Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-11-02
PENCIL POINTERS.

PENCIL POINTERS.
On next Tuesday the voters of Ohio
will not only indicate their preference for
Governor of this great State, but also, of
far greater Importance, will declare their
adherence to or the abandonment of
principle and policy which has been oper
ative for thirty years. The sovereign
people will indicate either that they still
believe in the principles taught by Jeffer-
son, Jackson, Webster, Lincoln and Gar
field and that they intend to cling to
these beliefs with renewed tenacity, or
that all these are eclipsed by the glamour
of Grover Cleveland's British tariff theo
ries They will vote either an expression
of renewed confidence in an economical
system that has caused our country to
make greater advancement in three de-
cades than any other government in three
centuries, or they will vote this system,
a failure in contradiction of history and
present experience. In short, it is the
issue OF protection against free trade, or
its twin brother, a revenue tariff. 1t is
American interests against British in
terests. 1t is to determine whether
America shall make goods for Americans,
or whether Great Britain shall make our
goods, while our workingmen starve, and
agriculture languishes for want of con-
sumers. 1t is Repubiicanism against
Democracy.
Last year the business world enjoyed
unparalleled prosperity. This year we
are experiencing depression such as has
rarely, if ever, been equaled. Last year
the Republican party was in power; this
year the Democratic party is in full con-
troll of the Government. Last year there
was prosperity; this year there is panic.
Which do you like better? If the former,
vote for William Mckinley, because he
stands for protection and his election will
be start, and big start toward return
ing the Republican party, the party of
the people, to power in SO. But if you
like Democratic times, such as we are
now experiencing, vote for Neal. The
people choose, and if they prefer panics
to prosperity, low wages to good wages,
fair markets to no markets, free trade to
protection, they should have it. The
issues are clear, and which they want the
voters will declare next Tuesday.
Mopr ,Ionr boua h.,an pronocad nv
Democrats to get money for the Govern
ment's expenses, when the revenues from
the tariff shall have been done away with. |
The plan of Thomas q. Shearman, a |
radical and representative free trader, is
that individual incomes, corporations |
and real estate shall be taxed to make up
the deficiency. Leaving the other people
out of the question, how would this plan |
affect the farmer? In the first place, |
manufacturing being decreased by the
taking away of the duties and the filling |
of the home markets with foreign-m made
goods, the farmer would have con-
tracted market for his produce. Laborers
who could not get work at the mills would
go to cultivating the soil, and the amount
of produce be increased, while the market
would be decreased. Then the tax
gatherer would demand from the land
holder something to help run the Gov
ernment. How would the farmer like
that plan? The plan would diminish
the price of his products, increase his
taxes, and do mo good to anyone except |
the foreign manufacturer, who would get
the privilege of putting in his wares here
toll
Retaliation sometimes becomes duty
in order that the offense may not be re-
peated. The voters of this State owe the
Democratic party something and they
ought to pay it. The Democratic party
has deceived them with lying promises;
it has stolen from them millions of money
in deprecated values; it has made the
struggle for comfortable living harder
than ever before in America; it has re-
placed years of progress and prosperity
with eight months of continuous disaster;
it offers nothing but the dark prospect of
free trade for the future. The voters of
this State owe something to the Demo
cratic party, and pay day is next Tuesday.
If the manufacturers are keeping their
mills closed until after the election in
obedience to request of Governor Nc
kinley, he certainly possesses unlimited
power over not only Republicans but
Democrats also. Not only the mills of
Ohio but of the whole country are shut
down, and mills owned by Democrats are
idle as well as mills owned by Repub
licans. 1t is strange that he has the
Democrats under his thumb, too, but
even Neal has not explained why it is
But the whole story is too silly and pre-
posterous to be repeated, much less
old seriously by presumably sensible !
men.
As Infirmary Director, BENJAMIN NJ. c
Loper has discharged his duties with I
business tact and prudence and has proven +
himself careful advisor In the govern :
nent of the affairs of the County q
.nfirmary. In public affairs he employs '
he same business sense as in the man
Igement of his private interests and will
S matter of course. be reelected.