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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

u The calamity shriekers of the
west since the election have awakened
to realization of the fact that their
party is the one which suffered the
most calamity at the polls-Toledo
Blade.
Republicans may well take cour-
age from the Ohio verdict They may
well enter with confidence the strug-
gle next year in which the same ques-
tion will be decisively submitted to
the people of the United States.-Sioux
City Journal
Democratic newspapers of the
Tammany hall stripe, discussing the
recent campaign in New York, declare
that republican knives did it." Mr..
Fassett says it was Tammany Halls
tomahawks, and he knows.-N. Y.
Mail and Express
EBGov. Boies himself is candid
enough to admit that his election was
not dem ocratic victory, but an anti
prohibition protest That being the
case what excuse is there for CHASING
Iowa with the doubtful states in a ma
tional election, and why should there
he any mention of Boies as q probable
candidate for the vice presidency?-
Minneapolis Tribune.
cS-Poor Campbell! His defeat for
governor involved his defeat for the
presidential nomination also. There is
sort OF poetic justice, however, in his
overthrow. The infamous gerrymander
which he approved, and which retired
Mckinley from congress last year.
made the latter the gubernatorial nom-
inee this year. Against any other man
than Mckinley Campbell would have
had some chance of reelection. St
Louis Globe Democrat
NG rover Cleveland did the work of
Tammany in the recent campaign.
Tammany rewarded him by giving the
best office in its gift that Of police
magistrate. to ex-State Senator Grady,
who opposed Cleveland's domination
for president in 1884, opposed his ad-
ministration throughout, and was his
bitterest opponent for denomination in
1888. Mr.. Cleveland is meek, in view
of his desire TO obtain again the demo-
cratic presidential nomination. -Chica-
60 Journal
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04
a STUDY For FARMERS.

Free Trade and Direct Taxation-Taxes
Farmers Would Pay IL the Tariff were
AboIished-Ssven Dollars and n Half the
Share of Every Man, Woman and Child
in Ohio IL Our Revenue were Raised by
Direct Taxation.
Gov. Campbell, in his joint debate
with Major Mckinley, recently, quotes
the major as saying that 1.-The people
don't feel the tariff tax, because they
don't know when they pay it." and
adds: at is that insidious form of tax
alton that is sapping the strength of the
farmer and the wage worker in this
country"
Suppose, for the sake of argument,
we allow that the consumer does pay
the tax on goods imported into this
country. During the year ending June
80, 1890, the duties collected on importa-
tions amounted to S926, $40, 036. Every
dollar of this was necessary for the sup
port of the government, and had it not
been collected in this way it would need
to have been collected from the people
by direct taxation. Now, suppose that
we had enjoyed the absolute free trade
so much longed for by Mills, Cleveland
and the democratic party, what would
have been the share of Gov. CampbelPs
state? 1t would be determined by the
ratio which the population of the state
of Ohio bears to the whole country.
We find that Ohios share would be
S13, 2s5, 900. The assessed valuation of
real and personal property in Ohio, ac-
cording to the census returns of 1890,
was Sits, 1873, 457. The rate of taxa
ton, it will be seen, would ~ mills,
and the following table will serve to
show about what taxes would be col
lected from men the assessed valuation
of whose property is from one to ten
thousand dollars:
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04
REPUBLICAN TO THE CORE.
Ohio's Endorsement of the Principle oi
Protection.


