New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-01
OHJO IND THE TARIFF.

It is the testimony Of men who have recently
come from Ohio and know the State well, that
the majority for Major Mckinley is likely to be
remarkably large. Good but let no one abate
lis efforts to make il larger. In several states
tho unexpected happened last year. Secret So
cieties have not much faculty of winning Amerl-
cans but sometimes surprise them. That Is tho
one advantage of secrecy. But when it next
gets within range of voters who are free ana
not oathbound those voters are apt to express
their feelings about it in their votes, ana as
they cannot know exactly how large vote IS
requisite they take care to make it big enough
to cover miscellaneous possibilities mat Is
one disadvantage of secrecy. But with the
Democratic underground work with the money
of importers and the secret performance OF tho
Peoples party or Alliance, the good Repub-
licqns Of Ohio have an excellent preteXt TINS
year for making their majority large enough TO
cover all accidents
1t seems that the coffee-cup and the tea-cup
are preaching Republiclnsm. On every farm
and in every village people pay less Tor their
sugar, and are reminded OF the fact every day.
Government has all the revenue it needs. In
dustries have better protection than before, and
sugar used in every family. y Democratic
newspaper tells them that they still have 70
pay SIC, 100000 year in bounties, but the
truth is that they do not pay 1t; the money
comes out of the importers who are agents OF
foreign manufacturers and have had to put
down prices in order to continue sales IN thlS
country, and are therefore angry enough to SUBJ
scribe TO the half-mion Democratic fund for
the defeat of Mckinley. If they could get free
access to the vast American market through
Democratic victory, they could well afford to
sacrifice many times half million from the
profit they would make in a single year.
The good people of Ohio begin to see the
point. 1t is interesting to note how many OF
the bright Republicans of that State have taken
pains to know, and to make their neighbors
know, that they pay no more, but generally
less. for their clothing their woollenS, cottons,
linens, hats, blankets, boots and shoes their
tin pals and pans and dishes, their knives and
forks, their tcols and implements, than they
did before the new tariff was enacted. Men
learn something about tho tariff that is worth
knowing who note these facts. The next time
they hear whether from ex-Prsident Cleveland
or from any other Democrat, that the " tariff is
tax and the duty is always added to the
price" they know what to think Of his honesty.
But "The Macon Telegraph" sends its word
Of advice all the way from the plantations of
Georgia. The people got cheaper sugar, it adj
mits, AMI it does not deny that the change
is an advantage, but thinks other articles might
have been made free with vastly more benefit,
particularly those largely produced in this cOun-
try. supplying nearly or wholly the demand for
them which are projected by n high tariff tax
1.-The Telegraph" WandelS about the point at
some length, evidently anxious to name some
ono article that will answer as an Illustration,
but cannot. The voters Of Ohio would like to
have il mention a single product, of which do
nestle industry wholly or largely supplies the
demand, on which they are paying any tax
whatever to the home producers. Not one such
article can be named for which the price is not
determined by the home competition and not
by the foreign price. And this may be added,
that the foreign price is determined by the with
drawal Of the American demand and not by
the cost in nearly every case. If this be doubt
ed, the articles on which duties were raised
last October-why are they no higher to con-
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