The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-10-29

another woolen house, which handleA great
quantities Of WOOL assures me that he has Or
ders to advance his price soon as the Mch IN
ley bill becomes law. Tailors' trimminAs
will advance 20 per cent. within the next sixty
days on account Of the increased tariff taxes
thought Mr.. Mckinley said we did not pay
these tariff taxes. 1 thiulk, when you go do In
to the tailors you will find out who is going to
pay that advance. 1 find, also, within the last
day or two that plush has already been ad-
vanced from 10 to Is per cent You know
there is an enormous amount of plush used.
Lots OF people. especially the working girls,
want to wear q nice-loolkng cloak. They can
not buy seal-skin like their rich neighbors,
but want something nice, and they buy this
seal plush, as it is called and you will find, when
winter comes along, hundreds of girls wearing
plush cloaks, and if they meet Major Mckinley
on the street every one of them will slide of
about three feet and look at her cloak and say :
THAT hateful fellow" Why? Because that
poor girl has to pay 10 or Is per cent more for
her cloak owing to the beneficial tariff bill Of
your feilow-townsman. Awhile ago, before
got on this subject had to mention both Sena-
tor Sherman and Mr.. Mckinley, and 1t seems
ed men, although representing 1.-THE same State,
and Schooled
IN THE SAME POLITICAL LESSONS,
speech, says that this tariff is intended to make
up the difference between the prices paid labor
in Europe and the prices paid labor in the Unit
ed States, and then the Record says, "Repub-
lican applause"
Evidently the Democrats did not believe it..
It was the pride of the country that it paid
more and better wages to its wOrkmen than
were paid any where else on the face of God S
earth" Then there was applause on the Re-
publican side. There is nothing truer than that
better wBges are paid in this country than any
where else. But it is not protection that pays
the wages. There IS no country in the world
better protected than Germany, and il you will
go to Germany you will find the women and the
oxen yo5ed together plowing in the same fur
row. Italy is protected, and yet the LaZaroni
from Italy are overrunning this country. 1t is
the expansion and freedom and open lands and
free Government that makes wages higher in
this country. But Senator Sherman, instead OF
stopping with that kind of humbuggery, sees
that in this increased tariff there will
BECOME MORE TRUSTS AND MoNoPoLIEs
Instead of more wages for labor, and he
rings the alarm bell to his Republican
colleagues. Sherman expressed the hope that
manufacturers would avoid those contracts and
Trusts that give popular discomfort and that
on the contrary they would invite fair competi-
benefit of competition and cheap
er production" That is what
we want. But Senator Sherman knew they
never had given to the people the benefits that
accrued from more projection. He adds that
if they did not do So he would be as ready for
the repeal OF the law as he was now for its pas
sage; and if Senator Sherman keeps his word,
If he fultils that promise in the next Congress
when the Democratic house sends to the Senate
the repeal Of this bill he will be compelled TO
vote for it.
However, I pass of of the tariff, for there are
or 7 ont
on briefly, by reading to you sentiment spoken
by man who has always been Republican,
Captain Alfred E. Lee,
PRIVATE SECRETARY UNDER HAYES,
and consul to a large manufacturing city in Ger
many. He describes the tariff bill in these
words, and close my remarks with his quota
tion. Speaking of the Mckinley bill and the
principle involved in it, he says: 1T has exalt-
ed the Custom House with all its favoritism, in
trigue and rottennesS the chief temple OF
American liberty; it has exalted the love Of gain
as the chief American motive, and has glorified
wealth as the only thing earth worth striv-
ing for There were never truer words spok-
en-. and that is the warning and protest Of q Re
publican who at last sees that there turks an
evil which, unless the people watch, will de-
stroy them
You do not elect D President. II the people
elected President, Grover Cleveland, having
100 coo more votes than Benjamin Harrison,
WOuId ne PRESIDENT To-Day. LApplauSe.I I'm
der the ridiculous system OF an Electoral Col
lege, which we have outgrown, you do not vote
for President, and it is possible for man
with minority of 1000, 900 of votes to still be
President for four years. You do not elect the
Senate. Your only hope and salvation is in the
people you do elect, and those your Repre-
sentatives.
THEY HAVE BEEN GAGGED
Rules have been made to prevent them from de-
INof,
dishonesty. All this has been done by the Re-
publican party.
But that is not all. In their greed for power
in their determination to overturn the rights
and will of the people and to rule at all hazards
they attempted to unseat those members that
they had gagged. These long-headed Republi-
can schemers fixing their plan to throw these
men out of seats. found that with all they could
do they had no hope of getting the next Con-
gress SO q measure passed without the
knowledge of the people. 1t was this: under
pressure of haste they passed a measure in
creasing the Circuit Court judges of the United
States. 1t was pretended that the courts were
insufficient in number to transact the business
and thereupon they increased the number
OF Judges, and no one opposing
the Democrats in their honesty not seeing the
scheme that lay behind-they increased the
number SO that there should be tweuty-seven
Republican Judges and two Democratic Judges
in the whole United States of America! Those
two were already in, and as soon as they die
there will be two Republicans in their place
No body saw what was meant until
THIS INFAMOUS LODGE BILL
Was brought forward-the worst bill in the
iniQuity of politics since time began. When It
came before the reprsen tatives of the people,
they saw the little trap they had stepped into
before.
That bill provided that judges appointed for
life should themselves appoint Supervisors
for life. who should supervise the elections
in every precinct in the United States.
There was to be Chief Supervisor ap-
pointed by these Judges that had been legislated
into office by this Republican Congress- And how
long were they to be appointed for? To inspect
the next election? that is.long enough Two years
is all you can elect q Congressman for two
years is all you elect Governor for even when
you get good man [laughterl, and two years
would have been long enough to have appoint
edethis Chief Supervisor for.
But no; he was to be appointed by fresh
Republican Judge, and he to sit there for
life like King to rule over your elections;
from the hour that Congress sat. They intend
ed for the life of an ordinary they would
hota on to this power of which they intended to
roe the people. Conspiracy? Why in '6l some
OF 7he people of the South undertook to rob US
of eleven States and we spent 100000 lives be-
fore would let them do it. These people IN
tended to rob us for life from power in every
one of the fOrtV-two States and the consniracv