Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1884 — Page 1

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MORDECAI T. CHILCOTE. Attornev-at-Law Rensselaer, .... Indiana Practices |in the Courts of Jasper and adOinlng counties. Makes collections a specialty. Offusc on north side of Washington street, opposite Court House- vlnl B, S. I)WIGGINS ZIMRJ DWIUGINS R. a». & z. DWIGGINS, Attorneys -at-Law , Rensselaer g Indiana Practice in the Courts of Jasper and ad ■oining counties, make collections, e tc. tc Office west corucr Newels’ Block. ni SIMONP. THOMPSON, DAVID J. THOM PSON Attorney-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Rensselaer. - . . Indiana Practice in all the Courts. ttARION L. SPITLER, Collector and Abstractor. " 6 pay . irticular attention to paying tax- , selling and leasing lands. V 2 n4B FUAiMv W. B • COCK, Attorney at Law And Real Estate Broker. Practices in all Courts of Jasper, Newtor tnd Benton counties. Lands examined lbs tracts of Title prepared: Taxes paid. Collnctlona a. Spacle.ltsr. JAMES W. DOUTHIT, ITTOENEY''AT-liAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC, M ““ e,ert ■>« H. vUsNTDER, Attorney at Law Remington, Indiana. COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY. W. HARTSELL, M D , HOMOEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. SPC’hronic Diseases a Specialty.^]! "VFFICE, in Makeevor's New Block. Resi- ' / dence at'Makeover House. July 11,1884. ■ k n D. DALE, O . ATTOKNEY-AT LAW MONTICELI.O, - INDIANA. Bank building, up stairs. F. H. LODGHRIDGE. F. P, BITTERS LOUGHRIDGE & BITTERN, Physicians and Surgeons. Washington street, below Austin’s hotel. Ten per cent, interest will be added to all accounts running unsettled longer than three months. vlnl DR. L B. WASHBURN, Physioiau & Surgeon, liensselaer lnd. Halle promptly attended. Will give special attei tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases.

R. S. Dwiggins. Zimri Dwiggins. President CasMer, Citizens 9 Bank, RENSSELAER. IND., Does a general Banking business: giv»-s special atten lion to colleetions: r*mi*tances made on day of nnvnient at current lint*' • si »>p baiHnees : certificates bearing interest issued; exchange bought and sold, K This Bank owns the Bu-glar Safe, which P°k the premium at the Chicago Exposition n 1818. This Safe is protected by oae of Sargent s Time Locks. The bunk vault used is as good as can be built. It will be 50,.,, from thn foregoing that this Bank furnishes as good sacuritj to depositors as can be. AMFBEP M COT. THOMAS THOMPSO . Banking House OF A. McCOY &. T. THOMPSON, successors* to A, McCoy & A. Thompson. .Bankers Rensselaer. Ind. Does general Banking business Buy and sell exchaoge. Collcclim ■< made snail available points. Money loaned Interest paid on specified time deposits Office same place as cld firm of A. McCoy & Thompson. apriotl

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THIS J. nOBL Goals, Shoes, Hals, Caps,

I^^4hoes fife* JFEVERY PAIR WARHAHfO * FOR SALE BY THOMAS J.FAKDEN, 3 Doors East of P. O. Rensselaer, lnd. 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 onr goods before buying.

Bents' Furnishing Goods! N WARNER & SONS . DEALERS IN Hardware, Tinwarp, Sitowes South Side Washington Street, RENSSELAER, - - ZNDIAIJi.

IRA W. YEOMAN, attorney at Law, NOTARY PUBLIC, Real Estate and Collecting Agent. iVill practice in all the Courts of Newton Beaton and Jasper counties. Office: —Up-stairs, over Murray’s Citj Jrug Store, Goodland, Indiana. THE NEW IBif RENSSELAER, IND. JU S . OPENED. New and finely furnished.— Uool and pleasant rooms. 'Table furnished with the best the market affords. Good Sample Rooms on first floor. Free Bus to and from Depot. PHILIP BLUE, Proprietor. Rensselaer. May 11.18&S ts. LEAR HOUSE, J. H. LEAR, Proprietor, Opposite Court House , Monticellc, lnd ® aS r£? cent^y k eon new furnished throngb out. The rooms are large and airy.tho loca tion central, making it the most conve.iien and desirable house In town. Try it

A WIDE AWAKE DRUGGIBT Mr. F. B. Learning is always widawake Id his business and spares ne pains to secure the best of every are tide in his liue. He has secured tho agency for the celebrated Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption.— The only certain cure known for Consumption, Coughs. Co.ds, Hoarseness. Asthma, Hay Fever, B-onchitis, or any affection or the Throat and Lungs. Sold on a positive guarantee. Will give you a trial bottle free. Regular size $1 00 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 dud are rapid sellers.” Electric Bitters are the purest and best medicine known and will positively cure Kidney mid Liver complaints. Purify the blood and regulate the bowels.— No family can afford to be without them. They will save hundreds of dollars in doctor’s bills every year.— S 11 ut fifty cents a bottle by F. B yearning.

