Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1884 — Page 1

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MORDECAI F. CHILCOTE. Attorney-at-Law Bbnssblabr, .... Indiana Practices {in thb Courts of Jasper and ad* Mining counties. Makes collections a specialty. Office en north side of Washington street, opposite Court House- vml, H.S.DWIGGINS ZIMET D WIGGINS R. S. & Z. D WIGGINS. Attorneys-at-Law, Rkksselaee " * 8 - Indiana Practice in the Courts es Jasper and ad Wiping counties, make collections, etc. t« Office weat corucr Newels’ Block. v_ nl o —— ■ - SIMON P. THOMPSON, DAVID J. THOM PSON Attorney-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Bensselaeb. - . - Indiana Practice in allthe Courts. KARION It. SPITLER, Collector and Abstractor. We pay j rrticular attention to paying tax- , sellint, and leasiag lands. V 2 n4B

EllANlx 8,. LOCK, Attorney a.t Law And Real Estate Broker. *mhvw 15 ftll C°wrt& of Jasper. mi Benton counties. Lauda' examined Abstracts of Title prepared: Taxes paid. C«ll»ctloaa.« a. «peclw,lty. .TAMES W. DOUTHIT, ATTOBNEYvAT-LAW and notary public, e r 'B ne^ HTwTsNroE Attorney at Law Remington, Indiana. •COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY. IRA W. YEOMAN, Attorney at Law, NOTARY PUBLIC, Real Estate anil Collecting Agent. Will practice in all the Courts of Newton Benton and Jasper counties. Office: —Up-stairs, over Murray’s Cifr Srug Store, Qoodland, Indiana. DD. DALE, • ATTOKNEY-AT LAW soimomo, - INDIANA. Bank buildine. np stairs.

X. H, LOUOHRIDGI. p. p t BITTBBB LiOUGHRIDGE 8C BITTERS, Physicians and Surgeons. Washington street, below Austin’s hotel. Ten per cent. Interest will be added to all Jceounts running unsettled longer than iree months. vlnl DR. I. R. WASHBURN, Physician 8C Surgeon, Rensselaer, Ind. Sails promptly attended. Will give special atter tien t© the treatment ©f Chronic i)i«64isei. R. S. Dwiggins. Zimri Dwigging, President. Cashier, Citizens’ Hank. RENSSELAER, IND., Tl 0< * 8 a general Banking business; gives xj spaeial attention to c©Uef»tions; remit* £“««« mads on day of payment at current •xcbange; Interest paid on balances: Artlfleates bearing interest issued; exchange bought and sold. * This Bank owns the Hu-glar Safe, which Premium at the Cfilcago Expesltion 1878 v. m} 1 * i* protected by one of ■argent s Time Locks. The bunk vault used f»» good as ean be built. It will be seen ftom thnieregeing that this Bank furnishes m geed saeuritj to depositors as ean bo. ALFRED M COT. . THOMAS THOMFSOi. Banking: Bouse OF A. McCOY &T. THOMPSON, successors y te A, MeUey A A. Thompson, flankers, Rensselaer: Ind. Does general banking business Buy and sell exehaoge. Collections made sq all available points. Money loaned S T nterestpald on specified time d< posits, &e fflee same place as old firm of A. McCoy A bempsen. aprU.'gl

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If EVERY PAIR VMRANfD 7 FOR SALE BY THOMAS J. FARDEN, 3 Doors East of P. O. Rensselaer, Ind. A complete line ot light and heavy shoes for men and boys, women and misses, always in stock at bottom prices. Increase of trade more an object than large profits. J See our goods before buying.

Gents’ Furnishing Goods!

N WARNER & SONS . DEALERS IN Hardware, Tinware, S&’fco'mresk South Side Washington Street. RENSSELAER, INBIAKi; urn®, Dealers In Groceries, Hardware, Tinware, W oodenware, Farm Machinery, BRICK & TILE. Our Groceries are pure, and will be sold as low as elsewhere. in our Hardware, Tinware and Woodenware Department, will be found everything called for. Our Farm Machinery, in great variety, of the most approved styles. Brick and 1 lie, manufactured by us, and kept constantly on hand. We respectfully solicit your patronage. BEDFORD & WA RNER.

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RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY FEBRUARY 1, 1884.

