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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-08-04
THE CONSUMER PAYS THE TAX.

Tho American consumer, and not the
foreign manufacturer, pays the tax on
imported goods. This fact has been
demonstrated by custom house statis-
tics and caunot be disproved. Primar-
lily the importer pays the tax, but after
his profit and the legitimate profits of
the jobber and retail merchant have
been added to the original cost of the
article imported its value has been
enhanced more than two-fold, and when
1t finally reaches the consumer he pays
an extortionate price for it.
In 1891 cotton goods of the value of
S29, l42 600 were imported and tax of
SSl4 ,S52, ,696-over one half their orig
inal value paid on them. To be
more explicit, the importer paid some
thing like $1.50 for a dollars worth of
goods. If he made an average profit
of 10 per cent, the jobber paid
$l.60, and II he made profit of 10 per
cent, which is very reasonable, the re-
tail dealer paid about 81 80. If the re-
taller made 20 per cent, fair proht,the
consumer, who eventually bought and
used the goods, paid over 1925 for
what the producer sold for 81. The
government got nearly half of this in
crease in price, and the American pur.
chaser or consumer paid it.
The government in 1891 also collected
tax of $35, 100000 on $43, 100000 worth
of woolen goods. This is about 80 per
cent, or $3.50 paid by the importer for
a dollars worth, and If the i'm
porter, the jobber and the retailer made
the same average profits that they
did on the cotton goods the deluded
American consumer paid so 70 for a
dollars worth of woolen goods. A
large percentage of the consumers were
workingmen and this is how they are
benefited" by protective tariff. In
order to clothe himself and family the
workingman must pay more than
double the value of the woolen and
cotton goods necessarily used In max
ing wearing apparel.
The above figures clearly dem
onstrate the fact that the protec-
tive tariff robs the American consumer
and not the foreign manufacturer. The
tariff Is q tax, we pay 1t and the govern
ment gets the lions share of it.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-08-04
M'KlNLEY'S FRANKNESS.

Protection means the taking of
money from one class of people and
placing it in the pockets of another
class through the sanction of the law,
It,does this by. two methods: That of
protective tariff and that of bounties
From Gov. McKinley's speech at
Fort Madison, Wis, yesterday.
That's just what it means, Governor,
1t means that money is taken from the
poor consumers-principally working
men-and put in the pockets of class
of protected manufacturers who are
amassing millions. And it is done
with the sanction of law, too-a law
passed by Republican Congress and
Senate and signed by Republican
President, 1t is also done by two
methods-a robber tariff on the neces-
saries of life aud corrupt system of
bounties.
Our astute Governor must have been
affected by the heat, as it is seldom that
he is so frank with his victims.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-08-04
SWEDEs FOR HOMESTEAD.

YOUNGSTOWN, o., July 2S.-k party
Of fifty Swedes from Buffalo, n. Y
passed through here Tuesday night for
Homestead to work in the Carnegie
plant. Union men attempted to dis
suade them from going, but they refus.
ed to listen, saying they had been Of
fered good wages and would board and
lodge III the mill.
The above dispatch appeared in this
mornings Cleveland Leader, a Repub-
lican paper that for years has been
bowling trantically for Protection to
the American workingmen."
This is a fair sample of the protec-
tion Americans receive at the hands of
Republican administration; it is the
kind of protection deluded working
men voted for four years ago while
laboring under a Misrepresentation, and
it is kind of protection the Republican
party is trying to perpetuate by
cajoling these outraged, locked-out and
downtrodden Workmen into voting for
Harrison.
The protected" American laboror is
either kicked out, frozen out or locked
out If he refuses to work for starvation
wages, and his place Is filled by a Swede
Va u VI q l. OlC VI nh
Yet McKipley and the Republican
press claim that the American work
man is benefited by protection.
A fearfully significant feature of
the present situation is the fact chat
these non-tax paying Swedes, Hun.
garians, Poles and Italians are put to
work on steel plate for American wal
vessels.
Think of it, workmen Foreign
manufacturers like Carnegie and Phipps
establish mills in this country; have
the product of such mills protected by
this government, and then engage
cheap foreign labor to work in those
mills and turn out product that the
American taxpayer pays for.
This is protection with vengeance
but as long as the Republican party
remains in power Carnegie and his fel-
lows conspirators will make Americans
pay for work turned out by cheaE
laborers from the slums and jails OF
Europe.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-08-04
WILL CARTER BE RETAINED?
His Record is Very shady and He is a
Disgrace TO the Republican Party.
From the Chicago Herald.

