Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, October 31, 1892, Image 2
FREELAND TRIBUNE. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY. TITOS. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS, - - $1.50 PER YEAR. FREELAND, PA., OCTOBER 31, 1892. DEMOCRATIC TICKET. NATIONAL. President, Grover Cleveland New York Vice President, Adlui E.Stevenson Illinois STATK. Judge of Supreme Court, Christopher Heydrick Venango Uouuty Congressmen-iit-Lnrge, George Allen Erie County Thomua P. Merritt lierks Couuty COUNTY. Congressman. William H. Hines Wilkes-Ilarre Senator, J. Ridgewuy Wright Wilkes-Barre Sheriff, William Walters. Sugurloaf Township Recorder, Michael C. Russell Kdwardsville Coroner, H. W. Trimmer Lake Township Surveyor, James Crockett Ross 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. THE ex-comniander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, Judge John P. Rea, of Minnesota, puts a stop to the silly twaddle emanating from Re publican quarters that Cleveland is op posed to a fair and just pension system. Rea was previously a Republican, but came out last week for Cleveland, and dares anyone to show him a single pen sion bill vetoed by the ex-president which was not a fraud and undeserved, lie tells the old soldiers they owe noth ing to the Republican party, but its poli cy is surely ruining the nation they I helped to save. COL. WM. WILLIAMSON, ex-attorney general of Indiana, took the stump for Harrison, and in a joint debate with a Democratic speaker became convinced that he was on the wrong side. He is now speaking for Cleveland with D. B. Baldwin, another Republican ex-attor ney general. GEORGE B. ADAMS, professor of Yale college and a life-long Republican, after a thorough investigation, announces that the theory of protection being advan tageous to a country is the greatest farce ever invented, and he will do all he can for Cleveland. JCDGE WATSON, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who never voted anything but a straight Republican ticket in his life, has come out for Cleveland. His party, he says, is corrupt beyond redemption. FRANCIS A. WALKER, a Boston Repub lican and assistant superintendent of the census, announces his conversion to the principles of Democracy. His influence extends throughout the entire state of Massachusetts, and he will use it for Cleveland. W. T. ROBERTS, vice president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, always upheld protection, but now declares it to be a gigantic fraud that can never help the men of his or ganization. He is for Cleveland. Dr. YORK, nomiated last month as the Republican candidate for governor of North Carolina, has withdrawn, as he cannot conscientiously support the poli cy of the party, and calls upon his fol lowers to vote for Cleveland and tariff reform. DR. W. C. DOANK, of New York, who has the reputation of having made more Republican speeches than any man in the state, has made his last. He is a Cleveland convert. JUDGE DAY, of the lowa supreme court, a prominent Western Republican, has had enough of MclCinleyism, and is now making speeches in his own state for Cleveland and Boies. DANIEL AV. FRENCH, president of the Patriotic Order Sons of America, of Massachusetts, has broken away from the Republican party, and will cast his vote and work, for Cleveland, whose election, he believes, will be for the best interests of the country. GENERAL JAMES 11. BAKER, commis sioner of pensions under Grant and ex secretary of state of Ohio, has severed his connection with the party that pro tects plutocracy, and is an ardent advo cate of Cleveland's election. R. R. ODDEI.I,, of St. Paul, United States commissioner and leading Repub lican in that city, cannot see where the tariff benefits the Northwest, and he will give his vote to Cleveland. DAVID M. KEE, of Tennessee, post master general under Hayes, has bid adieu to the Republican party, and is working hard through the South for Grover Cleveland. COUGHING LEADS TO CONSUMPTION. Kemp's Balsam Btops the cough at once. liane'M Medicine Moves the iiowelM Kuril itajr. Iu order to be healthy tiilH is utxxwsary. THAT TOBACCO DUTY. THE TWO DOLLARS IS PARTLY PAID BY THE HOME GROWER. The Poor Cigar Maker Alio HUM a Share of the Burden—Smokers Suffer Be cause of the Deterioration of Quality. An Iniquitous Tax. The importation and general use of Sumatra leaf as wrappers has, during the past ten years, built up the cigar in dustry in America, made a market for native tobaccos, given steady employ ment at good wages to thousands of cigar workers, and satisfied the aesthetic taste