The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 28, 1891, Page 4

spnmmmemmeetnmamnnsu ca. ae Aetna i a TE CD ae a Eee RRC BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES J. D. ALLEN Ebrror. }. D. Annex & Co., Ptoprietors. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION The Wersty Limes, published every Wednesday, will be sent to any address one year, postage paid, for $1.25. The board of police commissioners 'Calico. Charles and his Home Market. The speech made by Hon. Calico Chuiles Foster at 1 ay must have helped MeKinley. for it has) certainly demoustrated that there is one man in Ohio more oe a numb skull be an he. Imagiue, if y« at Blaine or any other panies an with brains making such a preposte: ous jarguinent as pony the key-note of all the Honorable Charles had to say on the tariff: “I do uot know of a more fallacious | and take it to Foster's Home Mar-| ket, where he set the prices on his calico and entheir produce. His Home Market trap caught them ;coming aud going. He marked cal- fico up and eggs down, making them give him five dozen eggs for one yard of calico; from 100 to 150 pounds of meat for a barrel of sal aud only two aud a half yards of low grade cotton fora bushel of wheat. It is indeed « wonder if the farmer | , Survived, and it is no wonder at all | J OAM LEVY &C0. {that Mr. Foster is a millionaire, for | il: i here are prices at which butter sold of Kansas City, are determined to proposition than the ove contended in the city markets when he was enforce the Sunday ordinance in re- gard to open saloons on that day. The total bonded railroad debt of | Cass county, is $1,653.560. The as sessed value of the property of the county is estimated at $8,000,000. “No other country, President, “surpasses us in the in ventive genius of its citizens, or in|, the business sagacity of its capital ists " If we are so yery smart,bow is it that we must be forever dependent apon an exorbitant tariff? How is it that our industries must alwas be infants? --Courier Journal. ee Congressman Johu C. Tarsney, of Kansas City, has gone to New York to assist in the success of the dem ocratic ticket. Mr. Tarsney is an Irishman, an eloquent speaker and one of the most active democratic members of the Missouri congres- sional delegation, and always proves himself a wheel horse in cam paigns. It is reported that Carter Harri son has purchased a controlling in- terest it the Chicago Times and will control the policy of that paper in thefuture. In an interview he dis- elaimed any intention of running it asaCarter Harrison organ. He says: “It will be for good goverument and for democracy. The Times, if I control it, will have uo friends to serve, no enemies to punish, no hebbies to ride, nor axes to grind. It will give all the news, while ex- eluding everything that is vulgar and indecent.” The pension department of the government must be getting in bad shape when the law of decency re quires the president to make two changes of the head of this depart. ment in the brief space of two years. Tanner's career was so corrupt in the very outset thut he had to move in a short time, and now comes the news that Raum’s head is to drop in the basket, and Mr. Warner, of Kansas City has gone to Wash- ington to consult the president in regard to stepping into his shoes. This pension business seems to be a thorn in the side of the republican party which pricks at évery bend in the road and the time is not far dis tant when it will fill the vitals of the party and then will come the reckon- ing. Senator Joe Blackburn believes that the democratic party is greater than any one man and that its prin- ciples should not be changed or eliminated in order to make it avail- able for any individual to become a presidential candidate. He says: “I would not take a'man as candi- date in 1892 except the one who shall appear to be most available and the true representative of the principals upon which the democrat- ic party has been fighting for years. That the tariff is the pivotal issue in the contest all intelligent wen know and all honest men admit; but to ignore the currency and silver is- sue some people think would bea mistake, and with their conclusions T am disposed to agree.” Eee =_ At a state meeting of the farmers alliance of Kansas, held at ‘Saliva, on the 23rd, W. H. Biddle, of But- ler county, was elected president. President McGrath, Jerry Simpson and the other caucus fixers were out witted by the plain folks, and now the big — and dictators are very mad. They had arranged the slate to elect Utley and expected to send him under the wire with httle or no opposition, and the unexpected turn in the convention makes them quite sick, The man elected was un- known in Kansas or the politics of the state until the alliance sprung up and now that he should be elect- ed president over such prominent men as were put forward by sockless Jerry Simpson and company, seems to bean unpardonable sin, and the future good of this political organi- zation is in imminent peril of dis- cord and disaffection unless the big guns and office grabbers can be ree oneiled. Luck and unforseen hap penings in all political gatherings i is | foundation to his fortune—a much jceptable to the stomach, prompt in athing to be considered and Mc. Grath, Utley and Simpson should take their medicine as dished out, whether it be homeopathic or allo-! pathic. The Kansas Alliance would | be a much more thrifty organization were there more offices to be dis- pensed. City of Mexico, Oct. 23.