It would indeed be difficult to over
estim ate the Importance of the victory
won by the republicans of Ohio. The
campaign was remarkable in that
state issues were absolutely lost sight
of. The republicans challenged the
enemy to do battle on the issue of pro-
lection by putting forward Maj. Nc
Kinley, the champion of the American
system, for the governorship, almost
Immediately after his defeat for con-
gress in district which had been ex-
pressly gerrymandered for the purpose
of retiring him from the national
house of representatives So strong
was the feeling in favor of his nomina-
tion that it became a foregone conclu-
sion that the state convention would
simply ratify the party's choice,
months before that body was called to-
gether.
The democrats of the state, flushed
with the congressional victories of
their party year ago, eagerly accept
ed the challenge thus given, and adopt
ed square free trade platform.
That there might be no doubt as to
their attitude. they added plank de-
claring in favor of graded income
tax" to raise federal revenues, thus ac-
knowledging that they favored tariff
so low as not to produce sufficient
money for the governments needs. AS
an additional means of catching votes
they also adopted free silver coinage
plank, thus making the two paramount
issues of the Ohio campaign the tariff
and the currency questions; and on
these two the battle was fought, and
notable victory for protection and
honest money achieved.
No evasion can be successfully raade
of the fact that battle was joined on
these issues, and on these alone. They
were the only things talked about from
the stump in the most notable ''cam-
paign of education" that has ever been
made in this country. The republican
orators talked tariff and honest money,
from Mckinley down; the democrats
talked of the alleged beauties of free
trade, from Campbell down to Roger
@. Mills. No voter in Ohio but knew,
as he cast his ballot, that those were
the ouly ISSUES upon WHICH ne WAS cA-
pected to render his verdict.
That verdict was just what was to be
expected of Ohio freemen. They have
always stood as firm believers in pro-
lection to American industries and
American labor; they have never
bowed the knee to the Baal of cheap
money" Once more they have re-
corded their belief in the one and
their opposition to the other. Free
trade and free silver have each been
dealt staggering blow, and the free
whisky" plank of the democratic plat
form has gone down in the dust of de-
feat along with the two more notable
members of the democratic triad
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04

A member of the editorial staff of the
Manufacturer and Inventor of London
is in the United States to learn how the
people feel about the Mckinley tariff.
He found man who. to the great Joy
of the Manufacturer and Inventor. fur
nishing him with the following bit of
philosophizing:
1t is all very well for party journals, like the
American Economist. to publish statements
showing that in some textile goods the prices
are lower because OF the act; they may be pro-
duced at a lower rate. and sold wholesale at
lower rate, but the retailers take advantage Of
the public and really increase the prices.
Whatever influence the tariff has on
prices must first appear in wholesale
prices. If not there, then any change
that appears in retail prices can not be
due to the tariff. Since the brilliant
person whom the correspondent of the
British journal interviewed admitted
that goods were selling wholesale at a
lower rate than before the new tariff
took effect, he conceded everything, and
testified to the hugeness of the McKin-
ley prices humbug. 1t is simply stupid
to attribute rise in the retail prices OF
articles whose wholesale price is declin-
ing to the tariff.
Goods imported are always invoiced
at wholesale prices, and extremely low
wholesale prices at that They are
bought in large quantities, which fact
is always guarantee of lowest figures
They are squeezed still lower by the
importer in the invoice, so as to beat
the custom house, so that tariffs can
directly affect wholesale prices only
If the retail price is put up to the con-
sumer, and not the wholesale price to
the retailer, the tariff can no more be
blamed for it than for the spots on the
sun. Such fraud upon the public
would not be possible for retail mer-
chants to perpetrate had not dishonest
tariff 'reformers" created such n
groundless scare about Mckinley prices.
Whatever the public has suffered in
this regard must be charged, then, not
to protection, but to tariff reform"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04
dssessSd