of the millions of smokers. This tobacco used to cost our cigar manufacturers about $1.50 before the market began to feel the effects of the McKinley bill early in 1890—when the price climbed to SI.BO, to $2, on up to $3 and above—so high that a quantity of 1889 Sumatra leaf recently sold for $4 per pound. The supply here of Su matra and leaf tobaccos is largely held by .speculators who get artificial prices —the duty as usual fostering combines. The United States Tobacco Journal of Sept. 10 announces the completion of a leaf tobacco trust in Cincinnati, which will be incorporated in New Jersey, and the same journal of Sept. 17 reprints from the New York Tribune a list of fifty-six millionaires who have made their fortunes in the tobacco industry, many by speculating in Sumatra. Not only did the use of Sumatra wrap pers build up the industry here, but when the duty was light it encouraged small manufacturers who could always be certain of obtaining a supply of good wrapping tobacco at a fair price. Be fore the introduction of Sumatra the larger manufacturers would buy up the best domestic wrapping tobacco early in the season, and the small manufac turers, with but little capital to do busi ness, were at a great disadvantage. With a high duty the tendency is to again put the manufacture of cigars into the hands of large manufacturers and monopolists. Thus in 1890, when the McKinley bill took effect, nearly all the large manu facturers had an eighteen months or two years' supply of Sumatra on hand, while small manufacturers had only a few months' supply, aud soon had to use wrappers at $2.50 or $2.75 and compete with wrappers that cost $1 less per pound. This duty at once increased the whole sale prices of cigars from $2 to $5 on five cent goods—perhaps seven-eighths of all. Then the trade everywhere be came demoralized and manufacturers were compelled to use cheaper "fillers," to make smaller cigars and in other ways to deteriorate their goods. Often they squared accounts by reducing wages. The effect upon the 10,000,000 or 12,000,000 consumers has been exas perating. That they still demand Su matra wrapped cigars is seen from the fact that there has been no great dim inution in the imports of Sumatra to bacco. The effect then has been bad upon the millions of cigar smokers; upon the tens of thousands of cigar workers, and upon thousands of small manufac turers, and is a doubtful boon to hun dreds of large manufacturers. Now it so happens that Connecticut tobacco growers have been prosperous since 1890, and have been getting good prices for their tobacco. The New York Tribune and other Republican papers have been accrediting this prosperity to McKinley so vigorously that they have I even made some of the Democrats in ! Connecticut believe their nonsense. The United States Tobacco Journal of Sept. 10, in a two column editorial, shows that by The Tribune's own admissions Con necticut tobacco has been so improved by the use of new fertilizers that it is "in appearance as good as Sumatra and better in quality." Of course this is not true, or cigar manufacturers would not pay $o for Sumatra when they could get better for from twenty-five to fifty cents, but it is true that the better grade of to bacco grown in Connecticut is responsi ble for the increased prices and prosper ity there. The following from this same journal forever disposes of The Tribune's absurdities: "What benefit can the domestic pro ducer derive from the fact that we are importing nearly as great a quantity of Sumatra under the two dollar tariff rate as we did under the thirty-five cent rate? That the Connecticut producer received a few cents more for his crop last year? That does not prove that the domestic producers as a class received more. Connecticut produces the smallest quan tity of cigar leaf. By far the largest quantity of our useful cigar leaf is pro duced in Pennsylvania, New York, Wis consin and Ohio. The domestic pro ducer in Pennsylvania, who raised a crop of 80,000 cases, against New Eng land's 52,000 cases, received less for his last year's crop thau he probably ever did. So did the Wisconsin producer for his 70,000 cases. And the New York producer got much less for his last year's than for his 1889 crop, when over 97 per cent, of the Sumatra was admit ted at tlio thirty-five cent rate of duty. The 'more' the Connecticut farmer got last year was therefore not duo to Mc- Kinleyism, biit to the poor results of the cigar leaf growing states; ho simply got the 'more' at the expense of his brother producers in the other states, and not at the expense of the Sumatra