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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-27
HoIsIep By THsIR OWN PEIARp.

American Industries calls attention
to the ridiculous features OF the Amer.
lean tin plate tax, of cents pound,
which went into effect July l. The
law says: "0n and after July 1. 1893,
there shall be imposed duty of cents
per pound on pig tin; provided that
unless 1t shall be made to appear to the
satisfaction of the President of the
United States that the production of
the mines of the United States shall
have exceeded 5000 tons In any one
year prior to July 1, 1895, then all i'm
ported tin shall, after July /, 1895, be
admitted free of duty" The provision
Of the law which requires the American
product to exceed 5000 tons yearly, ap-
pears to have little prospects for con-
summation as the annual production
80 far has not approached more than
one-third that quantity, and several
mines have shut down. The President,
therefore, has been compelled to put
the law In force and the effect will be
to further increase the difficulty of
profitably manufacturing tin plate
about which Mckinley has shown such
tender regard. 1t is another illustra-
tion of the absurdity of McKinleyism
and its efforts to serve two masters to
the injury of both.
The Mckinley tariff increased the
duty on tin plate to protect" Ameri-
can manufacturers against foreign
competitors and now adds a duty on
the product American manufacturers
must import to use In the article they
are striving TO compete with their
foreign rivals. So now these protec-
tionists are worse off than they were
before they succeeded in inducing
paternal government to tax the people
for their benefit. This Is indeed being
hoisted by ones own petard and shows
what protectionism run mad means
under McKinleyism. Importers have
not been idle pending this law going
into effect, and the effort to get as much
block tin into the country before the
law went into operation has increased
the value of importation, for eleven
months of the year by 40 per cent.
The imports for May last were 9,922,-
29S pounds, valued at $2033, ,4G3 against
imports in May, 1899, of 5,106. 3O7
pounds, valued at 81 ,023,SS9.
The figures for the eleven months
ending May 81, were 5I,755,679 pounds
valued at S10,499,107 for 1893, against
38 089,0S5 pounds valued at 81, ,4g3SO2
for 1892. The imports for June have
not yet been compiled, but will carry
the total importations for the year to
over 60000OO0 pounds and nearly S13,-
100000. The total imports for the fis-
cal year 1892 were 43,908,653 pounds
valued at $S,667,S7O.
The imports of tin plate in the mean
time show few of the effects of in
creased American production and di-
demand for the foreign pro-
duct. The imports for eleven months
ending May 81, 1893, were 56820lg46
posnds valued at S15,903,913 against
imports for eleven months ending May
81, 1892, of 363,907, 1891 pounds valued at
$10,671 $50.
To sum the whole matter up, the ef-
feet of this new law meaDs-that The
American people ara to be taxed over
81, 1,720,0O0 year in order to discourage
American Industries.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-27
RoBBER TARIFF AND PANlcS.

Congressman Springer's home organ,
the Illinois State Register, of Spring
field, does not believe that the balance
OF trade has been cast against us by the
Sherman silver law, but by the McKin-
ley tariff law, which has impeded
American exports, while it has not i'm
peded the import of foreign fabrics
and wares. The result Is, that the ad-
verse balance of trade has been settled
with American gold. This has caused
the financial panic, and the violent
action of Wall street, in demanding the
demonetization of silver, has caused
panic and CONSERVATION all over the
silver producing states and wrecked
some of the most substantial banks in
the country. In commenting upon Mr..
Eckles' recent banquet speech In New
Y York, the Illinois State Register blurts
right out like this:
"The bankers of Wall street have met
young Mr.. Eckles of Illinois, now
comptroller of the currency, wined him
and dined him, and told them what
they have done for the country. Now
let Mr.. Eckles listen to the plain people
who haven't money to spare to wine
and dine him, and hear the story of
what they have done for the country,
and what they want done for the coun-
try. He will hear very different story
from the producers from what he has
from the money lenders"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-27