Disgrace TO the Republican Party.
From the Chicago Herald.
Will President Harrison retain smart
"Tom" Carter, agent for 1.-THE Foot
prints OF Time" at the head of the
Republican National committee? Will
the President in this maLner condone
the conduct of the man who some years
ago through sharp practice secured for
his employer, without warrantable
equivalent, the farms and homes of
many honest citizens of Iowa and
Nebraska? Will the President, said to
be good and respectable man person.
ally, consent to employ in the coming
campaign tool of this character
win he deliberately retain in the
management OF party affairs man
with bunko recordp
Regrettable as Is the condition of
affairs which renders 1t so, it is probable
that President Harrison will do all
these things. Although a reputable
man personally, President Harrison
politically has always shown queer
prediction for the utilization of ras-
cality.. Dudley, despised for his mis-
deeds by all decent persons, has been at
once the Presidents benefactor and
ucuolCldiy. JuuSc w OOuS, WHO pTObtl-
tuted his position on the bench in con-
donation of Dudley's offense, has been
rewarded with one of the most impor-
tant and honorable positions on the
bench. 1t was from Matthew S. Quay
himself, acting in the office now filled by
Carter, that President Harrison receiv-
ed his vitiated title to the Presidency,
1t is not to be supposed that Presi-
dent Harrison selected Carter for the
Craftsmanship of the national commit
tee because of his record in Nebraska
and Iowa. It may be that the presi-
dent did not know of that record. But
there is every reason to believe that
Carter was chosen because of the gen
eral reputation which he bore for sharp
ness, shrewdness, thickness and un-
scrupulousness in politics. He is ex-
actly the sort of timber out of which
the typical chairman of the Republican
national committee is constructed.
There may be something In the cheap
meanness of Chairman Carter's career
as a book agent which will be offensive
to President Harrison, but the chances
are that that the president will hold his
nose with one hand and his chairman
with the other.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-08-04
ANOTHER CARNEGIE kTRoCITY

The latest move of the Carnegie
company is right in line with the high
handed and law-defying course lit has
pursued ever since 1t locked its faithful
employees out of the Homestead mills
because they refused to work for star
vation wages.
Not satisfied with filling the places of
these taxpaying Americans by engaging
non-taxpaying Huns, Polocks, Swedes
and members of the Malta, the Carnegie
company hired nearly three score of
men in Cincinnati this week under
false pretences, and by forcible means
attempted to take them to Homestead
to work in the mills.
The Carnegie agent who engaged
the men told them that they were
wanted to work in Pittsburg; that the
labor was easy and the wages good.
They were told they would get their
first months board free and would have
three months in which to pay back
their car fare, but no mention whatever
was made of Homestead.
About flfty-six laborers were hired
under the above conditions and they
left Cincinnati ostensibly for Pittsburg.
Immediately after the train pulled out
of the city the doors were locked and
all the windows were securely fastened
down. When the men awoke in the
morning they were menaced by an
armed guard at each end of the car.
They demanded to know the meaning
of the outrage and were bluntly told
that they were being taken to Home
stead TO work In the mills.
This was the first intimation the men
had received that everything was not
as 1t had been represented to them, and
when they realized the situation they
demanded that the doors be unlocked.
This was refused and then a small riot
occurred in the car. The guards used
their guns as clubs and one of them
struck a puddler with the bayonet of
his gun and cut long cash across the
mans forehead. In the melee that fol-
lowed everyone in the car was more or
| less injured, and in their frantic efforts
| to get off the car the excited
men got into a fight
among themselves. The guard was
finally oYerpowered ard nearly all the
men escaped. A few, however, went
on to Homestead because they were
penniless and friendless and had no
other place togo.
This is another instance of the man
ner in which the insolent Carnegie
company sets at naught the laws of the
land as we'll as the laws of God. In its un
holy attempt to disrupt the Amalgamat-
ed Association it stops at nothing. Its
first move was the hiring of assassins;
its last move was the abduction of body
of free men. No one can tell what its
next move will be, as it has clearly
demonstrated its willingness to resort
to any lawlessness that in its judgment
may be necessary to either crush its
locked-out workmen or fill their places
with others. The Carnegie motto Is,
"Anything to keep the mills going in
order that our immense profits may
accumulate day and night"
1t is time halt was called. The
people are becoming tired of Carnegie
lawlessness and they demand that 1t
shall cease. Too much blood has been
shed and too many lives sacrificed al
ready in the interest of protected
industry"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-08-04
WEIGHED AND FOUND WANTING.