or the Su matra importer." The United States Tobacco Journal then shows that the increased duty did not catch the cigar leaf grower's vote: "Congressman LaFollette, of Wisconsin, the responsible author of the two dollar outrage coutained in the tobacco sched ule of the McKinley bill, was ignomiu iously defeated in his district, which is almost an exclusively tobacco growing district, and a Democrat was elected in his place. The Hon. W. E. Simonds, the representative of the First congres sional district of Connecticut, the prin cipal cigar leaf growing district of New England, was likewise defeated. So was the representative of the Big Flats iu this state." On Sept. 24 The Tobacco Journal re newed its onslaught and devoted two more columns to explaining the effects of the duty which has reduced the price of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania tobaccos to an average of five or six cents a pound, and of New York and Ohio to baccos to perhaps the lowest prices ever known. The following are extracts from this journal: "It (McKinley duty) did not improve the tobacco. It did not change the at mospheric conditions nor the soil, so that a better grade of tobacco could l>e raised in competition with the foreign leaf. It did not prevent the frost from striking the tobacco before it was ready to be cut. It did not prevent the growth of the white vein. It did not prevent the tobacco from rotting. It did not create a wider market, nor even the longed for homo market, for the trash will all have to be exported or used for manure. And it did not raise prices. "The manufacturer being robbed of ! $1.50 a pound on his wrapper leaf by the folly of the tobacco growers' illusion, ! gets square with the tobacco grower by cutting down the price for his fancy fillers to bare cost." Sumatra has become an absolutely es j sential factor for the cigar industry. Otherwise no manufacturer would be | fool enough to pay $-1 for Sumatra i if he could get an equally good wrapper ; produced at home for fifty cents a pound. But we cannot produce any thing like Sumatra, for neither Con necticut, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania nor Wisconsin has got tin soil or climate of the tropical isle of Su matra. Neither would our importers be such fools as to again import from 25,0011 to 30,000 bales of Sumatra a year, as they i did when Sumatra came in under a low tariff. But somebody has got to pay the raise in the Sumatra duty. The im porter does not pay it. The manu facturer pays it, but he wants to un load the expense on others, and natu rally. At first he thought of the jobber and dealer, but both kicked and refused to share the higher expense of the McKin ley tariff. The consumer—that is, the smoker—kicked likewise, and refused to pay six cents for his nickel or eleven cents for his dime cigar. There were but two other classes left to share the expense of the McKinley tariff, the cigai maker and the tobacco grower. And both are being uutde to pay the penalty of the McKinley tariff—the cigar inakei by a reduction of his wages and the to bacco grower by a squeeze in the price of his product. Wrapper leaf we cannot grow to replace the Sumatra. But we can grow exceedingly fine binders and filler leaf. Under the low tariff the importer was willing to pay a good price for binders and a very good and even high price for fine filler leaf. All our domestic fancy fillers commanded under the low tariff a much higher figure than most of tin cigar leaf wrappers ever can. Now, however, the manufacturer has either dispensed with the use of this type ot leaf, or if he utilizes it he wants it at a very low figure— at the low figure that common fillers and binders formerly sold. For the cut he makes on this class of goods now has to compensate him for the (by the McKinley tariff) raised expense of his wrapper leaf. The fine filler and binder leaf that commanded the high prices had been raised by Wisconsin, New York, Penn sylvania and Ohio. Consequently the tobacco growers of these states have to pay the penalty for the outrageous McKinley tariff rate of $2. And Con necticut profits by it—and profits by it alone—because she raises some wrap per leaf which has always been in de mand even under the lowest rate of duty, and because we cannot import all the wrapper leaf our extensive cigar in dustry stands in need of. AdJuHting Oui-MelveH to Protection. The New York Tribune of Sept. 22 says: "Protection has been our policy for thirty years. All the interests of the country are adjusted to it." There seems to bo a slight error in this statement. The