The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-03-07

WHO KILLED COCK RoBINe

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financial crisis was coming on before the
last presidential election and would have
been the same if the republicans had
carried the election. Republican leaders
and the republican press, and repubE-
cans generally deny this. The positions
of the two parties are very natural, and
furthermore one or the other must be
true. There are some facts connected
with the affairs of this government that
have become a matter of history, and
facts too in the memory of comparatively
young men, upon which we must all
agree.
Up until 1860 wages were very low for
nearly all kinds of labor. From 1860 to
1892 wages have been largely advanced,
value. Turn to your charts, or to your
primary history of the United States
and see what political party governed
this country mainly up to 1861. Also
while you are looking this question up
look and see what political party gov
erned from 1861 to 1898, and examine
what party made the laws that governed
that the democrats had the government
from 1885 to 1889 but, the republicans
made the law that controlled that ad-
ministration and it could not do the
widespread harm that has followed this
unhappy administration.
There is nothing in being unfair in an
argument. The democratic party may
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So are the republicans. Every person
who is idle and who does not earn the
bread that he eats, if he has not pro-
Uided honest money to buy it with is
a burden to society. Tramps, hobos
and professional dead-beats are not
democratic creations; they existed before
the democrats came into power and have
grown upon this country from natural
causes, as the anarchist has upon
European governments. The demo-
cratic party is in no sense to blame for
the hundreds of thousands of profes-
sional idlers that infest this country.
They will exist and flourish in their way,
no difference which party is in power.
If a person does not produce as much as
run behind. If a farmer produces and
sells 800 worth of stuff from his farm
and in the same time expends $75 for
the support of himself and family, he
has gained $25 and is getting ahead
in the world. If he makes 5000
off of the farm and lays out $500,
he is running behind, and some
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same thing is true of government. If
the government is mismanaged, and the
people have to buy from foreign people
more than they sell to them, the govern
ment is going to the wall. A free trade
policy in the United States has the effect
to make the American people buy more
from foreign nations than they sell to
foreign nations. Long tabulated state
ments of imports and exports, with
figures attached to them running up
into millions, are apt to confuse the
mind of the reader, and he gives up too
easily that he cannot understand it, and
depends upon the wisdom of others to
help him out. Every man who folds up
slip of paper and hands it to Judge
of election to poke through the slot of a
ballot box, is part of this government,
and if he knows enough to do that, he
ought to inform himself sufficiently to
know why he did it.
Tax for revenue only means free trade
tax for the protection of labor means
protection. We will say that an Eng
lishman in Australia can bring ten
pound fleece of wool to the American
market, taxed for revenue only (ten
cents specific duty, and sell the fleece
for eighty cents. He has seventy cents
and the United States has ten cents for
revenue only. The Oregon wool grower
cannot afford to produce a ten pound
fleece for less than ninety cents, so he is
driven out of the business, for revenue
only, by the Englishmen. But the
Oregon man can produce a ten-pound
fleece for 81 so and remain in the bust
ness. So the republicans, to protect the
Oregon man against the Englishman
from Australia, would put specific
duty of eighty cents on the English
mans ten-pound fleece, 4. e., he will
pay into the treasury for the privilege OF
selling, the difference between the value
of raw material in Australia and raw ma
terial in the United States-and this is
protection.