New-York tribune., 1894-10-30
AS "HIDE BOUND" AS EVER
ST. LAWRENCE VIII SHOW GOVERNOR
HILL THAT IT STILL DlSLlAh9
STEALING.
FARMERS HURT DY THE TARIFF-UNITED ON A
CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS - GENERAL
crRrIs's SPLENDID RECORD.
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CuRTIs's SPLENDID RECORD.
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O,lrnsburg. ~ Y. oct. 29-st. Lawrence County.
the banner Republican county with It's S0o Repubi-
can majority stands firmly BY Morton, SaXton and
Ifaigat this year and purposes to give them her Old
time Republican majority. David T. Hill saw III
while delivering speech in support Of Roswell /.
Flower at the Cooper Union in New-iorA IN 1871 70
characterize the majority Of the voters or ms
county as "the narrow. hle-bouni and bigoted Re
publicans of s.. Lawrence County" These voters
since then have seen Mr. Hi steal Legislature
and they are just 50 marrow. hde-0oIhl ana
bsoed" as TO be displeased beyond redemption with
any publc official who thus offands against the Ten
Commandments. and they Will indicate Their opinion
of Mr.. Hin in a decisive way upon Election Day
But /; will be merely Mr.. Hill who Will be con-
nonned by the voters of the XXIId Congress Dis
tr.ct In that condemnation will be Included the
Democratic party, which, by its tariff pclcy AT
Washington. has dealt the manufacturers and fafm-
ers of the district blow from which it will take
then, wears TO recover. The glove industry Of
G.oyersvile and Johnsown is rrostrate. and hun
dreds of workingmcn and woIkingwOmen are out
of work The farmers Of 81. Lawrence County ma
the price Of their hay cut from $40 to IS ton by
Canadian competition. Every kind of farm products
in fact, in the counties of Saratoga, Fulton and ST
Lawrence, upon which the duties have been lowered
under the Wilson Tariff act. IS sold at a less price
than O year ago. Perceiying their losses II Is no
wonder that hundreds of Democratic farmers and
workingmen have resolved to support the Repubii-
can party's canddaies
SPEAKER MALBY'S VIEWS.
George r. Malby. Speaker of the Assembly, lives
here in Oedensburg. Speaking of the political out
look to-day. he said "The Republicans Of the
XXIId Congress District will make a splendid con-
tribution upon the evening of November 6 TO the
roll of Republican majorities. We shall increase
largely our majori;es over 1892 one of the main
causes OF these Republican gains in Northern New
York will be the reduction in the price of farm
products since 1892 The manufacturer Is not -four
lshing his workingmen cannot buy farm products as
they could. and the Wilson Tariff bill Is In opera
ton An immense quantity of Canadian farm prod
ucts have been imported into the United States at
this point Last week Deputy Collector Lawrence
Sawyer of this port. sat until midnight collecting
the duty upon 100 Canadian sheep that were coming
into our State. | presume the Democrats had them
brought at night In order to conced! the fdct
from our farmers We have here in Ogdensburg one
of the largest pianlng mills In the world. II has
two departments which handles Canadian lum-
Der and the other Michigan lumber. The tariff on
dressed lumber has been greatly reduced. Either
the men in this planning mil must accept lower
wages the planning mill must be closed-at least
that department which planes Canadian lumber. At
present the planning mill is only doing onehalf the
business 1t did a year ago 1t Is feared here
that the planning mill company VIII remove that one
of its departments which plane Canadian logs TO
Canada. In that case the American workingmen
would lose their trade We not selling American
hay here now. There a big surplus of hay over
in Canada, and 1t has been rushed over our border
and our farmers cannot sell their hay at renunera-
tive prices This Canada hay is of d superior quail
fly. There is ridge of land along the northern
shore of Lake Ontario where there Is clay soil
upon which the best timothy hay and barley are
raised Buyers prefer the hay because there Is no
clover in IT,
GOOD OUTLOOK FOR CANADA.
Then take the matter of provisions Our citizens
here in Ogdensburg are going TO Prescott in
Canada to buy poultry and not patronizng our
home meat markets. The Canadians have fairly
rushed their farm products into our markets since
the tariff on hay, potatoes. eggs and hops was
lowered The farmers of St. Lawrence County ap-
precate the disastrous result OF the passage OF the
Wilson Tariff Act. therefore. and they VII! snow
their opinion Of the act in plain way al the pols
In November. The Canadian farmer occupies cheap
land and has cheap labor Added TO this he has
cheap railroad rates and cheap water rates. lie
thus is a most formidable competitor to the Ameri-
can farmer. and so time goes on and the Ca
madam farmer discovers his advantages, he VIII
compete more and more with our farmers look
also to seeing the p.aning mills, as have said,
largely turned over to Canada, since the rough
material Of logs be handled there and converted
into the finished product. and thus freight bills be
saved Now that the duty is off planed lumber
there will be a strong business temptation 70 close
up the planning mills here on American soil and 10
move over into Canada. There have been remark
able reductions made In the duties upon our tariff
products The duty on hay has been reduced 81 a
ton; that on potatoes. Is cents bushel; that on
eggs cents a dozen that on live poultry cents
a pound: that apples. 10 cents a bushe.; that on
cattle over one year Old 20 per cent, or about %
each; that on oats cents bushel; that on sheep
over one year Old 30 cents each; that on horses,
sl9 each: that on barley, y cents bushel. Added
TO that wool is admitted free whereas, it was about
II cents a pound. l did not wonder this morning
when 7 saw some innocent American sheep being
led off to the slaughter house. But why shouldn't
our farmers sell their sheep? II will no longer pay
them raise WOOL
Mr. Maby is once the Republican candi-
date for Assemblyman from st. Lawrence County,
and Of course there question OF his election.
He had 69S9 plurality in 1898 receiving 13l2s votes,
his Democratic opponent 6l39 votes and his Prohi-
biton opponent Isl votes. There were thus 2oo4S
votes the district. 1t is interesting to KNOW
that William Sulzer, the Democratic leader in the
Assembly represented district in New-York city
which cast only $3.50 votes Mr.. Sulzer thus rep
resented only half many voters Mr.. Malby.
This is another example OF the Democratic gerry
mander OF the legislative seats in 1872
TAXEs UNDER DEMOCRATIC RULE.
II there is a Republican Assembly there is no
question that the Republicans OF st. Lawrence
county will again press the selection os Mr. Malby
as Speaker. the eyes Of the 81. Lawrence
County leaders especial credit is due Senator Sax
ton as president pro tempore Of the Senate, and
Speaker Malby. for the reduction OF the State tax
rate. The Republican County Committee Of St
Lawrence County has issued a campaign pamphlet
containing the following interesting statement:
In 1892 St Lawrence COunty's portion OF the State
tax $500 more than in lSl. In ISB n was
wo years This immense additional burden was