Suppose, instead of this tax being ap-
portioned upon valuation of property,
it is fixed at a certain per capita rate.
In 1890 it would have beeu S362 for
every man, woman and child in the
state of Ohio, or say from SIS to $50 to
every man with an average family.
The farmers of Ohio can very easily
estimate from the knowledge of the
value of their property how much of
this tax each would have to pay. As
we have shown before, the whole state
would have to pay upwards of thirteen
millions of dollars, while it is the actual
fact that to-day the inhabitants of Ohio
need not pay single dollar of this un-
less they want to.
But the 'reformer" cries, I'VE don't
want free trade;" what we want is a
tariff for revenue. and the expenses of
the government will still be maintained
by the duties on imports" Well, let
us see Their leading apostle, Hon.
Roger Q. Mills, himself the Trainer of a
tariff bill, and most promising candi-
date for speaker in the next house of
representatives, has declared through
out Ohio in favor of absolute free trade
In fact, the Cincinnati Enquirer, the
leading organ in the state of Ohio, re-
Gently printed a full-length portrait of
this same apostle advocating free trade.
Moreover, the Enquirer. itself, no longer
ago than August 10 printed the follow
ing:
It is humiiating and disgraceful confes-
sion. base SANDER TO say that the American
people need any laws to protect them from
competition with any other nation. Nothing
has made England what she is but her free
trade, her unfettered commerce. Compare our
resources and advantages with hers and imag
inc what our position would be among the na-
tions if unhampered by the fetters of protection.
Moreover, one of Ohio's prominent
congressman has said that he would
abolish every custom house in the land;
that he would rather vote for the estab-
lishment of an institution to spread the
cancer, or field in which to propagate
cholera, or a school in which to teach
vice and crime, than to vote for pro-
tective tariff of any kind. But it is not
necessary for us to produce further tes-
timony to show that Tariff Reform"
means free trade, or that the free trade
party are asking for Tariff Reform"
or tariff-for-revenue-on for any other
purpose than an entering wedge for alb
solute free trade. With free trade will
come direct taxation, and what that
means, for the people of Ohio at least,
Is shown above
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04
whyI "a ProtectionIst.
BY HON. HENRY M. HoYT, EX-GOVERNOR
OF PENNSYLVANIA

OF PENNSYLVANIA.
am ''protectionist" because the
welfare and happiness of the people in
America depend on their ability to en-
Joy the necessaries, couveniences and
comforts which our manufacturers sup
ply. There is no other source of ade-
quate supply for many such commodi-
ties except american mGRutdcturers, so
that the American manufacturer is more
indispensable to the American people
than the American people is to the
manufacturer. While American labor
is more efficient and more productive
than labor elsewhere, it yet remains
incontestibly true that there are thou
sands of commodities which can not be
made by our artisans IN competition with
loao priced labor elsewhere If the Ia
borers here are to consume this class of
manufactured goods, the industries
which produce them must be shielded
from destructive competition or the pro-
ducer must live in some other country.
If he lives here he must either make
them or 90 teithOut them; he can not bug
them, for the reason that there is no
something else" he can do by which he
can earn the purchase money for the for
eign article. Nobody but an economic
idiot would now contend that the pro-
tective duty adds a ''sou marque" to the
cost of the commodity. Its only effect
is to give the market to the American
producer. The free trader may beat
about the bush with his speculatiOns,
dogmatism, sophistries and insolence,
but the root of the matter lies within the
compass of the foregoing proposition Of
fdcfS
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04

lev and men of his stamp to stump the
state. If they can spur the democrats
into bringing Roger Q. Mills to advo-
cate their cause, so much the better.
He makes votes for the other side
wherever he goes. Then will it be no
longer said that New York is democratic
in off years. The Empire State always
can be depended upon to respond to the
call of nr-otectioo
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04
Hemp, rope, pound ... I4l,
Hemp. per ton n.-...-..-.......- 80 Is
Hemp. hackled. known as line
Foreign Prices Reduced by Our Tariff

Since foreign manufacturers of hosi-
cry have greatly reduced their prices in
order to get over the Mckinley tariff,
the question may properly be asked,
How do American manufacturers man.
age to hold the domestic market against
the foreigners? Many causes have coz
tributed to help. not the least of which
is the lower cost resulting from in
creased production, consequent on the
higher protection granted to hosiery
and the confidence in the future thus
impaired to the American industry.
But there are other minor causes. As
the tariff reduced the price of imported
hosiery, so it has reduced the price of
materials imported for hosiery manu-
facture. A dry goods trade paper fur
nishes the following exhibit of the re-
duction in the price of dyes used by
hosiery manufacturers:
InTrTQ uENSnnRP pvu
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04
TwIne and the Tariff.

