The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-28

"Now tbs party approaches the uine
when 1t must put it's creed into deeds. IL
has control of the executive aad legislative
departments. It must provide an enormous
revenue. It must devise new scheme of
taxation. Il must substitute revenue for
protective duties. That the party will be
as bold In ,ction as in utterance we do not
doubt. The time for compromise has
passed. Every duty laid must be laid for
revenue only, and where revenue begins,
protection ends. We referred yesterday to
the bill proposed by the Reform Club, and
said that for the purposes of today it is not
thorough enough. 1t halts and hesi-
tates at the specter of a free breakfast
table. The breakfast table is not free in
America, and has never been. Everything
on it is taxed that ought to be free, and
everything is free that ought to be taxed
The schedule submitted by the club con-
templates deficit to be met by short
time. bonds. 1t is time to be done with
bonds, long and short. "Pay as you go, or
don't go" is good motto for the Govern
ment. Abolish the sugar subsidy and raise
S5,OOO,O0O by u sugar tax. Raise, if need
ed, $25,OOO,CO0 by a tax on coffee, and if
there is still yawning chasm between re-
ceipts and expenditures, which economy
can not abridge, raise S25OOO,OOO by tax
on tea.
Will Free Trade Start Them?
With the condition which confronts us,
with idle factories and idle men in every
part of the country, the practical question
of the day is how can they best be set to
work The mills are closed. Will free
trade start them (? Will lower tariff re-
kindle their fires |? Will larger importa-
tations of competitive products made by
cheaper labor increase our domestic produc-
tion If the foreign shop is to have easier
access to this market with its competi-
tive goods through a lower tariff, will that
help American shops? Will freer access
t<f fIsSr ,nrLga of
crease the demand for American products
and American laborS That is the question.
Will the larger use of goods of foreign
shops competing with our own increase the
labor in our ownS Will more foreign goods
shipped here increase the demand for like
domestic goods Lower tariff or no tariff
makes it easier to bring in foreign goods
and harder to dispose of kindred domestic
goods. The more foreign goods used, COM
peting with ours, the less domestic goods
will be used; the less domestic goods that
are used, the less there will be made; the
less made, the fewer men required to make
them, while those who do make them will
have less work and less wages. Do we
want to make it easier than it now is to
import foreign goods competing with our
own ? Do we want to have foreign sompe-
tition without hindrance or restraint? If
we do, free trade or a revenue tariff will
accomplish it. If we want our goods made
abroad and not at home, we should be for
a revenue tariff If we want them made
at home, we should be for protective tar
iff. If we make them at home, we will
employ American labor. If they are made
abroad, foreign labor will make them, and
home labor will be idle. Is it good econ
omy to buy foreign goods and leave our
own unsold
Idleness the Greatest Tax.
They say protective tariff is tax and a
burden upon the people. 1t is tax upon
the foreign producer, and his welfare is
not our first concern. Idleness is a much
greater tax and a much more onerous bur-
den than any tariff tax which can be inn
posed. There is no burden so great as un-
employed men; no tax so grievous as pow
erty. The craftsmanship which can sup
the general National prosperity that has
been had during the past 30 years, is the
craftsmanship of good business and of saw
ing common sense. The farmer who has a
house full of grown, vigorous sons. finds
no economy in hiring his neighbors' sons
has q million of it's own citizens unem-
ployed will find no economy in employing
aliens and strangers of another country to
do its work abroad We want our work
done by our own citizens. They must be
| preferred above all others.
A Revolution Of Values.
You can not have a revenue tariff or free
trade in this country without complete
! readjustment of business, not only in the
so-called protected industries. but in every
department of American enterprise and ac-
tivity. Everybody knows that who cares
to know it. Everybody knows that who is
not blinded by partisanship, or, who, actu-
American condition down to the European
condition A change from protective to a
revenue tariff involves a revolution of val
ues, of prices, Of wages, of every variety OF
investment. 1t involves q revolution in
the manner Of living Such change
and suffering the most cruel would be sure
to result. We have slight foretasts of
the coming change now What will the
full fruition Of free trade be9
1t Should Nevor Come.
| Our own experience In the past should
prevent us from adopting the degrading
fallacy of free trade. Whenever protec-
tion had been abandoned In this country,
every industry has been paralyzed, every
business has suffered except that of the in
! solvent court and the shylock. If free
| trade has to come, l pray God 1t may not
! be advanced in your time or mine. Has
not the fear Of its coming filled the coun-
ready for It'll But, it is said, lit has not
! come" That is true, but that it will
como we have the assurance of the Demo
/ cratic administration and the promise of
the Democratic candidate for governor.
Now if they will only change front, if they
will only reconsider if they will only as
sure the country that this deplorable policy
will not prevail, they will fill the hearts Of
millions with cheer and courage and conf
dence, and send joy into millions of homes
whose fathers and sons and brothers are
idle, waiting for the fires to be started in
our silent furnaces and for the spindles to
hum in our idle factories. But, they say,
"the Republicans are responsible for all
this, that it is their legislation which has
produced it." If that be true, the Demo
cratic party owes duty to the country, to
themselves and to you to repeal that legis-
lation at once; as the president said in his
silver message, quoting from another, l say
to him and bis party, He gives twice W WhG nc
the protective tariff law of 1890 has pro.
duced the condition of business suspension
and sufferin which now prevails, it is
their impera! We duty, without debate or
discussion, repeal it at once. If they
are sincere, they will do it.. They can nc