RENSSELAER, JASPER CQUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY AUGUST 15, 1884. '

A Revenue vs. a Protective TAriff. BY W. D. BYNUM. PROTECTION, IT IS CLAIMED, GIVES A MARKET TO FARMERS. Instead of furnishing the farmers a market, manufacturers are destroying the same. No truth is clearer than that the exchange of products between nations must, in the end, be equal. Money only represents something that has been exchanged or that is to be exchanged. To prove that the exchange of products must be equal, it is only necessary to call attention to the fact that last year we imported articles to the value of $723,180,914. If we had exported, or sold, nothing to the different. nations, we could not have purchased from them. It would take more money than our . entire paper currency, national bank notes, greenbacks and silver certificates represents, to pay for what we purchased from other governments in 1883. Every business man watches closely to see whether, at the end of the year, the ballance of trade is in our favor or against us. Our exports of farm products last year amounted to something near our entire currency. Iris no* nrr* gold nnd silver mines that enables us to trade with foreign governments, but our wheat-fields, our cottonfields and our corn fields; our sheep, hogs and cattle, etc., and without them we could not stand the drain for a single month. If, with all of our advantages, we can not afford to purchase from foreign governments unless they take what we have to sell, we certainly can not expect them to buy from us, unless we take

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what they have to give in exchange. If our farmers sell to foreign governments $619,000,000 worth ot produce every year, they must buy that amount from their customers. Now, it makes no difference to the farmer whether he takes his wheat directly to Europe and sells it. or sells it at his nearest railroad station, he gets what it is worth in Liverpool, less costs of handling, shipping, commissions, etc. If lie sells to the buyers on any of the railroads leading into Indianapolis, he gets the price at Indianapolis, less freights, etc. The Indianapolis dealer pays the price at Baltimore, less freights, etc., and the Baltimore dealer pays the price in Liverpool, less freignts, etc. So it makes no difference where our (farmers sell, they get the price in Liverpool, less all expenses. Now, to illustrate the point in a practical was, suppose our farmers, instead of selling at the nearest railroad stations, should all ship to Baltimore and there load their produce on board ships, and place the same under the control of a dozen or more of their number, with directions to take the same to Liverpool and exchange for such articlesaeiwere suitable Those in charge, after making the voyage safely and exchanging their cargoes for such goods as they were directed to bring back, reload their ships and safely return to New York, from which point each farmer is to receive his share. As soon as the ships enter the port, government officers take possession and remove every article to the Custom House. Now, the farmers, had theyinot beeh advised of such a proceeding, would look upon the same as an unwarranted interference, and would demand by what right their goods were taken possessi n of. Under the present condition of the law and circumstances such a demand by the farmers, we can readily imagine, would lead to the following colloquy between one of their number and the chief officer:

Farmer: These goods we bought in Liverpool. We could not sell all or products at home, so we shipped our surplus to Liverpool and had to take what yon see here in exchange. We have nothing but common clothes for our families, cheap carpels, a few blankets, andhalter chains and other articles, such articles as .we need, and we want to divide the same and send each man his share. Officer: This may all be true, and. I don’t doubt it. But before you can divide these goods or take any of them away you must pag to the government a tax, which is fixed on each article, by a law of Congress. Farmer: Pay a tax to the Government! What do we have to pay a tax for? Officer: The Government requires that every person bringing goods from a foreign country into this must pay a tax on them with which to pay the expenses of the Government. Farmer: We did not think of this. It’s all right. We shonld pay our portion of the expenses. How much does it require from us? Officer: We find that you have $619,000,000 worth of goods. A portion of your goods are taxed very high. Your cloth is taxed from 49 to 70 per cent., carpets 50 per cent., blankets 90 per cent., etc. vVe find that the total amount you must pay is $190,000,000. Farmer-: What! 8190,000,000 from us farmers to carry on the expenses of the Government! Why, sir, how much does it take to run this Government? Officer. Well, enough has already been collected from other sources to pay all the expenses but 90,000,000. There is a surplus of 8100,000,000 every year left in the Treas-

