Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-09-06

such as expressed in the above para graph was General Hancock, when nominated as candidate for presi- dent by the democracy. When asked as to his views on the tariff
 he said he considered it a local question" General Hancock's train
 ing had been largely military, and
 he had never devoted much time to
 affairs of state. and his range of vision on the tariff issue did not
 extend beyond the manufacturing
 interests directly affected. Oi
 course his remark furnished much
 amusement for the newspapers oi
 the country during the campaign
 which followed, and which resulted
 in his defeat. Since the interview
 with the distinguished soldier, how eTer. the local theory" of the tariti question has remained in a state of 'iunocuous desuetude," until the moss was torn from its inert body, and 1t was hurled once more into public gaze through the columns of our contemporary.
 Alongside the Hancock theory of the question of tariff. our contem- porary advances the following con corning silver:
 The silver question is not local to any section, as the strongest ap- peals for free silver come from those sections where never an ounce of silver was produced Even the un- popular and numerically few manu- featuring monOpolists want free sil- yer coinage. for without more money the wheels of their mills must stop and their workmen go unpaid, for without money the people cannot purchase their products. The man who makes his way by the ceaseless and unobstructed revolutions of the wheels of commerce. from the hum blest labOrer to the millionaire owner of great manufacturing as tabllShments, pray for free coinage.
 The only startling feature of the above is the recklessness of the as sertion, as it is a we'll known fact that but very few of the million aire manufacturers" or the mil Gonaires of any other class are in favor of silver coinage. It is a fact that, even in the silver producing section of the country itself and in the section where free coinage would be felt most fayorably. there are found men, among the wealthy class, who, if not open opponents of free coinage. ara mkewarm towards i, l. is also a fact that throughout the east very many are to be found in the humbiest walks of life, among the toiling millions, who conscien- tiously think that free coinage would be disastrous to the country and consequently to their interests. They are men too, equal in point of intelligence and information to the silver advocates, and equally honest in their convictions, having read the arguments both for and against free coinage. or course, we of the west think that they do not really under stand what would be to their own best interests.
 Talk with them, however, and they will tell you. as General Han cock did, and our contemporary does of the tariff, that the silver question is purely a local affair, affecting but a comparatively small area of the United States, and SO far as population is concerned, a less proportion still.
 The local tariff theorists can not see far enough beyond the question to realize that protected industries in the east, which give employment to, say 100000 men. furnishes a home market to the western farmer to the extent of feeding 5,O00,0OO mouths. IL means the clothing of 5.OOO.OOO bodies. and this, in turn, creates a still greater market for the products of the west, in fur niShing food for the men engaged in the manufacture of these articles as well as a market for the raw material used in their manufact ure. The ralnifications of benefits multi ply, as the analysis is increased and the question, starting from local standpoint, is found to spread itself | alt over the country and to enter into nearly every avenue of produc tion and trade, and instead of being l approaching local affair, il is of the greatest general and | importance.
 The western free trader seems unable to realize the advantages of anthing that he does not reap a direct benefit from, and 3 benefit which Is brought into the most direct contact with his line of wis ion. Many of the eastern toilers are similarly affected on the silver ques- ion. They can not realize how any benefit will accrue to them by the of silver mining, 2,OOO pr 5000 miles away, and by the con erSion of the product of these sil- er mines into coin. The only per- ons beneitted. in their line of wis 5n, by such a process, are the men -ho own and operate the mines, or i; re employed in them. They fail to [ aahzc that among the more direct oneEts, silver mining requires ,achinery which must be manu- J ,ctured in the east, and which r ives employment to large number {, men, and that miners must eat d