A smart tariff editor in New York
takes Kansas paper to task for ask
ing the following questions:
Will some free trader kindly tell US why the
best binding twine costs only 10 cents pound
now, when one year ago it was sold for from Is
to Ia cents q pounds Does an increase in the
tariff always result in reducing the price OF .
commodity to the consumer:
The smart 'reformer' quotes figures
showing that the price of binding twine
fell from 141{ cents in October, 1890,
when the Mckinley bill became law,
to IL cents in September of this year,
and accounts for the decrease in price
by calling attention to the fact that the
raw materials for this twine were made
free by the new tariff and the duties
reduced on the finished product, ''hence
the reduction of prices"
If it will again consult the table of
prices from which it took its figures, it
will find the following:
Oct, Sept.
1890. 1891
Hemp, rope pound ....-....... ..... 145 III
BY consulting that-to protection
exceedingly serviceable, though-to
reform" theorists-somewhat destruct-
i've, compilation by the reform" club.
the Comparison, item by item," of the
duties levied by the old and the new
tariffs, the smart editor will find hemp
duties given as follows:
- Old NcKinle5
ToTiH. T0riE.
Hemp per ton IS e25
Hemp. hacked known as line
OF hemp, per ton--.-....... p so
That is. the tariff on the raw material
from which hemp rope is made was
rather raised than lowered. yet. hemp
rope shows fall in price just about as
great as the fall in binding twine. VIII
the smart editor please tell what caused
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04
THE ACROPOLIS.
DR.. Talmage Describes His Visit to
Athens.

The Great Market Place and the AcropolIs
Described-The Sensation Paul Created
on Mars HiII-Lessons Drawn From
the History of Athens.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-04

On all sides and in all directions the
new tariff Outstrips. in its actual opera
tion, the most glowing prophecies made
by its friends before its enactment
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-10-09

vention of all the anti sub treasury brethren
throughout the country to consider the re-
port of the committee as to the result of the
conference with the supreme council, and
may nix the time and place Of meeting. and
make such arrangements as may be deemed
necessary
We further recommend that each state
select committee, such committee to con-
stitute state bureau OF information, which
shall be empowered to make all necessary
arrangements to obtain speakers and con-
duct campaign of education against the
sub-treasury and land loan schemes in the
respective states, and shall CO cooperate with
the national committee.
This did not satisfy r. W. Nicholas,
of Missouri, and he offered the follow
ing amendment, which was unanimous
~ adopted: 'sThat said committee be
authorized to file the conventions un-
alterable and unending objection to the
passage of any resolution whatever
binding the individual members of the
Farmers Alliance to any political
course of action whatever, and we
hereby protest against the action Of
any previous meeting infringing upon
the individual political rights Of any
member of the order"
Another amend2ent offered by ]. L
Goodman. of Texas, was also adopted
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-10-09

grain-the farmer or the speculat6r?
This sub-treasury folly" said he,
would only place the farmer in the
hands OF such men as Old Hutch, who
would bull or bear the market as it
suited them; bear it when they want
ed to buy from the farmer and sbulr it
when they wanted to dispose Of their
grain" DR.. Yeamans claimed that it
was Illogical to suppose that the farmer
would derive any profit from borrow
ing from the government, as proposed
by the land loan scheme Should the
farmer meet with reverses and his in
terest fall due, he would have to pay
it or forfeit his land, as the government
agent would grant no extension.
Other speakers followed and scored
points against the sub-treasury and
land loan schemes.
Finally the committee on resolutions
presented q partial report, which was
read 1t included the same platform
adopted by the Fort Worth convention
with modification of the last resolu-
ton as follows:
Resolved. That we denounce W. Macune
and his corrupt methods, tog ether with the
acts OF his tools and henchmen, as being a
disgrace to the order and a stencil in the
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-10-09

spondents. They are only members in
name and such cattle are to be found
in various sections of the United States.
Progressive Farmer.
The battle cry of organized labor
for more money and less taxes is
worrying those terribly who live upon
the energies of others in this year of
grace 1891. The attempt of the politi-
cal bosses to side-track these demands
reminds one of man holding up his
finger to stop blizzard Southern
Mercury.
"A European steamer brought back
from Europe recently 81, $50, 600 in gold
which was sent from New York to
Europe last spring. The fact is that
our currency system ought to be one
that would be independent of either
the going out or coming in of gold, and
will never be independent of European
control until it is such a system.-Em-
poria Kan Gazette.
Within the last ten days there has
been one charter of a primary alliance
forfeited and thirteen issued by the Sec
rotary of the Alabama State Alliance
There has been so much said by the
press of the state about the order weak
ening and disbanding that this state
ment is made tc show what the truth is
about it. 1t is authoritative and accu-
rate.-Alliance Herald.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-10-09
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.

