Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1887 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

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Alfxbd Mt'CoT, T. J, McCot E. L. lIOLLINaSWOHTH. A. MNSOY & C». 9 BANKEH f, (SucceMois to A. McCoy & T. Thompson,) Rensselaer. Ind. DO a fie; erst hanking business. Exchange bought and sold Certificates hearing interest issued Collections made on al' available points Office same place as old firm of McCoy A Thompson April 2,1886 'VfORDECAI F. CHILCOTE. Attorney-at-Laxr ENBBEDAEB, * INDIANA Practices'in the Courts of Jasper ami-ad-oinlng counties. Makes collections a specialty Office- on .north side of Washintto.. street, opposite Court House- vml SIMON P. THOMPSON, DAVID .T. THOM PSON *Attorney-at- Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHEB., Renssedaee, - - Indiana Practice in alUlie Courts. ARION L. SPITLER. Collector and AbstractorWo pay , irticular attention to paying tax* , sellint, and leasiag lands. V 2 nlB < -yy fl. H. GRAHAM, ATTOrN EY-AT-LAW, Reesdelatk,lndiana. Money to loan on long time at low interest. Sept. 10,’66. JAMES W. DOUTHIT, A T .RNEY'-AT-LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC, Office.up stairs, in Maieever’s new ,»i]din£. Rensselaer, ind. EDWIN P. HAMMOND, ATTORNEY-AISLAW, Rensselaer, Ind. Over Makeever’s Bank. May 21. 1885. W UATIOX, ATTO JtNB Y-AT-L A W HJ- Olße* np Stsirs, in Leopold’s Bszay, RENSSELAER IND. Yf W. HARTSELL, M D aOMCEOPACHIC fPHYSICIAN * SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA, VChronic Diseases \ Specialty.^! OFFICE, in Makeever’s New Block. Residence at Makeever House. > July 11,1884.

J i K. LOUGHRIDGE Physioian and Surgeon. Washington street, below Austin’s hotel Ten per cent, interest will be added to all accounts running uusettled longer than three months. vim DR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician & Surgeon, Renggeiaer, hid. Calls promptly attended. Will give special atter tion to the treatment of Chronic oi»e«ses ~ — ' CSKPraro 9 ffiAWK, RENSSELAER. r*JTS., R. 8. Dwigkixs, r, J, Rears, y ai,. Seib. President, \ic ■■President. Cashier Does a general banking business C rtificates bearing 1 tereot iasnej; Exchange bonsht and sold; loaned on farnn* t low Bt rates and on 2 cs .favorable tenon. * April 1886.

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1* Wstibs <& Itessj, —DEALERS nr— A Hardware Tinware vTIIIIP V mm utUVuu | ol Styles and price*, for | §§§ FARM : m MACH INERT, ’ Field and wbebl gls*P£sEEDs, Btt 1 1 jt aptrs, Eowors and Binders, Deering Reapers, Mowers and Binders, Walter A. Wood Reapers, Mowers and Binders, Grand Detour Company’s Plows. Cassady Plows. Farmers’ Friend Corn Planters. C jquillard Wagons. Best Wire Fencing, etc. Side Washington Street. RENSSELAER, INDIAN/*

The “Old Reliable” is under the management of Norm. Warner & Sons. They keep constantly on hand an extensive stock of stoves, in great variety, hardware,'agricultural implements, etc. They know when, where and how to buy, and put their goods on the market at bottom- prices. - An End to Bone Scraping. Edward Shepherd,of Hrrisburg, 111. says: ‘Having received sc much benefit from Electric Bitters, I feel it my duty to let suflering humanity it. Have had a running sore on my leg for eight years; my doctors told me 1 would have to have the bone scraped or leg' amputated I used, instead, three bottlrs ot Electric Bitters and seven boxes Bueklen’s Arnica Salve i d my leg is now-sound and well,” Elect 1 ic Ri ’ I er- arc sold at fifty cents i bottle, and s Arnica Salve a •15. per b < 3 , . STExamine quality and ascertain prices of overcoats' §£ Eisner’s. You will buy. A large and well selected stock of School Suits icr Boys, stylish, handsome, cheap and durable, just received at Ralph Fendfg’s.

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SOME REMARKS ON THE TARIFF.

