FREELAND TRIBUNE. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY. THOS. A. BUCKLEY. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS, - - $1.50 PER YEAR. FREELAND, PA., OCTOBER 27, 1892. DEMOCRATIC TICKET. NATIONAL. President. Grover Cleveland..... ............New York Vice President, Adlal K Stevenson .lllinois STATE. Judge of Supreme Court, Christopher Hcydrick Venango County Congressmen- at-Large, George Allen Erie County Thomas P. Merritt berks County COUNTY. Congressman, William 11. Hines Wilkes-Barre Senator, J. Itidgewuy Wright Wilkes-Barre Sheriff, William Walters. Sugarloaf Township Recorder, Michael C. Russell Edwardsville Coroner, H. W. Trimmer Lake Township Surveyor, Jumes Crockett ltoss Township • We denounce protection as a fraud, a robbery of the great majority of the Ameri can people for the benefit of the few. — DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. IT is reported that many voters of this vicinity do not intend to go near the polls on election day, fearing that the new system of voting will cause them too much inconvenience and annoyance. Whatever others may do no Democrat who is worthy of the name will stay away on such a flimsy excuse. There is not the slightest difficulty in casting the ballot, in fact there is no inconvenience to be experienced at all, and, as to an noyance, no one is allowed to trouble or pester the voter while he has a ballot in his hand. The friend who has a friend on the other tickot cannot buttonhole and badger you from your residence to the poll window as heretofore, and that alone should he enough to induce every Democrat to come out and do his duty. IN the death of his wife President Harrison has the sympathy of every citizen, as would any other man, whether his position be that of president or miner. Even in the two days that have elapsed since she died the public has been struck by the utterances of many Republican organs. So desperate have they become that nothing that could possibly used as political capital is too sacred for them. The sancity of the death chamber has been invaded and the president's bereavement is held up to view in a manner that is calculated to create a mawkish sentiment in the minds of voters. The insincerity of their motives is transparent and is a mockery of the condolences they profess to tender. But what else could be ex pected from Republican organs in a poli tical campaign? IT is not probable that the history of any political party in the United States can show as many converts of national reputation for one year as the Democrats can for 1892. It is really astonishing to view the number ef prominent men who have had the courage in this campaign to throw off the shackles that bound them to the most corrupt and corrupting political body that ever existed in any nation. Half a dozen members of Re publican presidents' cabinets, ex-gover nors, ex-congressmen, citizens of every business and profession, besides thous ands and thousands of men who are less prominent, and who remain silent for obvious reasons, all these have deserted the party that is led by the most noto rious scoundrels that ever drew breath.' They have joined the army of the \ people and will follow to victory that fearless champion of equal rights, Grover Cleveland. THE new county advocates have crawled into their hole, but that is no sign the schemers are dead yet. Find ing they could not sweep the lower end with the cry for a division, they have made a right-about-face and now seem utterly indifferent to the question. 1 hat, however, is one of the old games of Hazleton politicians, and they can't fool the people of the North Side with it this time. The candidates of both parties are marked who have friendly feelings to the movement to make Haz leton a county seat, and all the threats or coaxing they can do from now until November 8 will not gain them a solitary vote here, unless they give their pledge against the plot. Thisisabilof friendly advice to a few of the swaggering "know-alls" who imagine they carry the lower end in their vest pockets, and who think voters and newspapers should dance to every tune they play. A Peculiar Denial. A Wilkes-Barrean, who signs liimscll "G. L. Baldwin, Post 257, Dept. Pa.,' pnblished a letter in Tuesday's Proyrrx in which he says a "late issue of tin TRIBUNE contained an article which doei great injustice to Mr. Foster, the Repub lican nominee for congress." The issue referred to is probably thai of the 13th inst., wherein an article appeared