Republican Protection has been
weighed and found wanting. 1t prom
ised to tax tho foreigner, but It has
taxed the American instead. 1t prom
ised to raise wages and it has, lowered
them. 1t promised to elevate labor,
but has debased it. 1t promised to
protect the American workingman and
instead of doing 80 has protected his
grasping employer. 1t promised to
enrich the farmer, but has made him
poorer. 1t promised to benefit the
mechanic and has failed to do so. 1t
promised to build up Industries, but has
ruined more than it ever created. II
promised to develop tin mines and
hasn't done so, Itpromised an era of
prosperity that has not materialized.
1t is a fraud from beginning to end. 1t
has made the rich richer and the poor
poorer. Vide Carnegie on the one
hand aud his locked out men on the
other. It's the greatest curse the coun-
try ever had and is breeding anarchy
every day. 1t is in the interest of the
classes, not of the masses, and no patri-
otic American should vote to keep the
party in power that is responsible for it,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-08-04

The entire Homestead trouble, the
SiTecly tTacesbie ssbi to the dsmning IN effect
of Republican legislation, a protective
tariff, whereby. few beneliciaries are
driven to 6eggsry;. III; The fact ,tll that the
lying deception p1dS OF a.. the o%an GoW%ardIy thing
labor and capital, but never does and
never can, is no paliiatlon IN the minds
Democratic party's mission is to fight
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-08-04
A STRIKING OBJECT LESSON.
How Carnegie Controls the Iron ar
Steel Market and Aooumulates Million

How Carnegie Controls the Iron and
Steel Market and Aooumulates Millions.
Mr.. G. r.. Pond, an editorial writer in
the Boston Globe, explains for the bene-
fit of a number of inquirers, as follows:
Many people who read of the Home
stead troubles fancy that Mr.. Carnegie
is, like other manufacturers, merely the
owner of a large establishment, having
he Is abroad or otherwise engaged, and
they are surprised that he should be
away from business 80 long.
The fact is that the Homestead works
are hardly more in comparison with the
smith shop In the yard is with the great
The Carnegie steel and iron concerns
are made up of gigantic confederation
of industries, known under different
names, such as the Carnegie, Phipps &
Co. establishment, the Lucy furnace,
the keystone Bridge company, the
Edgar Thompson mills, and nearly q
dozen others, the Homestead works
being merely one of the various plants.
This vast industrial confederacy is en-
gagged in almost every conceivable kind
VI olCCl anu ItOu h1l I.
Carnegie, the chief of the confederacy,
has passed beyond the point of active
management, and has reached the
sphere of industrial royalty. His place
as sublime monarch is in his Scotch
castle. His chief partner, Pbipps, has
purchased the celebrated baronial seat
of Lord Lytton, veritable palace.
Doubtless the minor partners, as they
reach the royalty stage, will each In
turn cast about for baronial retreat.
Such is Triumphant Democracy"
as taught by the Carnegie example. 1t
means, as the public are beginning to
understand, an industrial confederacy
masquerading in the vestments of Re
publicanism, while its heads initiate the
costume of political monarchies.
And to crown it all the whole vast es-
tablishment sails under the banner of
protection to American workingmen.'
1t is indeed a striking object lesson.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-08-04

