FEEELAND TRIBUNE. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THUIWDAY AFTERNOONS. TIIOS. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS, - - SI.OO PER YEAR. FREELANf), PA., JULY 18, 1892. DEMOCRATIC TICKET. NATIONAL. President, Grover Cleveland. New York Vice President, Adlui E. Stevenson ..Illinois STATE. Judge of Supreme Court, Christopher Heydriek Venango County- Congressmen at-Large, George Allen Erie County Thomas P. Merritt Berks County ire denounce protection an a fraud, a robbery of /tie gieat majority of the Ameri can people for the benefit of the few. — DEMOCBATIC PLATFORM. Until September 1,1802, subscriptions -will be received by the TRIBUNE at the rate ol' SI.OO per year, strictly in advance. Present sub scribers, by puyiug auy existing arrearages and SI.OO, cau avail themselves uf the advan tages to be derived from this offer. After September i the TRIBUNE will be sl.*lo per year, strictly in advance. Pointers fur IVorkiiigmen. The Newsdealer offers the following for the consideration of workingmen who believe that a tariff will in any way benefit them: Under the highest protective tariff in the history of the United States, Carne gie & Co. liave reduced the wages of American skilled mechanics. At the same time, as evidence of the fact thai tariff protects the monopolist only, Mr. Carnegie is able to contribute a million dollars to found a library in Pittsburg, 'and another to his native land, Scotland, for a similar purpose. Carnegie wants all the glory but he believes that his iron slaves should foot the bills. Carnegie told General Beaver, wlifen tho latter was governor, that his private estate in Scotland was more valuable than the C'apitol and public park of the state of Pennsylvania. Even now it is rnmored that this pro tected monopolist lias contributed a cool liaif-million dollars to the Tory campaign fund to defeat Gladstone and the on ward march of popular government and Home Rule in Great Britain. Ho has been giving Lord Salisbury and the landlords lessons in the protec tive system and showing them how, by its adoption, they can amass more wealth in the hands of the few at the expense of the masses than the landlords ever dreamed of. That explains Carnegie's long stay and the sudden conversion of Lord Saulsbury to the American idea of Protection for the few. When the ides of November are upon ns, will the workingmen of America re member these things, or will they, as usual, inarch to the polls and vote to support a system of tariff robbery which creates trusts and monopolies and locks out American labor for during to resist a reduction of wages? Just think for one moment. Here is a man, Carnegie, able to spend millions on a private castle in Scotland, giving labor and service to foreign workingmen, "keepers, servants, overseers and labor ers; able to have a millionaire's mansion in New York, a private home in Pitts burg with offices etc., cottages at the seaside and on the mountain heights— anil notwithstanding all this he tefuses to recognize the right of American labor, American citizens, to maintain a union for tlie preservation of its and their rights. '" ibJ f 1 t i 'act that the state •e right to combine - 1 "liars, v such a monopo refuso labor the unite for mutual an- cciiuine protection? 1 We Americans have been sleeping, alas, too long, and another Patrick Henry, it seems, must arise to warn us of our danger and arouse within us the smould ering spirit of our revolutionary ances tors. Toilers of the mine and worsbop arouse yOilrselvesfrom the fatal lethargy which you have permitted these parti san bosses and privileged few to cast around you. Rend your clinins, assert your manhood and emancipate your selves and your posterity. Ask yourselves this question: Can that be a good system which creates classes—two extremes as surely as they exist in any despotic or liberal mon archy- ou earth—a few millionaires on one hand and on the other millions of poor plodding Blaves, in debt, locked out if they demand fair treatment, mortgaged farms and tramps? Will you break the chains of bigotry, partisanship and prejudice in Novem ber, or will you continue along for four years more ruled by "old hats and printers' rats?" IT is immaterial to the TRIBINK who receives the Democratic nomination, so long as the nomineo is a representative Democrat, hilt the methods some people are pursuing