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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-17
The REPUBLICAN TARIFF POLICY.
Handicaps Americans and FaVors
Foreigners.

Aside from the gross injustice of
which manufacturers are guilty when
they utilize their protection to compel
home consumers to pay more than
fair price for goods and more than for
eigners are regularly paying; aside,
also. from the base ingratitude or the
trusts which smite the hand that feeds
them, as they do when they take the
protection bonus from the American
people and then charge them higher
prices for goods than they charge for
eigners. there is a sound business rea-
son why this practice should be dis
couraged rather than encouraged by
tariff legislation. These reasons holu
good even if the generally accepted
theories of protection be true.
1t is a bad economic policy for ma
ton so to legislate that its own manu-
facturers and workers must pay more
for materials and goods than is paid
by foreigners for these same materials
and goods.
l. Such n policy handicaps home
manufacturers and producers and gives
their foreign competitors great adj
vantage. not only i'll foreign markets,
but often in home markets. even when
tariff duties are fairly high.
.. Instead of encouraging anG build
ing I'D home industries, such policy
discourages and drags them down by
enabling goods to be manufactured
more cheaply abroad; foreign manu-
facturers. to whom our trusts sell u!-
finished goods at lower prices than our
own manufacturers can obtain the
same goods at, are naturally, because
of their cheaper materials, able TO I'M
dersell American manufacturers.
3. Such a policy tends strongly to
induce manufacturers. who might 9th
erwise do an extensive export bust
ness, to establish branch factories i'll
foreign countries. where they can
manufacture more cheaply; where
they can, in fact, get more benefits
from protection" than they get ut
home That hundreds OF branch fac
tories are being established abroad for
this reason is certain. Numerous arti-
cles and editorials have appeared on
this subject i'll the trade and CONNER
cial papers, during the last three or
four years. y notable article APP
peared in the Annals of the American
Academy of Political and Social Sci
ence in January. 1904. 1t was written
by Mr.. S. \. ID. North. Director of the
Census. 1t tells of scores of big man
ufacturing plants that have recently
established branch factories in foreign
countries.
f. Such Il policy leads to retaliatory
tariffs on the part OF foreign countries
which wish to save their industries
from some Of the evils of what is called
the dumping process. These high
tariffs tend to keep our products out
of foreign markets and also encourage
the establishment of branch factories
abroad
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-17
WHY CODHLE THEN LONGER!

A Republican organ points with
pride to the record showing that in
the three months of May, June and
July of the present year this country
exported $120,7S9, 769 worth of manu-
featured articles and $106,503, 133
worth of agricultural products
This is a fine showing. 1t would be
still finer if the cost of many of our
manufactured articles were not en-
HANGED beyond the exporting point by
tariff duties OH their raw materials, a
handicap to which no foreign COM
petitor is subjected.
But the question before the people
is why, if our manufacturers are able
to export their goods at the rate of
nearly $J00,000,000 year, do they
need fifty per cent. tariff to protect
them from competitors whom they are
underselling in the markets of the
world? Are these hoary-headed monop-
olies to be forever coddled and fed on
tariff pap?-New York World.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-17
HEAVENLY HARMONY.
From the New York Sun, W hicb says 1t is
Supporting Roosevelt and Fairbankso

He must be bad man, tit for trea-
sons. strategems ana boilS, who is not
refreshed. strengthened and made bet
ter by the Republican praise meeting,
the undisturbed sound of pure content,
now heard all around.
In New York all the organs play
Benny Boobies Come TO Town and
Hail to the Craft
In the Indiana GubernatOrial Stakes
the Hon Charles War9eR Fairbanks
entry, the Hon. j. Frank Eanly, has
beaten the Hon. Bertie Bpveridge's
Penfield. The bands play Over the
Wabash to Charlie
In Ohio. the Hon. Myron 7. Herrick,
the Hon. George Boss Cox and the
Hon. Charles Dick dance deliriously
around the Hon. Joseph Benson For
aker. while wind and wood and brass
innumerable utter the sweet entreaty,
DO You Love Ne. Joey DarEngT
In Illinois. Yates men. LOuden men,
Hamlin men. for many days have been
giving one another black eyes i'll the
most cordial, informal. delightful. de-
lighted way. Music by the band:
''The King OF the Cannibal Islands,
Lie was the boy was chnmmy, U;
He ate you up and put you down,
And tucked you i'll his tummy, OF
In Wisconsin, to-day. Governor La
Toilette, the man that eats the rail
roads, is expected to eat alive 2. NJ.
G. Payne, Senator Spooner, Congress
man Joe Babcock, of Necedah, and
divers other pieces of the ancient Bad
ger machine. If he does, it's but to
incorporate them in himself. fuse and
transfuse them. Broiled live polite
ian is this excellent mans favorite
diet. Blow. musicians. ana crack your
cheeks! '.Oh. Bob La Toilette Has
Come Ont of the West"
And from the White House comes
loud, large voice:
Cheer, boys, cheer, and don't be af
frighted;
Strengthen the sagging and comfort the
sore;
For the Field of the Rose, it shall never be
blighted,
Nothing shall stop me from being de-
lighted,
So trust in and stick to your own The
odore."
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-17
REMARKABLE VISION.

