The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-09-30
Where the Wealth Is.

Where the wealth Is.
The Middle and New England states
possess more money, five times over,
than do all the other states in the
union We are not now speaking OF
real estate values, but of money and
its equivalents, bonds, mortgages and
evidences of credit These states are
great manufacturing communities.
Rhode Island has more personal wealth
than Indiana; Massachusetts, more per-
sonal wealth than Iowa, Wisconsin,
Nebraska and Minnesota put together;
New York five fold more than Ohio;
Pennsylvania five fold more than 1lli-
nois. Now, why is this? Is it because
the people of the Eastern states named
are more Industrious and more econom-
ical than those of the west? Is it be-
cause nature has done more for them
by making their fields more fertile and
the bowels of the earth richer? Not at
all It is because the west has paid
tribute to the east. It is because Penn
sylyania has demanded tribute for her
iron and coal, her carpets and other
woolens Because Massachusetts, and
Rhode Island have demanded trib-
ute for their calicoes, their sheetings,
their muslins and all their other manu-
facturers It is because New York has
arrogated to herself, not only tribute
on her manufactured products, but the
control of the money of the country. It
is immaterial how much the western
farmer may suffer His crops may fail
and his resources become exhausted,
| government never comes to his aid. Il
A III
But let hard times come on the bankers
and stock gam blers of New York and
there is an immediate appeal to the
government for relief 1t is asked to
I anticipate the payment of the interest
on the public debt, or throw out from
its vaults millions of dollars. That,
/ too, in violation of law, as instanced in
1 the act of Secretary of the Treasury
Richardson, when he reissued forty
| millions of greenbacks, which, under
| the law, had been redeemed for can
collation.. Let stagnation overtake the
manufacturing interests, and the
millionaire proprietors discharge their
employees and shrek for increased tariff
duties Never, however, has the
government relieved the agricultural
interests They must suffer in silence.
| How long must the beast be sshewers OF
wood and drawers of water?' just so
long as they remain the aids and abet-
ters of the most iniquitous tariff policy
which ever gorged comorants or robbed
the masses. By voting for Maj Nc
Kinley the people assist in binding
the shackles still closer, and thus bear
ing their backs for heavier burdens.
If in accordance with the doctrine of
Mckinley, the bounty on sugar is a
good thing, why not have bounty on
wheat, corn. oats, potatoes and all 9TH
er farming products? Why not furnish
bounty for every profession, industry
and enterprise? And then again if the
principle of supporting industries by
taking public funds is good thing for
the nation, why not for the states and
cities? Why not have our city council
pass an ordinance providing an annual
bounty for every business in the city,
Bucyrus Forum.
Maj. Mckinley says that tariff for
revenue is tax, and that tariff for
protection is not a tax For naked
balderdash that assertion is the baldest
ever uttered by public man. 1t is the
quintescence of contradiction and ex-
hibits an intellectual obtuseness
which amounts to moral tzlrpitude.
i There are two kinds of reciprocity. "
There is what is known as ''Blaine re-
ciprocity" Then again there is the''ohio
platform reciprocity" of which Maj.
Mckinley is the author viii the Ohio
republican boss be kind enough to ex-
plain the difference between the two?
There is an excellent harvest, but
this will not make the farmers relish
Mckinley prices on their pecessaries OF
life.
Yes, the Mckinley tariff has built UP
an industry in this country. 1t is q
shoddy industry.