The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-11-02

body's satisfied.
The trouble lies, not in lack of cur
rency, but lack of confidence. No
man will produce for the future when n
he doesn't know what that future will
be. Every waiting. And waiting
is death to business. No man will put
his good money in at one end Of a
factory when he doesn't know what val
ues il will bring forth at the other
No man will pay tariff prices for coal,
iron, wool and labor when he feels as.
sured that the finished product must
compete on an equal basis with free
trade coal, free trade iron, wool and
labor in the markets of the country.
We have been thirty.two years under
protective tariff, with the Republican
party in sufficient control to prevent a
change. Last fall, the people, through
the Democratic party, declared protec-
ton unconstitutional, fraud and rob-
berry. The world took notice. Every
business man in this country took note
and adjusted his affairs accordingly.
Manufacturers don't work for fun any
more than labor works without pay.
When capital doesn't work, labor
doesn't work. There are sixty. three
million people living now from hand to
mouth. Not railroad in the country
is buying steel rails. The Democracy
have promised reduction in the tariff,
and they are waiting for it, and when it
comes, they can buy English rails
cheaper than American. Railmakers
are idle. They earn no wages and spend
no wages. They buy nothing from the
shop keeper or the farmer. The shop
keeper sells nothing, and therefore or
ders nothing from the manufacturer.
The manufacturer therefore makes
nothing and his labor is idle. Thus it
is in one branch and another-all in
touch with each other, round and
round. There is no demand for new
clothing, therefore no wages for the
tailor, no wages for the cloth maker,
and no demand for the wool from your
heeces
The only factory in this country run
ming full blast, with strong head of
steam, is the factory of falsehood. Two
years ago the Democracy were crying
out against Mckinley prices. l thank
God that the prices of to-day are not
Mckinley prices, but the prices Of free
trade.
Cleveland could restore confidence
and start all the wheels of industry run
ming, if he would promise to veto every
tariff bill brought before him. Pros
perity would be restored at once. But
1 fear that he is incapable Of stepping
up on to plane so elevated.
Andrew Jackson was protectionist.
All the old Democratic fathers ere
protectionists.
Neal is for all countries but our own
The Jacksonian platform deplored the
| abandonment of the policy of protec
| ton as destructive to the best interests
of the American people. Oh, for more
Jacksonian Democracy! But, We'll have
lots OF it this year.
Will free trade light the fires in oul
idle furnaces? It means the easier ad
mission of foreign products, and th'
more of foreign products we consume
the less OF home products.
They say we have built a Chinese wal
around this country. 1t is not Chi
nese wall. Our duties are not prohibi
tory. l helped build that wall, and
have no apologies to offer to free trader
abroad or free traders at home. Whs
would you think of the farmer VIII
would 60 abroad to hire workers whe
his own sons at home were able an
anxious to do the work. Free trad
employs foreigners to do our worl
, Protection gives it to those of our ow
household. If you don't take care
yourself, nobody will do it for you.
4 II you want protection you must 81
t SO with your ballot; if free trade, vo
/ for it. The issues were never so sharp
drawn as now.
Gov. Mckinley here produced a boo
account Of 1858, in which village ca
+ penter was credited $l50 for a day
/ work and charged with four items
merchandise, $4.l0. The carpenter
'92 would have been credited So. so +
l his days work and the four items
merchandise would have cost him So ]
, leaving him thirty-five cents ahea
t while his predecessor was So 60 in del
This was fair and honest illustrate
of what protection had accomplish
5 for the American working man.
:. Whose country is this, anyhow?
g It's ours. We made it, defended al
, preserved it, and if we don't contin
3 it with all its magnificent blessings, i
3 our own FAULT. We have the power.