Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-11-29
Presidential Campaign opened.

He speaks truly and wisely who say
that the Presidential campaign ha,
already opened. Business men of nj
classes should have this in mind ant
begin their studies of the situation
Manufacturers should begin to lool
ahead. Laboring men should be fore
casting the future. Farmers should bt
asking about the goal toward which
shrewd demagogues are leading them
And all should remember that tearing
the present situation into tatters viii
not replace it with better conditions
Business men may well reflect
whether elements which have already
declared war on the National banking
system, which are for both silver infla
tion and inflated paper currency, an6
which either directly support or pan
der to those who do indorse the wild
and pernicious sub-treasury scheme
are safe representatives of the business
men Of America.
Manufacturers should begin to ask
themselves whether an American sys'
tenn which rouses the protests of the
factors and exporters of England,
France, Germany, Canada, and the
alien importers of New York IS one
that they should lift their hands
againts before it has had trial.
These foreign interests, by their
prompt and hot opposition, show
clearly enough what their understand
ing of the Republican tariff policy is.
1t should be remembered that it is
Mckinley, and not Mills or Cleveland,
who is being hung in efiigy at the
English crossroads. 1t is because
under-valued invoices no longer pass
current in American custom-houses
that foreign exporters to this country
and alien importers at the east are
raging. AS to these issues the cam
paign of '92 is already open, and Amer
lean manufacturers should begin to
inform themselves.
The incident of the Barring Bros.
which, but for the prompt support of
the leading financial influences of the
world, would have shaken all financial
circles to their foundation, was the
direct result of their investments in a
South American Republic which had
adopted the very policy which the
leaders of the Farmers Alliance in
this country are advocating. The
Argentine Republic had loaned its
credit to individuals upon every class
of securities. The inevitable result
was speedily reached. The National
bonds fell. The collapse was such as
must belong to any wildcat financier-
ing by nation, and one of the strong
est firms in the world was driven to the
wall. There is no lesson which Amer
lean farmers can study at the present
time with so much profit to themselves
and advantage to their country.
American workingmen should begin
to reflect upon the meaning of free
trade England sounding the praises OF
Democratic victories, and of the Lon
don Times celebrating Mr.. Cleveland
and crying aloud over what it is pleas
ed to regard as the popular indorse-
ment of his free trade policy. Are the
manufacturers of England the philan-
thropists at whose feet laboring men
should sit to learn of their true inter-
ests?
Is u party whose leaders already
proclaim their purpose to disturb busi-
ness for series of years by attempts TO
overthrow tariff which has not yet
been tried, and introduce commercial
and industrial uncertainties, a party
for either capitalists or workingmen to
support?
The campaign of 92 is open, and the
questions herein suggested are those
which thrust themselves before every
intelligent man. The coming cam
paign, to greater degree than any
previous one, is to be educational. 1t
becomes every American, both native
and foreign born, to begin to think
Gin. Commercial Gazette.