Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1884 — $40,000 SAVED. [ARTICLE]

$40,000 SAVED.

The “protected” rail iouaire mamufactusrs of RAnnsylv nia are paying their employ cl-(35c. and $1 per day. Good Lord! — The great, majority of the Democratic members Congress favor tariff reform, and are struggling fully agaiust a solid Republican op^ position to such reform. Our Tom. J, Wood, M.C, is working manfully and laboriously in the interest of the bone and sinew—the farmers, mechanics and laborers ot the laud—and in opposition to a continuation of high prices fur living and cheap labor. Every Democratic member of Congress from Indiana favors reduction ol tariff taxation in the interest of the masses, while the Republican members from the State are working in the interest of DePauw and other millionaires. The wtrkingmen in the manufactories iu Pennsylvania have sent a memorial to Congress, in which they cite the fact that “protection” protects monepolists against competition with foriegu manufactures, but does not protect the laborer against competition with foreign cheap labor. Pig-iron Kelley, of Philadelphia, is loud in his demands for “protection to home industry," and the industri ous laborers conclusively show up his hypocrsyJwhenJthey|proveithat|industiy is not protected—only the money lords. He laments the impoverished condition ©f the laboring classes in foreign lands, but tells American laborers—American freeman—that they must eat more sorghum, rye coffee and cheap bread. To those who remember the sltua tlon of affairs in the Republican Nat* ional Convention at tne time of the nomination of Garfield, the result of its action can be understood and nppreciatad. The Convention was in a fair wav to adjournment without making a nomination, when the bargain between Blaine’s Jfriends |and those of Sherman, rider of Garfield, and the opposition to Grant, Conkliug and Stalwartlara, culminated in the combination which substituted Garfield for Sherman, and afterwards the placing of Blaine at the head of the lisi of SecretariesGarfield, injtlie anxiety and haste of the moment, received the nomination without a thought of the transactions with which ho was connected bv the investigations of Committees of his own party in Congress. The queston arises, will the Republican part promed.it i.tedly place Blaine, a man equally tainted in nomination?

The Republican of this week, concluding an article referring to the overgrown fortunes of W. H. Vanderbilt and other millionaires, says: “The day i- certainly coming when the people will refuse 10 longer siveat and groan under the unendurable burden of poverty for the sake of securing to a few the possession of that which, iu reality, enriches • ot its possessors and leaves the people poor indeed.” There is food for deep, earnest, profound thought in the above extract. The foundation upon which tne accumulation of the vast wealth of the few, comparatively speaking, was laid by the Republican party since its advent to power in 1860. From that time to the present the radical party has legislated continually in the interest of the money loids and to oppress the masses. That party originated and adopted high, prohibitory protection for the monopolists, increased tbo cost of living for the toiling workers and refused them protection a,g|a?i.nst the in trod ucn tion of cheap labor, and if too demonstrative, the beyohets of the gov» eminent woud be employed to keep

then within bounds. Big in<ftcemente were held out to *£he Vanderbilt class of patriots for their money and the contract carried out with added favors. The sons of toil* had no inducements tendered them; it nn willing, the compulsory process of the draft forced them to the front in spite of the demands of dependants, and paid in a curre r uy depredated by the soulless and Godless transactions of the money lend" i ers in their greed to coin gold from ! the miseries of the country, the blood 1 of the boys in blue, and the tears of their dependents. In addition, the principal obstruction to-day to the proper recognition of the soldiers* claims comes from the opposition of that same class.

These brokers in tbe distresajof the j country, asked and received at tbe j hands of Republican adnininstrations grants of over 200,000,000 acres of lauds belonging to the ptople.— j With millions of untaxed bonds, and millions of acres of untaxed lands, is it any wonder that the list of m.l lionalre nas increased with such rapi dity? Is it not high time to call a halt! Turn the rascals out. The work ot collecting money for the Soldiers’ .Monument is progressing favorably, the subscriDtions rangiug from $1 to SIOO. Ia many cases the members of a family give $1 each. The Treasurer of the Monumental Committee, has received the following letter from Lion L. M. Campbell, of Hendricks County. Danville, March 22. Geo. W. Johnston, Treasurer, Indi anapolis, Dear Sii:—l take pleasure iu sending the inclosed check for SIOO as a contribution to the soldiers’ raouu tpental fund. If your Committee can find fifty men. who were not in the army, who will subscribe SSOO each, I will be one of the numbor, and will send a check for S4OO any day when notified the full number can be found, and tender $25,000 at once to tbe that the funds should be raised by voluntary subscriptions, by citizens who were never in the army. L. M. Campbell. This lettet is not only timely, but it has the right ring, and is creditable to Mr. Campbell’s head and heart. Surely Indiana ought to have fifty men who will accept his offer. Have we one in this county?

Hon. Thomas J. Wood, our member of Congress has saved the govern*, meet forty-two thousand dollars in one transaction- He is on the cora» mittee on claims against t e government. Mr. Murphy, of California, claimed the government owed him one hundred thousand dollars as damages for excavating a dry dock at Mare Island. The evidence was voluminous. Tbe sub-oommlttee res ported to the whole committee, that he be allowed rinety-three thousand dollars, and a motion was made to adopt the report by the whole committee, and pending the motion Wood jumped to his feet and moved for further examination After much oratory, the continuance was granted. Wood then carefully examined the case and could not agree with the sub committee’s report. He revi w ed the evidence and struck the salient points of the'claims so hard’that the whole committee was soon in a wrangle. Three-fourths of the committee had spoiieu in favor of the report of the sub-con»mit.te Wood again obtained the floor and spoke with great force, over-hauling the facts and applying the law, and when Tie closed, called for an aye and nay vote. Those who spoke for the report did not like to go on the record for it after Wood’s vehement attack, and the renort was voted down, .Then a motion was made to allow Murphy forty-on* thousand dollars, instead cf ninety, three thousand dollars, and it was carried. So our Congressman saved the government over I'orty thousand dollars in one claim enough to pay his solar for eight years in Congress. Wood was congratulated by his friends fprhis hard won victory.- Rochester Sentinel,