Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1892-11-02
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duty free.-American Industries.
Those who have not the time to
look up the record of Mr.. ID. d.
Aitken and his fitness for member
ship in Congress can find all they
want in the Journal. Watch these
columns until November Stint
Journal.
IF the increase of $1,O52,573 in
our exports to Brazil from 1901 to
1892 is due to reciprocity with that
country, what caused an increase of
81, 255 ,067 from 1890 to 1891, be-
fore Republican reciprocity broke
out?-Jackson Patriot.
No living man ever saw a bushel
of European barley imported for use
in this country. The effect of the
Mckinley tariff on barley has been
to shut down malt hodses using
Canadian barley. OF seventeen
such establishments in New York
mailing for sale, fourteen were
closed last season, and this season
only one announces that it will go
into operation. The Mckinley
barley tax has cost the State of
New York millions of dollars worth
of productive industry, and offered
no substitute for it.-Albany Argus.
Changes from one party to an
other counts where the vote is so
close as it is in West Virginia. C..
c. Church, of that state, influential
and wealthy, always liberal con-
tributor to the Republican cam
paign fund and the financial hacker
of one of the states Republican or
gans, has joined "the great MAORI
ty" and come out for Cleveland.
His conversion" a Baltimore Sun
correspondent writes, 'is regarded
as a matter of great significance and
an index to the situation. Many
Republicans here (Parkersburg) are
outspoken in their intention to vote
for Cleveland"
The workingmen of this country
are now fully aware of the fact that
the Republican party is the party
of jobbery and bribery in politics,
robbing the poor man and the farm
err, and helping to make the rich
richer by it's tariff. The working
men are st',ding now.-Menominee
Democrat.
IL the Mckinley law has increased
the wages of workingmen, why is
it necessary for the Republican Or
ators and organs all over the coun-
try to keep up such a continual
ding-dong about it? Do they think
the workingmen so stupid as not to
know whether or not their wages
have been raised Grand Rapids
Leader.
So far as the farmer is concerned
McKinley's boosted protection"
has proven stupendOus failure.
What the farmer wants is less taxes
and more markets, not decreasing
demands and lower prices.-Shelby
Herald.
Wayne county New York }
farmers are asking to have the Nc
Kinley duty of 25 cents bushel
on apples taken off,~so that they
may get Canadian fruit to keep
their evaporators running. A short
crop on this side and the Mckinley
duty on the other have spoiled the
fruit evaporating business. Buffalo
Courier.
With wheat at sixty-eight cents
per bushel, the Mckinley law
seems, from the farmers standpoint,
to be doing it's own talking.-Hast-
ings Democrat.
Republicans say that the tariff
makes things cheap. There is no
doubt that the tariff has done more
than any other thing to make farms
cheap.-Ionia Standard.
Why did Mckinley strike off all
the sugar tax, except half a cent a
pound, and thereby deprive our
government of $50, 0S5 ,873.S4 an
nual revenue if, as he claims, the
foreigner pays the tax?-Gladwin
Leader.
If dollars were votes how surely
the Republicans could win. Two
million dollars have been appropriate
ed by the Republican national COM
mittee to carry New York, New
Jersey and Connecticut.-Niles Re-
cOrder.
Prof. Shaler recalls the time when
he was the only man among all the
professors and instructions at Har-
ward who usually voted the Demo-
cratic ticket. The Republican pre-
ponderance was something like fifty
to one. The distinguished profess
sor proudly notes the facts that the
proportion is now substantially re-
versed, and he is one of the fifty
Boston Herald.
Chauncey Depew says that the
Republican party stands where it
always stood on the tariff" This is
not so. 1t stood in 1880 for a
moderate tariff. Two of its Presi-
dents--Grant and Arthur--have
favored free raw materials. Two
of its Secretaries of the Treasury
Folger and Mccullough = have
recommended a thorough tariff re-
duction. IL is only since it fell in
to the hands of the monopolists that
it has stood for a high protective
tariff.-Republic.
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