in the Ilines-MeGinty light are dishonorable, to say the least. A good square battle is well enough at any time, but to try to advance the in terests of one candidate by insinuating the other is not a citizen is a small piece of business, as everyone knows McGinty lias been votiiig for nearly twenty years. Wl/l 6 I" I 3 SflTullil "DIFFERENCE IN WAGES" FARCE. Our Fanners Now Compete nlth the ' Lowest I'rtUl Labor ou Lartli. Here is food for reflection for the fanner who still thinks he is toting money in his pocket when he rotes for "protection." If.Jio will ponder this fact sufficiently he will solve the whole tariff ! problem. It is quoted from "Recent i Economic Changes," by David A. Wells. \ "Indian corn can be successfully and j has been extensively raised in ltaly L But liidian corn grown in the valley of f the Mississippi, a thousand miles from i the seaboard, has been transported in re- | cent years to Italy and sold in her mar- ' kets at a lower cost than the corn of Lombardy and Venetia, where the wages of the agriculturist are not one-third of the wages paid in the United States for corresponding labor. And one not sur- 1 prising sequel of this is that 77,000 Ital- ' ian laborers emigrated to the United States in 1885." In other grains and food products and in cotton it is the same. The $1 and $2. and $3 a day labor of the United States , competes with the cheap labor of Eu- j rope and Asia and often undersells it' in its own markets. Thus wheat can bo i produced in Dakota, where wages are #2 a day, at 40 cents per bußhel, though it cannot be produced in Rhenish Prus- 1 sia for less than 80 cents; but wages \ there are only $0 per month. As to J England, her wheat growers hftve been j driven out of existence by our dear j labor and India and Russia's cheap | labor. Such facts as these must settle the i question forever with rational minds as I to whether or not wages determine cost I of production. They did not do so fifty years ago, when high wage Europo was supplying low wage Asia with many manufactured articles. Still less do they do so now, when, with modern machinery and methods, one man or a • boy will produce as much as ten men fifty years ago. What folly, then, to say that "on all imports coming in com petition with the products of American ! labor there should be lovied duties equal ■ to the difference between wages at homo j and abroad." And yet this is the serious declaration of the Republican party in i its Minneapolis platform, and it poses I as the party of Nineteenth century civi lization. These Republicans persist in shutting their eyes to facts. If McKinley had consulted tables of labor cost in differ ent articles in different countries and had made tariff rates only high enough to put American and foreign goods on a j par in our markets as to labor cost, his rates would not have been one-tenth as high as now. But instead of consulting figures he asked the manufacturers how much duty they wished, and, as Con gressman Wilson has shown, practically left blanks for manufacturers to fill out; and they often made duties higher than the total cost of production in any conn try—all for the benefit of the poor wage earner, of course. Some day tho voting consumers will have intelligence and spunk enough to j suggest to the manufacturer that it is I time for him to remove his hand from their pockets. Nuts tor l'ruteotiunists to Crack. I If, as protectionists tell us, wages de pend upon tariffs, then, as we have the same tariff in all parts of the United j States, it would be uaturul to conclude that wages should be uniform from i Maine to California. The Foundry men's association, of Philadelphia, after a considerable amount of correspond ence, has compiled a tabulated state ment of wages paid in foundries of the ! United States printed in The Iron Age of May 20, 1892. Some of the figures I are from country foundries, others from car wheel, stovo and malleable iron and pilio shops, etc. According to this table j tho average wages of molders vary from j $3.50 per day in San Francisco and Oak- | land, Cul., to SI.OO in Hagerstown, Md. \ A few of the other averages me: In i Pittsburg, $3; Uonshohocken, Pa., i S2.B3J£; Philadelphia, $2.50; Chester, Pa., $2.40; York, Pa., $2.10; Reading, | $2; Allentown, Pa., $1.90; Bloomsbnrg, Pa., $1.75; Denver, $3.25; New York and Brooklyn, $3; Chicago, $2.75; Charleston, $2.00; Portsmouth, N. H., $2.25; Elmlra, j