Protection has a most peculiar eff
feet upon the vision of its adherents.
It makes them unable to see monsters
all around them, but enables them 10
see feas and gnats at Il distance of
about 5000 miles. Beyond a certain
point, however, all is again oblivion.
Thus, large portion of the Repub-
lican campaign book is given over to
the discussion of the trusts in Eng
land. 1t tells us that England is plas-
tered all over with trusts" The Re
publicans who made this book could
see none of the hundreds of giant
trusts in this country They could not
see the many great ones in the pro-
tected countries of Continental Eu-
rope; but they could see very distinct
ly the score Of measly little trusts in
free trade England. So small are these
trusts that the total capital of all
mentioned in the Republican campaign
book is less than one-third of that of
the Steel Trust, whose dominion is in
this country. Not only are the English
trusts infnitesimal in size, but they
are harmless and unable to control
and raise prices. They can be seen
only by those who wear protection
SpectacleS.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-17
JUDGE PARKER ON REGULATING
WAGES.

Judge Parker, the Democratic Pres
idential nominee, during hi, service in
the New York Court of Appeals. had
many labor questions to deal with. In
a dissenting opinion handed down by
him in the case of Rodgers VS.. Coler.
in which suit was brought to demand
the payment by contractor for the
State of the prevailing rate of wages.
he says:
THE reasoning by which the decision
about to be made is sought to be sup
ported fails to persuade me that ii is
other than judicial encroachment
upon legislative prerogative; for it is
that and nothing less If the statute does
not offend against either the Federal or
State constitution. If the statute, which
seems to be regarded by some as vic
1ous in its tendency, attempted to reg
ulate the question of wages as between
citizens of the State so as to affect
even in the slightest degree the basis
on which one citizen SHOULD contra Of
with another, then not chi, would
much of the discussion which this sta.
tute has invoked be relevant. but the
decision about to be made would hp
unqueStionably sound"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-17
CONVICT MADE GOODS.

In an opinion handed down in the
case of the People VS.. Hawkins, Judge
Alton B. Parker, while presiding over
the New York Court of Appeals,
passed upon the question of convict
made goods. He said:
1t is now too late to consider the
subject generally from the point of
view of the political economist, for the
people. in whom reside all power, have
set at rest that question so far as this
State is concerned This statute Meth
er prohibits nor attempts to prohibit
other States. or the citizens of other
States, from putting prison made goods
upon our markets; nor does it prohibit
our own citizens from buying or sell
ing them; if it did, then, concededly,
the statute would be in violation of
the commerce clause of the Federal
Constitution and void; it simply re-
quires that prison made merchandise
shall be so branded that or citizens
shall know where the goods they are
buying We're made.
This they have a right to know, for
they voted TO burden themselves with
additional taxation rather than longer
to permit competition which they re-
SdLhcSi as a Hu'lI, WING, anu nv a. =,
therefore, entitled to such legislation
as will permit them TO know the truth
in regard to articles offered them for
sale. in order that they may not,
through lack of information. have
forced upon them that which they
would not buy advisedly. The COM
merce clause of the Federal Constitu-
ton does not stand III the way of their
having such information, inasmuch as
the Constitution of this State estab-
fishes a public policy in the working
out of which the Legislature may go
to this extent at least under the police
power of the State"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-17
A REPUBLICAN VIEW OF R0GsE'
WELT.

