The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-26
Special Correspondence of the Plain Dealer.


Ohio farmer. A few years ago the "Bohe-
mian oats" swindle was played on him.
Then came the "tin platen fraud and now
close on the heels of that comes the "gold
brick" humbug.
The three several frauds, although diff
feriDg in methods, are in purpose substan.
italy the same. Their object is to dupe be-
ol, inveigle and deceive. Spurious
oats and gold brick are used for the ac.
QUESTION OF money and The spurious
American tin is used for the acquisition of
votes and offices. In the case Of oats and
"fool gold" an Elusive promise of wealth
Is the decoy placed before the unsuspect.
ing mind; in the case of tin, IL is the
equally illusive promise Of "protection. ~
The close and persistent succe ssion with
which these different tricks, and others
like them, have been played, shows not
only that much wictedness is abroad In
| the world but also that the pristine, uusus.
| pecting innocence of the human race is by
no means extinct. 1t shows, moreover,
that while Ohio is foremost in nearly
everything else, she is also foremost, or
nearly so, in the amount of that kind of
innocence with which she is blessed. It
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honest and sturdy tillers of the soil are
exposed. No tooner do the tin plate de-
ceivers get through with them than they
are mercilessIy passed over to the equally
designing men Of the gold bricks. What
the next strategem will be no one can tell.
Senator Sherman intimates that II will
| probably be silver brick, and he ought
to know. 1t is his business to keep posted
in such matters and what he does not
| know about them would scarcely be
worth repeating.
just this has happened on the heels of
the late episode of the tin plate charlatan.
ry in Ohio politics. No sooner has its prin-
cipal beneficiary been assured of his elec.
tion than he has fastened to deprecate
further discussion of the tariff. Mr.. Nc
Kinley does not want his monopolstic
tariff discussed, because he knows per-
fectly we'll that IL will not bear discussion.
He knows, or if he does not, others much
abler and less bigoted do know, that while
the principle of prohibitory protection
may serve as temporary party expedient
to win an election, as a public policy it
must ultimately go to the wall. 1t may
triumph for a day, just as slavery did, but
sooner or later economic bondage, just
like plantation bondage will die of its own
poison.
We must not discuss the tariff, says Mr..
| Mckinley. With closed eyes we must
open our mouths and take into them what
ever he and his clients, the "trusts,n
choose to place there. "Keep still,n he
commands. "Don't say anything or you
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accomplish nothing, anyhow, for we have
the senate and president" The slave
barons addressed the freemen of this
country with precisely the same conde-
scensions and insolence. After the aroused
conscience of the country had gained pos
session of the house of repre- resentatives in
the slavery agitation, these favored
princelings of the lash said to us: "You
might as we'll keep quiet for you can ac-
complish nothing. We have the senate
and the president"
Following this sort of dictation came
the disruption of the Democratic party
and the civil war. Freedom triumphed,
slavery went down, and ''business," la
Dor, industry, instead of being injured,
were infinitely benefited. The same die.
tatorial policy persisted in now will pro-
duce the same results for the Republican
party and oppression, except that we shall
have no war, because none will be neces-
sary. The agitation for commercial and
industrial freedom cannot be quieted, and
woe TO the party which sets itself against
it. 1t has right, justice and the immuta-
BILE laws of nature on its side. The alb.
srrd and blasphemous assumption that a
commercial mistake was made in natures
order in this world cannot endure. There
, are school houses and churches in nearly
: every township in this country, and they
! are sure to make deeper and more pro-
, gressive impressions than the custom
houses.
, The far-sighted mind of Senator Sher-
man perceives these things, and seeing
them he makes haste to warn his party
that it can never stand on the Mckinley
tariff. 1t was the silver question, he more
: more than intimates. which won the Ohio
election for the Republicans.
{ "Protection," he says, "is relative term
: with many Degrees" and while it tickles
t one interest it torments another. "The
eastern manufacturers,n he proceeds TO
i say, "are constantly making an effort to
I insert themselves in the tariff question
: when they need no protection whatever ~
= What confessions are these to be made
. right after the footings of the Ohio cleo
/ tion? The senator says further that "the
o best and most equitable tariff bill that was
= ever framed" was that OF The tariff com,
4 mission, appointed by President Arthur,
The writer of this had the honor, as editor
of the central Republican organ of Ohio
to advocate aud defend that commission
-, And what was its bill? A bill making an
4 average reduction of from 20 to % pei
I cent in the war tariff.
The interference OF the protected inter.
4 ests converted that "most equitable tariff
J, bill ever framedn into Yankee notion
!. bill," says Senator Sherman, Why did
! they do that, and who permitted them to
i do it? They did itbe cause of their insatia'
e BILE greed and selfishness. They were
! permitted to do it by a Republican ma
: jority in congress. Senator Sherman
says he now regrets having given his com
senting vote to this rapacity, and we'll he
may. He will not have to live very much
longer to regret 1t still further. The time
. is not far off when he will have plenty OF
3 company in his regrets, as we'll as still
a more abundant reason for them.
: The act providing for the tariff commits
K sion was passed by protectionist Con
gress. The Senate adopted its bill, In
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