REPUBLICAN editors are making a
decided effort to bring into prominence
the fact that two-thirds of the work
men at Homestead are foreigners. We
hope they will succeed. 1t will be
another pointed illustration of the utter
failure of the high tariff to protect
American labor. We do not believe
that the responsibility for the presence
of these foreigners at Homestead will
be charged upon the Democratic party.
They were employed by the Carnegie
company to fill the places of American
workmen. The Carnegie company is
one of the benedciaries of the high
tariff and this is its method of meeting
its obligations to the American people.
In theory Mr.. Carnegie believes in
American wages for American work
men," but in practice he is in favor of
foreign wages for foreign workmen.-
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-08-04
TWO FAMILIAR CT AIMS
The Arguments OF Protection Paper
Shown TO be speoious.
From the New York World

One of the local protection organs
had recently campaign picture with
this legend: American labor receives
the highest pay in the world" The
other organ said that "there is no other
land where working people live as com.
fortebly, dress as well, have as much
msney in savings banks and get on
more rapidly than they do In America, !"
and 1t is claimed that "the protective
system is largely responsible for these
results"
1t is conceded that American labor
receives the highest pay. But it is
equally true that 1t received the highest
pay before the tariff had been adopted
here. 1t received the highest paw in
the world under our lowest tariff, 1t
would receive the highest If we had
only revenue tariff.
The reasons are that there is a great
er demand and a much wider field for
labor here In this relatively new country
than in the crowded Old World; that
labor is more productive ehere-produces
more in day; that 1t is more intelli-
gent; that IL Is, in many industries, well
organized, and that the cost of living is
greater.
America has the greatest waterfall
the longest river, tbs biggest trees, the
most miles of railroad and the largest
number of land owners in the world
1t would be as sensible to attribute
these things to our taxes as to credit
the tariff with the high wages.
If the protection system is "larpely
responsible" for the comforts and the
savings of our working people, why
does not the same system produce the
same results in other nations? Most of
the European countries have protec-
tive. tariffs, Germany, France, Italy and
Spain among them. Why are wages
lower In any of them than it free-trade
England?
Will some protectionist answer?
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-08-04

RIOTS aud strikes in Idaho; wealth
warning with want; capital stabbing
the heart of labor; bread fights in Penn
sylvania; mocking millionaires making
misery; predatory, plundering Pinker.
tons picked and paid to punish and pre-
vent protection to wearied, worried
workingmen; freeze outs, frauds, fer
ments, and fattened false-faced Fricks;
cannon, carbines, carnival capering
Carnegies; Goths, gore and Gatljng
guns; discomfort, destruction, dynamite
and death; means, mutterings, misery,
McKinleyism and monopolistic MUIR
der-these preside, sidewalk, sidetrack,
signalize, stamp and stigmatize the
startling Observation-Disclosures (O) jack
sonian,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-08-04
Cholera infantum has lost its terror

Cholera infantum has lost its terrors
since the introduction of Chamberlain's
collie, cholera and diarrhoea remedy.
When that remedy is used and the treat
ment as directed with each bottle is
followed cure is certain. Mrs. Fanny
Lauderdale of Rock, Pope county, Ill.,,
says it cured her baby of cholera infantum
and she thinks saved it's life. A. w.
Walter, prominent merchant at Walter.
cholera infantum after several other
remedies had failed. The child was 80
low that "he seemed almost beyond the
aid of humln hands or reach of any medi.
cine,n but Chamberlain's collie, cholera
and diarrhoea remedy cured him. 25 and
80 cent bottles for sale by Durbin, Wright
q Co., or L. Sollmann, druggists.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-08-04
CHEAP EXCURSIONS,

Via Chicago Great Western Railway.
The Chicago Great Western Railway
Opera ing Chicago, st. Paul 81 Kansas
City Ry) will sell half fare excursion
tickets to the West and Northwest on
following dates:
Helena, Mont, Sons of Veterans En-
campment, Aug. 4th to 10th.
Portland, Or, lO,O.F. Grand Lodge,
Sept, 10th to l4th.
HARVEST EXCURSIONS to principal
western points Aug, Both to Sept. 9th.
For information call on ticket agents,
OF address j. A. Granger, Ohio Pass,
Agt, % Clinton Bldg, Columbus, o.
iul9lLW
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-08-04