which alleged that Footer it opposed by many old Boldiers in Wilkes ' Barre on account of his reported refusal to aid the members of the G. A. R. in their efforts to obtain money for the Memorial Hall fund, claiming that the t veterans should take their pensions and build their own halls, as he (Foster) did not expect to loaf there. The TRIBUNE took the article from a responsible paper, the Nanticoke News, I. and gave proper credit for it at the time. . If this Mr. Baldwin, Post 257, Dept. Pa., is so solicitions, of Foster's candidacy why did he not disprove the statement j where it originated? He makes no it - mention of what the "injustice" was, and gives only his own assurance that 3 Foster is "in full touch of sympathy with the Union soldier." Even if the charge is untrue it would be far more manly for Foster to deny it 7 himself, instead of having his apologist, t G. L. Baldwin, Post 257, Dept. Pa., beating around the bush in such away that no one can understand what he is 51 driving at. Veterans don't care much whether Baldwin's acquaintance with Foster extends over a period of five or , of fifty years. That has nothing to do with what . Foster is reported to have said to the G. A. R. men who called upon htm for p help, and until Foster denies and dis proves the charge made by the Nanti '' j coke News he should be considered , j guilty. Ilogus Protection Did It. Here is a partial list of some of the thousands of prominent Republicans who have deserted the party and will support Cleveland: Walter Q. Gresham, of Chicago, judge of the federal court. Judge Cooley, of Michigan. Wayne McVeagh, of Pennsylvania, attorney general in President Garfield's . cabinet. Colonel Joseph A. Nunuz, of Buffalo, , N. Y., chairman of the first Republican convention on the Pacific coast. Hugh McCullough, ex-secretary of the treasury. Charles B. Farwell, of Illinois, ex- United States senator. Philip Armour, of Chicago. Henry A. Meyer, of Brooklyn, Re publican candidate for mayor last year. C. J. Harrah, of Philadelphia, presi dent of the Midvale steel works. , Judge Rea, of Minnesota, ex-com , mander-in-chief of the G. A. R. R. R. O'Dell, of Minnesota. Theodore Witte, of Brooklyn, mem ber of the bar. Fredrick B. House, of New York, ex-assemblyman. John H. Seaman, of New York, ex alderman. Robert McAdams, of Rome, N. Y., the most prominent farmer in that section. William Green, of Gloversville, N. Y., a life-long Republican and G. A. R. man, now serving his second term as district attorney of Fulton county. Albert R. Leeds, of New York, pro fessor of chemistry in Steven's institute lioboken. Henry C. C. Astwood, ex-consul gen eral to San Domingo. "The Irish Vote.*' Every four years a great deal is heard about the " Irish vote," and how it will be cast at the presidential election. It is a favorite subject for a horde of petty campagin orators who do not possess enough brains to speak intelligently up on any other matter, and the frantic : appeals now being made to that nation ality for its votes merely show the des peration to which the Republicans have been driven in 1892. Even James G. Blaine, who made a speech recently, was not above the com mon crowd of "stumpers" who are harp ing on the "Irish vote-" Coming from one who is usually termed a statesman, i it deserved a rebuke, and the Boston I Pilot, in the following, gives it to him: Mr. Blaine's interest in the welfare of 1 the Irish people is touching though i tardy. It is a pity that it was not mani -1 j fested when it would have been more | useful to them during his first term as j secretary of state under President Gar ; field. He might have displayed it to , | good effect also when he visited the Old j World, a few years ago and hobnobbed " [ with "their former oppressors," after I , hastily leaying Dublin in order to avoid . j a demonstration in his honor gotten up , j by some Irish Nationalists who did not j know him as well as be is known on this ■ I side of the Atlantic. 