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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-11
WHERE THE CREDIT BELONGS.
The Happy Results of RspublIcsnism and
Protection.


No nation of the world, in any age,
has reduced a national debt so speedily
as the United States. In 1876 the ma
tional debt was 81, SSS, OU0, 900. In 1890
it was S9SS, 600, O0O-a reduction of
81, $685. 900, 900 in 90 years Before the
century closes the debt will be entirely
discharged. The per capita debt of the
United States is less than that of anH
other nation-S2s. 1t is s2ls in France,
500 in the United Kingdom, $40 in
Italy, S63 in Germany. S35 in Russia,
In England, with free trade, the rate
of taxation between 1870 and 1890 was
nearly 25 per cent, while in
the United States under protective
duties taxation decreased 10 per cent
for the same period. The per capita
debt in 1865 was ST5. The reduction to
SIS has been made through the protec-
tive system. Until June, this year. an
aggregate of $50, 900, 900 in gold has
been exported TO Europe. Already
the refluent stream is pouring back
from Europe at a rate that will eX-
ceed S100, ,00O,0 In the United States
are peace and plenty; in Europe famine
prevails and war is the constant men,
ace. 1t is prosperity and contentment
in the United States; adversely and
alarm in Europe. Republicanism and
protection are preserving qualities
San Francisco Argonaut.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-11
THE OHIO VICTORY.
What 1t Portends for the Coming Ma
tional Campaign.

hhat IL Portends Tor the Coming Ma
tional Campaign.
The victory won by Maj. Mckinley
In Ohio is a remarkable one in many
respects. In the first place, it is per-
sonal triumph. Mckinley was his
own leader and made his own fight.
His campaign has been one of the
longest and strongest ever made by a
gubernatorial candidate. His personal
influence-the influence gained by con-
tact with the voters. and by their
recognition of his sterling character
and splendid ability-has been most
important factor in the result
While this is true, it is true also that
McKinley's victory is due to the good
judgment he showed in making his
campaign not on local issues alone,
but mainly on the broad principles of
protection and honest money. 1t is in
a certain sense true that the Mckinley
bill, and Maj. Mckinley as the respon-
sible author of it, were on trial before
the people of the state of Ohio. The
democrats made that issue plainly.
Gov. Campbell's whole campaign
was directed against the tariff. Every
speech he made was upon that subject.
If Mckinley had been beaten every
democrat in the country, every free
trader, mugwump, Anglomaniac and
friend of British interests would have
rejoiced in his discontinue and
claimed it as 1, verdict against the tar
iff. They must abide by the issue
they themselves made, and concede
that McKinley's triumph is the tri-
umph of the American system Of pro-
lection, the triumph of the wage-earn-
er's tariff.
1t is a victory, too, for honest money
as against fraudulent and free silver
coinage. The democrats thought to
catch the alliance vote and the rem
nants of the old greenback party by
putting free silver plank in their
platform. The result has been, as it
was in 1875, when Hayes made his
splendid fight for honest money, that
the people have rallied TO the right side
and given their verdict in unmistakable
terms.
1t is because the campaign in Ohio
was carried on upon these lines that
the result of it has a national signif-
cance-a significance that is wholly
wanting to the result in New York.
where Tammany was made the only
issue, and the tariff and silver and rec
iprocity and shipping questions were
ignored Republicans have every rea-
son to be encouraged over the outlook
There never was a presidential year
during the time that Ohio was an 100
tober state" when the national issues
were more engrossing in the state cleo
ton, nor when a fercer contest was
waged in skirmish preliminary to the
national battle for the presidency. The
splendid victory shows that when the
republicans take their stand upon the
old republican platform OF principles
the heart OF the people is still with
them le
We congratulate Gov. Mckinley, but
still more heartily do we congratulate
the people OF Ohio upon their good for
tune IN securing such a man for the
chief executive of their commonwealth
and upon their good sense in standing
up for honest money and protection to
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-11
THE SOLID SOUTH.
Rule OF the Democratic Doctrine Of Ter
rorlsm.