N. Y., $2; Wilmington, Del., $1.85. The ! average wages of coremakers vary from 1 $3.50 in Leadvillo, Colo., and $3.25 in San Francisco, to $1.25 in Elinira and j Brockport, N. Y., and Selma, Ala.; of cupola tenders, from $3.50 in Oakland, i Cal., to $1 in several southern cities; of j cliippers, from $2.50 in Lcudvillc, Colo., > to 75 cents In Athens, (la. Will some kind and logical protection- I ist please explain these discrei ] erate that wero recognized by previous j international exhibitions, j Meanwhile the American tariff robber i was slyly at work. He became alive to the fact that if foreign goods were marked in tlie World's fair at the figures i for which they can he prodhcod and pay a profit to the manufactnrer in addition J to the cost of production he would bo ill j danger of undoing. Many of the conn j tries from which foreign -exhibits ate coming nre themselves protection oomi- I tries. Yet they call place on the market I goods in many respects superior to ours at prices running from one-third to oiie lialf. While the cry of starved British labor is rung by Reimblican demagogues the cry of starved French labOT Will not serve. Causes that starve label- in Eng- I land—causes not nt all related to tariffs ! —do not exist in France. There land is I free and the people are able to feed as well as clothe themselves. How should ! the American tariff robber keep from 1 the knowledge of Americans visiting the World's fair tlie fact that in Fruuoe, 1 a highly prosperous counti yssts labor j the happiest and gayest in the world | and a protective country, goods can lie ) put oil the market at one-third to one half their cost in our market , Controlled exclusively by the American tariff rbh j ber? j An expedient was adopted which came 1 near wrecking the World's fair. Pres j sure was brought to bear ou the director j general to prohibit foreign exhibitors i from placing any prices on their goods J except with the addition of the Ameri can McKinley robber tariff. I Two objects were to be accomplished I by this. The first was to sustain the grotesque untruth of McKinley and his j followers that "the foreigner pays the ; tax;" secondly, to deceive the great mas? , of unreflecting Americans about the real cost of production minus the tariff tax. I British, French,. Itallap, flpatli Aiucri ' can and Canadian exhibitors raised so furious a protest that the director general was compelled to uuuul the outrogeons order, which wonld have nm.de .evej-y foreign exhibitor commit wiU'ul- faiie i hood in representing as the price of Ms ' goods what In fact was not their price, but the price with the tribute addpil which the American buyer pays to tjie American tariff robber. Had the pre ; scription for falsehood not been recalled the foreign exliibitoi s would have with drawn in a body. Tho benefits of the international exposition to the people of the United Btates these patriotic tariff robbers Were ready and anxious to annul rather than that their robbery should lie laid bare in the exposition itself. The lesson is timely. No uioro com plete exposure of the tariff robbery could j have been made.—Chicago Herald. The Testers' Diplomatic Tendencies. It was a man named Foster who went to Cluster ill a shower of rain: who j stepped in a puddle up to his middle i and never went there again. Perhaps ; this tradition of the diplomatic totiden- I cies of the Fosters to get in out of tho Wet is what makes Mr. Harrison so fond i of the family.—St Louis Republic. TAYLOR THE DEMOCRAT. Me Is Reasonably Curtain of F.leetlAll Over Tailor the Republican. Tliere are two cnßidates (or the jiosi tiou of secretary of state for the state of Ohio, one representing the Democruhp and the other the .Republicans, hat when the vote 9 ' are counted next / fIU November It is ( pasomftfy cer? \ tain, froin pres- P-/ Ir* iffA nnt, appearances, _ L Jt Of that the Repub- '' J lican won't lie in J .it In other _ 'I words, William A. A. Taylor, the Democratic nom- 'IBPV V inee, .. will be Vfte/ / V - ' elected. Mr. W. A, \ / jfJ A. Taylor was \ / born in Perry county, 0., fifty l K years ago. He w. A. TAYLOR. began teaching school when but sixteen yegrs of age, devoting bis spare time to the study of law, being admitted to the bar at the age of twenty-one. In 1860 lie renounced tlie law and entered the ranks of journalism and