Arizona republican., 1895-09-20
DEMOCRATIC BLUFF.

conservative RepuDl1canS WHO lear that the injection of the tariff ques- tion into the Ohio canvass vii result in a Democratic victory there. He says the Democrats have been an xious for the Republicans to make their campaign on a tariff basis, and adds there is rumor to the effect that the Ohio Democrats will circulate the speeches made this week at Spring field, by Senator Sherman, Governor Mckinley and ex-Governor Foraker, as Democratic campaign literature.
 The whole policy of the Democratic managers is to dodge the tariff ques- tion, by declaring that the people have had enough tariff tinkering, that they want the tariff schedules to be left alone, that there is a sentiment against another disturbance of busi- ness, and that the only question is the one of the currency. We do not believe that the raising of the tariff question in Ohio means a defeat of the Republican ticket. The Ohio far mers who raise sheep know full well that the Democratic tariff has played the mischief with wool, and they have every reason to hope for re- vision of the wool schedules. Fur ther than that, the operation of the new tariff schedules has demonstrated, after trial of one year, that suff- cient revenue cannot be raised under the existing rates. Besides, the scandalous undervaluation of imports, made possible by the ad valorem plan of levying customs duties, has result ed in bringing far more goods into this country than are accounted for.
 The Democrats who shout with glee that the people have had enough tar if revision are correct so far as they go. There has been enough tariff re- vision along Democratic lines; that is true as gospel Any further tariff changes by the Republicans would not be along a line which made pos sible an increase in importations and decrease in exportations. Any Re- publican work upon the tariff sched- ules would not be in the direction of keeping wages from 10 to 2S per cent below the rate of wages paid in 1892 Anything that the Republicans might do in the way of amending the tariff schedules would not disturb business in disastrous way. That fact is lost sight of altogether by the Democrats in Ohio, who foolishly believe they can use the Republican speeches made at Springfield against the Republican party.
 In this connection it is well to call attention to the series of letters print ed in Republican paper in New York city, written by number of manufac- turers, and giving the lie to the stories printed by the New York World and the New York Evening Post. Those papers printed a list of manufacturers who had reduced the wages of their employees under the Mckinley act and had increased them under the German act One of these letters was written by James Lord, secretary and treasur- CT of the Pennsylvania Bolt and Nut company of Lebanon, Pa., who de- clares the statements of the two news papers mentioned to be false. He adds that at present the wages paid by his company are 14 per cent below the rate paid in 1892. Then he says:
 Wages remain very much lower even after recent advances, because ii 1892 wages were demanded under the present conditions, the goods would be made in Europe"
 That is the milk in the cocoanut, anC the men who have been affected by the Democratic tariff reductions know just where the responsibility lies The Democratic bluff that the tariff is sue is not an issue will not have any effect upon those who are in on the