The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1894-01-12
THR REPUBLICAN, ARGUMENT.

According to reliable estimates, the
number Of unemployed in New York
is about no. 900; in Chicago, over l00,-
900; in Philadelphia, not less than
$4,000; in Boston, probably 10000; in
Cincinnati, over Is, 900. This gives a
total of $50, 900 in these five cities
alone, 10 say nothing of smaller cities
aud towns. Nearly one-third of the
industrial population Of these cities is
out of work, which means an annual
loss Of wages of more than S200, 000,-
600. In some cities in this state and
Pennsylvania the unemployed will ex-
coed 80 per cent of the population.
Lees han a year of the Democratic
wreckers threatens to reduce the
value of the product one-third, oonfis.
cate one-third Of the capital, stop az
third of the annual amount dig e
in wages, throw out Of euIs drsed
one-third of those empi0~ .loyment
haps still further cut > 20, ana per-
of those fortunate own the Wages
emnloymant =. enough TO obtain
nrosneTi ~ ., ais is democratic
w - s1encer Mass. Sun.
40 met a good many dis In
s s., republicans this winter and
"e arguments they use are all en-
raced in the above extract from the
Spencer sun. Now, the truth is the
argument is self-conviclipg 1t shows
the h0llowness and rottenness and
laIseness OF the theory of protection
II the alarming condition of things
clted by the Sun had resulted after
the protective tariff laws had been
abolished, aud tariff orrevenue had
been given fair trial, then the argu-
ment the Sun makes would be legiti-
mate and would carry some force with
It, but being made beforehand, these
Conditions resulting before the dis
turbance of existing laws, the argu-
| ment is ridiculous and condemns the
theory it is intended to uphold.
The tariff laws are still upon the
statute books and are in full operation,
and the indications are that they are
not going to be disturbed, the system
| OF protection being stronger among
Southern democrats to-day than it
was during Mr.. Cleveland'sf first admin
Istration; indeed, not single republic
| can measure has as vet been disturbed
and most Of the offices are even still
held by republicans; the repeal of the
Sherman law being more strongly
urged by republicans than by demo-
Gratis; hence the distress all over our
land must be the result of existing
conditions, and not from the antici-
patiOns of ills we know not of.
Now, what do we see?
After q trial of this system, almost
from the birth of the government,
and the duties OF protection growing
larger with the enactment of each re.
curing law, we see under the op-
eratious of the Mckinley tariff, the
most radical Of all, these protected in
dustries lying prone upon their backs,
and in five cities alone three hundred
| and and sixty thousand wOrkmen
thrown out of employment, and more
than one-third Of the population in
these protected cities crying for bread
and shivering for the want of cloth
ing.
Is this not sad commentary upon
the beneticence Of this system which
has been in operation for nearly a
! hundred years, and what further ar.
gument is needed to damn it?
The conditions of manufactures
the conditions of agriculture, the con.
ditions Of labor, all coAdemn 1t. 1t is
condemned out Of its own mouth. II
is condemned by its own newspapers
1t Is condemned by all of itsadvocates
and by all Of its admissions. The con.
ditions now upon us only show IFS rot
tenness, its hollowness and its false
ness. These conditions are its fruits
Free trade, or even revenue tariff
had nothing TO do with them.