The state capital., 1892-08-27

how to be happy and prosperous peo-
pie as whole. In England the over
shadowing question is: How to control
the markets of the world, no matter
what becomes of the wage-worxer.
To be democrat is-well-it's English,
you know.
With unmatched persistency demo
cratic speakers and newspapers are
trying to make the public believe that
the Mckinley tariff law did not ma
terially add to the free list The official
figures show that the imports received
free Of duty in the last twelve months
exceeded those paying duties by more
than eighty million dollars. During
the last full fiscal year of Cleveland's
administration the duty paying goods
received exceeded those coming in free
by more than two hundred million dol
lars. 1t cannot be truthfully denied
that the Fifty-frst congress greatly
added to the free list and enacted a
tariff law that in it's practical workings
proves itself almost an inspiration.
The republican party is not only one
of promise but one of performance. 1t
started out In the beginning of its
career to reform the terrible evils then
existing, and did it's work nobly. For
more than thirty years, except during a
brief interval, 1t has directed the af
fairs of the country, and during that
time the masses of the people have
made greater progress in everything
that makes life desirable than was
ever before made by this or any other
people in more than twice that number
of years. 1t is still engaged in the
same lines of beneficial work. 1t in
sists that the laboring mans dollar
shall be as good as the dollar owned by
the gold bug, that the workingman of
this country shall have the privilege of
doing the work of the country, that the
revenues of the government shall be
contributed by outsiders If they desire
to do business here, that the markets of
the world shall be open to our agri-
culturists, and that trusts and combina-
tions, organized to rob the people,
shall be suppressed by law. It's his
tory is an earnest of its purposes for the
future. Whitehall Republican.
Democratic papers are trying to make
political capital out of the troubles at
Homestead, Pa. Of course, if the dem
ocratic party had continuously held the
reins of government such troubles
would not have happened In the first
place, this would long since have become
a land where the labor would prac-
tically all have been done by slaves,
so that the lash, the slave pen, the
bloodhound and the auction block
would have been a sufficient menace to
prevent any strikes or any discussion
as to wage scales-in fact, the question
of wages would have been wholly
eliminated. Then, too, there would
have been no such town as Home
stead and no such works as the Car
negie company have built there, for
the democratic idea is that manu-
featuring should all be done In the
old world and that America should
merely produce cotton and corn and
other raw material. But even though
by some mischance the factory should
have been built and operated by free
labor the trouble would have been less
serious than now because, as in British
and European manufacturing towns,
the workmen would have had no homes
of their own to defend or care for No
doubt the troubles at Homestead would
have been avoided by keeping the dem
ocratic party In power from 1890 to the
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