Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1883 — FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT. [ARTICLE]

FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT.

Missouri. astywr, shipped hundreds of bushels of ccorns to England, where they will be planted by foresters. * ■ The ChicHgo Tribune, not having the fears of John Sherman very largely developed, refers to his recent declar ati<>t. that in the matter of tariff tar on iron “he spoke in the interest o' nis eon tltuents.” »<nd tills him tbu he false” add tbit “-ie knows it.” Tin? President’s mansion is a pret tv expensive establishment. Th* su-h y civil service bill proposes t< < spend for grounds,green-house und nursery refurnishing, fuel, repairs o< couse rvatories and lighting, the sum of $95,500. $15,000 of which goes t< lighting the mansion.

Queen Victoria say My sailors and sol diets my army, my Government, My sub jecls. In tie United States the people say, OUR President, our Government; our Ar my and Navy, and Wb the sovereigr people. And had it not been for the stiff back bone of the Democracy, Arthur wouk today use the same expression as tb< Q teen. All remember the reference of Reward to his little bell.

A Republican paper saya : “So fai as the Republican party is concerned, it cannot be held responsible an> longer because the fnt rnal revenue is not reduced.” It will be held re sponsible, however, for enacting h prohibitory tariff which places the revenues in the pockets of monopo lists instead of the coffers of thegov eminent, and which takes from the toiling masses and gives t j the favor ed few.

All the labor that entere d into all the manufactures of this country in 1880 was only about iwenty-five per cent, of the cost; not merely the difference in the price ot American and foreign labor, but the whole lump sum of American labor w°s only twen ly-five per cent. Yet the average protection wis over forty-five pei cent. Reduce the piotective tariff to iwentv.flve per cent, covering the cost of labor, and the good effed that would follow in cheaper living, the greater purchasing power of wa* ges, would in a short time enable the masses to see it. Under the protective tariff— the monopolists alone receive the benefit.

An exchange Bays that te thoroughly appreciate the capitalists’ pro tect’ve meeting in New York recently, when Mr. Eyarts made the speech that since covered him with ridicule, *it is necessary to know the antecedents of the managers of the meeting— the men who signed the call. < General Grant is at the head and being a figure-head can be so left. L. B. Cannon is largely interested in Lake Champlain iron ore. E. H. Ammidown owns a silk mill and is interested in cotton manufacture. BG. Clarke, one of the biggest “iron men” in the country. Solon Humphreys, steel rail mill; C. S. Smith t agent for New England mills; 0.8. Tiffany, manufacturing jeweler; Vv, L, biro ng, commission merchant in cotton goods and flannels [flannels protected 100 percent.); J. A. Burden* Lar iron and horse shoes: F. A. Potts pig iron and coal owner; O. B. Bliss* cotton goods; A- B. Whitney, iron merchant; D, F. Appleton, watch maker; John Boach, suosidy, dead ship ping and high tariff incarnate; W. A. Geiluty, drugs and oils—and so od down the list. Not a single representative of the farmer or workingman, but simply a band of select millionaire capitalists, every one of whom is direetty interested in main taining a tariff which gives them a monopoly of the wants and necessi ties of 53,000,000 people, and enables them to charge thorn, in some cases, over 100 per cent, more than they would otherwise have to pay. A fine lot of “represntativo” citizens, trulyl Almost as fine as the tariff commissioners.

During consideration of the Specific bill in the House Saturday, the following action was had, upon a claim o[ Simcn P. Thompson,of Benseelaer: Mr. Pathv moved to atiike out item seven-being the claim of 81mot Thompson for services rendered th .State inthelfewton Circuit Court. Mr. Giukap could not understand why the gontleman made the motion to strike out the claim. The claim was originally for SIOOO for eorvices rendered to the State, and In Hawton County for certain property. This gentleman was Prosecuting Attorney for that county at the time, and he became satisfied that this property under questio/i was rightfully the property of the State. He entered suit for the State and followed the matter to the Supreme Court, where finally the suit determined in favor of the State, and the State is now holding property valued at $5,000 as ti.e result of this claimant He ear j, t ...H y advocated the granting of the claim ti» one every way just Mr. Fattbk thought it is was bad poli y for the State to attempt to Bay ail attorneys in ths State. He not in favor es granting the C 1 Mr* Moopt favored the allowance of the claim. Mr. SnmttT understood that the Committee on Claims had unanim ous y recommended the allowance of the claim. . __ An amendment by Mr. Gibsom to jpa e the claim 500 and allow the same, provided the claimant would givp a receipt in full for services, w, s adopted, after an ™ tidp by Mr. Sosxoss to lay the same ph the table.

