The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-09-26

ing taken from them in the way of
tariff tax in the year 1898 S1.151, SS3.
that lumber barons ght increase their
wealth at the expense of every man in
the nation who used anything made OF
wood.
But the stupendous fraud no longer
exists. apd - Mole hen 'h77' grasp
she full meaning Of the relief from the
lumber FsOo-4-, wlA O.Sss tne day the
democratic party came into power.
The more 1 examine the free list, en-
acted by the democratic party, the
greater is my admiration Of its devotion
to the welfare Of the people.
Free Hides Mean Cheaper Shoes.
Take. for instance, the item Of hides,
from which leather is manufactured.
Then consider the seventy millions of
our people who must wear shoes Free
hides mean cheaper leather and cheaper
shoes for the people.
In 1898 we imported 6,494,611 pounds of
hidas, upon which the Mckinley robber
tariff imposed a tax Of S97.419. What
cared the republican party for the neces-
sites of the poor? Whether they were
Sh0d or went baref00ted? 1t is changed
now. Free hides secure cheaper leather,
and cheaper leather will enable our man.
ufacturers not only to give the people
cheaper shoes, but to compete with other
nations in the markets Of the world. Free
raw material, and therefore cheaper raw
material, is the supreme demand of the
industries Of the country. Men of brains,
broad-gauge men, free from partisan big
otry, comprehend. If the country is to
be redeemed from the curse of Mckinley
ism and republic n malfa4Sance in office,
that taxation must be reduced and that
industries must be vltalized by giving
manufacturing enterprises a chance to
enter the markets of the world with their
wares. Hence the imperative demand for
free wool
In 1898 we imported IL, 635, AL pounds
Of wool, for which tax was levied and
collected of $3,543, 206. The importa ton
dem Onstrated the fact that our wooden
manufacturers required the wool and, had
they been relieved of the tax, could have
Increased their output, given employment
ID more persons and competed with other
nations In foreign markets
1 have been. as L have glanced over the
opening speech Of my distinguished COM
petitor, amused at his grasp of econOm-
.cal questions His reference to favors
shown the South in peanuts. etc, gives
the measurement of his calibre. II he
still hates the South and thinks he can
win by the old-tima squeak, he should re.
member that the war has been over for
the third Of a century and that a McKin-
ley Doodle blast is not the sort of a note
now required in Indiana.
Difference of Opinion.
A0OLnET lulnB lldl my at
tention is my distinguished competitors
declaration that three millions of idle men
IN this country, as he estimates the num-
Der, do not want cheap goods, cheap
hides, cheap shoes and clothes, nor even
cheap food. W3namaker, Harris0n's post
master-general, differs with my distin-
guished competitor. Cheap goods, he says,
are just what the people want not only
the idle, but those who are at work. And
Wanamaker is supplying the goods.
My distinguished competitor seems to
be Of the opinion that the people of In
diana want cheap talk rather than
cheap binding twine salt lumber and
of free raw material which he spins out
as if he were a spider constructing q
net 10 catch flies.
This is a great country, but my dis
tinguished competitor cannot see it.
There are seventy millions of people in
the country, but my distinguished COM
petitor, looking through his Mckinley
spectacies, sees only those who have
been protected by the Mckinley robber
tariff, and because the Mckinley devil
fish is dead and its tentacles can no
longer do any mischief he weeps over
the corpse. He cannot see that the
democratic tariff dates new era in the
commerce, trade and industry Of the
country. He looks at the southern pea
nut and will not be comfOrted The
democratic Mordecai is in control of the
government and republican Humans are
hanging by the neck on scaffolds they
had erected for the benefit of the dem
ocratic party.
Everywhere throughout Indiana dem
ocratic hosts are falling into line under
the cd banner and every day the clouds
that for a time created dependency ar
disappearing and the skies are growing
brighter.
From every quarter of the state comes
the cheering news of increasing enthu-
siasm in the ranks of the democratic
party. And when election day comes
and the battle is won, my friend, Tom
Taggart, will wire over the country
Parry's immortal dispatch, I'VE have
met the enemy and they are ours" or,
1.-The enemy is dead" and the corpse,
including my distinguished competitor,
has been handed over to the undertaken
for burial.