became identi fied with the Cincinnati Enquirer. He i afterward worked on the Pittsburg Post, the' New York Sun and at one time i i bad editorial charge of the Pittsburg Telegraph. He subsequently returned to the Cincinnati Enquirer, where he now is. During the war he served as a private in General Birney's brigade. Mr. Taylor is an author of considerable note, his published works including "American Presidents and Contempora neous' Rulers," "The Peril of the Repub lic" and "Ohio Statesmen and Hundred Yearßook." He Tesides in Colnmhus with hjs family, a wife and one son. He Will Ho No Nonentity. . It is remarkable to what extent the expressions of satisfaction over the nom ination of Mr. Stevenson come from the Democrats in all parts of the country. Those who know him personally are en thusiastic in their expressions. He is a man not only of the highest integrity, but of strong personal magnetism and force of character, and should the ticket, on which his name appears be elected it is predicted that he will not he the non entity that vice presidents usually are. Baltimore News. Satisfaction wltli th Ticket. The nominations of Cleveland and Stevenson have been received with the ntmost enthusiasm throughout Indiana. No Democratic ticket, not excepting thai -which contained the talisinauic liame of Hendricks, was ever so handsomely or so numerously ratified in Indiana with in so short a time after it was named. From all parts of the state come reports of the intense satisfaction with which Democrats have received the action taken at Chicago.—lndianapolis Sentinel. Welt, Hardly. In 1890 the Independents of Nebraska polled, 70,187 votes, the Republicans 08,- 878 and the Democrats 71,881 for gov ernor. The allied Democratic and Inde pendent strength in the congressional struggle was still greater. As the anti- Repnblican sentiment in the state is stronger this year than in 1890 it. is clear that Horrisou will not get her eight electoral votes without a desperate fight. —St. Lquis Post-Dispatch. Aii Akhurd Appointment. We tire of the opinion that Mr. Foster'* •elevation will not impress the country as a great or altogether fitting appoint ment. We must say that he hardly tneaßures up to the stature of the men who have heretofore filled the chair of statfe—Webster, Marcy, Seward. Fish, Bayard, Blaine—-not to mention those of earlier clays. Perhaps the appointment is only intended to be temporary.—ln dianapolis News. A llcuvy I.OIMI. Joe Fifer's officeholders are beginning the campaign iu Illiuois early. They feel that the depression in the Republic an ranks which has followed the hu miliation of Blaine, the nomination of Harrison and the appointment of Foster, together with the weight of state issues against them, is a heavy load which can only he carried under the inspiration of music and fireworks.—St. Louis Re public, Too Many Cooks .Spoil tlie Hroth. Tho story that the president will form a personal campaign committee, not to take the place of the national commit tee, hut to act wi(li it as an advisory board, is a queer indication of whither tlie politicians are drifting. Tlie hroth might possibly thrive under such a mul tiplicity of cooks, hut if so the event would he a reversal of the culinary wis dom of the ages.—Philadelphia Record. Whistling to Keep lip Courage. The pretended glee of Benjamin Har rison and his monopoly organs over the radical utterance of the Democratic platform on tlie tariff question suggests the valor of tlie hoy who whistled to keep his courage up. That platform is no laughing matter—to a Republican tariff robber.—Chicago Herald. A Itiid Year for Clarksons. Clarkson, the hall player, has been re leased. This isn't a good year for the Clarkson family, anyway. It will lie ; remembered that President Harrison got onto Jamqs' curves the other (lay I and knocked him out of the box.—Chi j _ ! Nothing New in Crime. "There is nothing new in crime," is Botirke Cockran's apt way of aceount j ing for the resemblance between the ! force bill programme and the historic i devices of tyranny to control the expres i sion of the popular Will.—New York ■ World. All th. "Spun.." The depression in the iron trade still ' continues; ditto the repression, oppres- I sion, suppression and several other things ! ending in the suggestivo sound of j "shun."—New York Herald. 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