Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1884 — Page 1

VOLUME VIII.

THE DEMOCRATIC SENTINEL. A DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY, Jas. W. McEwen. RATES OP SUBSCRIPTION, Cue year Sl.&i Six months ... -75 hree months 50 Advertising R,ates. \ ' ' One column, one year, sho 00 Half column, “ 40 oi Quarter " “ ;jo oo Eighth “ " 10 oO Tenrerceot. added to foregoiDg price if Advertisements are set-to occupy more than Muffle column width. Fractional parts of a year at equitable rates Business cards not exceeding 1 inch space, it'a year; S 3 for six months; $ 2 for three All legal notices and advertisements at es*Hblished statute price. Heading notices, first publication 10 cents . line; each publication thereafter s cents a •me. Pearly advertisements may be changed quarterly (once in three months) at the option of the advertiser, free of extra ebargeAdvertisements for persons not residents of Jasper county, must be paid for in advance of first pnblic >tion. when less than one-quarter column in size; aud quarterly n advance when larger.

MORDECAI F. CHIL.COTE. Attorney-at-Law RENSSELAE.U, . - INDIANA Praciiees fin the Courts of Jasper and adoinlng counties. Makes collections a specialty- Office on north side of Washington street, opposite Court House- vml R.B.nWIGGXNP ZXMBXDWIUGINS R. 25. & Z. DWIGGINS. Attorneys-at-Law, ReXSSELAEB S INDTANA Practice in the Courts of Jasper and ad oinmg counties, make collections, etc. t<* Office west corucr Nowels’ Block. v„ nl jIMQN P. THOMPSON, DAVrD J. THOM PSON Attorney-at- Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON Sc BROTHER, ,!e.vsselaeß, - . . Indiana £, Practice in all the Courts. MtARION L. SPITLER, Collector and Abstracter. fWB pay , irtUHthir attention to paying tax- . . seliinp and leasing lands. v2n4B to**. I FU.VNIv iv r 45 .(OCR, Rttcmsy at Law And Real Estate Broker. Practices in all Courts of Jasper, Newtoi rnd Benton counties. Lands examined Lbstracts of Title prepared: Taxes paid. Collections a, Specialty.

■ JAMES W. DOUTHIT, and notary public, ** «•* ■P H, W. SF fDEK, •■■A.t’fe oi*iiey wb JjfL'w ■ Remington, Indiana. ■dOLLECTIONS a (SPECIALTY. — jj IRA W. YEOMAN, ■attorney at Law, I KOTIRY public, f Real Estate and Collecting Agent. BiH P ra ctice in all the Courts of Newton 'Benton and Jasper counties. SB Office:—Up-stairs, over Murray’s Cit; Store, Goodland, Indiana. D. SALE, *■o ■ ATTOKNEY-AT LAW aS MONTICELI.O, INDIANA. §■ Bank building, up stairs.

h. loughkidge. f. p, bittebs m LOUGHKIDGE & BITTERS, IS Physicians and Surgeons. I Washington street,, below Austin’s hotel. mi Ten per cent, interest will be added to all running uusettled longer than ■three months. vlnl 9 DR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician & Surgeon, jB Rensselaer Ind. He alb promptly attended. Will give special atter ■ tion to the treatment of Chronic GUeuses. ■R. s. Dwiggins. Zimri Dwiggins, 1 President. Cashier I Citizens’ Bank, RENSSELAER. IND., Does a general Banking business: gives special attention to collections; remit■tances made on day of payment at eurr.-vt ■rateofoxehange;int«M vtp :„Ur, balances: ■csrtlttcates bearing ‘nterebt issued; ex■ohanee bought and sold. IL r f}*Y ßank °T n » Wie £u>glar Safe, which ■jookthe premium at the Chicago Exposition Bp 1878. This Safe is protected by oie *f ■Sargent's Time Locks. The bunk vaultuse.l ■« as good as can be built. It will be seen ■from thn foregoing that this Bunk furnishes MW good sacuritj to depositors as can be. ■ALFRED H COT. THOMAS THOMPSON Banking House ■fjF A. McCOY &T. THOMPSON, successors ■U to A. McCoy & A. Thompson. Ranker*. ■Rensselaer, Ind. Does general .Banking bu ■siness Buy and sellsxchaoge. Collections ■made sn all available points. Money loaned ■interest, paid on specified time deposits. &c ■Office same place as old Arm of A. McCoy & ■Thompson. apru/si

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Terns j. fh®. Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps,

fev IFEVERY PAIR FOR SALE BY THOMAS J. FARDEN, 3 Doors East of P. O. Rensselaer, Incl, 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. See our goods before buying.

Gents’ Furnishing Goods!

N WARMER Sl SONS . DEALERS IN Haflware, Tinwan ; SSSIto ves South Side Washington Street, - - INBIIMi;

BEDFORD ¥ WEB, Dealers In Groceries, Hardware, Tinware, Wooden ware, Farm Machinery, BKICK & 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 aud Tile, manufactured by us, and kept constantly on hand. We respectfully solicit your patronage. BEDFORD & WA EtNER.