3 j Remembering Mr. Blaine's painful t ; lack of interest in such subjects even t ' longer ago in the troublous Know-Noth ing days, Irish-Americans may be par -1 doned for doubting the sincerity of his ' professions now, just before election day. . There are individuals who are sometimes called "annual Irishmen." Mr. Blaine's ' solicitude for the Irish people is not ' even annual—it is barely quadrennial at ' i most. . ! This "Irish vote," as we have many ' times said, is a bugbear of British Tory statesmen too dull-witted to understand A ' that the most intense enemies of English y aggression in this country are so not more 1 on account of their Irish origin than be , cause they are thoroughly patriotic Amer ieans. Democrat or Republican, they know hut one party wtien the nation's welfare is at stake. | it there be one question in the present campaign upon which an appeal might fairly be made to citizens interested in the cause of Ireland it is the question of 'xx local self-government and home rule, je which the Republican Force bill threat ens to subvert. This is a matter which 28 Republican orators sedulously ignore, b- knowing that it will not bear the light of public discussion. The "Irish vote" will , J not be cast in its favor; for Irishmen, ' above all others, know the meaning of le I bayonets at the polls and all that they is 1 imply. TARIFF ON GOAT HATH THE ABSURDITY AND INJUSTICE OF IT EXPOSED. A Duty of Twelve CentH a Pound In ]>onod Upon an Article the Commercial Value of Which Is but Two Centg—A Shrewd Scheme. Judge Gray, of the United States su preme court, has just sustained the action of Collector Beard, of Boston, in classify ing common goat hair with second class wool, and making it dutiable therefore at twelve cents per pound. In commenting on this decision The American Wool and Cotton Reporter, edited by a moderate protectionist, says in its issue of Sept. 22: "Of course the court did not consider whether this duty of 500 to 800 per cent, upon the pauper goat hair of Bombay or Russia is absurd or the reverse. The court simply decided that under the phraseology of the McKinley bill all goat hair comes within the provisions of class 2 of the wool schedule, and is therefore dutiable at twelve cents per pound. Under the tariff law which was in force previous to the passage of the McKinley act this goat hair was free of duty. "As the law reads, the hair of a primi tive Russian or Bombay goat, worth two cents per pound, is dutiable at twelve cents per pound, while the wool of a primitive sheep at 32 per cent, ad valorem might get in at three cents per pound or less. "The supreme court has decided upon the exact reading of the law, and it has reached a decision that must be con ceded as correct by every person who in terprets the law as it stands, and not as it should be from a commercial or eco nomical standpoint. "The fact that the law imposes a duty of twelve cents per pound upon an arti cle the commercial value of which is from two to three cents per pound, and which has heretofore come in free of duty, has no bearing upon the question. The McKinley schedule is replete Willi these inconsistencies, and a close study of the measure and the methods em ployed in constructing it will show that these seeming absurdities and ridiculous features did not get in by chance, but were cleverly devised schemes of men who knew what they wanted and were not scrupulous in reaching for it. And it is this feature of the McKinley bill that has cast odium upon it and has cost the Republican party a large number ot voters." It seems absurd to talk about twelve cents per pound duty on common goat hair, and yet this is the law and thero is no escape from it. "The Ohio wool growers have gained their point, but we fail to see where it can benefit them in the slightest. It is hardly probable that they contemplate establishing a common goat industry, nor is it at all probable that the exclusion of foreign goat hair will appreciably increase the demand for wool—certainly not domestic wool. It is a hardship which falls heavily upon carpet manufacturers, and also upon consumers of low grade carpet ings, and is of 110 material benefit to any one. A duty of twelve cents per pound on goat hair is nonsensical; it means ab solute prohibition, and that is what the framers of that portion of the tariff law aimed at." It is not surprising that, understand ing as it does how the wool schedule wasconcocted, The American Wool and Cotton Reporter, protectionist though it is, has come out in favor of free wool and dares to say that the McKinley bill is not perfect. The Pauper Labor Germ. If the Republican party—that is, the protected manufacturers—really want to legislate to protect American work men against tlio pauper labor of Europe, it will ask its president to continue in definitely the twenty days' quarantine now placed on passengers from Europe. The immigrants have nothing to sell when they land here but labor, and the continual stream of this commodity pouring into this country tends to keep wages