The Columbus Westbote, organ Of
the German American Democrats of
Ohio, and the Columbus Press-PUst
are out for John j. Lentz for Governor.
The Press-Post says:
evidently the trend of thought over
the state is for new and q young man,
one not heretofore mixed up In any
party factions, and one who combines
ability as speaker with warm sup
port Of Mr.. Cleveland's administration.
William Il Russell, the young Demo-
cratic orator of Massachusetts twice
carried that state for governor, as did
Robert Il. Pattison the keystone state
Both men were Ssei2ed upon by their
PARTY in state conventions.and nominat-
cd over old chieftains mixed up In party
quarrels-and success followed Has
the time come in Ohio for a like move
ment? Shall an advance be made and
in addition to the Democratic cohorts
shall we have candidate whose manli-
ness, oratory and convictions will bring
to his support the thousands of inde:
pendents?
Mr.. LentZ, we understand, is not a
candidate, but the convention has a
right to draft him into the service as
its standard bearer or to select some
other man like him not seeking the
nomination.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-27
halfway COMPANY SUED.
Discharged Employees Want Damages o
Charge Of Libel.

COLUMBUS, o., July PA suit Of an
unprecedented nature bearing upon the
employment of private detectives to fer.
ret out the crookedness of dishonest
street railway conductors has been filed
in the courts here. The plaintiffs are
ii. V. Biddison and A. II. Gehret, late
conductors on the Columbus Street rail
road, who were discharged on the
ground that they had been knocking
down" fares. The suits are for dam
ages in the sum of $3.50, 900 each.
The plaintiffs claim they faithfully
discharged their duties TO the company,
but notwithstanding this the company
employed certain irresponsible, un-
trustworthy, interested and Influenced
agents unfriendly and preiudiced
against them TO compose certain false
and malicious and defamatory article
which caused them to be discharged
from the cOmpany's employ. They
claim they were wrongfully discharged
upon the charges of larceny and embez-
element without chance to defend
themselves from the circulation of the
alleged libel, and that before that they
had always sustained good characters.
The cOmpany's officers state that no
action Tor damages of this kind can hold
good, inaamuch as in discharging en-
ployes on the ground of crookedness no
names were publicly mentioned.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-27
OPERATIONS OF A 1Rusr.

The big gas and electric fixture trust,
organized by high tariff Re-
pubIicans has proven an inglorious
failure. Its first step after organizing
was to advance prices 40 per cent and
no dealers were permitted to buy trust
goods unless they swore not to pur-
chase from the three firms outside.
Extravagant salaries were paid to
trust officials, none of whom were
practical fixture makers and large sums
were spent in helping the Mckinley
tariff boomers
The story of this trust, revealing the
operations of trusts generally, organ
lied under the Mckinley law, is told by
Wilfred Pearce, one of the leading
metal manufacturers of the United
States, in the current number OF Amer
ican Industries:
The wages of workingmen were not
advanced In any case, and In many de-
partments of the factories highly paid
labor was supplanted by cheap labor
taken from the cotton mills of New
England. Many small factories were
forced to suspend because the trust
people threatened to boycott makers of
supplies who sold to the small makers.
Plumbers who sold goods at less than
prices regulated by the trust were
black listed for one year after Offend
ing. A number of alleged patents
without which, the trust said,
goods could not be made were
bought up by the trust, and dealers
or makers who did not understand that
the patents were worthless, were in
duced to sign the trust agreement for
fixed period.
For two years all went we'll, and then
many makers of brass goods who had
not made fixtures went into that line,
simply because at trust prices there
was large profit to be made. When
this competition became powerful, the
trust lowered prices and bankrupted
several firms in its own ranks, and did
not hurt the outsiders, who were not
weighted down by enormous fixed
charges and assessments which trust
firms were compelled to pay. A few
weeks ago the Archer & Pancoast
Manufacturing Company, New York,
an old established firm, and members
of the trust, assigned, and their state
ment to creditors Is remarkable one,
as 1t shows that its factory has been
run full time for years on goods which
averaged 20 per cent profit. 1t has
made no bad bebts. Its business has
been we'll managed by men of character
anG ability, yet 1t owes S500000. This
whole sum is debts to banks, floated by
Mr.. Biddle of the Manufacturers Club
in vain attempt to raise money to
crush out rivals in trade and spent in
buying out competitors at high prices.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-27

