Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-10-08

| the reach Of men who would otherwise
| buy them" But Mr. Mills is too shrewd
% give particulars. He contents him
self with glittering generalities. How
false-are his assertions will appear from
the published contracts for supplying
the Department of the Interior with the
S2,50O,000 worth Of goods required for
the Indians. Last year the proposals
were invited a month before the Nc
Kinley bill was reported to the House.
Hence it could have had no effect on the
prices. This year she bill had been in
effect several months. 4 comparison
of the contracts shows that the Govern
ment was able to buy everything at
lower rates this year excepting farm
products. For bacon, beef. lard. -four,
corn and so on, the prices were higher
showing how the farmers have profted
by the tariff. The Government purchased
1000, 900 pounds of sugar. and on this
item alone it saved $17,jO0. Morever,
the quality of sugar was better, as We're
the manufactured articles supplied in
nearly all cases.
1AC pun man = Dle1lhCl 10 OlAC VI ILlC
things free traders talk much about.
The blankets purchased We're all wool
Mackinac, G0x70 inches in size, and
weighing eight pounds to the pair. In
1881 under the tariff of 1867, the Gov
ernment paid S5.52 a pair for these
blankets. Last year, under the tariff of
1888, the price was 1886 This year,
under the Mckinley tariff the price was
$3.3 Ia pair for better quality of blankets
than ever before purchased. Red flannel
cost 1920 cents a yard in 1881; 26.S2
cents in 1890, and $3.50 cents in 1891,
Woolen socks were $2.2S a dozen last
year, and 81 % 1-2 this year, and mitteus
$206 1-2 and $500. Cotton ducks for
tents cost II cents a yard last year,
and 9.23 cents this year. Boots were
$1.75 last year and S1.70 this year,
and rubber boots $2.20 and s.. ia.
Spool cotton was purchased for
10 1-2 cents a dozen less, and shears for
s cents dozen less than last year. For
ironstone ware, pint bowls. 80 cents
dozen was paid last year and "a cents
this year, and there was a like reduction
on dinner plates, pitchers, etc. Axes
cost $6.79 a dozen last year and ST.
this year; scythes were reduced from
S4.17 to $4.15; plow steel from 2.74 cents
pound TO 2.06 cents; cast steel from
6.S8 cents to 6.25, and so on with other
hardware. Agricultural implements
were all cheaper. Spades were reduced
from $665 to Sc a dozen; tanning mills
from 5000 each to 5000: two horse
cultivators from $11.25 TO $10.75; eight
inch plows were . cents cheaper, and
nine-inch 10 cents cheaper, while shovels
were bought for 1915 dozen, against
$3.50 last year. And so on through the
list.
Here are bona fde contracts with the
largest houses in the United States
showing that under the Mckinley bill
the prices are lower than ever before for
manufactured articles purchased for the
use of the Indian Department. And
these are the articles the poor men use
everywhere. Every person who knows
anything about the matter at all knows
that the prices are generally lower ex-
cept for farm products. And yet Gov
ernor Campbell and Mr.. Mills have the
assurance to go on the stump and assert
that the Mckinley tariff has advanced
prices. What shall be said of such falsi-
fcation? The Democratic party cannot
prevail twice in succession by unadul-
ated lying.
By systematic lying, and misrepre-
11a1a1 iy, ba biotoyI, Ofi
the country, the Democrats succeeded
last year in soaring the public into the
belief that ''hard times had come again"
and were going to stay. The Mckinley
tariff has given such an impetus to the
prosperity of the country that there is
not this year one scintilla of fact for the
croakers to work upon, but they go on
lying all the same. One day they have |
the Treasury bankrupt, United States I
bonds selling below par, and the next |
the return to the extraordinarily Ill timed |
falsehoods about the country having |
been plunged into the depths of dis
tress." 1t is difficult to be patient with |
men who talk in that way; but, like the
man who repeats lie time and again,
they have probably come to believe what
they say VIII not the honest, self-re-
specting and truthful men of both par
ties resent and repudiate such campaign
methods and teach Candidate Campbell |
a lesson he will not quickly forget? No
man ought TO be able to lie his way into
any Office, much less the governorshipof
Ohio.
The Calamity Howler From Corsicana.
The New York Sun lashes Mr.. Mills
savagely for what it calls ''the long and
bitter walls with which the statesman
from Texas is filling the air of Ohio"
It remarks, apropos of the Scriptural
quotation, ''Man that is born of woman
is of but few days and full of trouble"
that if Mills had been there he would
have said il was because of the tariff. |