The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-10-02

That states the Republican case against us.
| No matter what reforms we offer; no matter
1 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 DID, they say:
Can any thing good come cat of NAZARETH
! Some good things have come out of even this
latter day Nazareth. Political parties are net
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 she
coon comm or gwine." They mean one thing
to protectionist and another to a 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 net by what
their mouthpieces may say,
YOU CAN NOT JUDGE PARTIES
BY their utterances as 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-
ton OF protection. That party says you shall
not touch any part OF our protective system,
Ihat was the cry ia the early days OF England
long years ago when Great Britain had pro-
tective tariff. They used to
40 eat fish twice @ week to protect the fisa IT.
I dustry, and they compelled them to bury the
dead in woolen shrouds to protect the wooden
industry. 1t did not make any difference even
If the deceased might be going to place where
woolen shrouds would be superauous, they
were compelled by law to protect weeleA
Industries in that way, and Relieving
In the same line, when we we're under
taking to reform the tariff m the last Con-
sress, a fruit grower In Connecticut wanted
high tariff put sa bananas and other
tropical fruits ia order to protect his fruits
that our people would be compelled to eat the
fruits OF thelp own country.
Ihat is protection run mad, And yet, while
IL Is worse in instance 1t Is but little worse "a
principle than some protection that We nave in
this Country now, For example, tAe theory of
protection is that the protective tariff enhances
NOT only the price of the articles which are pro-
tected, but of all tae articles produced in
the country. uron this theory If a.si a rnan-
Vtacturer OF glass, and am protected and make
money out of that protection, and You are farm
er, tho tariff enhances the price Of Your pro-
aace, cattle and whatever yeu haze to sell. I
read from the Chicago EFatnne, Republican
paper, its opinion on that view of protection:
'tItts
AN INSULT TO COMMON SENSE
TO affirm taat The tariff enhances the price OF
wheae. corn, oats, CATTLE hogs, horses or nadres
poultry, butter, cheese, milk, hay, frtAits, tege-
tap5es, Cotton Or tobacco leaf" That is pretty
nearly every thing that yoH raise around here
opt of the ground. Then follows truth
! chat no high protestTonist can explain; "The
price of the farmers product is fixed by the
toreign market, and the price of every thing
that the farmer buys is determined by the tariff
and IT'S incidents, This is an ugly truth and can
not be wiped out" So that it seems SOME Re-
publicans are beginning to think that protection
| does not protect [ have often stated
| to the farmers what is said here, in
hat
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 it not truef You sell your
wheat wheres You say, sell it here in Wa
verify. You bring your wheat here to Waverly,
1t Is true. You put it on the cars or in the Kill
at Waverly, but you do not sell 1t there. You
get for that wheat how muehs Seventy centsP
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 1t on vessel there, shipping eharges 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
say that protect1cnis is a soothing word. 1t falls
| from the tongue and is pronounced sometimes
| in such a delightful manner by Republican Ora
| II, 1
ing some encircling arm thrcNh 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 meahirF
| OF the word protecton-not that we prtpose to
| deprive anybody of what rishtauily belongs to
| him. nor that we propose to make such sudden
| and sweeping changes that he who may be pro-
tected Shall suffer unjust loss. We intend no
injury to any one who is honestly earning
| livelihood but we intend to look into the suh-
| ject of protection; to see who is protected ::
why he is protected; whether It is the interest
not OF him, but of the people, why he should be
protectedi and, if it be not the peoples inter-
est so much of the protective system az fails
therein we propose to cut down,
| IN THAT LINE
| We find the woolen Manufacturers, the greed
| lest cormorant in oil the protected hordes
| clamorfug against protection. 1t is true tfee
| 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
tnat the revision of ther tariff is necessary at
| the approaching session of Congress- There is
| nobody who has fought revision of the
| tarln like the woolen manufacturers
They had the tariff raised and raised
| and raised again. beginning in the
early days of the war and keeping right on up
to 1867, and only in the last Congress the Repub-
| lican Senate of the United States undertook to
compel the passage of a bill Increasing the
| duties on wooden goods These gentlemen now
| join with US in the cry for
| 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. 1t 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 a 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. 1t used to be n
very fourishing industry. 1t is gone, and when
the opportunity comes for other methods thew
como around to the Democratic doctrine and
say that it 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
dc hat