Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-10-10

grufty it will be at the expense and sacrifice of
many great interests. It Is destruction not
correction that you are after"
That states the Republican case against US.
| No matter what reforms we offer; no matter
| how equitable, Just and fair our proposition,
| the Republicans say You are SO wicked, SO
| unregenerated and so lost that you can do moth
| ing but destroy. AS in days Of old,' they say:
Can any thing good come out of Nazarethf'
Some good things have como out of even this
| latter day Nazareth. Political parties are not
| always to be judged by their platforms. Plat
forms sometimes juggle with words They are
! sometimes
so DEFTLY CONSTRUED
That. as the slang phrase is, 'they can catch the
coon comm gwine." They mean one thing
| to protectionist and another to free trader.
Neither are parties to be always judged by
what candidates orators may say. Parties
are best judged by their acts, by what they have
actually dene or tried to do and not by VIII at
their mouthpieces may say.
YOU CAN NOT JUDGE PARTIES
by their utterances well as by their acts.
The Republican party, or as much of it as is not
going to support Governor Foraker this year(and
that is pretty large portion to judge from all
accounts assumes that it is the sacred guardian
OF protection. There is no word in the English
language that is intended to mean SO much and
actually covers so little as the political defni-
tton OF protection. That party says you shall
not touch any part Of our protective system.
That was the cry in the early days Of England
long ye ars ago when Great Britain had pro-
tective tariff. They used to
COMPEL PEOPLE BY LAW
To eat fish twice a week to protect the fish in
dustry, and they compelled them to bury the
dead in woolen shrouds to protect the woolen
industry. 1t did not make any difference even
if the deceased might be going to place where
woolen shrouds would be superhuous, they
were compelled by law to protect woolen
Industries nd
in the same line, when We were under
taking to reform the tariff in the last Con-
gress, fruit grower in Connecticut wanted
high tariff put on bananas and other
tropical fruits in order to protect his fruits
that our people would be compelled to eat the
fruits of their own country.
That is protection run mad. And yet, while
1t is worse In instance, 1t Is but little worse in
principle than some protection that we have in
this country now. For example, the theory OF
protection is that the protective tariff enhances
not only the price of the articles which are pro-
tected, but of all the articles produced in
the country. Upon this theory, If am man
ufacturer Of glass, and am protected and make
money out OF that protection, and you are farm
er, the tariff enhances the price of your pro-
duce, cattle and whatever you have to sell.
read from the Chicago Tribune, q Republican
paper, its opinion on that view Of protection:
Tits
AN INSULT TO COMMON SENSE
To affirm that the tariff enhances the price Of
wheat, corn, oats, cattle, hogs horses or mules
poultry, butter, cheese, milk, hay, fruits, vege
tables, cotton or tobacco leaf" That 10 pretty
nearly every thing that you raise around here
out of the ground. Then follows truth
that no high pretectionist can explani "The
price Of the farmers product is fixed by the
foreign market, and the price of every thing
that the farmer buys is determined by the tarin
and its Incidents This Is an ugly truth and can
not be wiped out" So that it seems some Re-
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does not protect. I have often stated
to the farmers what is said here in
a more perspicuous way, that every
thing they bought was bought at the New York
Custom House and every thing they sell is sold
at Liverpool. That is wide statement, in a
general way but is 1t not truef You sell your
wheat where? You say, sell it here in Wa
verify. You bring your wheat here to Waverly,
it is true. You put it on the cars or in the mill
at Waverly, but you do not sell it there You
get for that wheat how muchf Seventy cents?
Yes, you get the Liverpool price for it. after de-
Quoting the cost Of loading that wheat here,
shipping it to New York, unloading It and re-
loading it on q vessel there shipping charges to
Liverpool, unloading and warehouse charges
there, the insurance, the interest on the money
employed in that enterprise.
ALL THIS IS DEDUCTED
From the Liverpool price and the balance is
paid to you here. It is delivered in Waverly,
but the price is fixed in Liverpool, therefore I
say that protection is a soothing word. 1t falls
from the tongue and Is pronounced sometimes
in such delightful manner by Republican ora
tors that feel, myself as though were hav-
ing some encircling arm thrown around me when
they talk about protection, until get home and
it occurs to me that am one of the fellows who
is not protected. There is in this country grow
ing disposition to look into the actual meaning
of the word protection-not that we propose to
deprive anybody OF what rightfully belongs to
him, nor that we propose to make such sudden
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| tected shall suffer unjust loss. We intend no
| injury to any one who is honestly earning
| livelihood, but we intend to look into the sub
| ject of protection; to SEQ who is protected;
why he is protected; whether 1t is the interest,
not of him, but of the people, why he should be
protected; and, if it be not the peoples inter
| est, SO much of the protective system as fails
| therein we propose to cut down.
| IN THAT LINE
We find the wooden manufacturers, the greed
| lest cormorant in all the protected hordes,
clamoring against protection. 1t is true they
do not complain of protection on the goods
they make (Which is added to the price they get
and paid by you); the protection they are clam
oring about Is the protection on the raw ma
| terial out of which they make the goods.
They recently passed resolution in which they
say: 'Whereas, it is the sense of the people
that the revision of ther tariff is necessary at
the approaching session of Congress" There is
nobody who has fought a revision of the
They had the tariff raised and raised
and raised again, beginning in the
early days of the war and keeping right on up
to 1887, and only in the last Congress the Repub
| lican Senate of the United States undertook to
compel the passage of bill increasing the
duties on woolen goods. These gentlemen now
join with US in the cry for
A REVISION OF THE TARIFF..
They want to revise the men who raise the
raw material, but they do not want to be re-
vised themselves So with every other industry
that demands raw materials. Go into New
England, which is the headquarters Of protec-
| tion-New England which used to manufacture
| for the country. The scepter has departed
| from her. It has come West into the natural
| gas regions. 1t has gone to Birmingham and
| the South, and now the New England manufac-
| turers who have fought revision OF the tariff
| are calling with one voice to have the tariff
| taken of of iron and coal so that Ithey can
| freely import these commodities, these raw
materials, from Nova Scotia and other British
Provinces to compete with the new coal and
| iron regions of the West in the production of
| iron and steel
| THE IRON INDUSTRY
| Has gone from New England. It used to be q
very f1ourishing industry. 1t is gone, and when
| the opportunity comes for other methods they
come around to the Democratic doctrine and
say that 1t Is high time to revise the tariff. So
say all the electricians and electrical interests
| of the country. There is no single material in
this country the growth Of which in consump-
| tion has increased so rapidly in the last few
| years as copper. Electricity is being applied
| to every thing-to light, to motive power,
| to run horse cars and various kinds
of machinery Hence the uses for copper
are rapidly increasing, and that great and
| growing interest demands that free copper
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