Los Angeles herald., 1891-06-04
DISINGRNU0US PARTY - THE REAL
OUTRAGE OF PROJECTION.

ocratic party. On all questions involv-
ing the construction of the constitution
of the United States it has been unfal-
teringly Democratic. On all issues in
volving simply details of administration
it has stood with Jefferson, jackson and
the most sagacious leaders of the Dem
ocratic party. The HERALD has never
for moment supposed that Mr.. John
G. Calhoun was the fugelman of the
Democratic party, however he may have
embodied the ideas which eliminated
in the war of secession. Mr.. Calhoun
was sui generis. He had always, and
has today, devout school of followers.
To the last days of their lives, however,
General Jackson, Colonel Thomas H.
Benton, Martin Van Buren,, and the
other great chiefs of the Democratic
party, grew purple in the face when
even the name of Mr.. Calhoun was
mentioned.
The Democratic party, in its most au
thoritative outgivings, has always been
in favor of tariff so adjusted as to give
tries in the raising of the revenues nee
essary to sustain government econom-
ically administered. The Democratic
party can win on such programme, if
our national conditions shall continue to
exist as they do now, to the crack of
doom. That time-honored party has
never had anything in common with the
doctrine of protection for projections S
sake, just as it has had nothing to do
with free trade. 1t has steered success
fully between the Scylla and the Charyb-
dis of both fanaticisms.
The people OF the United States today
are being mercilessly robbed under the
Mckinley bill. The principle advo-
Gated by Henry Clay, fifty years ago. of
protection to infant American industries,
has been carried to indecent extremes
in that bill towards robust and expanded
manufactures, which Clay would have
been ashamed to claim as his infant
bantlin.,s. Robberies, whose boldness
would have made the cheek of Lambro
pale, have been perpetrated by that bill
in the name of protection. The scan
dalous advance of the tariff on tin plate
by Mckinley under the guise of encour-
aging our production of block tin, has
been commented on in recent issue of
the HERALD. This involves a clear
steal of $20,0OO,0O0 during the period
contemplated by the enactment, and
yet if we shall really develop tin mines
the Mckinley bill will not have helped
their development to the extent
of a picayune. That whole measure has.
aimed to give royal largesses to manu-
facturers, whose principal energies are
employed in enhancing the price of ev-
erything consumed in the United States,
while they are diligently engaged in i'm
porting cheap foreign labor in order to
reduce their employees to the starvation
line in wage g.
The New York World for some time
past has been engaged in showing that
in many cases heavily protected Amer
ican manufacturers are engaged in ex-
porting their products to Europe and
elsewhere and selling them for from five
to ten per cent less than these manu-
factures are sold for in the United
States. In such a case the rev.
enue does not benefit, to the extent of
a cent, while the manufacturer receives
tremendous bonus To epitomize
such proposition in a nutshell, the
revenue defrauded while the Ameri-
can cons liners are robbed. OF course,
the monopolists defended their position,
but the World has triumphantly sus-
tanned it's point against the assaults of
the Home Market club" Our con-
temporary stated that Mr.. A. B. Far
quhar, of the A. B. FarQuhar company,
of York, Pa. manufacturers of agricul-
tural implements, had made such a
statement, and it confirmed it. We
quote briefly from our New York con-
temporary
In the World article above mentioned
a letter of Mr.. A. B. Farquhar, of A. B.
Farquhar company York, Pa, large
manufacturers and exporters of agricul
tural implements, was copied from an
Iowa paper in support of the statement
that protected American goods are sold
abroad for less than they are sold here.
Mr.. Farquhar's position in the tradesis
such as to make his statement of the
known truth particularly effective one,
and it has accordingly stirred up the
monopolists in all directions. 1t was a
shot into the hive and aroused the an
CRY swarm. Among others, the Home
Market club has taken to task the bold
manufacturer who presumes to tell the
truth and shame the devil. We trust
the club will be satisfied by his answer,
which falls on its ill-concealed conten-
ton for a monopoly market like grizzly
bears paw on an offending flea.
In his reply to the Home Market
club Mr.. Farquhar tells the truth with
crushing force. Here is so-called tar
iff in the interest OF American industry
which is specious device under which
the American consumer is made to pay
from five to ten per cent. more than a
Canadian or European is made to pay
for the agricultural implements which
enable the farmer to harvest his crops.
No wonder that Agricola in Iowa and
Kansas is through with a party which
in such bold and fagitious pre-
tences. The stucco has fallen off of the
the pretentious Republican edifice, and
leaves the structure bare, uninviting