A United Press dispatch from
Washington, under date OF July 20, an
nounces that the total number of PEN
sions dropped from the rolls since
March 4, 1893, is 245. This is out of a
total of over 100000. It's also officially
announced by Pension Commissioner
Lochren, that no investigation is pro-
posed into the merits of any pension
granted previous to the enactment of
the so-called disability pension law of
July, 1890. This dispOses of all the
many and alarming lies sent out to the
Republican papers, from Washington,
that a general revision of the pension
list was contemplated. In other words
not one soldier who, Is now drawing a
pension for wounds or disability con-
tracted in the war, need have the least
apprehension; but only those who are
drawing pensions under the act of July
1890, which allows pensions to those
who have become disabled since the
war. These cases will be investigated
so far as to ascertain whether the spirit
OF the law, and the scope of the law
has been conformed to in all cases. 1t
is understood that all men who are now
drawing pensions, who were not in the
army, or who are suffering no disabil-
ity, will have their pensions stopped.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-27
DON'T WANT GOLD.

The Pittsburg Dispatch, which Is
strongly and independently Republic
can, Is quite put out with the Wall
street chaps, because they do not seem
to want the gold the U. S. Treasury is
paying out. The Dispatch editorial is
quite significant, when its source Is
considered. This editorial Is brief and
pointed, and is worthy of a complete
reproduction.
1t comedies what we have, time and
again stated, that the business men of
the country does not want either gold
or silver as the money of circulation,
but they want currency, Here is the
editorial:
Two months ago the "New York
bankers were palpitating with fear lest
the Treasury could not continue to pay
gold. They criticised the Secretary be-
cause he did not rush out S50,000,000 or
so of new Government bonds on the
market for the purpose Of reinforcing
his stock Of gold. They talked panic
on account of this apprehension until
money everywhere got preternaturally
tight, and they found their pre-
dictions fulfilled too well to suit
them. The origin of all the monetary
trouble was In the apprehension that
the Treasury would not be able to keep
up gold payments. And now the COM
plant is that the Treasury does pay
gold. Of course there is the difference
in changed circumstances. Then the
banks wanted gold; now they want the
Treasury to store it for them. So we
hear that the payments of gold are
obstructive" and the gold paid out is
"inconvenient," and practically not
available" This conveys the novel
idea that gold retains resemblance to
the much abused silver-when it is not
wanted. The fact remains that the
Treasury is paying more gold than the
bankers want, and, consequently, with
the prospect of fimportations, the yellow
metal which everyone was grabbing for
q short time ago is now drug on the
market, 1t is possible that the Secre-
tary or his subordinate, Mr.. Jordan, has
taken this course as sort of grim sat
isfaction in making the New York
bankers, who assume to possess the
greater share of the financial wisdom
of the country, swallow their alarmist
talk, that started the monetary trouble"
Here is confession, lin the last par
agraph) that the present panic was pre-.
cipitated by the New York bankers,
with alarmists' talk "a gold scare) to
induce the government to issue more
bonds.
And yet I'VE have large number of
Republican organs, and a goodly array
of Republican statesmen $50 called)who
are loudly proclaiming that the present
panic Is due to the fear of the coming
together of the Democratic Congress,
which the American people elected by
a tremendous majority, to undo the
vicious work of a Republican Congress
and Republican administration.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-27

THE Plttsburg Dispatch, which is
Republican in tone, but also with a
conscience, is not pleased with eX-
President Harrison's recent Pecknifllan
and demagogical interview on the
money panic The Dispatch hits Har-
rison hard, as follows:
"The proper course among Republic
cans of sound views is not to seek to
make political capital out of public
danger, but to join with the conserva-
tive Democrats, first to put the none
tary question on sound footing, and,
second, to keep the tariff changes with
in the limits of conservatism. If ex-
President Harrison's utterances would
urge that policy upon his followers
they would possess the qualities of
public usefulness and patriotism"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-27
HISTORICAL TRUTHS rERseLY PUT.
From the youngstown vindIcator.

