The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-02-07


ent branches of the protected industries
are constantly necessary to protect
each section. Iron At Washington must
combine with glass. coal lumber and
sugar SO as to-keep mp their respective
tariff d4sties. And after the robbery At
Washington has been accomplished and
prices IT home begin 10 fall through COM
petition developed by enormous Subsi-
dies, endless corrupt. trusts. combines
and what-nots must be entered into 10
neutralize by combination the results OF
competition. Worse than all this. EN-
eeutive duties develop extravaganza and
waste in the conduct OF the industries
themselves. Why eConomize when the
government stands hack Of the plant
and when the consumers can always be
deluded by the CRY or European pauper
labor TO support the theft But the
worse effect Of McKinleyism upon its
protected petS-the mauufa cturers-re-
mains 10 be told. and that is the moral
effect OF taxing the many for the benefit
OF the few. Sound morals are indispen-
SABLE 10 business prosperity. Any indus
Try whose life and prosperity is founded
upon forced contributions i'm the long
run VIII 20 10 the wall. Cover II up as
YOU VIII. the eSSeEce of McKinlevisTa il
the power Of the United States govern
ment TO compel its people. willing or I'M
Wiling, 10 buy the products Of the pet
manufacturers Al an artificial and gov
ernment-fixed price Wonderfully in
genious arguments are devised by such
subtle and powerful brains as those Of
Tom Reed and Governor Mckinley to
quiet the consumers into the belief that
this Is blessing. but some how. just ~
conviction occurs. n voice arises within
mat can't he hushed and cries. Rob
oerN No matter how much fine talk
Hou pour into "A man who wants 10 build
mousse or buy wooden shawl for his
WE or put marble head-stnne to his
paoy grave. the fact that he must nav
lou To 500 per cent duty upou these arti-
cleS to some MONOPOLY will unset his
argument. The farmer will always ask.
after Mckinley has shown him how
cheap everything Is getting under HIS
pot'N. But why should the man that
makes pound Of steel get cents from
the government. while who raise wheat
nave my price fixed in Liverpool and
get less than it costs to raise it, Whv
don the government treat US alike
Gentlemen. the weakness or Mckinley
ism IS the weakness OF Slaverv-inirIs-
uce. Just before the war 100000 men
owned all the slaves. Today less than
100000 men own all the protected plants
ana mills The same defect that weak
ened and overthrow the one weakens
and viii overthrow the other. uotvith
standing each owned and WAS cham
pioned by great political organization.
DO YOU want 10 know its name?-Injus-
tice.
Present Unhappy Condition.
There is another fact that want TO
allude TO. and that is the present nm
happy condition Of the tariff-protected
IL borer. about whose high wages So
much has been said. The truth is that
MS boosted high wages are cOunterbal-
anced by the increased cost Of living.
of what use Is il to raise "A mans wages
from 81 To- 81 per dav if at the same time
10 flntas s.FN,
How much better is he off? These in
creased wages. il will be remembered
nave never been voluntarily given bv
the protected employer. They have al
ways been forced out of him by strikes
or lahOr organizations. Why forerd2
Because the workingmen found fbeI-
could not otherwise live: that high tariff
had doubled the cost of supporting their
families, and il was a case of more
wages or starvation. Whenever there
has been such increase the mill boss has
always advertised it. DO they advertise
the increased cost of living caused by
their nl0nStrOus dutieS2 Not much
Our tariff schedules are written I'm
language ncomprehensible as the curl
form inscriptions of ASsyria. Under an
mnocent-looking % per cent per yard
or 30 per cent ad valorem. a working
girls cloak is taxed 10y her boss 500 per
cent. How much better OF this winter
are our protected workingmen Cor their
boosted high wages? How much had
they accumulated to fall back upOng
Nothing. Why nothing? Not because
the American workingmen are unthrifty.
but because the margin between the cost
OF living and the rate of wages is too
small to save anything. Every protected
worker In Indiana is A witness to this
fact. OF what value then is this boast
ed high tariff to a protected employer
why IS il that farmers only get 50
cents per bushel for their wheat? 1 will
answer that question. on honor. fair and
square Liverpool by common consent.
is the great wheat clearing house of the
world and fixes the price OF wheat in
Chicago and all over the Northwest
Uncle Jerry Rusk said. in his lifetime
there were 10000 600 hungry people Just
across the water: with transportation a
cent bushel. and with 500, 00O. 600 bush
els of surplus wheat. why should the
Indiana farmer only get so cents a bush
e for it? The answer is SO plain that
only those who. having eyes. won't see.
and having ears. won't hear. can fail 70
understand il. The republicans have
built up a tariff wall so high that the
$50 100000 hungry workers in Europe can
only buy American wheat for gold. The
United States government won't al
low us TO take anything else,
except in Russia-itself wheat
raising country-whose people do
not raise gold and never will. But they
do raise the very same things which our
farmers most need in exchange for their
wheat. but as they are not allowed to
exchange them for wheat We have 10 go
without and our farmers lose them as
wheat consumers. except on terms dam
aging To both sides. viz: payment in
gold We all know that gold has been
aDprecia ting enormously in value for the
last decade, owing TO unWise republican
legislation. What is the reason for this
serious state of things to our farmers
Why do we refuse to exchange our
wheat for European cutlery woOlens,
cottons. glass and pottery, the free ex-
change of which would send the farmers
wheat up TO $50 per bushel2 Why, be-
cause 5000 mill-owners want To get
rich by taxing farmers. and our govern
ment has foolishly gone into partner
ship with them and forces the farmer
goods al two prices. and then leaves the
when they want to sell their wheat or
cotton. All this is done i'm the name OF
the home market ] never see that term.
home market that don't want TO
kick it Home market has put $4,000
600 600 Of mortgages upon American
farms and reduced our wheat to 80 cents
per bushel, and the same is true OF
wool Ever since the Mckinley tariff
was set in operation wool has steadily
declined in price.
The farmer is the dupe OF the man
ufacturer. Between the upper milestone
Of home market and the lower mill
stone of protection. the farm and farm
products are ground To powder We
learned i'm 1890 and again i'm 1892 but in
this year 1891. that desperate effort