The Republican., 1899-07-13
Communicated.
Editor of The Republican.

The Democratic leaders and press,
fully aware of the fact that they can
not win in the presidential campaign
upon the IS to silver craze, knowing
from past experience that it will be
useless to howl about the crime of
'73, are now trying to create senti-
ment upon the antitrust question,
Just as if Republican legislation had
created and was responsible for the
trusts. And vet in their zeal to find
an issue they overreach themselves.
We have an instance of this in the
Democrat of the 9th inst, when in it's
editorial it says: THE odious tin
plate trust bangs its doors in the face
of $4,000 workmen," etc. Can it be
possible that the Democrat was mis-
taken in it's labored editorials in past
campaigns, and now has given us the
proof that it was wrong when in its
abuse of the Mckinley Tariff Bill it
asserted and reiterated, times without
number, that it was impossible to
manufacture tinplate in this countryg
And the same assertion was made
repeatedly by other Democratic pa
pers. Do these same papers think
the people have forgotten how they
predicted that tinware would advance
greatly in price? Do they think the
people have forgotten 1.-The tin ped
dler campaign" they made in McKin-
ley's district on this very question?
Has tinware advanced? Does the
workingman's dinner pail cost more
than it did, as those papers predicted?
Is not the reverse true?
1t was asserted that we could not
make tinplate in this country and
now we hear that an "odious tinplate
trust bangs its doors in the face of
$4,000 workmen." We were told that
we could not make tinplate, and yet
in less than ten years after we have
an editorial from the same opposition
forces, talking of this terrible monster
that has grown so rapidly that it now
bangs its doors in the face of $4,000
wOrkmen.
And just here we are reminded that
we heard from the same Democratic
leaders and editors that we needed
free wool SO that the farmer could get
big price for his wool and buy his
clothes cheap. Well, the Republicans
won and we got a positive proof that
these Democratic theorists were
wrong again as usual. The tariff was
put upon the wool and the price
nearly doubled and Democrats in this
county and all over the country who
had been holding their wool for Re
publican prices, were enabled to sell
at about double the prices they were
offered under the Democratic admin
istration. Clothing instead of adj
vancing as we were told it would by
these same people, has been reduced
until it is now cheaper than ever
before. With the country prospering
as never before in its history, there is
no place for the calamity howler.
No one is deceived by this hue and
cry. We may be told that the hands
are those of Esau, but we know that
the voice is that of Jacob. We have
heard it often before, and the people
have been deceived in the past. but
they have learned to know the voice
and cannot be deceived again. When
the time comes as Republicans we
are ready and willing to discuss the
question of antitrust. Just as the
Republican party has met each issue
in the past, so it will meet it in the
future, and it will be hard, very hard
indeed, for the Democrats to make
the people believe that the country is
not more prosperous to-day than it
was EVER in a single instance under
Democratic administration.
HOOSIER.