down to the European level, just as certain as several connected bodies of water will tend to a common level. Break the connection and it is possible for one body of water to become and re main higher than the others. Stop im migration and it is possible for wages piece wages—to become and remain higher here than in Europe. There is some doubt, however, if this is the in tention of the manufacturers. The last thing they would think of doing would be to put up barriers between their mills and the cheap labor of Europe. If i European labor is cheaper than Amer ican they want free access to it, and they have it and use it to displace Amer ican labor. "Don't stop immigration," says Andrew Carnegie; "there is room here and work for all immigrants." And the laborers have been thirty years in getting their eyes open so that they could see this big humbug! TuriflTi Mako AnnicM. Tariffs alone make necessary the main taining of armies and navies, and our army and navy cost the labor of Amer ica 1100,000,000 a year. That is to say, 100,0U0,000 days'work at one dollar per day must be performed in this country to maintain an utterly nonproductive naval and military force, because our portH must be guarded to prevent the bringing in of foreign goods for which American citizens are anxious to ex change their goods.—St. Louis Courier. Protection Hurtl to Give Up. Nearly a year ago New South Wales, which had been a free trade colony, im posed an ad valorem duty of from lOpei cent, to 15 per cent.; this has proved very unpopular, and a great many think that the government which came in on this policy will be supplanted by the free trade party at the next election. But history shows that where a pro tective tariff has been entered into by any nation, it is very hard to give it up. —lron Aga. ! WAGE QUESTION AT LAST SOLVED. "llio Solution Kof Acceptable* to Manu facture™ ami Protectionists. Tlie New York Press of Sept. 22, says that about 1,000 immigrants land weekly at New York to find employment in do mestic service, and that the stoppage of inimigration has raised the wages of girls doing general housework from twelve dollars to from sixteen to twenty dollars per month. Now, what an object lesson this is for McKinley, Harrison, Carnegie and the other tender hearted friends of labor who have been trying in vain to raise wages. This cholera scare lias cost us millions of dollars, but it will be a pay ing investment to the present adminis tration if it has given lisa solution of this wage question. Hundreds of mil lions have been invested in the McKin ley bill and other high tariff measures to no purpose. Now, almost by acci dent, the question is solved right in front of our eyes. And how simple an 1 complete. No theory and no guess work! Wages actually advanced 50 per cent, in a few weeks, and the cause will not be disputed by any party! It was not caused by a high or low duty or by any duty at all on goods. It was caused by the stoppage of im migration. Nor is it strange when the matter is considered under this new light, for isn't the labor market ruled by the same law of supply and demand that fixes prices everywhere? And is it not the immigrant who has been bring ing in fresh supplies of labor to reduce wages here almost to the European level —when product per earner is considered? It is by checking immigration and not goods, then, that we may hope to main tain higher wages here—if they really are higher. And now yon would think all of the generous and sympathetic mil lionaire friends of labor would at once begin to make laws to stop immigration. No; such is not likely to be the case. In fact these good manufacturers are likely to fight against a duty on imported labor as hard as they fight for a duty on im ported goods. They had their "contract labor laws" in the sixties to induce im migration here to keep wages down, and it is their boast that "protection" en courages immigration. The New York Tribune said on this same day (Sept. 22): "Protection has been our policy for thirty years. Ten millions of aliens have been brought from Europe and supplied with remu nerative employment under the stimu lative effects of a tariff policy." The same New York Press also boasts edito rially that our high tariff policy is draining Europe of the cream of her laborers, and that the monarclis there are doing their best to keep subjects at home. What is the poor laborer to dor Shall he continue to place his trust in a party that for thirty years has been ex perimenting in the wrong