The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-10-27

learnedly designates as the "Post-
age Stamp Episode.
But since it has chosen to do so,
| now demand and insist on it. that
it tell all it knows about it. make
but a single condition, and that is,
that it tell the truth.
The improperly, if such it was,
alluded to, was so trivial, so con-
temptibly insignificant, that even
the Democrat with all Its gall, with
all of Its brazen affrontely, will be
ashamed to state it; and yet it has
been a Democratic issue for the last
Is years.
The Democrat is now invited to
make a clean breast of it, to allow
no considerations of proplety, of
decency, or of false modesty to re-
strain it in the least. l only ask 1t
not to deal in hints and innuendoes
but to tell plainly what it knows
about the episode. But | am not to
be swerved from my purpose.
The Democrat says it is true to
the interests of It's constituents. =
don't believe 1t.
| don't believe it will do its sub
scribers any good to strike down
our splendid banking system and
substitute the old State bank issues
in place of it.
l don't believe the Democrat
thinks it would be a good thing for
the country, and | am sure that
nine-tenths of its readers woulc not
prefer to make the experiment.
Some of us are old enough to re-
member the losses and the endless
anxiety caused by bank failures, by
suspensions, and by counterfeits.
Now the Democrat is pleading for
this old discarded system, and at
the same time says it seeks to pro-
mote the interests of the people.
Impossible!
Again the Democrat says that the
duty on wool makes the price lower.
| don't believe this is so, and ]
give the Democrat the credit of hav-
ing more sense than to think so.
Our factories are bnsier than ever
before; they are turning more wool
into cloth than they ever did, and
they must buy one-half of their sup
plies abroad. They consume all
the domestic wool we produce.
which pays no duty, and more than
as much foreign wool, which would
cost IL cents per pound less if it
came in free.
| saw thousands of pounds of
wool which had been bought in
London for Is cents per pound,
and which sold in Philadelphia for
81 cents per pound. If wool was
free it would bring no more in
Philadelphia than in London.
| am quite sure that the Democrat
is wrong; 1t may be because it don't
know any better, but it is deceiving
It's readers and doing them an in
jury by its false teaching.
Grover Cleveland says free wool
means cheap wool, and as he cares
more for the manufacturer than he
does for the farmers-he wants it
free.
In Canada wool is worth 10 cents
per pound less than the same wool
brings on our side of the line.
The importers, the dealers, the
manufacturers, all say free wool
means cheap wool; and the news
paper that says ANYTHING else either
don't know what it is talking about,
or else it violates the command
ment which says "thou shalt not
lie."
Furthermore, the Democrat says
that statistics show that wool has
always brought a higher price under
a low than under high tariff.
Statistics show nothing of the
sort, and if they do they lie.
Everybody knows that under the
Morrill, tariff, the highest we ever
had, wool brought good prices and
as soon as the duty was made lower
the price went down to the lowest
point it has touched since the war
and did not revive again until IT
was known that the old duty would
be restored under the Mckinley act.
The high prices which "More Anon"
spoke of when he first cut himself
loose, was under the highest tariff
we ever had. but then as usual the
Democrat and It's assistant was pre-
Stunning on the ignorance of its
readers. This statistic business is
like the % cent wool, the people
are not so ignorant as their self ap-
pointed teachers seem to believe.
Next week will illustrate the
working of the tariff by a familiar
object-lesson.
FARMER.