tiovefnor Butler of Mis chusetts, Snter »ns diff. rent lews from Governor Po.'h r upon I*4 tical nm V !■>. He said, -ecently, toacle g. ma- w >o uant d to be Prison Chaplain: From all I learn the present chaplain s awery esti liable Uhristain yeniieman who has done Lb uh le duty, and has. the full corfld-'C- <>t the Convicts- I believe, though I do not know certainly, as I have never specially inquired, that he is a Republican in politics, but that furnisl es so reu*»t» for t' e removal of a co-peient. deserving, aid honest officer, who do<s O'»t use ui* • 5flee as aue» e otieeriuir mm bine. If any sucn one does he must take the results of the election. “There are eighteen mouths of g< od stealing yet II i er Li old tariff law.’’ was the imprudent r> mark <>f a high protective Re u» le t- the other day. At d Western Repu -lit ans will not opm their eyes to the iniquities of the syitem. A Was iii g »n special says: The self-styled friends of American Über have bem makings new and Canful cai Vass among ib« m- mbets of the House U-Jaj. They want to guan: verv point before attempting to ctrn out their high tar-ff pro-nunm • by « change of the rules as proj-o < d by Kason- Th< y 4am to make sure that ama Hiti y will vote to send the tariff bill to a committee to b ‘ doctored as the tnanuleturers’ lobby want it, anti they do no 1 f. el that the No twestern low tarifl men itch as Updegrail and Farwell, of lowa can be depended upon to follow them to i.e end.

The fourth annual Report of fnt In diana Bureau of Statistics has just been issued. It is a book of 535 pages, full of very in*er sting and itn portant facts for all thoughtful p*o p|e, and gives a very comprehensive view of the State in its Agriculture* Manufacturing, Mining, Educational. Social, Economic and Climatic aspects. Any one desiring a copy may make their wishes known at this office. Those wishing the book sent them direct, can have it by remitting 15 cents in stamps for postage, to the Bureau of Statistics, Indianapclis, Ind.

It is certain, or nearly certain as any king can be, that Democratic Governorin twentv-tour States, having 313 elector al votes will is-ue the certiOcaieH upon which those electoral votes will be buseo tn the Presidential contest of 1884 Now ts that contest should be in any way <-los< 201 electoral votes being required for a majority), and any Democratic Govern-» in 1884. should descend to 'he crime ti»ai made the Governors of Louisiana, bonti Carolina conspicuous in lb7<>. what woulu Republicans have to say about it? Am f a new Electoial Commission couid hen by any means be constituted aim Senators Edmonds and Hoar should b< placed upon it. as they once placeu what could they say to their own r cormade in the transaction ot 1&77? I hej then decided in three cases that it wa oeyond tue power of the Commission t go behind the Governor’s ceiliticate ai meted by the broad seal of the State. It Governor Glick, or Kansas, could be a mean as Kellogg, sometime of Loulsana was, and would certify a vote of Kama* mat was notoriously faise, would tSena tors Edmonds and Hour advise, that theii own record should s.and as a law in ih< case? A democratic President should be sea ed as Hayes was, the Republicans oi that day wou d not hesitate to denounci as a frauu. No Republican ttenaioi would be heard to declare (as was Jeclar ed on the floor of the benate) that ’lit credentials of a fraud furnished a tirmei utle than George Washington had —t/hi cago Times.

Mr. John Kelly, of New York, recently delivered a lecture in Boston, tn which he dug up some remarkable readable facts, in regard to tnc settlement of the Irish people in North America. Among other things, Mr Kelly said; In the early Colonial days, wbep deeds or daring and bravery were required, the nardy, Irish pioneer, driven from home by want, bad government, and religious prosecution, penetrated the forest ane did more than his share toward laying the foundations of a great Nation. When England tried to iay the same neaw hands on the colonists which hau been squeezing the life oqt of Ireland it was Irish blood and Irish brains that came to their relief. Eleven Irishmen, as Mr. Kelly showed, put their names to the immort .1 Deelara tion of Icdependence, wnicb is still the sailing chart of a Nation of over 50,000,000 sou>B. They risked all, staked ail, on the chance of success, and n, better patriot ever denounced oppression, or drew the sword to cut it down. Suoh talk is always in order. In nil reg .rds Irish-Ameriuans have shown themselves to be the earnest and implacable fees of oppression, and have done their full part in securing and perpetuating the blessings of In ienendenec and lib< tty, which are the crowning glories ot our country.

If our Western people wpujd only post themselves on tariff matters the Republican party would have no following worth talking abi ut outside the New England States and Pensylvania, Proiessor Sumner, of Yale College, reoentjy delivered an address upon “Free Trade.” Concerning it a special says; '•

Professor Sumner urged that a protected industry was an exhauster of capital and a cheapner of wa ges. He adduced figures from the census report of 1880 to prove, as he declared, that the people would have made $373,000,000 in that year if they had paid all the laborers in protected industries for standing still, besides 10 per cant, interest on the capital employed, and gone into a free market to purchase the articles made. In a similar manner $3,000,000 would have teen made from the iron industry. Continuing bis thustra* tions, he said; “The item of thread—the tax on every spool of thread is a cent and three quarters. The first garment a baby puts on the last a dead man is clothed in must be made with thread. In tue free tmket thread costs twenty-seven and onefifth cents a dozen spools, which Is a fraction over two centt a soool. I havenodsubt It could be sold for three cents a spcol at retail. Now it costs five cents. This, reckoned down closely, is an actual tax of one and threesfourtb cents on every spool of thread. The great thread mill of Willimatic [applause] is one of the finest and greatest mills in the country, and goes perhaps ahead of any other in the elegance of its appointments. Whv not? But it would be better for us if the took only one cent I a spool for the tnread we use, and | didn’t make any at all. They are . not creating wealth, but using up the wealth contributed by consumers. The bigger the mill, and tue greaser the number of operatives, the great- . er the regnt.” * I