—Advices | receiyed here from numerous sources reveal the fact that in many sections of the country the scarcity of food | is so great as to result in actual suf- fering among the people. writes the! for by all democrats, from Grove |Cleveland to Jerry Siwpson, that a | tariff is a tax aud the consumer pays, thetax * ° * Kinley bill is clear demonstration of the fallacy of the democratic dec 'laration that the consumer pays thetax. Observe the result of the tariff law upon this article. Wool, such as is raised in Ohio \is not worth quite so much as when the law was enacted, and the demo | crats, while shouting at the top of| their voices that a tariff is a tax, are trying to wake votes among the/| wool growers because it proved that the tariff is not a tax.” If this does not set the Ohio sheep | neither sense of humor uor spirit of the fraud practised upon them. Half the wool used in this coun- try is imported. The manufacturing corporations pay a swinging duty | on it, aud this duty they add to the price of their product. They also add as much as they can of the} © “compensating duty” on manufactur ed woolens, and when the citzien of he pays their eorporatien prices. When he sells them wool he also sells at their corporation prices, for while he has none. “National Consumers’ Trust,” uo great consolidated corporation of all the wool growers in the country. The corporations combiue, substi tuting low grade wools, shoddy aud cotton for Ohio wool, simply says to the Ohio wool grower: “We are do ing quite well, thank you, withaut your wool but will takeit from you if you will knock off a little to com pensate us for the great expense we are at in paying the duty on the for- eign wools we have to import to mix with yours.” And the Ohio sheep owner accordingly sells, as he buys, at corporation prices. He has no other market except this,controll ed by trusts and combines, and he has no combine of his ow: strong evough to control the market and set prices, the corporations control it against him when he buys and when he sells. Aud then, when, wool cheap, he goes in bis high priced, cotton warp coat to hear Hon. Calico Charles Foster speuk, the Hon. Calico Charles tells him that the tariffis not a tax becnuse Ohio wool is cheaper now than it was before McKinley promised to increase its price by making an av erage increase of 10 per ceut in the tax on over 4,000 articles in general use. after selling his Hon. Calico Charles, after arguing that the tariff cheapens the articies on which it is levied, wanders along until all at once he is drooling the regular sing song of Protectionist denunciation of low tariff for mak ing things so plentiful and cheap that they are nasty. Compare this, at the wind up, with the above quo ter speech: “As you know,my business life was one of very close relation to the farmer. I have witnessed the trans- itions from prosperity to depression and from depression to prosperity several times during my career. I have bought your produce in days of democratic rule under a revenue tariff—wheat for less than 50 cents jper bushel, corn for 20 cents and oats 16 cents; hogs for 2 cents per pound dressed, butter for 6 cents 25 cents, sugar at 10 cents. sali at $2 to $3 per barrel. How (on earth | you survived is a mystery.” How on earth the farmer survived such dealings with the Honorable Calico Charles is, indeed, a mystery. Perhaps he didn't. There is no rec- ord that anyone ever got rich cut of trades to which the Honorable Cali- co Chares was a party. But the Honorable Calico Charles did. He to hear from him how he laid the! |larger one even than John Sherman has saved out of his moderate salary. It shows the immense advantages of | ithe “home market” to those who} | eontrol it. In the days when he kept his Cal-! \co Home Market, the fariner could | not drive two miles to the railroad | |station and ship or sell his pr oduce at market prices, less commissions, for New York and Liverpool. Rail roads were few and generally inac- cessible. The best the farmers in | the neighborhood could do was to} [load their produce on their wagens | The price of wool under the Mc | to bleating, it is because they have | 154 indignation left in them after the! Obio buys from these corporations | thay have their combiue to fix prices | There 18 no! And as if this were not enough, | tation from the widdie of the Fos | and eggs 3 cents per dozen. At! the same time I sold you cotton} shirtings at 20 cents, calico at 15 to} is a millionaire, and it is interesting | buying it in his Caico Home Mar ket at 6 cents 8 pound: Ara eA arr raels 24 cents; 1854 J 1857. 1858... cents | cents | cents! And when he was charging from | ¥2 to $3a barrel for salt, here is what fine salt was selling for in open | market: piss TO cent 1858. -62 eek | | 1859 75 cents. | When he gave “only 2 cents a! | pound for meat, these were New | ! York prices: | Mess Pork, bbl. | | 1848 849. In 1585 and 1886, under the re | publican tariff, the same grade of — sold in the same market for |from $9 to $14 50 a barrel, the highest price paid in 1886 being $12 50. And when the Honorable Calico Charles was —s sugar for | 110 cents, here are New York prices | for brown sugar. 1852 oAnooeescecessasesacc 3 cents ..d cents Aut wheu he was buying wheat for 5v cents a bushel, here are New York prices: Per Bushel NOSE: cutie wise esos ee $2 50 RS si oo since sic < ithe eae 2 80 Lio) Eee eee e 217 1): a oe 1 95} 1 65 These figures are “compiled from the reports of the secretary of the treasury, the reports of the New j York chamber of commerce, the New | York shipping lists and price cur rent «nd the New York produce ex change reports,” by Hon. Ains- worth R. Spofford, librarian of con gresr, and these may be found on pages 100 to 103 of his “American Almanac” for 1888. As here given, they are not the average prices, but | prices at which the Honorable Cali- co Charles had a chance to buy and sell by watching the market. After jlooking at them there is no mystery about how he survived, but the mystery of the surival of his custom ers grows lore and more lm penetra ble —Republic. Beginning to Use Money in Lowa. Des Moines, Io.. Oct. 14.—The republican boodle is beginning to show itself in this campaign. S L Mash, an attorney and the brighest representative of the colored race in Iowa, is supporting the demo-|} jcratic ticket and bas won over a large following of his people. To- morrow morning he will publish an affidavit setting forth tnat Chairman Rehkopf, of the Polk county re publican committee, offered him 3200 in money and a lucretive office in the next legislature if he would support the republican ticket and use his influence to win the colored voters back to its support. 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