GEN. SNowDEN, the paper soldier
who has been In command of the
militia at Homestead, will today leave
the scene of Iams's torture and turn
over his command to Gen. Wylie. His
occupancy of Homestead was rather
inglorious. He insulted the citizens,
snubbed the civil authorities, made an
ass of himself and finally capped the
climax by torturing Que of his men.
Good bye, General, may your like never
be seen again in the uniform of a
national guardsman.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-08-04

THE Chicago Herald is making a
hard and vigorous fight against the
deadly grade crossings in that city, and
Is insisting that the tracks be elevated
One life a day has been lost at some
one of these crossings for several
months past. The interest of human
ity demand that this slaughter should
be stopped, and every citizen and every
paper in Chicago should cooperate
with the Herald in its efforts to force
the railroad companies to elevate the
tracks.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-08-04

THE fate of the Worlds Fair bill will
probably be decided today. 1t should
be passed by all means, as the honor of
the United States is at stake. The gov
ernment has gone so far in this enter
prise that 1t would not be justified
under any circumstances in backing
out now and withholding much needed
financial aid at a critical moment.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-08-04

THE press and the people demand
that Col. Streator, the Torturer, be
court -martialed for his inhumanity to
Private Iams. He should be made to
appreciate the fact that privates have
rights as well as officers, and that those
rights cannot be trampled upon with
impunity.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-08-04

IT is rumored that Carnegie has iso-
lated himself in one of his Scotch cas-.
ties for the purpose of writing book
to be entitled "Ihe Benefits of Repub-
lican Protection to the Manufacturers;
or, How Frick, Phipps and 1 Success
fully Locked out the American Work.
men and Filled their Places with Huns,
Poles, SWedes and Italians"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-08-04

STILL another day has passed with
out the resignation of Pension Com
missioner Raum having been rendered.
It's evident that he will have to be kick
ed out, but, President Harrison seems
determined not to do the kicking. Raum
is disgrace to the administration and
the governmental service. Turn the
rascal out.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-08-04

THE Republican press is opposed to
the passage of the Worlds Fair appro-
priation bill. If few foreigners like
Carnegie and Phipps were interested in
the fair this same Republican press
would demand that the bill be passed
on the ground that II was an American
industry and should be protected.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-08-04

Two prominent citizens of Cortland,
N. Y ;, have just severed their connec.
tion with Republican club and come
ont for Cleveland. They assign as a
reason Harrlson's truculency and the
hostile attitude of the Republican party
toward the farmer and the wage-earner
This is only the start of the stampede
away from the protection candidate
which will come later.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-08-04

How can any man who puts his
country's welfare above partisan cou-
siderations give his support to Havri-
son, the Protection Republican and the
candidate of the worst aggregation of
disreputable spoils grabbers that ever
held the reigns of government in this
country?
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-08-04

THE Republican majority in the
United States Senate has suppressed
and stillsd every bill passed by the
Democratic majority in the House for
the relief of the people from unjust and
unnecessary Tariff Taxation.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-08-04

FRANK WEBB, one of the Plnkerton
men who went from Long Island City
to Homestead for the purpose of shoot.
ing workingmen, has been arrested for
causing the death of his wife. He is a
fair sample of the ordinary Pinkerton
thug.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-08-04

PRESIDENT HARRISON has showed
his disregard for right and justice by
vetoing the McGarrahan claim bill, one
of the most equitable claims over pre-
sented to the government tor settle
ment,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-08-04
consumptIon Surely Cured.

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that have q positive remedy for tho abovenamod
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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-08-04

People who give Hoods Sarsaparilla q
fair trial realize its great merit and are
glad to say good word for it. Have you
tried il?
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-08-04
ODE TO CHAIRMAN HARRIrY.
Whist, Misther Harrlty.

Whist, Msther Harrlty.
Och, 'Tis rarity
TO have the swate likes o. yes there:
Well follow yez readily,
Faithful and steadily
Victory floats ia the air.
columbus Post.