interests are adjusting themselves to it, but the process is not completed. The census shows that the farms of the west and south are not yet all mortgaged, and there are a consider able number of farms in New England and the east around our "protected home markets" not yet abandoned. The adjusting in tins line could he con tinued two or three more decades before all farmers would he tenants of our millionaire landholders. Neither is tho adjustment perfected in manufacturing interests. It is true that in most cases manufacturers have formed trusts to prevent competition and enable them to reap the benefits of high duties, but in a few cases manufacturers have been slow to grasp the situation and take ad vantage of the duty vouchsafed to them. In such cases they actually continue to compete with each other, and tiro con sumer sometimes gets goods at the "cheap" and "nasty" prices prevailing in Europe. The McKinley hill is doing its work better and faster than the old semiprotective tariff measures, and if left alone might complete the adjust ment by the end of this century. Manufacturer. Arc Not I'mil.. Suppose it were possible to reverse the process, and to tax imported labor 50 per cent, while admitting the pro ducts of labor manufacturers, etc., free. Then labor would have real protection and manufacturers, instead of buying labor at its par value and Belling their goods at 50 per cent, premium, would Ite compelled to sell goods at par and to pay 50 per cent, premium for labor. Do you think this arrangement would suit tho manufacturers? Do you think they are sincere when they advocate tariff legislation to make wages higher? W hat they want is cheap labor and high prices for their products. Do you think they would advocate—yes, and pay for —"protection" if they really thought it raised wages or lowered prices? Look this question square in the face and for getting parties and prejudices, ask your I intellect and your conscience what "pro- I taction" la and haw what they say. M'KINLEY VINDICATED. An Actual Transaction in Which the Foreigner raid a Heavy Tax. Proprietor (to salesman in large whole- I Rale house in London) —Did that New 1 York merchant call tins morning? Salesman—Yes; and left a big order j with us. He will call again tomorrow j to get his bill, and to settle his account I after we have deducted the duty which he will have to pay to get his goods | through the custom house. He says you always pay this tax for him. ! Proprietor—Oh, yes; we must keep his trade. Have you made out his bill I yet? Salesman— Yes; two bookkeepers have been at work 011 it. Here is the ae -1 count: ~ • Amount. Duty, j 10,000 yds. alpaca (27 in. wide) I at, duty at 7c. per sq. yd. and 40 per cent sßfio SBOS | 20,000 yds. corduroy (27 in. wide) at 16Hjc.; duty at 14c. | persq. yd. and 20 per cent.. 3,000 2,700 1 lo,(*)0 yds. astrakhan (54 in. | wide) at 64c.; duty at 49J£c\ j per lb. (22 07.. to yd.) and 00 percent 5,400 10,209 ! 40,000 yds. cotton velvet (22 in. j wide) at 13c.; duty lie. per sq. yd. and 20 per cent 6,200 3,682 I 30,000 yds. silk striped cotton (Italian, 40 in. wide) at lKc.; duty at 10c. per sq. yd. and 35 Ier cent 5,940 0.079 | $20,090 $23,595 ! 20,090 i Duty less amount of bill $2,905 ! Proprietor (biting liis lip)— Blast Mr. j McKinley's bill! Are you certain there i is 110 mistake? Salesman—The duties tire complicated, but the bookkeepers verified every item by means of the last United States 1 senate report on rates of duty. | Proprietor—lt's an outrage for a rich | nation like the United States to collect its taxes over here. We were poor : enough 011 this side of the water before ! McKinley's bill reached out after our last few crumbs. If this trade keeps up I must lower your salaries against the end of the year, for it all comes out of the laborers in the end. It is 110 wondei all Europe is groaning since 1890. Salesman—But surely you are not go ing to pay this duty? It would be better to burn your goods rather than to pay | this merchant SO,OOO to take them. Proprietor—Yes, yes; I know. But j we dare not do or say anything against American protection just now. If we did the Americans would be told that British gold was being used to compel them to adopt free trace, and that would only convince the foolish voters there that they were benefited by protection and make them cling to it all the longer. Here is my check for $2,903. Give it to him and tell him we will always be glad to have his patronage, but would prefer of course that he take goods that will leave a balance in our favor after we have settled with McKinley. Great