The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-10-01
Where the Wealth Is.

The Middle and New England states
possess more money, five times over,
than do all the other states in the
union. We are not now speaking of
real estate values, but of money and
its equivalents, bonds, mortgages and
evidences of credit. These states are
great manufacturing communities.
Rhode Island has more personal wealth
than Indiana; MASSACHUSETTS, more per-
sonal wealth than Iowa, Wisconsin,
Nebraska and Minnesota put together;
New York five fold more than Ohio;
Pennsylvania five fold more than Ilr-
nois. Now, why is this? Is it because
the people of the Eastern states named
are more industrious and more econom-
ical than those of the west? Is it be-
cause nature has done more for them
by making their fields more fertile and
the bowels of the earth richer? Not at
all. 1t is because the west has paid
tribute to the east. 1t is because Penn
sylvania has demanded tribute for her
iron and coal, her carpets and other
woolens. Because Massachusetts, and
Rhode Island have demanded trib-
ute for their calicoes, their sheetings,
their muslins and all their other manu-
facturers 1t is because New York has
arrogated to herself, not only tribute
on her manufactured products, but the
control of the money of the country. It
is immaterial how much the western
farmer may suffer. His crops may fail
and his resources become exhausted,
government never comes to his aid. If
he protests he is called grumbler.
But let hard times come on the bankers
and stock gamblers of New York and
there is an immediate appeal to the
government for relief 1t is asked TO
anticipate the payment of the interest
on the public debt or throw out from
It's vaults millions of dollars That,
too, in violation Of law, as instanced in
the act Of Secretary of the Treasury
Richardson, when he reissued forty
millions Of greepbacls, which, under
the law, had been redeemed for can
collation.. Let stagnation overtake the
manufacturing interests, and the
millionaire proprietors discharge. their
employees and shrek for increased tariff
dutiea Never, however, has the
government relieved the agricultural
interests They must suffer In silence
How long must the beast be 'hewers of
wood and drawers of water?" Just 30
long as they remain the aids and abet-
ters Of the most iniquitous tariff policy
which ever gorged comorants or robbed
the masses By voting for Maj Nc
Kinley the people assist in binding
the shackles still closer, and thus bear.
ing their backs for heavier burdenA
II in accordance with the doctrine of
Mckinley, the bounty on sugar Is
good thing, why not have bounty on
wheat corn, oats, potatoes and all 9TH
er farming productsP Why not furnish
a bounty for every profession, industry
and enterprise2 And then again II tho
principle of supporting industries by
taking public funds is good thing for
the nation, why not for the states and
cities? Why not have our city council
pass an ordinance providing an annual
bounty for every business in the city?---
Bucyrus Forum.
Maj. Mckinley says that tariff for
revenue is tax, and that tariff for
protection is not a tax For naked
balderdash that assertion is the baldest'
ever uttered by public man 1t Is the
quintescence of contradiction and en-
hibits an intellectual obtuseness
which amounts to moral turpitude.
There are two kinds of reciprocity"
There is what is known as "Blaine re-
Then again there is the'Ohio
platform reciprocity" of which Mai
Mckinley is the author. WIN the Ohio
republican boss be kind enough TO ex-
plain the difference between the two?