Because he thinks President RooSe-
welt dangerous 10 tie business Interests
of the country, Smiley NJ. Chambers,
United States District Attorney uhuef
President Benjamin Harrison, and one
of the most prominent, influential he-
publicans of Indiana, has come out
against the President and declares that
he will put forth his most earnest Ell
forts to elect Alton B. Parker.
In a statement regarding his change
in political faith, Mr.. Chambers said:
1.-The personality of Mr.. Parker Is
satisfactory to the entire people OF TINS
country. No one, Republican or Demo
crat, can object to him. The person
atty of President Roosevelt IS ophoA.
ious to the many business interests OIL
this country. The personality OF me
two candidates will cut large inquire
in this campaign. The Republicans
are confronted by the same conditions
as in the Blaine campaign of lSS+-a
very popular candidate with many
classes of people, who failed to COM
mand the confidence of certain con-
servative and influential elements.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-17
A RESULT OF REPUBLICAN EXTRAY
AGANCE.

The National City Bank of New
York, one of the Standard Oil depos-
itories, in its current monthly circular
on monetary conditions calls attention
to the rapidly increasing Treasury de-
felt. and predicts that Secretary Shaw
will BE COMPELLED TO CALL IN
A LARGE SUN OF MONEY FROM
THE DEPOSITORY BANKS TO
MEET GOVERNMENT EXPENSES,
though hardly during the present cam
paign.
The course of public revenues is
still downward" the circular says, 1.-The
marked decrease being in the customs,
when in two months of the current
fiscal year shows a fallin. off of about
100000 as compared with July and
August, 1908. Compared with the
same period the internal revenue re-
ceipts show a less of 100000. Ex-
penditures are much greater than for
the same two months last year, the in
crease being above $14,OOO,OOO, largely
accounted for by heavy disbursements
under the head of war an navy i.ems.
The deficit for the year to date is,
roundly, S24,000,000.
1T is believed that the receipts and
expenditures lOf september VIII ABOUT
offset each other; but October, the first
month of the second quarter of the ifs
cal year, will show heavy disburse-
ments, resulting in a deficiency of
perhaps as much as $10,0OO,0OO This
will reduce the Treasury working bal
ance to quite low figure The indi-
cations. therefore, are that the Secre-
tary of the Treasury will be under the
necessity of calling in from the deposit
tory banks some further portion of the
public funds they now hold. 1t is
hardly likely in the midst of a Presi-
DENTAL campaign that such call will
be made If 1t can be avoided"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-17
McKINLEY'S LAST APPEAL.

1.-The busine $ interests of the whole
country, the development of our man.
ufactures and the extension of our ex-
ports of manufactured goods to every
foreign market demand the removal of
the enormities and eXcrescences of
the Dingley tariff, which now so no.
toriously weighs as a milestone on our
industries and foreign commerce that
in New England, the heart of protec-
tionism, revolt against its trade de-
stroying effects has openly burst forth.
The time has surely come for all mer-
camille interests to unite in CARRYING
out the last appeal of President Nc.
Kinley at Buffalo for a judicious re-
duction of tariff tion."-New York
Herald. September 2.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-17
CHOOSE FOR YOURSELF.

