The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-01
a coseRArULAroRY ADDRESS.


The Democratic National Committee On
the Recent Repablican Elections.
The Democratic national commit
tee has issued the following address
to the people Of the United States:
1.-THE Democratic national commit
tee congratulates the country on the
result of the recent State elections in
Maine, Vermont and Arkansas. In
Arkansas the combined opposition,
after SO many extravagant claims,
fell short by over thirty Thousand, of
the votes of the Democracy alone.
This has brought dismay to the com
bination in the South and to its man
ipulators in the North.
In Maine and Vermont the contest
was conducted distinctly on national
issues. The Republican managers
appealed for votes 10 those states on
the ground that 1.-THE size of the plu-
ralities would exert a great moral in
duence on the campaign in other
States" and that the poll would be
practically our vote for President. +"
Similar appeals summoned to their
aid all the potent resources of their
national organization, with its ex-
haustless treasury and it's splendid
equipment Of orators of national
fame.
With every favoring force at their
command, except public opinion,
with no organizations opposed, save
those made up within the states by
a minority party, which has been out
of power for generation and which
was unaided from without, the cam
paign of our adversaries for a trium-
plant test. vote in these states, SC
carefully planned and so thoroughly
and forcefully executed, has ended
in conspicuous disaster.
Our friends everywhere are emit.
tied to take fresh courage from these
results. They mean that the strong
tendency of public sentiment is with
the Democracy and that the people
of the country are prepared to en-
force, rather than reverse, the verdict
which they rendered in $780,"
Mr.. Mckinley says the tariff is a
tax paid By the importer. Now mark
the insincerity of this. The McKin-
ley bill as the tariff preceding it
did) provides that when manufac-
turer, using in his products material
on which tariff duties have been
paid, exports those products for sale
in foreign markets, he shall have a
rebate equal to SO per cent Of all the
tariff duties paid. That is, the
Standard Oil Company, for instance,
receives about 81 500, 900 year from
the Government in the shape of re-
bates on the tin imported from Wales
and used in its foreign trade. Now
if the tariff is paid by the foreign
importer instead of by the American
consumer, why is rebate paid to
the latter2 Is this clause not an alb.
solnte admission that the amount OF
the tariff duties is added by the i'm.
porter to the price of the article and
is paid by the consumer2 Otherwise
this rebate is a monstrous piece Of
favoriteism, and the Standard Oil
Company has no more right to that
81 500, 600 than you have. The re-
publican platform declares that the
amount If protection given by the
tariff to products of American labor
should be "equal to the difference
between wages abroad and at home. "
Do they carry out that doctrine?-
Let us see. The tariff on steel rails
is $13.44 per ton. The difference in
the cost of labor on a ton of steel
rails made in this country and made
abroad is but $37S. This is the fig
ure given by Carroll d. Wright Zap
pointed by President Harrison as
United States Commissioner of "a
Dor at Washington after a special
investigation, and includes the add.
tional cost of labor in every process
from mining the ore to finishing The
rail. Where is the sincerity in de-
claring in a national platform for a
tariff equal to 1918 per ton and lev
ying in national congress tariff Of
$13.44 ton, or nearly four times as
greatly. Y. Voice.