The state capital., 1891-11-07

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lion pounds more of pig iron in 189'
than did England. 1t was not always
thus.
The tin peddler played an important
part in the last election. His avoca
ton has departed; likewise that of thu
ticket peddler.
Will Democratic orators please take
notice that Republican congress has
succeeded in reducing the revenue by
a wise revision of the tariff.
The election is nearing, and it will
soon be known how many voters in
several of the states have preferred the
hum of the humbug to the hum of the
factory.
Twenty-nine states have adopted
laws similar in all essential features to
the new election law of Illinois. It is
noticeable that but three of these are
southern states.
Under protection this nation has al
ways prospered. The nearer we have
approached to free trade the more dis
tress has come to every class except
the money lenders.
The saving bank deposits are the
fruitage of protection, and they are
vastly greater in the manufacturing
districts of this country than in any
other country in the world.
During the first ten months after the
new tariff law went into effect the GUS
toms duties were reduced more than
twenty-six million of dollars. Every
Democratic orator predicted the re-
verse.
Multiply the number of mounths and
backs the farmer has to feed and cover
by increasing the number of non-agri-
cultural Industries and you have
opened to him the gateway ofprosperi-
ty.
Tariff reforms, as they call them
selves, succeeded in fooling the people
a year ago. Their predictions remain
untulfilled. 1t is fair to presume that
the people will not again consent to be
humbugged by their idle clap trap.
The ratio of paupers, OF persons re-
lieved by public charity, in 1880 was
one to thirty-three of the population
of the United Kingdom, and one to
five hundred, and siXty-five in the
United States. Will the calamityites
please explain this.
Where are the revenues to come from
if not form tariff? And If tariff is
to be levied is it not better to have a
tariff that shall protect American
manufactures than mere tariff for
revenue, levied upon articles that can
not be produced in this country?
Every factory established on safe
basis and being we'll managed increas-
es the value Of every farm adjacent to
the city or the village in whicn it is To-
Gated. Hence the farmer should be the
steadfast friend of the factory, and al
so of the political party most favorable
to the factory.
The saw makers of the United States
supply the home market, and export
nearly a million dollars worth of saws
per year, the price being lower than
ever before. And yet there is duty
on saws. They must be as cheap here
as in the foreign free trade country or
they could not be exported,
The American standard of wages
and living is higher than in any other
country. and wise tariff laws, supple
menting the natural advantages with
which the nation is so richly favored,
will keep that standard high, make
labor honorable and help to make the
homes of those who toll both comforta-
BILE and happy.
1t was widely prophesied that the
price of cutlery would greatly advance
with the going into effect of the new
tariff law, but in this as in most other
cases the prophecy is not fulfilled, and
American knives and forks-particu-
larly the knives-still find their way
to the mouth of the free trade orator at
the same old price OF little less.
The steel rail mills, the cotton mills,
the wooden mills and the many other
mills that protective tariff has foster
ed and made prosperous are worth a
great deal more to the American far
mer and operative and artisan than
all the theories and all the OratOry of
the Roger @. Mills of Texas, who is
trying to undermine his namesakes.
1t is Republican doctrine to admit
free of duty whatever you cannot pro-
duce satisfactorily at home. 1t is Dem
ocratic doctrine to raise the revenue
upon few articles that cannot be pro-
duced in our soil and climate, and ad
NIT free of duty everything that comes
in competition with the products of
the American wOrkingman.
In no other country do the deposits
of the savings banks approach those Of
L l. {o1 +a&n or 20 |
made very largely by the wage worker
and give evidence that wages are bet |
ter and the cost of living but little II
any higher than in any other countries.
In vain are the Democratic newspa-
pers asked to publish a list of articles
made dearer by the new tariff law.
Mckinley, in recent speech, an
swering the question Who pays the
tax?u stated the following fact: "The
duty on linseed oil is 30 cents gallon,
and on the farmers flax seed y cents |
a bushel. Then oil sells 36 cents gal |
lon. In London it sells for 38 cents a |
gallon, and if the tax is added, lnSeed
should sell here for 50 cents gallon. |
But it does not. Who pays the tax."'
Only year ago free trade orators
were predicting the ruin of our cam
ming factories because of the certain |
raise in the price of tin cans. Their
predictions did not come true, but on
the contrary, tin cans that brought
s3 90 per hundred in August, 1890 were
sold for $500 per hundred in 1871, des-
pite an almost unprecedented de-
Before 1860 no plate-glass worth
speaking of was made in America, ana
Americans had to pay the Englshman
and Frenchman $3.50 square 1oot 1or
it. The tariff encouraged Americans
to begin it's manufacture, and now 1t Is
only about $1.00 a square foot for large
store fronts, and % to - cents foot
for small sizes. And the men who