Wreck —286,000 Men I,o*t. Immediately upon the appearance of the report of Labor Commissioner Peck, announcing that 285,000 workingmen in New York state had had their wages in creased an average of twenty-three dol lars a year by the McKinley bill, the Utica Observer began a search for a Utica man who had fallen heir to twenty three dollars' worth of McKin ley stock. It left plenty of space in its columns, and invited workingmen to come forward and announce their good luck. No one came. The Lockport Union followed the ex ample and issued the same invitation. No answer. The Rochester Union and Advertiser searched Rochester, and found 110 one of the 285,000 men in that city. The Oswego Palladium turned the search light 011 the workingmen in Os wego, and 110 man with twenty-three dollars of McKinley tariff money is dis covered. The Albany Argus invited every on® of Peck's army of happy workingmen residing in Albany to come forward and tell of it. No one came. Then it sent reporters to the big protected manufac tories in Albany and found 110 one. Other papers in New York are prose cuting the search with vigor, but with no better success. It is now feared that Mr. Peck's report is a total wreck, and that all of tho 285,000 men supposed to have been on board are lost—to the Re publican party. Tariff Picture*. The New York Press is still educating its readers by means of tariff pictures, j On Sept. 21 it said: 1 "Official statistics prove that in Can j ada the average yearly earnings of fac- I tory employees are $272. I In New York state, under the McKinley | law, they are $451.89." Like many of its pictures this indicates j the evils rather than the benefits of "pro tection. Canada, like the low wage countries of Europe, has "protection." Its duties may not average as high as ours, hut because it has a small popula tion and a limited variety of products, the pinch of "protection" is much more severe than in our vast country—the , greatest free trade country on the globe, because the productions of the tropical south can be exchangod freely for those i of the north and there is uo custom | house from Maine to California. : If Texas had remained outside of the United States it would now be un-Amer ican to propose free trade with her pau per labor products. If Canada should be annexed the McKinley wall would i come down, trade would certainly lie advantage:,us to all and wages would J climb a few points higher. But it is | wicked to think or talk of such things. Look at the picture again! McKinley Vindicated. i The duty on imported wheat went up in 1890; the price down in 1892. Duty on oats up in 1890; price down in 1892. Duty on corn up in 1890; price down in 1892. Duty on horses up in 1890; price down in 1892. Duty on wool up in 1890; price down in 1892. Perhaps McKinley is right after all, and increased duties ; do mean lower prices, but there are I some exceptions, especially in manufac- J tured products. NOTES FROM BUCHANAN. FI-HIKC for Eugene V. Deb* from One Who Known Him—Political Printer*. Eugene V. Debs, after many years of service, has at last retired from the sec retaryship of the Brotherhood of Loco motive Firemen. Two years ago Mr. Debs accepted re-election under protest, and then gave emphatic notice that he would not serve more than that term, and preferred to give way to a success or as soon as the executive board could agree upon one. The order, however, held Debs to his work, and at the recent session in Cincinnati he was again unani mously re-elected for two years, but this time he made his declination so positive that the convention was com pelled to accept it. The record of Eugene V. Debs is un paralleled in the history of labor organi zations. No man has held so long an office in a labor organization and been always so thoroughly the choice of its members. This is to the credit of the brotherhood as well as to Mr. Debs, for he has been one of the most painstaking of officials, and that his honesty, energy and superior ability have been so fully appreciated speaks well for the good Bense and discrimination of the mem bers. Mr. Debs will continue the editor of The Firemen's Magazine at the earnest request of the brotherhood, and it is a pleasure to know that while the firemen lose an exceptional official they will still have their wise counselor, and the labor cause will not be deprived of a champion whose pen is n power in the movement. A new weekly paper has been estab lished in New York by members of the typographical fraternity. It is called The Printer, and is built somewhat 011 the lines of The Union Printer. The Printer