PROTECTION DOES NOT PROTECT.

A recent number of the Indianapolis News contains severaljintervie ws with prominent manufacturers of the capitol city. In every case these manufacturers express opposition to a high protective tariff and assert that such a tariff is highly detrimental to their business. Mr. Thomas Davis, of the firm of Sinker, Davis <fe Co., manufacturers of engines and boilers, said: The manufacturers of steam engines and boilers and saw mills need no protection at all; they need cheaper iron and steel, and they also need foreign markets, which are now closed to them by the high tariff. TheJAmerican engine, for farm purposes, saw mills, oil wells, and general use, is lighter, stronger, and, considering the high price that we have to pay for raw material, cheaper than that made in any other country in the world. — All that we want is the right to buy our material in the cheapest market and .sell our manufactureswherever we can find people who want to buy them. Neither of these are possible at present, because the tariff system has the effect of raising the price of raw material and closing foreign markets to American manufactures. We are virtually confined to a home trade. Being asked as to the effect of tariff reform on labor, Mr. Davis said that he thought wages would be raised, because supply and demand regulate prices, and with a larger market for goods there would be a larger market for labor.” Mr. Nordyke, of the firm of Nordyke & Marmon, manufacturers of mill machinery, said: I suppose I must be classed as a protectionist -C T in n hUI A V U tt>U. XVA VAtVAAAVAviI

campaign which was conducted on protectionist theories. — Really I am a tariff reformer. I voted for Garfield because I had no confidence in the Democrats, and also because at that time I had not examined the operation of tariff, the discussions of its workings led me to investigate, and I am certain that our trade is crippled by the present import duties; the cost of raw material is raised bj the direct operation of the tariff, and our markets are restricted by its indirection. For example, the price of lumber is raised by the prohibit*) y duty on Canadian timber; the Canadian government in return places a duty on our manufactures that amounts to prohibition, and yet we ought to have a very larg 3 trade with Canada; the roller mills whieh we make are in demand in that country, and as we can not sell them in the Canadian market at a profit after paying duty on them, we are contemplating the building of a factory for their production in Canada.”

Mr. Lindley Vinton, of the Vinton Iron works, said: “I am like most other men; I can tell when I am hurt.— Trade is very dull; in conversation with a partner in the Eagle Machine works a few weeks ago, he said that it had not been auite so dull for eight years. The reason in the case of this firm is that it cannot find buyers without extending its markets; we make engines, and also tile mills, these thing! last for a long time, and the State of Indiana is tolerably well supplied with them—in P T ai words the local market is not large enough for the manufactories in this city. I saw that I must either discharge many of my hands or find a new marnet. I wanted to the men at wor? so I went into other States, particularly Ohio, and contracted to supply manufacturers there; niany a machine sold with an

Ohio brand on it is made at our works. But, mind you, I ought not to be selling at a low rate to Chio manufacturers. I ought to be dealing direct with the purchaser, and but for the tariff I would be. I have had twenty inquiries for our machines this winter from Canadians, but the. duty is thirty and a third per cent, against our goods, and we can not trade. W by, do you know that H. B. Smith & Co., of Jackson, Mich., manufacturers of flour millers’ goods, have just been compelled to build a factory, (at "indsor, I think, but just on the Canadian side, anyhow,) which employs between 400 and 500 hands to satisfy their Canadian customers with their patent midlings purifier. The tariff has just protected 500 American hands out of a job and protected 500 Canadian ones into It. The four leading industries of Indianapolis are the making of engines and boilers, saw mills, flour mills and tile mills; in the last we beat any city in

America, having four factories devoted to their make against two in any other.--There is no reason, apart from the oppressive effect of the tariff, why the manufacturers of this city should not do a large traffic with South America, Canada, and evt n Europe. But because there is a duty on foreign ore we have to pay $23 a ton for Alabama iron, delivered here from the Te* cumseh works; that iron can be made at $9 per ton, and is made at $11; it would be made at $9 if it were made with all the advantages of machinery used in England, but because the tariff gives the Alabama maker a bonus of sl2 per ton he works in a slovenly and extravagant manner. And foreign labor is just an cheap in Alabama with her negro population as it is in England, and skilled labor not very much higher, the price of '"lothin"- etc., considered. Now iron anti’ steel enter into ulo compost : on of all goods made by the o ur industries which! have named to the extent of at least 85per cent. As far as the ben efic ial effect of protection to any Indiana industry is concerned it is enough to say that Ohio is a far more dangerous than England. If we are to be protected protect ns by a tariff on Ohio goods The whole theory is fallacies.”*