On July 4th last man by the name
of John Consaulus, of Troy, N. Y :, rose
up from obscurity and made himself
famous by giving reasons why our es-
teemed fellow citizen, William McKin-
lev. Jr.. should be reelected governor.
Among other reasons he says that "the
reciprocal policy of Blaine, secured by
the Mckinley tariff, gave to our marine,
merchants. manufacturers and agrl-
culturists and free entry to many large
and important foreign markets. Our
industrial independence Is an import
ant factor necessary to promote, and es-
sential to the life, prosperity and per-
petuity of this nation" Now thig gen.
tlemaI, of Troy, New York, condemns
Mckinley himself, for Mckinley fought
the reciprocal policy of Blaine with all
his might. There would have been no
free trade reciprocity II the legislation
depended on Mckinley alone, for he
wanted to turn the whole country over
to the complete control of the monopo-
lists. This is why Blaine rushed forth
from the state department and going
to the Senate committee rooms, de-
nounced the shameful Mckinley bill
saying:
aGo on with your dwelling idiocy
and see where you will land the hepub
lican party"
He also declared that he would stamp
the bill under his feet and spit upon 1t.
He then devoted his energies to obtain
an amendment to the monopoly law,
and succeeded In having the recipro-
city features added, Notwithstanding
the bitter opposition of Mckinley ana
the aristocrats who wrote the schedules
of the bill, which bears his name. Had
it not been for Blaine, there would be
no reciprocity and trade conditions
would be worse than they are now.
Thus doth Mr.. Consaulus unmindful
of history condemn Mckinley out of
his own mouth. His declaration about
industrial independence" has some
truth In it, for there is industrial in
dependence" of the manufacturers who
buy foreign rags and make them up
into clothing for Americans. They
paid for the protection which they re-
ceive at the expense of wool growers
and wool manufacturers, and as Con-
saulus is q broker, who probably deals
in the rag business under the name of
wool business, he joins with them In
independence"
But Consaulus is not a good advocate
of McKinleyism. He is not skilltul
enough in prevarication, and he for
gets one of the most interesting bits of
history of our legislation.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-27
JOHN J, LeNTz FOR GOVERNOR.

Yesterday we printed an editorial
from the Columbus Westbote in favor
of john j. Lentz, of Columbus, for
Governor. We have information from
influential Democrats in Central and
Southern Ohio that Mr.. Lentz is a
strong man for the head of the ticket.
He is a clean man, an able man and a
popular man. AS campaigner he is
said to be immense. Mr.. LentZ, as we
understand, is not candidate, but we
believe he would accept the nomina-
tion, If rendered. Our Democrats in
Stark county, who know Mr.. L:ntz,
think highly of his candidacy. Mr..
Lentz has many warm friends here,
and quite a number of these frinds are
liable to be at the State Convention.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-27

PLAIN CITY, o., July 2i.-Several
men became engaged in fight over a
game of cards. Frank Wilson at
tempted TO act as peacemaker when one
Of the fighters named Emerly Fitz.
patrick drew a revolver and shot him
through the head. Fitzpatrick then
fled to the woods where he was over.
taken by the marshal and posse and re-
turned to the Jail. On tho way thoy
were met by mob which they held at
bay and the prisoner was landed in the
Jail. There aye prospects of a hanging,
as the people are greatly excited over
the affair. Wilson was a much re.
spected man.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-27
Or eleven bank failures, reported

OF eleven bank failures, reported
yesterday from Kansas, Missouri and
Colorado, but one was national bank,
that Of Kansas City, Mo. Three were
Denver Savings Banks and the rest
were private and state banks, Lack
of confidence didit. President Kumph,
of the Missouri National, says:
"It any man had told me Friday that
my bank would suspend ] should have
laughed in his face. We had lots of
money, and better, we had lots of
friends. Our friends stood by US Sat
urday fairly well, but this morning they
left us, and when our vaults were empty
the end had come. We couldn't pre-
vent 1t. If the people had only waited,
If they had only had confidence, these
doors would be open now. This finRn-
cial distrust Is terrible. There Is no
such thing as confidence today. It's
gone"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-27
Bogus Check victims.

COLUMBUS, o., July 2l.-The police
were notified that several prominent
business men have been victimized dur.
ing the week on bogus checks presented
by man calling himself J. II. Brooks.
He represented himself as travelling
salesman for the firm Of Wells, Tracy
& Co., wholesale notion dealers. and
purchased goods in large amounts, Civ
ing checks on Wells, Tracy g. Co. in
payment. In each instance the checks
would be somewhat larger than the
purchase price, and Brooks would be
given rebate in cash. Among the
losers are r. Eorgess & Sons of 2i6
South High street, $50; Lee g. Thurber,
Gay and High streets, $2j. and Edwin
j. Ashton, - North High street, S2G.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-27
Killed Him with His Fists.