In a piece of literature now being
| disseminated by the National DeAo-
cratic Committee two widely different
word pictures are presented, giving
estimates of the general makeup OF
the two Presidential candidates.
With the suggestion in bold type:
LOOK HERE, UPON THIS PICTURE
the document quotes from eX-t.Ov-
ernor Blacks speech nominating Mr..
Roosevelt at tine Republican conNell-
ton, June 23s 1901:
Men may prophesy and women
pray, but peace will come here TO abide
forever Oh this earth only when tile
dreams of childhood arr the ac-
copied charts TO guide tie ,lcstiics of
men. Events are nuinbeI!g<a and
mighty, and 10 one can tell which Wire
runs around the world. Tie nation
basking to-day i'll the quiet OF content
ment and repose may still be Oh the
deadly circuit, and tomorrow writing
in the tolls of war. t. = On'y the
man with steady eye and nerve and
the courage TO pull the trigger brings
the largest opportunities to the
ground"
This is followed by 'Roo>evelt'S En-
dorsement. from the New York Times,
May 20, 1904. as follows: Washing
ton. May 19-The speech which Mr..
Root is TO make as temporary Chair
man. the speech which eX-t;OveYnOr
Black is to make i'll placiu& The Presi-
dent in nomination. and the various
planks of the PLATFORM which is to be
shaped by Senator Lodg all have
been considered and disposed OF TO
the satisfaction OF the President and
his advisers
Taking flashing glimpse ut Judge
Parker. and with special reference 10
the suggestion to ''Loon here. upon this
picture" Oh the other side. the re-
verse suggests:
AND on THIS"
the document quotes from lhe speech
of Hon. Martin w. Littlet0n. noniNat-
ing Judge Parker. before Democratic
Convention. July s. 1904:
The country called upon New York
for Il man to tit this. the critical hour
and pla il our national life, and New
York answers with man who puts
against the strenuous sword play of
Il staggering administration. simple
faith in all the perfect power of the
Constitution; man who puts against
executive usurpation knowledge of
and a deep love for the poise and bal
ance of its three great powers; a
man who puts against the stealthy
hunt with the big stick a faithful OBJ
servance of constitutional restraints
This is followed by Judge Parker's
Endorsement" from his speech of ac-
ceptance, August 10, 1904:
1.-The most efficient work we can do
in uplifting the people of other coun-
tries is by the presentation of hap
py, prosperous, self governing nation
as an ideal to be emulated. a model to
be followed. The general occupation
of our citizens il the arts o. peace, or
the absence of large military arma-
ments, tends to impair neither patriot
ism nor physical courage
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-17
WHOSE PROSPERITY?
Taxing the Dinner Pail For tie Benefit
Of the Favorites Of the Govern.
ment-=.WkO Paws the Bill?

The se-called prosperity, y-hich is
measured by the imitation of the prices
of the necessaries of life, appears very
differently to different classes of peo-
pie. The clerical employe whose mea-
gre salary remains at the figure OF SIX
or seven years ago, c@nnot be expected
to look upon it with the pleasure with
which it is viewed by the wealthy ben
eficiaries of the excessive protection OF
the present tariff. Some idea of the
way it looks TO the former class may
be gathered from comparison OF tEe
data concerning the earnings of the
clei zeal employees of railway corpora
tons collected by the Interstate Com
merce Commission with lie statistics
of retail prices compiled by the Bureau
of Labor.
The latter are notoriously unreliable
| as an index to the current situation but
as it is agreed by all that their 1naccu-
racy is = Understanding the advance
in prices. they may be used for the
present purpose with the observation
that they tend to underState the de-
crease in the purchasing power of sta
tionary salaries. The railways of the
country employ in their general offices
about 10000 clerks. whose salaries
range from $40 to, perhaps, $1,000 per
annum.
These employees are, no doubt, fairly
typical of the vast body of clerical
workers employed in all kinds of indus
tries, and it is not likely that such
employees in any field have been able
TO do better in obtaining advances IN
salary than have railway employees;
nor are they likely to have done worse.
In 1897, according to the exceptionally
complete and accurate data collected
by the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion the average clerk i'll the general
offices of the railways received Sis
per days work: last year the same
class of workers received. on an aV-
erage. 1921 per day. an advance OF
three cents. or about IA per cent. Com
pare this insignificant increase with
the changes in the prices, at retail. of
the things that the clerk, if the bread
winner of family. must pay for out
of his salary. The following are from
the report of the Bureau of Labor:
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-17

The foregoing shows that Il quantity
of evaporated apples which would
have cost 81 in 1897, now costs nearly
S113; that q quantity of bacon worth
81 in 1897 cost 81 3 now. and SO forth.
The only articles in the foregoing list
which have not increased i'll cost fast
er than the clerks salary has advanced
are wheat bread and sugar. Besides
the articles named above, the Bureaus
list includes wheat -four, coffee and
prunes. According to its figures, the
iirst of these declined three per cent.
in price between 1897 and 1903, the
second declined 80 per cent. and the
third 40 per cent. The average adj
vance in the cost of food reported by
the Bureau was 14.5 per cent. In 9th
er words it takes nearly SLID to buy
as much food at the present time as
could have been bought for 81 in 1887.
With an increase of about So in his
annual income, the average clerk has
been compelled to limit the food sup
ply of his family, or substitute inferior
articles, or find some way to provide
for an increase in his annual eXpendi-
ture for food of approximately S43.51;
lot a simple undertaking when other
prices have advanced in similar ratio
and out of salaries averaging not more
than $3.50 per annum.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-17
Observation-Disclosures