ury, but Congress has fixed the exact amount on each article, and we must have the full $190,000,00. Farmer. Congress has fixed the amount, ana compels you to collect slu«Mtoc.ooo a year more than is necessary irom us! What did Congress do this for? Ninety millions is enough for us to pay. Officer. That extra hundred million is put on to protect our manufacturers. That is a penalty you must pay for not buying your goods at home. Next time you must not buy so much in Liverpool. Bring money home and buy your goods here. Farmer. But we could not get money. We had to take foods or lose our products. )oes the Government intend that we shall sell nothing to foreign countries nor buy anything from them? Officer. We do not know about that. You must rid of your products as best you can; but you must not buy anything abroad. If you do you must pay this penalty every year. Farmer. Weil, sir, this may be a law of Congress; but a law that punishes us for taking goods in exchange for our products is infamous. What right has the Government to prevent us from trading outside? This may be alaw now, but in the future the farmers of this country will vote for no man for Congress who will not pledge himself to vote in favor of a reduction of this tax until no more money is collected from us than is necessary to administer the affairs of the Government economically Now, it is easy to see that our farmers, if they are compelled to pay this enormous taxon the goods they receive in exchange for their products, will refuse to take anything in payment but money. We have "seen, however, that no nation can afford to pay money for any great length of time. Our English customers, Who have been purchasing our farmer’s wheat, pork and beef, understand this, and they say to the farmers: “If you can not take our goods in exchange, we can not trade as freely with you. We must get our provisions elsewhere. We have rich soil and good lands in Egypt and the Indies, and we will raise our own food.” Only recently the Indianapolis Journal called attention to the fact that Eengland was raising large quantities of cotton and wheat in her own possessions, and that it " ould not be long till our farmers would have to look to a home market exclusively. Could any admission be more fatal to a protective policy? In order to foster monopolies at home, we have driven the farmers best customers to turn agriculturists, and become their competitors in the markets of the world. France and Germany, goaded by our high tariff, which prohibits them from selling to our farmer such articles as they have for export, under the pretext that American meat is unhealthy, have excluded it from their markets, and our farmers are shut out of two great cQuntiies that could and 'would consume large quantities of American meats if they could only give in exahange their products. Instead of furnishing the farmers with a market, these monpolists have more effectually “cut off our trade with all parts of the world” than ever the King of Great Britain had when arraigned by the patriotic Government in their declaration of freedom. Is it not time that the people of this Govenment should examine this question in the light of reason and fairness? Is it not time that we should investigate not as partisans, but as patriots, a question of such vital importance to our-

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selves. Farmers aretold, however that they are protected as well as the manufacturers. There is a tariff of 20 cents a bushel on wheat, 10 cents a bushel on corn, 15 cents a bushels on potatoes, and 20 per cent, on live animals, and from 10 to 12 cents a pound on wool. This provision for the benefit of our farmers is exceedingly genero us. No doubt that the farmers of Kansas, as they occasionally kindle a fire with a few ears of corn, because wood is too scarce or expensive, thank Congress, and the manufacturers, that the struggling farmers of Europe, are not permitted to utterly destroy their markets at home. That, a few years ago as they drove into Wichita, and saw the streets crowded with wagons loaded with wheat, and learned that over 4,(XX),000 bushels were anually shipped from that little town, they blessed the policy of protection, which prevented the poor tenants of Ireland, from flooding our country with wheat, w hat a consolation it is for our farmers to know that they are orotected and that there is no immediate danger of utter ruin. Our farmers may, however, wish to improve their crops, or their stock. They may wish a few pure Jersey cattle for milk stock; some Clydesdale or French horses for draft purposes* and to get them they must pay the duty, and this is the sole benefit of protection to farmers on their stock. But, say protectionists, farmers are protected on their stock. u e are told that our farmers can not compete with the cheap wool of South America and Australia, and that a duly of from 10 to 12 cents a pound is necessary to protect pur wool-growers. It is rather singular that the woolgrowers have been caught with this bait, and are ready to do the bidding of the protectionists, if the duty can only be increased. Have not the wool-growers investigated their true interests sufficient to learn that the tariff on wool is a direct and positive injury instead of a benefit to them? Have they suffered the “wool to be pulled over their eyes” and gone on blindly without investigating the effects of the tariff on their wool? A high tariff has invariably lowered the price of wool at home instead of raising it.

Mr. Haskell, formerly a Republican member, in a debate in Congress, in 1882, said: “Take the very item m wool, in which you are all interested. From 1850 to 1860, wool was free, and the wool interests of tnis country were at a low ebb. * * Do you say the price of wool has increased under this tariff of 12 cents a pound against the free wool of 1850 to 1860? I have here the figures. To-day wool is cheaper per pound, and has been for the past five years, than it was from 1850 to 1860, under the free rating of the free trade party.” Ought not this admission put American wool-growers to thinking? If a tariff on wool has reduced the price of American wool, in the home marked, where is the protection? Mr. Stebbins, who possesses a remarkable, thougn somewhat singular, faculty of drawing conclusions, in speaking on the tariff on wool, says: “Its results as to wool, are given in the tariff commission report, and can he stated as follows: Sheep, 1860, 22,471,275; 1880, 43,576,896. Founds of wool in 1860, 50,264,913; in 188° 340,000,<>M—or twice as muc S3r head as in 1860. Prices i oston in currency average in 1867, fifty-one cents; in 187 forty-three cents; in 1880, so ty-eight cents. The price is little lower, but the sum from each fleece nearly double, as the result of imp oved breeds,

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