direction to raise wages, and that will not adopt the solution now that it comes from another direction? Shall he form a new party to stop immigration, or does this big and thickly settled country have need of the brawn squeezed out of the mon archies of Europe? How would it do to take duties off of the necessaries of life and raise wages at once by increasing their purchasing power? Perhaps after all, it is less and not more interference with trade and commerce that is in the iuterest of labor. THE GREED OF PROTECTIONISTS. They Do Not Kliar© Their Protection Bonus with Their Employees. The whole theory of "protection" is that the welfare of the laborer is best subserved by leaving him in the hands of his employer, and the only theory or. which our tariff laws are assumed to help the laborer is this: That if the em ployers are allowed to extort bounties from people at large they will use them for the benefit of their laborers. Under our "protective" system hundreds of millions annually are handed over as t. bonus to manufacturing employers. No one questions that. That is just what the tariff is for. As Mr. Robert 11. Cowdrey suggested some time since: WILL SOME PROTECTIONIST PLEASE ANSWKIt? Have you ever seen a laborer who cared a nickel whether he worked for a protected or unprotected employer? Have you ever seen a laborer who expected to receive more wages from a protected than an unprotected employer? Have you ever seen a protected manufac turer who paid higher wages than he was com pelled to? Have you ever seen a very wealthy Arm pay more wages than a moderately wealthy one? Have you ever given more for anything than you were required to? and, furthermore, if you should, would you not call yourself a fool? If, then, the unprotected manufacturer pays just as high wages, and still is able to make a profit, by what method of reasoning do you arrive at the conclusion that t lie protected manufacturer pays higher wages because of protection? If there is free tnule in labor, and high pro tective prices for those things which laborers most buy, is not the laborer being robbed in stead of benefited? If protectiunis desire to pay high wages, why do they always employ the cheapest labor they can find? Our fertile noil insures our laborer cheap food. Our free government and lack of standing armies give him a respite from the terrible taxation to sup port government under which European workmen groan, and the "protected manufacturers, taking the most of what he has thus gained, point out the little advantage they leave him, and ask him to be grateful for the benefits of "pro tection," which, while it gives them free trade in labor, enables them to charge a bonus on all that every laborer buys. "Protection" makes the laborer pay more for the goods he lias to buy, but puts no tariff on labor—the one thing lie has tc sell. It enables the manufacturers I to charge more for what they have to i sell, but does not make them pay more | for what they have to buy—labor. Whom j does it protect? The manufacturer wants free trade in labor, and asks for "protection" in order "to enable him to pay higher wages." Why not rather give free trade in goods and put a tariff on labor to "enable the workingmen to pay better prices?" Do the rich need protection more than the poor? Does the capitalist need protec tion so mnch more than the working uiau? —Hon. John De Witt Warner. CAMPAIGN SONGS. Best Efforts in the New York World's Prize Contest. The hosts of the Democracy are marshaled for the fray; With Cleveland now to lead thein on they're sure to win the day; Their principles are borne aloft upon their banner true. And they are the men true blue. CHORUS. Shout glory, glory, halleluiah! Shout glory, glory, halleluiah! Shout glory, glory, halleluiah! And they are the men true blue. Fidelity to truth and trust, fidelity to right. Inspire them with burning zeal to meet oppos ing might; And, lighting for the principles bequeathed to them of yore. They'll sweep from shore to shore. No centralized plutocracy; no catering to class; No lifting high in privilege above the common No legislation to annul the right of equal share. When Cleveland and his men get there. The toiling millions in the field, the millions in the shop, The yeomanry of brain and brawn, the coun try's pride and prop, Shall find no high protective tax tneir industry o'er whelm When Cleveland holds the helm. 