The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-16
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THE FIELD OF POLITICS.

SHdIleS EHlOTy oHllln 1lItSDurB reply
to Chairman Wilson was comprehensive.
Here is a readable extract: What are
the markets of the world, which Mr.. VIII
sons bill is going to open for us? Let us
see The foreign trade of all the nations
OF the world amounts to &C. 000, ,000, 900, while
the domestic trade of the United States
in the same time, amounted to S55, 900 ,000,-
OOO This is a fact proven. Mr.. Wilson
proposes that we shall surrender our mar
ket on the chance of getting In the mar
kets of the world Why, the markets of
the United States are better than all the
worlds markets. We have more railroad
mileage. We grow one-fifth of the wheat
of the world, seven-eighths of the cotton,
nine-tenths of the corn and produce half
the iron in normal times Our money
value is two-ffths of that of all the world.
We manufacture one-third Of everything
in the entire world, and we consume It
ourselves. In other words, the 7000O,00O
Americans are as great consumers as the
1OO,OO00OO outside of America. We have
more meat more comforts, better wages
and so, better consumers. The preserva-
ton of our own markets is better for us
than TO have access to all other markets."
Tariff reform, in other words, is simply q
species of economic rainbow chasing, af-
ter the pattern of the foolish children who
wanted to get the gold which lay buried
at the ralnbow's end.
The guessers are already at work, in
New York. Platt says Morton will have
100000 plurality. Benjamin Odell, of the
Republican state committee, will be salts
fled with $4,000. The friends of Senator
Hill look for at least $4,000 plurality for him
on Manhattan Island. Some think 1t will
be nearly 10000. Kings Is counted on for
at least 1000 plurality and Erie, Albany
and Rensselaer, are expected to give TO-
900 to $1,000 plurality between them. on
this basis Tammany Democrats figure
from 10000 to 1900 plurality In the state,
as they do not believe the Republicans can
get more than 10000 votes above the Har-
lem river. Conservative opinion In both
parties looks for a hot fight, with the re-
suit uncertain. The registration in Dem
ocratic counties has been Unexpectedly
| large.
| The Philadelphia Times whoops up
Chairman Stranahan's waning hopes by
means Of the following cheerful bit of
fiction: ut is now claimed that the DEM
ocrats Will carry the Eighth Ninth,
| Twelfth, Thirteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty
sixth and Twenty-elghth districts, with
fair chances In the Eleventh, Sixteenth
and Twenty-fourth, in the state. There is
a claim out also on the Seventh district
where DR.. John Todd is making q strong
fight on Wagner. This is not Joe Scran-
toms year in the Eleventh and Edward
Merrlfleld Is turning over ground In
| Lackawanna county In n manner that
causes CONSERVATION to the Republican
forces" The Times evidently doesn't
know Merrfield.
The Democratic newspapers are worry
ing great deal because Senator Sherman
in his speech at Akron the other day sale
he was not an extreme protectlonist, bu
believed that sufficient duties on imported
goods can be and ought to be levied to pay
the ordinary expenses OF the government
In time of peace. No duties should b,
levied for protection that are not needed
for revenue. All duties, he held, should b,
so arranged in schedules that the revenu,
can be raised or lowered without re
vision of the whole tariff. The tariff Law
as 1t now stands violated all these rules
Now what is wrong with that? Isn't /
good Republicanlsm?
. q
''Hlll deserves the active support o
President Cleveland in view Of the sacrl
flee he has made in accepting the nomina
tion for governor and the political sig
niiicance of the campaign in New York,
says Governor Pattison He hopes 70
the disappearance Of all factional differ
ences between the friends of Clevelan
and Hin and for united support of tn
latter, and his election and that of his col
leagues on the Democratic ticket
: The Prohibition candidate for Judge O
, Lebanon county is General Gobin's la,
partner, Lee i. Grumbine, formerly tn
much-quoted editor of the Lebanon Rt
port. Mr. Grumblne is a first-class news
paper man, fine elocutlonist, master G
Pennsylvania-German poetry and goo
lawyer, but he will persist in burylng hi
! talents in third political party.
When Mr.. Wilson says that proteC
tion demonstrated Its falsity and failur,