Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1884 — BLAINE AND PROHIBITION. [ARTICLE]

BLAINE AND PROHIBITION.

as a Friend to the Cause of Tem- ■ perance by That Party. I? [lndianapolis Journal.] ■ committee appointed by the late Bition convention held in this city a Bys ago has issued an address in ■let form entitled “To the Temperance Bof America. ” In this address the Banco people are advised to stand to- ■ and support the "Republican nomi- ■ On page 6 of the address, speaking Bes G. Blaine, it says: . “For the past B years all the tracts of the American prance Society, which have discussed Bue and success of prohibition legis- ■ have contained letters of testimony Barnes G. Blaine in favor of the proBn in Maine, and for more than B years Mr. Blaine has supported that ■tion in his own State.” Signed: Bjumback, Greensburg, Ind.; C. G. Blemew, Warsaw, Ind.; E. B. Rey- ■ Hagerstown, Ind.; Isham Sedge- ■ Richmond, Ind.; W. M. Land, Bton, Ind.; J. D. Mitchell, Terre ■ Ind.; J. B. Wade, LaGrange, Ind.; ■ Houser, Indianapolis; W. R. Har- ■ Martinsville, Ind.; J. H. Hodapp, Bur, Ind.; John B. Conner, IndianapBtr. Blaine and the Fanners. ■ Blaine makes the strongest argument Botection we have ever seen, and yet B how plain a tale shall put him down. ■s: ■farmers see that in the Increasing com■n from the grain fields of Russia and ■e distant plains of India, the growth of ■ne market becomes daily of greater con■o them, and that its impairment would ■late the value of every acre of tillable ■ the Union. ■ farmers of this country raise, in ■ numbers, 500,000,000 bushels of I annually. It requires on an average ■labels a head per year to sustain our ■,OOO of people. That eats up 250,000,■shels. It takes 50,000,000 more for ■ Thus we have 200,000,000 bushels ■teat to sell. What are we going to do ■his surplus without a foreign demand? ■rice of wheat in Liverpool determines ■arket quotations here; therefore, our ■ market” can neither appreciate nor ■date the value of the product. ■ther thing. Mr. Blaine expresses ■ concern for the welfare of the Amer■griculturist; yet he protects everybody ■ his expense. The farmer has to sell ■rplus wheat in the open markets of ■e in direct competition with the I fellah labor of Egypt, the next to ■bor of Russia, and the coolie labor of 1 ♦

the “distant plains of India. 1 * The American farmer—owing to a protective tariff—has to pay extravagant prices for everything he uses on his farm, and his “hired help” costs him all the way from $1 to $2 a day, while the cheap labor of Europe and Asia, engaged in wheat tillage, may be had for less than a tenth part of even $1 a day! Mr. Blaine is ingenious, but sophistry will hardly do duty for argument in this age and country.— Rochester Union and American. ’