'Tis blazoned on the banner that the Democrat unrolls, "No force bill shall obtrude its baneful shadow on the polls;" His dear bought, sacred interests shall not be wrest away In the Democratic day. The doctrines of the fathers, the> who uiAde the nation free. Shall bo the cry and watchword of the new Democracy; Those grand, eternal principles upheld by no ble sires Shall hum as altar fires. Hurrah! then, men. for Cleveland and for Ste venson, hurrah! They represent the principles to crystallize in law; They stand for righteous government, and they will win the fight. Because they stand for right. • With Cleveland and with Stevenson the hosts will march along. To swell at hist the chorus of triumphant battle song, When shouts of glad hozannos will he heard on every hand. Through all this glorious land. The Pride of Our Land. [Air—"The Star Spangled Banner."] Oh, comrades, rejoice! In this glorious cam paign The patriot's soul is exultingly glowing, His heart beats with joy and his eyes proudly flash As victory's tide ever onward is flowing. For Cleveland we'll fight, for in him we delight; He'll lighten our burdens uud make all things right; So we'll join hand in hand and make u brave stand; * Hurrah, boys, for Cleveland, the pride of our land! We need no protection, we scorned it before. When 'twas offered by Kuglund, along with taxation; We fought it down then, and we'll crush it out As the bitterest foe toour country's salvation. Give it what name you will, it is tyranny still, To absorb our earnings tariff's pockets to fill. Then hurrali for our Cleveland, we'll join baud in hand For our country's best hope and the pride of our land. Wo have earned in the past the right to be free, From wrong and oppression to guard our dear homes*, Neither discord nor strife our peaco shall dis turb When Cleveland, our hero, to rulo o'er u Though McKinley still Bays tariff higher he'll raise. The country won't stand it theso Democrat! days. Then hurrah, boys, for Cleveland! We'll make a brave stand For the man we have chosen, the pride of our land. Democracy. [Air—"America."] Democracy! 'tis to thee. Through ages yet to be, Our land will cling; In springtime's radiant show. In summer's ardent glow. In winter's frost and snow. Thy blessings bring. Democracy! 'tis to thee, Faith of the truly free, Wo ever bow; Faith that was sorely tried. Faith that lias never died. Faith that will sure abide. Triumphant now. Democracy! 'tis to thee, When other hope shall flee, We turn our gaze; Where oceans lave our shore. Where prairies yield their store, Where mountain torrents roar. We render praise. Democracy! 'tis of thee All men will surely see The glorious day. That God their cry inay heed. That God may help their need, That God may grant thee speed, We ever pray. A Change of Base. The tariff mongers have changed their base, in accordance with campaign exi gencies. Formerly their cry was the "home market," and they did not con ceal their contempt for the poor mar kets of the countries of South America. Now their whole talk is of reciprocity with South America and of the wonder ful increase in the exports of breadstuffs lust year, which they attribute wholly to the McKinley tariff. When the ex ports of breadstuffs shall again fall un der more favorable conditions in Europe and under the natural influence of trade obstruction, the tariff mongers will again have the "home market" to fall back upon. The great beauty of high tariff logic is that it can readily adapt itself to any and every conceivable con dition of things.—Philadelphia Record. How It Looks In lowa. Take the recent Republican "victory" in Vermont as it stands and extend the same Republican loss of votes into lowa in proportion, and the plurality of 81,711 for Harrison in 1888 will he wiped out in November next and changed to a plurality of 6,000 and over for Cleve land, and this is just about the way lowa looks at present for Republican consola tion.—Sandusky (O.) Journal. Either Peck or Aid rich Was Wrong. The Republican organs who a short time ago were commending Senator Aldrich's statement in regard to the ef fects of the tariff are directly refuting his statements when they call attention to Mr. Peck's monstrous array of statis tics. They cannot both be correct.— Newport (R. L) Herald. :: — j! |; Cold !! I ! AND STOP THAT 11 || Cough, ill nN. H. Downs' Elixir" !! WILL DO IT. || | | Price, 25c., 50c., and 81.00 per bottle. | I j | Warranted. Sold everywhere. (1 I . HEIIBT, JOHNSOH h LOBD, riofl., Burlineton. Vt. | | , 9 O O 0"J <g Sold at Schilcher's Drug Store. 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