"The first condition upon which do
nestle trade and commerce with for
eign nations depend for prosperity
has always been and must ever be a
maintenance of law and order at home
and the avoidance of every compiled
ton which can possibly lead to war.
The restless ambition of a President
to create great world Power can only
encourage the widest forms of jim
goism, which may become great
menace to the stability and prosperity
of business. New York Herald, Sep
temb r 9
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-17
HE WANTS CONSERVATISM.

When Hon. Elliot Danforth delivered
his address on abraham Lincoln" re-
Gently at Lake Mahopac, \. Y, A. B.
See, the Brooklyn elevator builder, an
nounced that, although he had always
voted the Republican ticket, he would
cast his first Democratic vote for
Judge Parker. He said:
81 regard Judge Parker as safer
man than Roosevelt. The latter is
hasty and impetuous, while the former
carefully weighs in a judicial manner
important questions before deciding
them. / think the country's interests
demand the election of the more con-
servative of the two candidates."
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-17
TARIFF FLEECEs THE PEOPLE

The Mckinley tariff and the Dingley
tariff are both robbery" and were
enacted for the express purpose OIL
robbing the many for the benefit OF the
few. They are simply bargains 10
fleece the people, make comparative
" few enormously rich, who, in turn,
are relied upon to furnish the ''slnews
of war; for campaign purposes, ana thls
is all there is to it, and no one knows
it better than the politicians who put
them through, against all argument
and justice, and the beneheIarieS
thereof
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-17
WHY REPUBLICANS "sTAND PAT

THE trust, of course, wants Its du-
ty. and it wants the whole of II. IL
values the monopolymaking part &C
eording to the measure of the prohts
which that part brings into its COZ
fers. The trust is powerful, as we 90
not need to be told. The trust
making part of protection duties has an
effect about which there is no uncer-
tainty. PROF. John B. Clark, in the
Political Science Quarterly for Sep
TENDER. 1904.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-17
OUR STABILITY THREATENED

"The eminently safe, sane and con.
sentative candidacy of Judge Parker
particularly commends itself TO the
business men of the country in crit
1cal epoch of our national life, when
the dangerous imperiaI1stic tendencies
and bold innovations of the party in
power threaten the very stability of
our constitutional government."-N
York Herald, September 2.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-17
"DEFEAT ROOSEVELT, FIRST p,

The most important object to accom-.
plish in this election is the defeat OF
Theodore Roosevelt. The next in i'm
portance is the election of a Demo
cratic majority in the House of Repre-
sentatives.-Professor Henry L. Nell
son, Of Williams College, in New York
World.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-09-17
PERILOUS POLICIES OF EXPAN.
SION.

IF the perilous policies of expan-
sion which have been pressed by the
President since 1902 are to be in
dorsed by the people on November s
and carried out on an extended scale
during the next four years, it is i'm
possible to foresee how the business
interests of the whole country can es-
cape great disturbance and disaster"
New York Herald, September g
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-12
IGYMNAsTs GIvN AN EXHIBITION.

.GYMNAsTs GIVE AN EXHIBITION.
 As an illustration of the progress 1t has made so far this season under the guidance of Physical Director George M. Martin, and F. J. Reveley, his as sistant, the gymnasium class of the Young Men's Christian association Sat urday night gave a delightful exhibi- tion for the entertainment of the other members and friends of the organiza- tion, large and interested 'audience' testifying it's appreciation of the vari- Eous stunts by generous applause. Thir- ty athletes participated in the proceed ings, which included feats of skill and strength os all kinds.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-12
APPLICATION DENIED.

For Location of Fat Rendering Plant.
 Dr. Robert B. Goodyear, town health officer of North Haven, has given a de- cision denying the application of the H. L. Hemingway company for a IT. cense to establish a fat rendering plant within the limits of that town.
 Appeal has been made by Attorney J. B. Ullman, who represents the Fat Rendering company, and County Health Officer Hoadley will have a hearing soon on the subject. r#