BRYAN, o., July 24.-Perry Yoder,
who was indicted by a special grand
jury at the March common pleas for the
murder Of Milton Hogue, in Mont
pelier, August 9G 1891, was arrested in
Jasper county, Illinois, and Sheriff
Bailey left with the necessary papers to
bring him TO this state. Yoder, who
removed to Illinois Immediately aftor
the killing, received a tip as to the
grand jury'5 investigation from a wit
ness and has been hiding ever since.
Hogue was killed by two or three good
blows from Noder's fist on the back
the neck, dying within five min
The killing occurred in a disreputaH He
house, ankfor some time evidence was
suppressed
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-27
Investigating Bad Cheese.

SANDUsKY, o., July 24.-State Food
and Dairy Commissioner McNeal is
busy in his investigation of the use OF
impure cheese at the Soldiers and
Sailors home, near Sandusky. The
cheese is a conglomeration of tallow
"hog lard" and coloring matter. 1t is
labeled "New York Cream Cheese" and
Commissioner McNeal will endoavor to
have the Food and Dairy Department
of New York suppress its manufacturT
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-27

Two years ago when Gov. Mckinley
was stumping Ohio for his election, in
a speech at Ada on October 8, 1891,
made use of the following language:
"The Republican party approves of the
last Congress, which requires the gov
eminent TO buy 100000 ounces of sill
yer every month at its market value"
Now our diplomatic William Is De :
nouncing law he advocated and voted
for on the floor Of Congress, and has
upheld since, In hundred Orations.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-27
Still After the Girl.

COLUMBUS, o., July 24.-Fred Wills
and an officer of Calhoun county, West
Virginia, are said to be in this city with
a writ Of habeas corpus for the purpose
of taking 12-year-old Thursby Cunning.
ham of North High streets and giving
her to her grand parents, who reside in
West Virginia and have long been try,
ing to get possession of the child.
Wills is relative of the child and
created sensation here a few weeks
ago by trying to steal her away.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-27
Don't Agree with tho Coroner.

DAYTON, o.. July 24.--The semi-ofi.
cial announcement that Coroner NJ. A,
Broodstone Of Greene county, attributes
the deaths of the three Trubbe children,
whose sudden demise at intervals within
the past three weeks caused intense ex-
citement in the neighborhood and led
TO speculations and rumors Of poison.
ing, to milk sickness, finds no favor with
the attending physicians resident here,
and, unless more comprehensive in.
vestigation is pursued, doubt, suspicion
and mystery will forever surround the
deaths of the three boys.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-27
Mans Inhumanity to Man

DEAR EDITOR: Please inform your read
erS that will mail free to all sufferers, the
means By which / was permanently re.
stored 80 health and manly vigor, after
years of suffering from nervous weakness,
etc. / have no scheme to extort money
from any one whomsoever. was robbed
aud swindled by the quacks until nearly
lost faith in mankind, but thanks be to my
benefactors, am now we'll, vigorous aud
strong, and being anxious to make this
certain means of cure known to all, will
send free TO nny one full particulars of
just how was cured. Address with stamp
ID. COLLIE, Teacher, Windsor. Onta>
rio. 29'13t
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-27
Deserving Praise,

We desire to say to our citizens that for
years we have been selling DR.. Kings
New Discovery for consumption, DR..
Kings New Life Pills, Bucklen's Arnica
handled remedies that soil As well, or that
have given such universal Subtraction.
We do not hesitate 10 guarantee them
every time. and we stand ready 10 refund
the purchase price, II satisfactory resulta
do not follow their use. These rernsdies
nsys is won shslr great popularity purely on
DgpRRiata. nVf"E 80 ~
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-27

AND now little Ben Harrison has
more light. He has just discovered
that the present money panic is not
caused on account of the Sherman sill
yer law, but on account of distrust of
the Democratic Congress. In other
words, in eight months after the Amer
ican people elected Democratic Con-
gress, and repudiated Harrison and his
party, they suddenly discover that they
have made an awful mistake, and get
up money panic to rectify it.