THE NEW MBPDPM RENSSELAER, IND. JL’° . 01’KNED, New aud finely furnished.— OtolßvS i>U-.M*nt rooms. Table furuished with thabe.t (h»market affords. Good Sample Room* on first floor. Free Bus to and from Depat. PHILIP BLUE, Proprietor. Rensselaer. May 11.1888 ts. LEAR HOUSE, J. H. LEAR, Proprietor, Opposite ( ourl House, Monticelh, Ind % * H&b recently been new furnished throngb out. The rooms are large and airy.tho loca tion central, making it the roost conve Jen and desirable hoDse In town. Try it

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY JULY 18, 1881.

John W. Ittedicus, Plasterer & Cistern Builder. All kinds of Plain and Ornamental woOk done ip the latest style. Leave orders at Tharp's mug Store. A WIDE AWARE DRUGGIST Mr. F. B. Lea tiling is always widawake io his business aud spares ne pains to secure the best of every are tide id his line. He has secured tho agency for the celebrated Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption. The only certain cure known for Consumption, Coughs, Coids, Hoarseness. Asthma, Hay Fever, Bronchitis, or any affection or tho Throat Lungs. Sold on a positive guarantee. Will give you a trial bottle free. Regular size Cl 00 Any make of Sewing Machine sold by C. B. Steward.

MEETING OF THE DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF JASPER COUNTY.

Pursuaut to notice, the members of the Democratic Central Committee of Jasper county, lud., met at the Committee rooms, in Rensselaer, on Saturday, May 31st, 1884, and the following proceedings were had, Ez«* ra C. Nowols in the chair, to-wit:

The basis for delegates to the Judicial and Representative Convene tions was agreed upon. Each township is entitled to one delegate, and one one additicnal for every fraction over flfiy votes cast for Secretary of State Myers, at the last election, as follows: Township. Delegates. Hanging Grove, 1 Gillaui, 1 Walker. 2 Barkley, 3 Marion, 5 Jordan, 1 Newton, 3 Keener, 1 Kankakee, 1 When fksld, 1 Milroy, 1 Union, 3 Carpenter, 4 Ao. of Del gates, 27 The basis for delegates to the County Convention, to be held in Rensselaei, A ugust 9th, 1884, was fixed at one delegate for every 10 votes, and one for each fraction over, cast for Secretary of State Myers at the last election, and is a 3 follows: Township Delegates. ©ilium, - ' Walker, H Barkley, 11 Marion. 20 Jordan, 5 Newton, 7 Keener, 2 Kankakee, 4 Wheusfleld, .3 Milroy, 3 Union, <> Carpenter, 15

No. of Del 'gates, 91 The delegates so the Judicial and Representative Conventions will be selected attae same time and place as those for the County Co.iveution, provided the conventions are not called for an earlier date. In case the Judicial and Representative Con ventious meet Hist. it is recommended that delegates be selected on the aturday previous

John G. Culp, Joel F. Spriggs, Lewis Rich, B. H. Patton and W- L.Brin, gle were appointed a Committee of Ways and Means. The jeveral townships are recommended to select delegates to the Con entions named, on the first Saturday in August next. It was moved, and carried, that Committee aud Club rooms be secured for the campaign, at the rate of $4 per month. EZRA C. NOWELS, Chairman. James W. Douthit, Sec’y.

THOUSANDS SAY SO.

Mi. T. W. Atkins, Girard, Kansas writes: “I never hesitate to recommend your Electric Bitters to ray customers, they give entire satisfaction and are rapid sellers.” Electric Bitters are the purest and best medicine known and will positively core Kidney and Liver complaints. Purify the blood and regulate the bowels.— No family cuu afford to be without them. They will save hundreds of dollars in doctor’s bills every year.ftold at fifty cents a battle by F. ti Learning. X

Evansville Courier: The nomination of Cleveland and Hendricks has awakened such enthusiasm throughout the country as was never witnessed before. The Democratic tribes are already bn their way t > the front for the November battle. Plowing matches are the rage in Florida.

TARIFF.

A Revenue vs. a Protective T A riff.

BY W. D. BYNUM.

PROTECTION TO AMERICAN LABOR. Protection is no longer claimed for our manufactories on account of tjieir infancy. - They have passed three score and ten, and are entirely too old to longer plead infancy. — They now ask protection for American labor, asserting that, they can n )t employ the same at current wages and compete with the pauper labor of Europe. “ what sophistry will not selfish interest*-: resort to!” It is not the Highest priced labor that is always the dearest, nor tlio lowest priced labor that is always the cheapest. In Russia the price of labor is lower than in almost any other country. The serfs work in the mines for seven cents a day, and yet it costs as much to make a ton of pig iron m Russia as in England. In fact, Russia could not afford to sell iron in competition witli Englane in her own country without protection, notwithstanding labor costs nothing, comparatively speaking. English laborers were taken to France, and paid 81.20 a day to work upon railroads, while Frenchmen were employed at 62 cents a day, and yet, upon actual measurement of the work done it was found that that done by the English cost the least. Slave labor was the dearest labor the South ever employed. &

