Show r r sv democratic PARTY THE principles OP OF JEFFERSON AND JACKSON STILL LIVE tir the coming national convention Coa renUa VW tul readopt the principle of ta the of the tb pany rha tariff Suga bugaboo boo more moonshine to a democrat the financial plank of the democratic national platform to be adopted in chicago july 7 will be the law of the party all loyal democrats will support it no matter how strongly it may declare democrats who do not like the platform should vote some other ticket there can be no such thing as two democratic tickets the one nominated at chicago will be the democratic ticket you ask why the republican pape papers ra of chicago and elsewhere are am advising the democrats to adopt a gold standard platform at chicago or go down to certain defeat in november in answer would say that you can find out by writing to joseph medill william penn nixon or H H kohl kohlt kohlsaat t editor the times woop bottom climax chicago chronicle from a minnesota editor the chronicle has received a copy of a circular sent out by a chicago wool commission house which for convenience sake we may call woolworth co accompanied by the question what can you say to this it may not be necessary to say much the circular which may have been written by the residuary rhetorical legatee of sir boyle roach seems to speak tor for itself as it were through its hat in their opening paragraph woolworth co ca convey the information that the wool situation Is the gloomiest gloo on record it Is simply paralyzed paralyze dL emerging from their gloomy paralysis they remind their readers that the darkest cloud has its silver lining and sometimes covers the most moat brilliant sunshine at other times no doubt it covers the most silvery moonshine we believe they cheerfully continue that furrows in the dark depression of trade are am widening if such be the case we will soon realize a change with prosperity and confidence again at the helm with these parties at the helm of the plow we may expect the furrows in the dark depression not only to widen but to deepen until they blossom as the rose on the hill tops of it grieves one to learn that our flocks are imprisoned behind the tangled web of uncertainty and that foreign flocks are increasing in value and in numbers while american wool goes begging tor for buyers selling at a discount in every market of our country but it is cheering to learn from the same high authority that the price of wool has certainly reached a climax there is no doubt that the bottom has been touched theres nothing like touching bottom even if it Is the bottom of a climax or what prosy people might call an anticlimax anti cli climax sly what can we says to this why that woolworth co are not second in a certain kind of talent to the mayor of a german town who in a formal address to the emperor said no austria no prussia only one germany such are the words which the mouth of your imperial majesty has always had in its eye and in their advice to shepherds to hold their wool in anticipation of the election of mckinley they are not unlike another illustrious german count falkenberg who urged his friends in the reichstag to seize the stream of time by the forelock but is there nothing serious to say to this yes the gist of the circular Is this hold your wool and vote tor for mckinley and a high tariff on foreign wool thus will you get high prices tor for your wool this may be good advice for the wool growers but it overlooks the wool consumers who are much more numerous it even overlooks the average wool grower himself who under a mckinley tariff pays out two or three times time as much in artificial prices tor for woolen goods as he gets in artificial prices tor for his wool the circular assumes that the wool grower will be ruined irretrievably it if the government does not help him get an artificial price for his WOOL we heard something like this a number of years ago when it was proposed to abolish the internal tax on matches under that tax a combine of a few big manufacturers enjoyed a monopoly representatives of the combine claimed that the repeal of the tax would rain their industry notwithstanding their protest the tax was repealed As j a result we now have cheap matches and while diamond match stock block brino brings in the market we may safely conclude that the industry is not ruined mined mv we may be equally sure that while free 11 wool will give us cheap wool and cheap clothing it will not exterminate e at nate our flocks woolworth co we are as mixed in their facts and philosophy as they are in their meta metaphors phom claimed ced with especial es pees ce the new law wass was a P d mi operatives of austria who were prospering in ahe expense of american a ur judd jodd may nave have been aware at this casti claim of the McKinley ites t H HO may have revealed the alleged tact regarding reduction of wages in germany j partly for the purpose of showing that our new tariff was not en enriching richin german working people to any alarming extent chicago organ proceeds to say we have hare sweaters and sweatshops to in chicago but this is sweating dose close to the starvation point free traders in this country have answered with jeers the alarums of the protectionists projectionists with reference to the pauper labor of europe but mr judd has injudiciously and wantonly contributed valuable material to the protection literature that will be made available in the coming campaign by giving official testimony to the fact that there is such I 1 I 1 a thing as the pauper labor of eu rope here we have the old protectionist trick of setting up a free trade man of straw and batting and punching it all over the ring and out of all human semblance as it if it were a living antagonist tag onist no tree free trader has ever denied that working people in europe get lower money wages than working people P 10 in this country get there is no I 1 j reason why they should not admit I 1 that they admit also that the people of asiatic countries get much lower wages than the people of european countries the point that tree free traders make and that protectionists projectionists always dodge la is that working people who get high wages have nothing to fear from working I 1 people who get low wages and do not I 1 need any tariff protection working people in tree free trade england get much higher wages than working people in protectionist germany but they beat the germans not only in neutral markets but even in germany in many lines of production europeans get twice as high nominal wages as let get yet they send their products to every accessible part of asia and sell them in competition with the products I 1 of asiatic pauper labor even robert P porter whose standing as a champion of protection is not below that of mckinley has discovered this fact the protect ees have been trying to create a scare about japanese competition and porter has been to japan to see about it his report to the very mckinley organ above quoted is to the effect that western nations have nothing to tear fear from japanese competition in manufactures if the mckinley organ were both intelligent tell igent and sincere it would accept the testimony of its own illustrious high tariff correspondent and not pretend to be ignorant of the established f fact act that men who get high wages have nothing to tear fear from the competition of men who get low wages it would be too much to expect that a protectionist should be able to understand why this is so but he ought to be honest enough to admit a notorious tact fact and leave less fat witted people to furnish the explanation of course the shrewd protect ees know kno w how it la is their victims and certain of their organists are the only ones who labor under delusion hopkins reciprocity scheme As chairman of a subsection of the ways and means committee representative hopkins of illinois took much pains to collect the opinions of interested parties about the blaine scheme of commercial friendship by compulsion the interested parties were mostly pork packers millers and makers of agricultural implements and machinery from such people mr hopkins obtained a great bulk of opinions mostly identical in substance and all of which could be reduced to a very few pages without material low loss of either sense or force hopkins prepared a bill after he had accumulated his stock of identical opinions looking to the immediate making of a lot of dickers similar to those of mr blaine but dingley and the rest of the full committee sat down on that with all the crushing weight of a dozen tom reeds these gentlemen were too shrewd to commit themselves to a policy which they knew could not be worked again with any degree of success they were willing to make the most of the fruit of mr hopkins labors as campaign material for the simple minded but further than that they would not go thereupon hopkins applied himself I 1 laboriously odiously a b orious ly to the task of stringing out a report of more than a hundred typewritten pages this he has completed and them the committee will take measures to spread it abroad among those who will admire it tor for its bulk its profound statistical aspect and its sonorous title page and then put it away with other profound documents to remain unread forever patty PIlfer TB in congress conr st louis post dispatch the people have known blown tor for many years that senators and have been feathering their own nests hut but they were not prepared for the effrontery with which a majority of the house openly recorded themselves friday as petty pilferers pilfer ers of the public treasury by voting to each member 1200 a year for clerk cleric hire whether he hires a clerk or not ira too baay irons la in th iha ought not to bo be W too many schemes before congress si at the same ettIne time between santa monica subsidy and www neww wa pacific J abroad flett debt atai ke is to strike itrel a biag 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