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


only alarmed at the uncertainty concern.
ing the industrial policy, but their COM
petitors on the other side are inspired with
new hope and confidence What can be
more discouraging to American working.
men and American citizens, and what
more encouraging to. foreign manufacture
ers and foreign workingmen than the
speech of United States Consul Benjamin
Folsom, cousin of the President of the
United States, closing his consulate at
Sheffield l do not stop TO quote his entire
speech, but l give you the closing sentence:
He says: "In closing my career in Shelf
field as Consul of the United States, it af-
fords me satisfaction to think that before
another twelve months has rolled by Shelf
field will not be subject to the onerous and
oppressive tariff duties that have restricted
her trade"
Its Higher Inspiration.
This sentiment was greeted with most
uproarious applause by the assembled En-
glishmen. He did not close his consulate
too soon. Yet, after all, perhaps his speech
had it's inspiration in an earlier expression
by the President himself In a letter dated
at Pttsburg, Pa, April q, 1898, Mr.. Carr,
editor of The Western Mail, of Cardiff,
Wales, writes to his paper relating his call
upon President Cleveland. His reception,
says Mr. Carr, by the President, was most
cordial and flattering, and then he adds:
zone of the newspaper correspondents
told the President that | had come from
works which the Republican party declares
have been established under their protect
i've tariff. The President replied: Well,
| Mr.. Carr, when you do find them be sure
to let me know their exact location, for we
have been searching for these tinplate
works for some years now and have failed
| to find them "
Omoial Reports Conclusive.
Mr.. Cleveland need not have commits
| stoned foreign visitor to have found the
tin plate works existing in the United
| States built up by the Republican protec-
tive tariff He need only have sent his
messenger over to the treasury department,
| where he would have found an official re-
| port of a list of forty-two tinplate factories
employing thousands of men, not one of
| which was in existence before the tariff of
1890, and he would have discovered
by that report that the output
had increased in year and half
more than any other new industry ever
started in the United States He could
| have found the exact location from Colonel
| Ayers report of all these factories, and the
exact production eff each, with the number
of hands employed. He would have dis
covered that they are making tinplates in
nine states of the Union, and that in the
three months ending June 30, 1893, the
product was nearly 100000 pounds and
that 945 per cent of what was made from
American black plates produced in the
United States by the labor of the United
| States, an increase over the production of
| the preceding quarter and over all previous
productions in the same time since the
enactment of the law of 1890.
The Pension Question.
The Administration has been unjust to
the pensioners of the country. The sus-
pension of a soldier once pensioned legally
without notice or hearing, is unprecedent-
ed as we'll as unlawful. Such course is
unworthy a great Government which was
preserved through the services and sacri-
n vn11nfaar M
good citizen who desires that an unworthy
person shall have place upon this honor
able roll of the nation and while this is
true, there is no good citizen who will not
condemn the striking down upon ex parts
testimony of any soldier who has been ju-
dicially determined by previous admins
tration worthy of his place there Every SOL
dier on the pension roll today is there after
trial and investigation of his case. He il
there because in the judgment of the Com
missioner of Pensions and the Secretary Of
the Interior he has fully met every require
ment of the law granting pensions to
soldiers. Once there he is entitled to re-
main until it is shown by competent testi-
mony, to which he shall have an opportun-
ity to reply, that he is there by fraud and
has no place among the honorably dis
be condemned without q hearing. No sold
ier should have the taint of fraud put upon
him without an opportunity to meet his ac-
cusers. 1t is like opening Judgment once
den of proof rests upon him who charges
fraud and assails the integrity of the judg-
ment and he can not set aside that judg-
ment upon ex parte testimony: The sim
Of justice require that man should
have an opportunity, to confront
who testify against him. ! understand
pensioner has no access to the testimony or
the letters, or the information furnished By
those who complain against the validity OF
the pension. All that is denied him. He
simply is advised that his pension is sus-
pended and he is required to show why he
should be restored to the roll. The Govern
ment should be required in the first in
stance to show why his name should be
dropped from the roll, and it should be by
clear and unmistakable and conclusive
evidence. The pensioner is dropped, and,
without knowing why he is dropped, he is
required to show that he ought not to have
been dropped, and he is required to show
that the judgment heretofore had in his
case by an authority as competent as that
now passing upon his case, was justified.
An Outrage Upon All.
do not believe in the system which per-
mits the Government to thus treat the de-
tenders of its flag. l condemn, with all the
earnestness of my nature, system that
puts this stigma upon my comrades in that
great war which preserved the Union.
More than 1,S00 of the old Ohio soldiers
paid from the Pension Office at Columbus
have been thus summarily dropped and
disgraced before the eyes of their fellow
citizens and the civilized world-an average
of 20 to a county, and the work of the sxecu-
tioner still goes on How long is this in
justice to continues If an undeserving
soldier is ON the pension roll today,
and the Administration at Washington has
reason to believe he is there unlawfully, let
the Administration confront him with the
evidence in it's hands and permit the old
soldier to meet his accuser, a privilege
: which is religiously accorded the most de-
praved criminal in the land. He is per-
mtted to meet his accuser in open court
Shall the veteran have less consideration
at the hands of the Government which he
helped to save? Grant him this plain, legal