Free, intelligent Jabor, at rm mmierative tcages is the cheawl e»t tiftfe A&tn be Men, to work well, must be ther hungry nor mad. They must be hopeful, not despondent. It will not be denied that American labor, whether iia tive or adopted, is the best in the world, and that, at higher wages, is cheaper than that of foreign nations. American, labor does not come in competition with the poorest paid labor of Europe, except in agricultural pursuits. Our greatest competitor in manhprot ?ction against English manufacturers that our industries are clamoring for. An investigation of the wages paid in England and in this country, and a comparison of the labor performed by the workingmen of these nations, will prove the advantages one set has over the other. The following table gives the comparative rates of wages paid in England and in the United States, per week:

'ruinws AV ku Hi TKADKB. England. Chicago. Brleklaycru, - . $8 06 tin 50 Bookbinders, - - 7 20 12 00 Bricklayers. - - 860 825 CanlnetmakiTS, - . 8 04 0 76 Carpenters nd Joiner*, 7 80 k 80 Painters - - 4 75 7 76 Plasterers. - 9 18 12 00 Shoemakers, - - 738 ~ IS 00 Total per week, s6l 61 SB2 05 Total average per week, $7 70 % sio 25?; Difference In average, 2 55 %

Supposing the same difference m the price of labor to exist in all other industries as in the average of those shown in the above table, and we have a comparative difference in the price of wager T& the two countries of about onefocrtHj but for safety we will call it one-thibd. .Now, if American labor performs 1 a third more work than English labor, then it is as cheap, and the other advantages we have shown toexi-t in favor of domestic manufactures need not be <aken into acconnt. The Indianapolis News of February 16,1884 contained an interview with O. R. Olsen, Superintendent of the Indiana Bolt Works, in which he said: ‘T have had experience in the matl er, and I say that a foreman of a shopin America gets as much work, and of a far better quality,out of ten American workmen as is get by a

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foreman in England out of fifteen, so that if the pay of the American workingman is three dollars a day against the Englishrrall’s two dollars, it also follows that he has done just three dollars’ worth of work to the other’s two dollars’ worth. In fact, whenever skilled labor is needed we can undersell the English. * ** In the rolling mills and puddling furnaces, where muscular strength fir needed rather than skilled labor, the tariff may perhaps have some effect in raising the workingmanV wages. Not much, though, fir if the foreman nays 40 per cent, per diem more for work he gets 50 per cent, more nei diem more in labor than his English rival does.” The census- shows I hat the average production of American workmen in 1880 was 81,900 per head, while the average production of English workmen was only S7BO per head. In other words, an American workman produced $6.22 by his labor while Ilia Engliish competitor produced $2.50 a difference of $&- 70 in favor of theAmeiicau workman, while the difference in wages was leps than^l.oo. While the difference in the price of labor is less than 80 per cent., the difference in the value of the same is over 100 per cent. It is certamly too plain that although the pf'ice of American labor is higher, it is cheaper than English labor, and that American manu facturers after paying the increased price, still possess an advantage in labor over their foreign competitors. But, for the sake oi argument, let us grant that our English competitors do possess an advant age over our manufacturers in jjp.ec of *abor and that it is. ffeoe«sa*y 1 o pvu.fce< ;f tig* wa *s of our workingmen.

Labor is butoue item in the expense in carrying on a manufacture of any kind, and is but a small expense. The principle items of expense are land, buildings, machinery and raw material to work. Ex-Senator McDonald, in speaking of this before the Democratic Editors of Indiana in 1882, said: “But the cost of labor forms but a fractional part of the cost of manufacturing, and. in most cases, but a small fraction. I have a table before me, prepared bv the present Oornmis sioner of Mints, Mr. Burchard, a Republican, giving the proportionate cost of labor in most of the leading articles of manufacture in tills country, from which it appears that in textiles in general, labor is Wi per cent., materials 621 pm* cent., in cottons, labor is 22

per cent.,materials 63 per cent.; in woolens, labor 17i per cent., materials 62 per cent.; in silks, labor 16 per cent., material 64 per cent.; in steel, labor 17 per cent., material 33 per cent.”— From this it will be seen that the highest propo tionate cost of labor, as compared with capital, is 22 percent., and the lowest 16 per cent. The difference in the cost of labor, generally, we have shown, is not over 30 per cent., or at greatest over one-third. The difference, then, in the cost of manufactured articles, would be one-third of the total cost of labor, which, in textiles, wo’d be about 6£ per cent., in cottons 7} per cent., in silks, 5£ per cent., and in steel 5f per cent Granting, therefore, that domestic manufacturers pay their laborers one-third more than their English competitors, to give ample protection for this difference would not require »ore thin 10 per cent, and yet we have a protection averaging 42 per cent, 32 per cent, more than the increased cost of labor which our manufacturers have to pay. Who gets this 32 per cent.?— Does American labor get it? No! it all goes to the manufacturer, or, at least, whatever portion of it he wishes to use and yet be able to control the American market. Who pays

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