The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1892-07-01
"HOw 1T WORKS"

Editors Democrat.
Under the above caption the Statesman
ays:
The Mckinley act has been in operation
less than two years, but it has vindicated in
every respect the Judgment of the republi-
can congress which enacted it. New indus
tries have been established, prices have
been lowered, every factory in the country
is open and running on full time, and all
classes are prospering as never before.
has been converted into
powerful lever for opening foreign markets
and enlarging the export trade.e This is the
work of the republican, party, and it will be
continued ii the November elections are
carried by the republican candidates. Let
the republicans elect their president and
control of congress this year, and English
manufacturers viii utterly abandon the at
tempt to compete with Americans under
existing conditions. That is what re-
publican victory will mean, and Lord Sails
bury and the London press fully understand
it.
New industries have been established. "
Does the Statesman mean by that remark
that the subsidies guaranteed to the sugar
trust and to the pearl button manufactur-
les which are new industries? Is it their
factories which receive subsidy nearly or
quite equal to the labor cost Of production
that are running on full time?
Again it says, "all classes are prospering
as never before" These words necessarily
imply that prices are better, money more
plentiful, fewer farms mortgaged, aud
labor, (that foundation of every civilized
nation) in greater demand. But is this
true? There is. but one answer. No. Prices
of raw materials are low. Labor is not
enough in demand TO keep all who have to
eat employed. and the free American citi-
zen has to divide that with the emigrant
from every other countr, in the world.
The statistics each year show a larger
per cent of the farm property mortgaged
and today we find in every state from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, old gray haired men,
who, in their younger days, hen the re
publican party came into power, owned a
farm, men who served their country faith
fully in war. who have worked hard and
lived economically ever since, but who now
find themselves in their old age, with an
old suit of clothes and mortgaged farm.
Despite his manful struggles the absorbing
power of the protected monopolist is eating
away his capital. The difference between
the raw material which he produces and
the manufactured articles which he is COM
pelled to purchase. is so great that the one
will not purchase the other, and he iSs'ow-
ly but surely sinking.
Again, says the Statesman: Reciprocity
has been converted into powerful ievcl
for opening foreign markets and enlarging
the export trade. Reciprocity means an
exchange of commodities between our own
and foreign countries by an arrangement;
/ between those countries that no taxes shal
be imposed. This is practically free trade
| Just what the democrats have been asking
for for years, while the republican party
was forced by the dissatisfaction occasionej
by the hard times its policy had brought
upon the country to adopt the democratic
policy in slight way. Give the people q
taste Of its benefits. Renew its old out.
lawed promises of good times, and ask thc
people to again hug the phantom. Again
that paper says: LET the republicans cleo
their candidate and control congress thi,
year. and English manufacturers will utter.
ly abandon the attempt to compete with
Americans under existing conditions, y
Now If they attempt 10 compete with us IN
our own country the conditions will be the
same with the exception that we have the
advantage of being 5000 miles nearer the
market
Now the excuse for putting the tariff OF
manufactured articles was, that We could
not compete with England.
Notwithstanding ,he fact, that the price
of our farm products, was regulated BY
England's demand. So for 50 years the
republican party has refused to pursue tha
policy she is cow boasting Of, e. an ex-
change of commodities on an equal foot
ing. That too with the nation above all
Others that we depended upon to purchase
our surplus. Now says the .Statesmaa we
can compete with England.
The democrats said that having three
thousand miles less transportation to pay
J greater resources, more improved ma
chinery and artisans az skilled; that VIC
cnu!d always compete with England.
The republican party now practically
admit that wc were right
Farmers, mechanics and laborers, you
will be asked to vote for president in
November. Get all the information upon
the great national question you can read i.
Think. and when you are meditatIng, re-
member that a fac, not theory Is the vital
point.
Remember that capitalists empoIy labor
and get its benefits, and that capitalists sell
manufactured articles and get the profits,
capitalists insist on foreigners In unlimit
ed quantities being admitted to our coun-
try. But they want high tax placed up
on foreign goods, hence he admits one and
shuts out the other, making labor cheap
and goods high, resulting In protection TO
manufacturers instead of protection to
laboreFs. FARMER.
s...s-@e.s.S
COMPARE THEN.
One cannot help wondering how the
nresenf situation poiiticaily Comedies