The LaPorte Argus, in referring ro the millionaire DePauw, says: “If we admit that DePauw had been a reliable Democrat, an admission that is not justified by his former acts, we can readily explain his desertion to the Kepublicans, and show the shameful gi eed and selfishness that actuated him in the matter. He is the owner of glass works, the product of which is, and has been from their start, protectedby a tariff that amounts to from one hundred to one hundred and fifty per cent This glass is almost a necessity to the public, and such a tax is little better than robbery of the people who use it. Mr, DePauw is very rich, but the censns shows that the average wages [laid the laborers in these glass factories amounts to only about $6 per week. It is clearly not the laboring men who get the benefit of this enoi mous tax that more than doubles the price of plate glass An inquiry of who does get the benefit, and wliat political party is responsible for the privilege ni.joyed, rnny tell why the bciionciary bestows his friendship amd his vote on the Republican party: In common gratitude, that is where he ought to bestow it, but what can be said in defense of the act to the men who use plate glass? Is there any doubt that the party that opposes such a tax will gam far more than it will lose? Such a doubt woVl be an insult to the intelligence and honesty of any people.’’

NUMBER 1.

SCHOOL OF ELOCUTION!

Mrs. Kirsch’s School of Elo cutnn will be held in the School Building, and will commence Thursday, Jan. 24th. A day class will meet at 4‘ p. m., and a night class at 7:30 p. m., on Thursday of each week, A Children’s Class will also meet on Fridays at 4 p. m. Th ere will be no interference with the regular school work, and no book will be needed. The school will close with a public entertainment at the Opera House, in which all pupils who show sufficient ad vancement will have an immediate opportunity to put in practice wliat they nave learned. Tuition for ten class lessons, each an hour in length, $2 50: Children, $1 50. Come provided with pencil and common blank book to copy exercises from the blackboard. The Quarterly Conference of the Church of God will be held at Rensselaer, commencing on Friday night, February Bth, to continue over the following 8 nday. Able speakers from abroad expected. The public cordially Invited to attend.

The National GreenbackParty of Jasper county, Ind., are requested to meet in Rensselaer. on Saturday, February 16th, 1884, for the purpose of appointing delegates te the State Convention, to be held at Indianapolis on the 22d of February next. A full attendance urgently solicited. S. SJ. Ritchey, Chairman County Committee. January 28,1884.

Taking the Queen & Shill ing.—C >l. Thomas French, a resident of Atkinson, Maine, claims to have been of the gallant 600 in the charge at Balaitiavn. T5 on ? h colonel is noTT Wma o* ing served in her Britannic majesty’s army, he was not anxious to join it during the war, and gives the following interesting account of how he enlisted: “While. I lived in Burleigh I fell in with twq recruiting officers who were hunting for just such a fellow as I. You’ve heard of the taking of the Queen’s shilling. When a fellow accepts this coin from a recruiting officer its a token of his enlistment and he can not back out. The fellow who finally hooked me had been teasing me to enlist for a long time. I went into an ale house to drink with him. Unobserved, he slipped a shilling into my mug of ale. When I drank I heard it rattle and threw it out. ‘My man, you’ve taken the queen’s shilling.’ I knew there was no use to dodge. I enlisted.”

The Post Office Department has issued instructions to postmasters to redeem outstanding three feent stamps and stemmed envelopes in stamps of other denominations, ghe stamped envelopes are to be redeemed at the price for which they were sold originally, but they must be in good condition. Stamped envelopes spoiled in directing are still redeemable at their postal value only. Ex-Governor John M. Palmer, of Illinois,was in early life a clock peddler. Arriving at Carthage, 111., late one night he was put by the landlord in a room with Stephen A- Douglas. Douglas liked him and advised him to quit selling cloeks and study law. Palmer did/as requested, and so far as is known has never had oc oasion to regret the change. ~ , » Governor w aller. of Comjeciti cut, th inks the co u iriry solir els are not So good aft .they I were thirty years ago.