rorIsm.
1t is easy to see that the farmers
movement is not going to disturb the
political solidity of the south. Those
who have Leen hoping that this new
experiment would at least introduce
the habit of boiling in southern cleo
tions may as well abandon the idea
The leaders of the democratic party in
that section understand very well that
1t will not do to let the people begin
the business of independent voting, aud
so all possible means are being invoked
to prevent the new party from getting
a foothOld. They declare it will never
do for the southern voters to divide so
long as there is a republican party to
oppose. The usual talk about the dam
ger of negro domination is repeated
with increased emphasis and white
citizens are urged to subordinate all
other considerations to the great duty
of keeping political power in the hands
of their own race. To be sure, the is
sues presented by the alliance have
nothing to do with the race problem,
but the democratic orators and news
papers know that anything which
tends to disturb. the general condition
of thought is dangerous to their party,
and the hobgoblin of black supremacy
serves the purpose of checking such
an influence better than anything else
that could be devised.
We hear a great deal about the new
south and its spirit of enterprise and
progress: but the fact remains that
! whenever the interests of the demo-
cratic party are exposed to the least
danger the old south comes forward
to dispute the right of any other party
to exist down there. 1.-THE bulwark
of the democratic party" we are re-
minded, ''is the solid south, and with
southern division there is no way to
prevent republican triumph" There
fore, it is argued, the white voters
must continue to act as unit in poll
tics, or the wrongs and miseries of the
carpet-bag era will return, and the
negroes will take possession of the
land for purposes of plunder and desc
lation. 1t is amazing to observe how
readily the white people of the south,
the people of intelligence and prop
erty, are influenced by talk of this
sort. They have become so sccus-
toned to the idea OF a latent conspir-
acy on the part of the blacks to over
turn the present order of things that
whenever tho slightest alarm is sound
ed they lose their heads and cease to
take logical and reasonable view Of
the situation. The time may be COM
ing when a better condition will en-
sue; but the prospect is not very en-
couraging. There is only one party in
the south, and it resolutely antago-
nizes every attempt to establish an
other, and the people are led TO be-
lieve that the only way to avoid negro
domination is to vote the democratic
ticket under all circumstances st
Louis Globe-Democrat
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-11
DRIFT OF OPINION.

u The democrats should hold their
national convention in New York city
in Tammany hall.-Chicago Journal.
THE republican party will take
no backward step on the tariff question
in 1892 This fact is clearly and con-
clusively demonstrated by the triumph
in Ohio.-St. Louis Globe Democrat
g-Various expectant and unhappy
democrats of New York are still trying
TO explain the mysteries of the stubs"
of the check book of Gov.-elect Flower,
which so marvelously accumulated dur
ing the recent campaign, and are not
rewarded with even q modicum OF sue.
cess.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
eEThe republican party is proud Of
Pennsylvania with its nearly sixty
thousand majority for the ticket.
Pennsylvania is one of the states which
the democratic party was going to
carry this year in the interests of so.
called reform. But the republicans
wisely decided TO do their own reform
ing.-Iowa State Register.
syIn all the states that elected
democratic governors, the legislatures
are republican. The people may have
followed a sentiment in voting for a
man to issue commissions of notaries
public. But when it came tovoting for
the bodies that make laws, they fol-
lowed the dictates of hard and thought
full common sense. Chicago Journal.
eYT The republican party is always
to be depended upon to help out great
reform movements 1t has been the
hope of the republic in the past 1t
abolished slavery, saved the union aud
preserved the public credit 1t pro-
tects American workingmen and Amer
lean industries, stands for an honest
dollar and opposes the control of pub
lie affairs by the rum power ana the
gamblers Such party has special at
fractions for conscientious, law-abid.
ing citizens Y. Mail and Express
B-Republicanism stands for a tariff
that will protect American laborers
and producers, reciprocity that will
exchange non-competing surplus prod
ucts with other countries, honest
money and the rule of the majority,
which can only be ascertained by a
fair ballot and an honest count That
is the platform on which the repub-
lican party will elect the president OF
the United States next year. No can.
didate can be defeated on that plat
form unless he is hampered by other
planks that add weakness. State
Register.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-11
FREETRADE, TYRANNoUs TRADE
True Freedom Attained Under Protection
Only,


Free trade, if it be in any kinship
with freedom, has a curious way of
leaning on brute force. 1t is main
tanned between England and Ireland by
such force, in spite of the protest of the
Irish people, all whose leaders see and
insist upon the need of a protective
policy to restore the manufactures OF
ireland. And Mr.. Chamberlain and
other impassioned free traders went
when they began to fear that home rule
would have something to do with home
industry. So the free trade which
blighted India by reducing its manufaS-
turing people to the one occupation of
farming. and thus made it country of
constantly recurring famines, is upheld
by the power of the sword. The Cal
cutta council, which consists of white
and native advisers of the viceroy's gov
ernment, has offered united resistance
to legislation required to keep India
absolutely open to English imports; but
the home government has sent out its
orders, and these have to be obeyed.
The famine commission reported in 1884
that there could be no permanent relief
from famine while the people all lived
by agriculture. But England would
not allow one thing to be done to carry
out the policy this report indicated So
once again the terrible blight is ravag-
ing the peninsula, with the certainty
that millions will die ofslow starvation,
as human sacrifices to the worship of
free trade.
Protection means freedom to the in
dividual to make the best of his own
life. The freedom to live by what en-
ployment you please is a very large
part of liberty. That freedom is high
est in a country where the variety of
occupation is the greatest 1t does not
exist at all where the people have been
reduced to uniformity of occupation.
The Irishman, the Hindoo. the Chinese.
the Japanese are robbed of this liberty
by the tyrannous power of capital in
the hands of foreigners They must
live by such industries as free trade
permits them to have. They are not
free to live by what their own capacity
and the resources of their country per-
NIT. They can not attain that freedom
until they regain their autonomy, their
independence, and by law establish the
freedom which comes with the restraint
on the power of alien capital.
But" says the free trader, that re-
straint is a restraint on other Japanese,
in that it forbids them to buy in the
cheapest market the commodities thus
protected" 1t forbids nothing but
what is demanded by the general well
fare. To refuse to submit to what the
general welfare requires is not to claim
liberty, but anarchy. License they
mean when they cry liberty" 1t was
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-11
England Pro.pered in spite Of Free Trade.

