The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-11-05

only four times as much home products as
are Imported. then according to the revenue
received by the egovernmentin the last thirty
years We have paid into the pockets OF our
home manufacturers the gross sum OF So
SS9, ,25G. an average of about 500, ,000-7O3,-
900 annually wrung from the tolling mass
es, who get no protection, as bounty to
the protected autoerat.
The same statistics show the amount of
revenue collected in 1889 upon imported
goods to be eabout S219, ,522, ,205. This mul-
tiplied by /, as above stated, gives the sum
of SS7S ,0S8, $50, which if divided by the
population of the conntry, gives nearly
fourteen dollars annually for every man,
woman and child in the United States paid
as Il bounty TO our home manufacturers
alone Therefore, Il poor man who sup
ports Il wife and eight little ones in an
average manner pays every year to the
protected favorites the sum of one hundred
and forty dollars. Now, fellow citizens, is
it any wonder that the wealth of this coun-
try is being aggregated into the pockets of
a few millionairs and protected capitalists,
who are thus enabled, by such policy, to
form gigantic syndicates, monopolies and
trust companies for the purpose of further
enrichiug themselves by producing abnor
NAL and fictitious prices upon the necessa-
ries of life and thereby compelling the
consumer to further contribute to their
avaricious greed. Do we not, fellow citi-
zens, in looking around us see these very
conditions being enacted and consummated?
DO we not hear the murmurs OF discomfort
and dissatisfaction arising upon every side?
Do we not see our by-ways and thorough
fares strewn with increasing hords of peo-
pie without employment and reduced to
tramps Have we not seen workmen shot
down for demanding small pittance of the
increased profit Of protection, laid, as as
serted, for the benefit of labor solely?
Have we not seen our agriculturlsts COM
PEELED to sell their surplus products at free
trade prices, while forced to buy what they
needed at highly protected prices, until we
find them on the verge Of bankruptcy,
while many of them have been driven to
give up their farms to satisfy heavy mort
cages, and while many more have been
forced to leave their farms in dispair, be-
cause they were unable to live upon them?
And all this in country blessed by Provi-
dence with almost every variety of climate
known to the civilized world. There is Il
cause for this state of things somewhere
Who is responsible? The Republican
party, as a national party and its policy
have dominated in this country for over
thirty years Therefore, fellow citizens,
we appeal to you and ask who is response
BILE, if not the Republican party? And if
the Republican party be responsible, does
not the responsibility attach to those of us,
as a people, who continue, it may be, through
some mistaken ideas, or by some deceptive
promises or delusive influence, or perhaps
through the influence of prejudice, by our
snffrages to keep such party in power ?
We appeal to you, therefore, to stop, CON
slider, think, and carefully and disrassion-
ately contemplate the situation and the
great responsibility you are under to your
country and your fellow-man before you
east your ballot on November Sth.
j. A. B.