.
When You find g friend who vhas read
/ to listen to all your household trouble
ind advise nit you, you haf made De
worst enemy of your life. If Mrs. Dunde
pulls rly hair doan' let somepody know
4 if | die for il.
You doan know how selfish der poobli
vhas und bow leedle peoples rights VIA
respected until you see me drive Oud
some Soouday nit my horse und wagon
( Tt yhas all right if 1 shtop IN der midi
OF der road; it yhss all wrong if eafery
pody else doan' keep py der right ind le
me pass.
bnow Of some fellers VINO set on
twenty years ago TO find perfect weathe
good peoples and q soft job init big pc!
und i notice dot dey get poorer eac
year.
some times l doan' say n0things, 10
eaferpody goes AWAY uuj declGres yha
20 wise dot ] should be made Presidea
Sometimes. again, shpeak oudt p
mind. uud if sho d0an' agree NIT Dc
crowd eaferypody goes AWAY ind says
vhss q fool.