Halls own anti-sub-treasury meet
ing was captured by sensible men, who
refused to secede from the alliance.
The alliance in Virginia is on big
boom. Meetings are being held all
over the state and the order is filed
with enthusiasm.
I'm Iowa the alliance is doing well
There seems to be a growing desire
among the farmers of that state and
healthy growth is expected
Halls and McAllister's threats in
regard to deposing Polk. Livingston
and Macune, reminds us of the old, old
story about the mouse trying to over
throw the mountain Echo.
If President Polk had any uneasi-
ness about getting unseated by Hall at
St Louis we suppose he will breathe
freely and sleep sweetly now. Poor
old subsidized press and Hall ALI
ance Waterman.
-So-called alliancemen are frequent
~ quoted by Raleigh newspaper CORE
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-10-09
Y EVICTION.

nOstrils of all honest men who know of their
corruptions and villainy.
After the reading Delegate Wade, of
Tennessee. excitedly sprang to his feet
and moved that the Macune resolution
be stricken out. While he personally
was confdent-in fact, knew-that
Macune was one of the most corrupt
men in the country, he was not pre-
pared to go on record in convention
which was called in the interests of
harmony to attack one of the leaders of
the alliance 1t was well known that
the Ocala investigation committee had
adopted a report withdrawing Macune.
though he was dishonest to the core.
Chairman Hall spoke against the mo-
ton to strike out the Macune resolu-
ton. Every allianceman knew that
Hall was opposed to Macune and would
fight him to the bitter end.
w. S. McAllister, of Mississippi,
favored the defeat of the motion. He
said: "Macunism is the fatal octopus
encircling with it's Shiny coils the es-
cutcheon of the order, sitting its purity
and destroying it's virtue"
Delegate Murray, of Texas, climbed
on chair and gave Macune great
drubbing. Wade, of Tennessee, then
moved to amend his motion to strike
out by stating that 1--WE denounce the
chairman of the Ocala convention and
the editor of the National Economist. -
Confusion reigned, but order being
restored the motion to strike out was
defeated-42 to 26. Wade's motion to
amend was then defeated by large
majority.
The convention adjourned until nine
o'clock this morning.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 17.-When the anti
sub-treasury alliance convention reas-
sembled the first order of business was
the question of the resolutions and
they were carried by good majority.
An effort to make the vote unanimous
revealed some negative voters who did
not relish the resolution censuring Ma
cune.
The committee on permanent organ
ixation, with Rev. DIR. w. Pope Yea
man as chairman, then made its report
as follows:
We, large number Of the Farmers ALI
ance and Industrial Union representing our
constituencies, in convention assembled
being DESTROYS of settling the differences ex-
isting in our order, agree to the appoint
ment of a committee of seven members, who
are authorized to go before the supreme
council of the Farmers Alliance and Indus
trial Union of America, which convenes at
Indianapolis in November next, and submit
to said council our objection to that part
of the demands of the order (sub-
treasury and government land loan
schemes) which were adopted by
the supreme council at its meet
ing at Ocala, Fla. Said committee are au-
thorized and empowered to use their own
discretion in the premises. Pending these
negotiations for an amfcable settlement of
our differences. the committee hereto pro-
vided for shall constitute bureau of infor-
nation and shall use all legitimate means
for informing the subordinate unions and
the people In regard to the true views and
principles now engaging the attention of
the Industrial GLASSES of America Said
committee is authorized to secure compe-
tent speakers and suitable literature and de-
wise ways and means for paying all expenses
Of an educational campaign.
Said committee IL authorized to call con-