offers as the reason for its ap pearance in the field where there was already a craft journal the claim that The Union Printer has become an organ of the Republican party and especially of the candidacy of Whitelawßeid. The new paper will therefore espouse the other side—the Democratic party and its candidates. The squabbles between the "states men" of Typographical Union No. 6 over politics—whether for place or prin ciple—bode 110 good to the cause of labor, unless it should result in opening the eyes of the rank and file of the union, which has been so often of late assured by the officers and ex-officers that "No. (1 is nonpolitical." Jos. R. BUCHANAN. I'usMeH.ioii, Not Property. President 11. L. Wayland, D. D., of Philadelphia, addressed the American Social Science association at its recent session on the subject, "Has the State Abdicated?" He referred to some of the causes of widespread suffering and calamity, among them strikes and lock outs, leading to great loss to the entire community, and not seldom to blood shed and incipient civil war; the over taxing of railway employees, leading to accidents; the adulteration of food to the amount of $700,000,000 annually in America; the accumulation of vast for tunes in few hands, with a tendency to a disappearance of the middle class; the monopoly of great tracts of land, not nn seldom gained by fraud; the coal com bine, etc., and yet the state is silent. He would have the state, as embody ing the entire community, act for the general welfare and take steps for the correction of these evils. Objections are made, "This is paternalism; it is social ism." But we are too old to be fright ened by names. "But this is destroying the right of property." No, it may be disturbing the right of possession, but not of property, which is a very differ ent thing. One's life, his character, his liberty are his property, but his land and money are but possessions, and there is no sacredness about this. Society has always assumed the right to subordi nate the right of possession to the public good. Social Democrat* Dhl Good Work. Dr. Aveling has written an article for The Pall Mall Gazette reviewing the action of the socialists of Hamburg in the cholera crisis. He points out that at a meeting of the Hamburg chamber of commerce it was resolved that the best means for helping the poor was through the socialist leaders. The doctors, the police and private individuals followed the course thus indicated, and the authorities applied to the socialists to have distributed a quarter a million printed leaflets instructing the people as to methods of disinfection and of preventing the spread of the disease. This distribution was accomplished in a few hours. Four hundred socialists also penetrated the slums and explained the leaflets, showing how antidotes for the cholera should be used, and inspir ing hope and courage in others by ex hibiting proof of their own. Dr. Aveling adds that the cholera in attacking the poorer class of people had caused great ravages in the ranks of the socialists.—London Dispatch. Tho House* Get It All. A candidate for congress in the Pitts burg district of Pennsylvania says in a recent letter: We do not have to go outside of Penn sylvania today for wage statistics to show that protection does not protect. We have in our midst today seventy-two tariff made millionaires and multimil lionaires ami do,ooo idle men in our dis trict. The why and wherefore of this is a pertinent inquiry that must be an swered. Has not the fiction that tariff is a protection of labor fooled the Amer ican people long enough? When the toiler asks for a small share of that pro tection which is guaranteed by the Re publican national platform, he is told that labor is a commodity, and like the negro on the auction block in the south before the war, "he is worth what he will bring." Organized labor in Washington has protested against the employment of in mates of the workhouse upon the streets of the capital. The street department has been working the convicts in chain gangs, and the men have been dressed > stripes. 1 1 CURE THAT I Cold ii II AND STOP THAT I !! Cough, ii i IN. H. Downs' Elixir 11 II WILL DO IT. || j | Price, 25c., 50c., and SI.OO per bottle. 11 | | Warranted. Sold everywhere. 11 I . HSHEY, JGHSSOH 4 LIED, ftopn., SaUaßtm, Ft. | | Sold at Schilcher's Drug Store. It CurelGoldi.CoughsJiore Throat, Croup. Influen■ ta, Whooping Cough, Bronchitis and Asthma. A certain euro for Consumption in first stages, and a sure relief in advanced stages. Use at once. 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