The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-09-15
HERE ARE FACTS THAT TALK.

OF course the defenders of public
robbery deny that the Mckinley bill
has anything to do with our large gold
exports, but 1t is quite easy to prove 1t
has everything to do with 1t. We are
aided in the proof by the perusal of an
editorial in the European edition of the
New York Herald, which every Amer
lean tailor, every American laboring
man and every patriotic American ctti-
zen would do we'll to read. Talk, you
you know Is cheap, but here are facts
from the record.
In April last there was great rush
of rich Americans across the Atlantic
to Great Britain and Europe. This
rush continued, until the cholera broke
out in Austria, Prussia and France. In
early August there were more Ameri-
cans in Europe than ever before known.
The Herald, says in Its European edi-
ton:
at would be impossible to give the
correct figures, but round estimate of
10000 will not be far off the mark
The great hotels of Paris, London, Ber-
lin, Brussels and Vienna are crowded
with Americans. Every capital, every
town and every historical village in
Europe points to its visitors from across
the sea-"
Now let us see how much money
those 10000 Americans spent in
Europe, of our good American money,
all gold of course.
Here again we use the estimate of
Herald. This estimate is not based on
the presence of 10000 Americans, at
one time present, but only half that
number;
Leave out the $4,000 resident Ameri.
cans and those who are In Europe for a
year or two. Take the daily expendi
ture of the 5000 tourists; those that
come here with letters of credit to be
exhausted do Wn to the last cent. No
one who has travelled in Europe will
say that $3.50 per day, including hotel
expenses, railway fares, and purchases
of all kinds, is anything but reasonable
AT this rate, therefore, 5000 people
have managed to throw into the lap OF
clamoring Europe the tidy sum OF
$562, 500 per day, or $3,937 800 per week
Going still further, in seventeen weeks
from April 1st to August 1st, they will
have increased this amount to the fab
ulous sum of $67,037, 800. And here
lies the reason for the continued ship
ments of gold from America, Nine
tenths of the people who visit Europe
are armed with letters of credit, and II
is 70 meet the demands made by these
that the increased shipments of the
metal are due.
And now let us quote little United
States law, framed especially for the
benefit of rich American tourists, by
our own wonderful Mckinley. Let us
see how this law touches American
tailors and American clothiers and
merchants, ON the raw. Here is the
law of Mckinley. 1t is from that
much lauded free list that figures in
that great tariff Grafton of the cham
pion of Protection:
SECTION 752, FREE LIST OF M'KINLEY
BILL.
"Wearing apparel and other personal
effects (not merchandise) of persons ar
irving in the United States; but this
exemption shall not be held to include
articles not actually in use and neces-
sary and appropriate for the use of such
persons for the purpose of their jour
uey and present comfort and conven-
fence, or which are intended for any
other person or persons, or for sale:
Figure little on this section. Say
there are l0O,OOO tourists, male and
female, and this section covers all laces,
plushes made.up, sacques, dresses,
stockings, French millinery, all kinds
of gents clothing, etc.
1t is stated on good authority, that
on an average every American tourist
buys $500 worth of goods In Europe,
that under the Mckinley bill comes in
free of duty. Here is $30,000,000 OF
American cash gold gone, with that
much positive harm to American tail
ors, merchants, dressmakers, milliners
etc. And yet the Republican National
platform contains this plank:
"We believe that on all i'm.
ports coming into competition with the
products of American labor there
should be levied duties equal to the
difference between wages abroad and
at home"
Free clothing for the rich. High
priced shoddy for the poor. This is the
true logic of this kind of legislation
Every man with as much brains as two
gray geese can see 1t.
Vote for Grover Cleveland.