England Prospered in spite of Free Trade.
England has prospered in spite of
and not as the result of-free trade
The discovery of gold in Australia and
California; inventions of all kinds of
manufacturing machinery, steam and
electricity; foreign wars that drove
trade to this country, and the building OF
our railways at cost of more than S50,-
900, 900 pounds, all brought vast wealth
into our midst, created general pros
perity, and fully employed labor. And
so from 1916 to 1875, or Whereabouts,
great prosperity was the universal rule
In 1851, soon after the repeal of the
corn laws, the first great international
exhibition was held in London, and
shrevd foreigners from all nations
came to see the secrets of our wealth
and manufactures. They took all the
leaves from our book that they knew
how 20, SAGE and ercept our theory Of free
trade, and returned home to work out
the lessons they had learned Orders
followed from all parts of the world,
our machinery and mechanics were sent
for from every land. and gradually for
under a system of protective tariffs and
bounties that now compete with and
threaten our own supremacy both at
home and abroad. England, with her
system of open ports, is fast becoming
the dumping ground for the surplus of
foreign products land immigrants) of
the world, which is a surplus stock. and
can be sold in this country at very low
prices Many of our British manufae-
turers have opened branch establish
ments abroad, so as to insure the for
eign market free of duty, and these
firms-employiDg low-priced Conti-
mental labor-after supplying Conti-
mental demands, send their surplus
goods to our free market and undersell
our own working people. The great
Silverton strike in London at the close
of 1889 was ended and the strikers
beaten by the fact that the India rub
Der and Macintosh manufacturers had
a branch factory in France, and were
able, owing to cheap labor to bring
their goods into the English market
free from any labor protecting duty at
the port of entry; and the longer our
present system of open ports is suffered
to exist, the more will the rapidly in
creasing labor population suffer, through
unrestricted foreign competition-Ex-
tract from an Essay by James Hunt,
Bristol, England
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-11

not for that kind of freedom that our
soldiers fought in the war for the
Union. That was the kind of freedom
Mr.. Davis asked for when he said the
Confederacy ''want to be let alone.
Our armies fought to vindicats the ma
tional authority in establishing-within
limits recognized by the constitution
whatever the people judged necessary
for the welfare of all. That was what
they meant by freedom. 1t has no
relation to free trade.-Prof Robert
Ellis THOMPSON
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-11
COTTON MANUFACTURING.
Under Protection 1t has Grown Nor
Rapidly Here Than In England.

Under Protection 1t has Grown More
Rapidly Here Than In England.
Comparisons made by an English
trade journal, the Textile World,
between the rates of increase in the
consumption of raw cotton in England,
the Continent of Europe, and the United
States, convey an important lesson to
students of the tariff question. They
show that 1t is the protected countries
whose manufacturing industries grow
most rapidly, although our American
free-traders ask for the abolition of our
tariff laws on the ground that we would
thus get rid of the "shackles now fet-
tering the growth of manufacturers"
Asusual, this free-trade theory is dia-
metrically opposed to the experience Of
modern industry. The Textile World
finds that in the thirteen years from
1877 to 1890 the consumption of raw cot
ton increased as follows:
Increase
Per cent.
Great Britain q
Continent OF Europe. ...--.. II
United States ..........-...........-... 80
In England under free trade the in
crease was 25 per cent; on the con-
tinent, where protection more or less
diluted by revenue only policies pre-
walls, it was IL per cent, nearly three
times the increase in England, while
under undiluted protection in the United
States the increase was IA per cent
greater than on the Continent, and 10
per cent more than three times the
rate of increase under undiluted free
trade in England. Comparisons based
on the number of cotton spindles are
quite as fsttering to our country and
our tariff system. A prominent Ameri-
can trade paper says:
In 1880 according to the tenth census. there
were in this country 10921.147 cotton spindles,
and in 1891 according to the biennial reports
published by Messrs. c. A Dockham & Co,
the number had increased TO nearly 15,50O00O.
being in fact l5 497, ,302. an increase OF over II
per cent. in IL years, while In Great Britain the
rate per cent. of increase has been only SA.
while the actual increase would seem to be
s.5OlOOo spindles against over 1876 900 in the
United States.
When will the stupid Britisher come
to his senses and abandon his antigua
ted system of Co bdenism, which is re-
ducing English labor to serfdom and
surely undermining England's great in
dustries?
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-11

