New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-23
HERE'S A COMBINATION.
GREEN GOODS AND TARIFF REFORM.
SOME EXTRAORDINARY DOCUMENTS BEING CIR
CULATDD IN WISCONSIN.
,py ry,rcaApH TO THE TnIBUSE.l


| CULATDD IN WISCONSIN.
| tBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TnIBUSE
| Washington. March o2.-Some facts have co"v ="
light here within the last few days which seem 10 s"o
| That the tariff reform campaign Of educa'ioh' oe"'
| I'm 1888 is being conducted al present throus" sun"
devious and extraordinary channels-n SHORT, ei'"''
| the educators OF the people have borrowed io'
forming purposes the methods and machinery VI W.
| greer. gods" operators the green-goods me"
now working upon the credulitv and cupdity OF Tue
| farmer have become incidentally. active prop"s"'oS
Of the principle Of tariff reform
well.known public official recently received from
a friend IN Wisconsin copies OF circular le'e's 9p'''
generally over that state, which establish cohcius'e'
one or the other OF these two theories. In TINS cir
cular letter the conventional alurenehtS OF s'oe"
goods, prospectus are supplemented by dehnho'""o"
OF the present tarn system and the pactlcai '"EEe
ton IS made that "Unclc sam has millions oi o''
money in the Treasury useessly and nn)usuE' tne'e
can be little harm In trying to reduce the surplus "
| the issue OF counterfeit greenback notes
The sample letter forwarded to Washington com
ains two enclosures. one is typewriter circular
in the usual STYLE of goods prospcctses
Offering the addressee agency, giving him terms ior
certain classes OF counerfeis and urging MN I'd coc
on in person to examine the stock ana MAKE Ills pun
chases The other enclosure purpoIts 10 DC Il emp
ping from newspaper. 1t contains on one sioe III
alleged Washington letter ito The Times charging
the diicultleS encOunlcTcN ny wv ''N"''
detecting counterfeit money, most OF which II IS sa'u
is made from stolen Treasury plates. "ThouSahds oi
dollars of this spurious issue" the article continues
has been used by the Republican party 10 further
their interests on election day" and 1t Is posiuVeN
asserted that officials high IN Government laVoi nave
been sending these spurious greenbacKS 10 the'' ie"'
TO be distributed on election day.
On gancing AT the back Of this fraudulent ciIpphg'
however, the political purpose OF the enclosure becomes
moro apparent Here is a full fedged tariff reform
editorial with the heading No Load IN liat barre
The article in full is as follows
Money and troops These the two agencies that
CONQUERED peace The troops gone They lie by the
thousand ON Southern battleheds. But the hrlH inc
money part OF the great struggle remains Yes, remains
in the shape OF tax upon American nome mu"''s
upon every pound tobacco which farmer raises N MS
nod and upon every bushe of corn which he converts
,n,o = Amid 10 pcr cent Of which used ~ the arts and
manufactures and as solvent in the chemical induruy'
The door, prosecuted farmer has finally learned 10 'ush
az these war tarn sophises. He underst@Hs t"o 'A
now which it has taken him some time to learn
TIrstTbat the domestic on whhkey ana tobacco u
maid nv the consumer by the producer anu tao inc
weight Of it, far his personal part oil IL GOES i ~
Ing TO tls burden imposed upon him by the tarlH'
Sccond-That while the domestic tax (paid by the COZ"
sumer is levied only two articles BOTH oil "ch VIZ
luxurlcs. there is custom tax on nearly 4ooU 'i.''
many OF which just necessary Tor MS d"F '' d
the air he bTcathcs and this, consumer he must ply
himself. =,
because he runs only industry that STANDS hihy Oh
own feet the pays this protection bonus lot II"
the rest O, the country. Whyl Because the "o'''"
mani collects the levied duties for Itself because Me pro
tectod manufacturers charge 1t up 20 the consumer anu '
on beside, whatever they choose 10 hN a. their Po's
and the farmer must pay H. because, hot
nroection he is the only one who can IN shoIV Vi.
farmer pay, great part Of this Ubiquitous bufu A'
=, I,s, no ,ovs #, We all contribute or less 10
the steal but not az friehuu sacrifice as he o"
II tlc " .1ccn- goods" man do, noi succeed III set
ting an agent he may hope TO make, OF 90 soh"'lnF
toward making, a Democratic voter. ~ mas been sam
above the Only escape from the suspicion mat ''''
peform Climb or the Democratic National committee
has gone into the green goods business seems 10 W.
in the conjecture that the grcen-gOOds olTralOi'
have been converted bodily 10 the cause OF tiflh "
form, The gentleman who sends Inc circulars Oh
sr,n, Wisconsin i j. L. Barber. Of Eau Clnir, wee
nrcSdent of the Northwestern Lumber Company OF tna
Town lie says: Til, country has been npOcu ~
months With these documents Of campaign oil ca
uculion., and the deluge continues.
can Mfr Mr. Villas or any other leading Wisconsin
Democrat throw some Light on this extraordinary CON
bnation OF Democratic proscly and green goOua
swindIing In the Badger State