Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1884 — Heavy Call on Imagination. [ARTICLE]

Heavy Call on Imagination.

Imagine George" Washington: “Burn this leftoru” Imagine Benjamin Franklin writing: “I will sacrifice a good deal to get a settlement.” Imagine Too nas Jefferson writing; “I know of various channels in which I can prove useful,’ Imagine Abraham Lincoln writing: “No one will ever know from mo that I ever disposed of a singled dollar in Maine.” Imagine Grover Cleveland writing: “It will be in my power to put an anchor to windward in your behalf.” Some of our con temporal ies find sotsfaction in this collocation: ‘Burn this letter-’--James G. Blaine. ‘Tell the truth ’ —Glover Cleveland, Well the letter was not burned. Nor was the truth told.—New York Sun. No, Jim lied right along.

Tiie Dunc-annon lion Company recently posted a notice of a ten per cent, reduction in the wages of all employes- to go into eff- ct on Oct. 1, which so angered the latter that they hung J. G. Blaine in effigy in the rolling mill, with a placard on his breast bearing the following woids. “James G. Biaine is dead, Tne ten per cent reduction killed him ” John B Harbolt is prospecting in Kansas. Frank Weathers left this wtek for Kansas. Nowels, at the Court House, tomorrow evening. Tallin r up a copy of Blaine’s letter of acceptance, Mr. Fuller read figures here and there, and then by facts and figures taken from the national census proved in the language of *be speaker that “Mr. B ! aine was either ignorant of the facts or has published false statements.” Should he be elected to the highest office in the public? Blaine was now making his great “stump tour” through the country, and his visit at the home of the martyred president with Mrs. Garfield was very nice. Just as Scott, a very estimable man in many respects, got four states, so will Blaine undoubtedly capture Maine and perhaps Vermont The speaker then produced extracts aken from the national can sus as far back as in 1850. In 1850 the value of farms was $3 000.000,000; in 1860 $6,000,000,000. In other words, during this time of Democrat ic rule, when Lhe “wicked Demo crats” were in power, there was an increase of 103 per cent, in the value of farms; from 1860 to 1870, UDaer republican rule, there was increase of value of only 39 per cent. Between ’SO and ’6O, under Democratic rule, the value of farming implements increased per cent, while between ’7O and ’BO, under republican rule, there was an increase of oulv 20 per cent. The aggregate value of personal property between the years 1850 and 1860, during dem ocratic rule, increased 126 per cent., while between the years 1860 and 1870, under republican rule, the aggregate value increased 25 per cent. Blaine, in his letter,, introduced not much argument, arid he was wrong in hi 9 facts. The speaker took Blaine on his own grounds. It was absurd to attribute the increase of popu a* tion of the country to any one party, as did the candidate for President on the republican ticket. Blaine’s words of to day were false, and the speaker could prove them so by the census. Between 1850 and 1860 tlieie was an increase in the manu factoring industries of the country of 87 per cent, while under republican rule, between 1860 and 1870. there was an increase of 82 per cent. In

printers product, between 1850 aud 1860, there was an increase 168 per cent, while between 1860 and 1870 ihere was an increase ot 107 per cent Woolen mills increased 42| per cent, between 1850 1860, and 22| per cent, between 1860 and 1870. iu 1850 tl.eie were 9,000 miles of railway; iu 1860,30,685 miles, an increa e of 2394 per cent. In 18S9 there were 52-914, miles, and in 1880, 88 000 miles, an increase of 66 per cent. Between 1850 and 1860 there were 2,265 ships built; between 1860 and 1870 there were 860 ships built, aud between 1870 and 1880 there were only 608 ships built. Thus the speaker contrasted the administration of the two parties, his statements calling forth, at frequent intervals, hearty applause. The democrats want a reduction in taxation' but the republicans' according to their platform, also advocate the dame thing. If at any time thete should lie such a measure adopted, that time is now: The speaker then read the figures show jng the tariff rates on household articles; these were too high, much too high. Prices of all useful articles in 1860 were low, now high. The wases have increased 8 per cent, but board and living expenses have increased 35 per cent. To be sure, E gland did not wish the United States t* change the tariff laws, because it gives England the monopoly of the world. Labor got for wages 17-7 10 per cent of the product: the tariff got 40 per cent., if there was a tariff of 40 per cent it would still pay the wages. The chairman of the Republican national committee got his sl9by protection, but if he found he could not make money he would -hut down his mills ana discharge his live thousand employes and keep his money: The expor:s were more in 1860 under a low tariff than twenty years after under a high tariff. Under the navagation laws they tax everything on hips, from the rope on the sails to the salt on the keel; hence no ship-building. Between 1866 and 1880 there was a decrease in shipping tonnage of 65,000 tons, while the tonnage of all other countries ncreased. [Cries of “Shame!”] If the people of this country eoulci not understand and put to rignt thess matters they were unworthy oi 1 self, government.

the “wicned democrats” 2,1D8.15C square miles of territory were acquired; under the republicans 286,000 square miles. Before the year 1861 there was not one acre of public land given to a railroad compan; I Since then* the Republicans have giv«* en to raiUoad companies 137,000,000 aores, one twentieth or the United States. Could the people hope that Blaine would restore these lauds? Tho Speakei dwelt upon the land grant frauds, glvingfaots and figures, He thought Blaine an unsafe man to vote for for President. ‘ Cheers were given for Cleveland and Hendrick, anrl the meeting ended.