You said Sohker was quite active
in your campaign" ''Yes," replied the
defeated candidate. sin what capac-
ity?" about gallon a day."-Wasa,
ington Star.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-11
whyI Am = ProtectionIst.
By HON. H. b METcALF, PAwTUCKE-

Why am l, an American citizen an
advocate of such tax upon imports as
will actually assure to American indus
try the highest attainable degree of
prosperity. whatever law may be re-
quired to that end? or, in other words,
why am a 'protectionist?"
Because for forty years 1 have been
both an active business man and an
actual observer of actual events 1
have read and listened 10 the theories
of the opponents of protection and ac-
tually seen those theories refuted in
living experience. 1 have studied the
policy and promises of the advocates of
protection, and actual evidence, on
every hand, confirms those promises
l have seen it to be an actual fact,
abundantly sustained by evidence, that,
under the system Of protection, every
hour of honest toll purchases more of
material comfort for the toiler than is
attainable under any other system, the
degree of such advantage being contin-
gent upon the completeness and accu-
racy of the application of the protective
system This advantage comes, directly
or indirectly, to all classes of toilers. be
they weavers, spinners. carpenters.
painters, machinists, farmers, doctors,
editors or teachers
/ am convinced that the system of
protection fosters a spirit of national
self-independence, such as is indispensa-
Bile to the highest standards of citizen
ship under government of the people.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-11

American industries, American labor
and American homes-N. Y. Mail and
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-11

City Cousin-''This is a canvasbaclS
duck, Joash. Which part do you prefer?''
Country Cousin (endeavoring to show
that he knows all about it)-'Er-er-
you may gimme a strip of the canvas
National Tribune.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-02-17
EXPERIMENTS IN STREET CLE1NING'
TIE MAYORS ADVISORY COMMITTEE PUTS IFS
IDEAS N PRACTICE.

TIE MAYORS ADVISORY COMMITTEE PClS lis
IDEAS IN PRACTICE.
n scbomc devised by the Mayors Advisory com
r,it,oe for comparlng the different street cleaning " -
TENS hogan Yesterday. Chairman Morris N '''"P MI"
Thatcher NJ. Adams, Of the committee WEI" d ''
naniod by Commissioner Beattic, Deputy COMMISSIONS
dalton and Acting superintendent R0bolh'' an" '"'
started the " broom brigade In the contest d' d "''
The first heat was for ten hours, with an hour on Tor
noon and continued until 6 p. III. At 0 p. H.. the
~macbine brigade" took It's turn, which was TO run
until q A. m. this morning. The sweeping contingent
or what has been called the patrol system covered
the territory from Twenty eighth TO Thirty -ionfth 'N'
between the rivers. The machine detachment was
sent over the ground lying between Thirty fourth ana
Eor,ieth SIS, also from the North to the Fast RIVER.
Elghty-two men, each provided with a brooin, hoe
and shovel. composed the " sweepers' brigade" Two
were assigned to each Of the fourteen avenues ana
uine TO each of the six cross streets, giving cdch man
an average area Of 900 feet to clean. on cDrh day
during the trial month the same man Will be sent
over the same beat and be held responsible for It's
condition. \ small red cart also forms a part OF cach
mans equipment. and twenty four big department
carts follow the sweepers taking up the piles Of refuse
they have collected. The force is composed mainly
of able bodied Italians.
The trial districts for both systems embrace both
resident and business streets, and include factories,
tenement Gloust and brOwnstOne dwellings. All
sorts of paving, asphalt, granite blocks, trap block
and cobblest0nes are found In both, and there are
plenty Of streets both with and without car tracks.
Near the rivers both districts grow dirticr and harder
to clean,
At . p. m. the machine brigade was put in motion.
Four double machines started from Thirty-ifth-st. and
the East River westwardly. Each machine was man
aged by one man, and they were kept as near together
as the width Of the streets would allow. The actual
cost Of each DAYS cleaning is TO be tabulatod. Com
missioner Bcattie said Yesterday that judging from
the cost of the patrol system in use In lower broadway.
il will be found 10 foot mp at least three times that
of the machine brigade. JOHN j.. %Iiubbell, commits
sion merchant AT No. GG Whltcst, sent a letter TO
the MAYORS Office yesterday saving that since The
patrol system had been used downtown, that section
of the city has been cleaner than at any time for the
Ihnt fcrfr a