The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-08-27

make tue larger part OF tle CoUsuIlplOns
We are making tin plate to day. II is 20
be made here at Niles. Democratic dis
couragement cannot stop IL; foreign In.
reference cannot check American genius
and resolution.
BRITISH PRoPHEsIEs OF 1861 REVIVED.
We know what foreign free traders are
saying of the new law. IL will be instruc-
tive TO know what they said of the Protec-
tive law Of 1861. Listen to the London
Times of March 8, 1861:
"The bill, called the Morrill, tariff BILL
is an act for the establishment of protec-
tive duties on most extravagant scale.
II it we're designed to condemn the very
principles of free trade, and so introduce
those OF protection as forming the only
true theory Of international commerce, it
could not have been more strongly form.
ed. The duties imposed by this bill are
not only immoderately high, but they are
levied upon imports of the first necessity.
The articles taxed are not mere luXuries,
or commodities entering into the con.
sumption OF the opulent alone. tits upon
cotton goods, wooden good and hardware,
that the imposts will fall. Cutlery Is TO
be taxed upwards of fifty per cent. in the
lowest instance; in the highest, nearly
two hundred and fifty. In addition TO this
the bill enacts so many complicated ar
rangements, aud throws such in.ermina-
BILE obstructions In the way OF business,
under conditions so difficult. We need
not,enter into particulars Of the act, (which
| is said TO be scarcely intellegible even to
Americans themselves; but we can con-
vey very good idea of its character and
purpose by observing, that, If it should be
| passed, 1t will almost prohibit all imports
| into the United States from England,
France and Germany. That bill would be
L far more detrimental to the interests of
America than to those of Europe. The
blow would do little damage to this coun-
| try; but such proposal, at such a mo-
| ment, will look like new sacrifice of the
Southern States to the exigencies of the
Northern, and will intensity the quarrel
| between them by jealoUsies which will
| survive after the political tempest has
rolled away.
"PRorEcTIoN sUICIDE.n
1 ut has now become perfectly known,
l that protection in these matters is only
| another name for sIIicide and when
| State establishes prohibitory tariff, IL Is
| itself the sufferer from its own ordinance
| es. II the backwoodsmen of America are
| to be deprived of good axes, and settlers
| of cheap clothing, the penalty will be paid
| by them. At the same time, however
| though we shall not think the worse of
l America for this measure, except as re-
gerds her financial wisdom, we must needs
remark, that as amity follows free trade,
| GO is enlargement or Indifference likely
| to follow commercial seclusion. 1t is rath-
/ er an extraordinary reflection, that what
| we have just been endeavorinR to do, at
some cost. as regards France, America
| should propose to undo as regards us. If
| the people of the United States should re-
fuse to purchase Sn our markets what il Is
| for their own interest to buy, and IL they
| should decide upon manufacturing for
| themselves the articles which we could
| send them at less price and of better
I quality, they, and they only, will be the
1 losers:n
London Times, March 8, 1891.
wRoNGTHEN, WRONG NOW.
/ read this that you may realize that
what's said of the law of 1890 was said of
| the law of 1851, and for that matter of
1912, of 1928 and 1924, and of every Ameri-
| can protective law. This editorial of the
London Times, written thirty years ago,
has been over and over again repeated,
almost in the identical language, since the
passage of the law of 1880, in the same
paper, and iterated and reiterated by the
free trade journals of the United States
They were wrong in their prophecies then,
they are just as wrong in their prophecies
now.
"The bill of 1851" says this paper, Twill
be found more detrimental to the inter-
ests of America than of Europe" That is
what they say of the present law. The
law CT 1s61-detrimental TO the interests
of America. Think OF 1t! II was the be-
ginning of new and better United States:
II built factories; it employed labor; il en-
couraged genigs and invention; IL built
citiess IT opened mines; 1t extended agri-
culture and gave the farmer home mar
ket, and while doing this supplied the rev.
enue to keep the war going for the preser-
walton of the Union, and since has been
rapidly extinguishing the national debt,
and wrestling from England the manufac.
turing supremacy she had SO long en-
ioyed.
ENGLAND's INTEREST IN THE ELECTIONS.
Is it any wonder that the Britishers
feel tue deepest interest and concern in
our elections which are to maintain or
destroy the protective policy. They do
conceal their feeling of bitterness
against the American policy. l wish 1
might read you the many thousands of ex-
tracts from the English press preceding
and following the elections of 1890. Their
alliance with one wing of the Democratic
party can no longer be denied. They fair
ly hugged themselves over the defeat sus
tanned by the Republicans last year, and
gave vent to expressions which every true
American citizen should heed. Let me cite
you some British testimony:
Sheffield Daily Telegram, Nov. 11th.
-"The Democrats have won. Hurrah for
the glorious triumph OF free trade"
Vanity Fair, Nov: Shit is probably
that the bill as bill has received far more
English Standard, Oct. 27th.-The indig.
nation all over Europr a.ainst the United
States.
Leeds Weekly, Nov .3:h-Englishmen
will naturally rejoi"e ., er the downfall
of the Republicans.
West ern Morning News, November II.
The victory of tie democrats is very
gratifying.
Manchester Exsu - refers to the
American system vi . lection as "Our
old enemy"
THE TARIFF OF 1890 FOR THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE.
The tariff of 1890 will win its own way
lit will achieve its own victories and they
will be victories for American labor, |
American enterprise and American peo.
Pile. We neither take our patriotism or |
political economy from other nations-if |
we had we would yet be in our swaddliuR |
clothes. a dependency and province of |
Great Britain, instead of the first and hest |
Government on the face of the earth, a |
government OF equal citizenship, equal |
opportunities and equal laws.
The English press Is much concerned |
about the American farmer. She had |
better be more mindful of her own, un- |
der whose industrial policy he has been |
driven from the soil TO make living, and |
year after year, il he remains, 10 compelled |
to incur increasing debt and submit to |
distressing poverty.
WHAT WILL 1T BE LIKE?
The next House of Representatives, |
which is Democratic by two thirds major |
ity, will present to the country its plan and |
purpose of tar II law. Possibly Cover |
nor Campbell could indicate to the people |
of Ohio what II will be. l am impatient |
to know. Will the new plan be fashioned !
after the Mills bill, which the country SO |
or mi hat n IN ~ rnf in IA