Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-01-31
Good Effects of the New Tariff.

Charles Broadway Rouss, the eminent
merchant of New York City, in a raview of
the trade in his Trade Journal for January,
says:
Farewell, Eighteen Hundred and Nine
ty-four! The banner year of all our glo-
rious past. More than a million ahead of
the year previous. think it was the sweep
of the Wilson bill. I am sure it was. This
year will eclipse 1894 largely, as the down
ward tamble in our prices must greatly in
crease our largely and rapicly increasing
business. ....
with the productions of our country
stripped of the rrtic iff, we are able 10
compete with all the nations OF the world
aud won the prize from Japan for half mil
lion in iron pipes. With our food supplies
shorn OF the enormous protective and pro-
hibition tariff. we captured the bid from
that same country for millions and millions
of pounds of beef. All we want is the Chi
nese wall torn down and give us free scope,
and we can beat any nation in the world in
onr bids and productions, and yet this same
d OF, Armour, and his host of employees vote
for the man who built up the Chinese wall.
''We have an order for thirty-fve millions
of cartridges which we can sell cheaper than
any nation ON earth. Mckinley shut them
out; Wilson lets them in, and yet these lido
laters of system of the along gone by
vo Q against Wilson.
'Uur tonnage, which in 1860 amounted to
two thousand millions, had dwindled into
eight hundred millions-not only split in two
but shattered into atoms. Under the policy
of our present administration, ii will rise to
the loftiest notch ever attained. Our sails
will whiten every sea-will crowd 'Oid Brit
aim for supremacy before 1900 comes in,
'sWhat we want is the trade of the whole
world-fourteen hundred millions-not the
seventy millions of the United States, and
we can get it by tearing down the Chinese
wall of McKin eyism, chopping off the tariff
from the productions of the earth, outbidd
ing every other nation, and we can do il,
We want every nation of the earth to come,
here-we want to be headquarters and we
are, naturally, from our mechanical ap-'
pliances. our genius, skill and nbition, We
are the headquarters of the earth Down the
Mckinley Chinese Wall-tear it down!
After tearing down the Chinese prohibi-
tion wall, the little town of Bethlehem has
received from the government of Russia an
order for twenty-five thousand tons of steel
plate, being the lowest bidder. The contract
was sent to the foundries of Germany,
France and Great Britain, and this little
town in Pennsylvania captured the job. It
only goes to show what our country can do
when the barriers are swept away. We want
the trade, not only of the United States, but
of the world-not seventy millions, bnt four
teen hundred millions and we will have it,
and that day is not SO very far off, either.
"Blly Wilson's free wool gives our manu-
facturers fair chance 10 cope with. match
and beat the Europeans. In cassimeres,
cheviots and other woolens we have ceased
to import a, d are on the verge of exporting.
Made-up clothing we already export in large
quantities. By our magnificent mechanical
appliances and contrivances, we can make
them cheaper than any nation on earth.
Hiaes free of duty-our product in shoes
we beat tho world, and ship out in large,
quantities. Every production on the ea
should be stripped of all duties, and we can