To the Editor of The IndUnapolis News: S lam an ardent admirer and const* ant reader of your spicy paper, but I disagree with you on the tariff ques* tion which you har*. on from time to time. If the tariff is oppressive, as you say, by keeping up high prices, how is it that prices have fallen, Tor instance, on rails, inside of twenty years, from SIOO to $35 der ton, and on merchandise and every other ne* cessary of life in proportion? It is the lively competition among the AmericaDjmanufacturers that reduces prices regardless of the iariff. The duty levied on English goods is only so much taken from English profits, consequently the consumer is not burdened by the tariff. The duty levied on English goods is only so much taken fr un Eri list, profits con equently the consumer is not burdened by the tariff. I If. that is not the case, wbv is it at our national the pubik-arid pres ; of England take such interest in the success of the democratic candidate? Merely for tbe sake £ of getting a free market here EnglantHuts an anxious eye on ;he marketsjof this country. She would compel us at the mouth of th* <ano’ to give her me entry if she dared, as she has done to China

and other weaker powers- Sir.iffrob fade is such a blessing as you say- ■ why is not Ireland blessed with free trade? Compare Ireland of to-day in this progressive age, with Ireland of eighty-five years ago when she had her parliament and a high restrictive tariff to protect her industries. Ireland had been a contented, prosperous population of 9,»X)Q,000. To-day It is a little over 4.000.000 under free traae. Please explain if free trade is such a Dlsssit g, why It is that there is such a steady stream of emigration frem th-Britis . Isles wh rs free trade is perfect, to this eouDtry where t' e cursed tariff is so oppressive to the wage-workers as vou say? I have worked on the farm in England and, In the foundry, and among all the millions of workmen I same in contact with I never saw the man that owned the roof that sfcel'ered him. The greateit stitesmen of England, 1 France end Germany favor high tat iff. Surely you must concede that Bismarok Is your equal in statesman ship. He is a protectionist. Why strike down ibat which has done more to build up this country in tweuty-five years than free trade has done in seyauty-flve yeuis, end give perfidious Albion, the hater of America as well a* the oppressor ofay race, a monopoly of this market, for every foreign article consumed v h*re takes that much labor out of the hands of labor b®r© drains the country of so much money. The leajing men of brains and statesmanship in this country are on the tariff side. The sluggish democracy, which is behind the Mmes in everything but crime, badot box ruling and tallysheet alterations, are nil free-traders Ts we w ish to redyce the surplus in the rmiotnij treasury, let us extend the democratic lease of power, an' I will go their -eeurity that they will re uce ;he surplus as th*-y have done Heretofore. So that problem is solvtW\ Very respect full v, North Salem. John Kilroy.

The News thus “answers a fool uocordiug to his foll.v”: . 4 Tuc price ->f si.-cl mils lias fulleu loot.use of impj'ovenn tits in the man l ufacture, notably the .Gilchrist Thames process. Thar it hasn’t been from iivt ly competition among American mani;factiirers * is *hn w u by twTTfacts: (1) Ihe price s (own abroad thau.it is here apd >vc have not competed in foreign markets- our tariff prevent* ing ir. (2) There has i con r.o < ompeti io: here’ The-“pooT* has obtained control of :-oiuo patents in thiseountrv an i, prot i, y ‘he tariff from fo.i'oicn competition, holds this market at its m<‘rcy. Jt has advanced the price in two. years from $26 to S3B and can advance it just as high as the ■ortian price, plus sl7 n toD duty, plus freight and commission will let it go. One result of this conditioner things is the destruction of the rolling mill industry in this city. Steel rails have supplan ed iron,so oui iron mill he:e, at a cost of hundreds of thous* and of dollars, put in a steel “plant.* But the “pooF* owning the patents made effective for monopoly by the protective tariff, refuses to sell steel to our mill. The oousequence is tnis mill has never turned a wheel, Is a dead loss and the industry with Its dependent ocpulatton of 2,000 or 3,« 000 is scattered. But for the tariff our mill could get Its blooms abroad (or then forced by competition, from the home makers of them) and could proseoute a large Industry here. This indicates how a tariff keeps us out of foreign markets. Our steel rail makers, for instance cannot sell iD those markets from the fact that the duties on iron which they mnst impor amount to $7 or $8 on the quantity that goes into a ton of steel rails. Manifestly they must sell for at least that much more than rad makers who get this material free. Another effect is that these tariffs giving those engaged in these industries a monopoly of our markets, enable them to willfully advance prices just as our steel rail makers have advanced thei.s as quoted; consequently we cannot quote prices far enough ahead for delivery of goods to secure trade. Under freedom of trade there would only be the natural fluctuations of the world’s markets to take into ccount. Under our tariff tlie flu-tuations are just what the monopolists choose to make them, limited only by tlie condition of this monopolized home market. As to England so fiercely desiring the success of the d mocratic party in order to get a chance at free markets in this country, that is a nursery tale along rith the ' British Gold” of the Cobden

i club. Henry Wa;d Beecher testifies since hit, recent return from England what is we l known, that English manufacturers do not want free trade in this country, for what the might gain by competition in in our markets with freights and commssions against them, would be at the risk of having to meet our manufacturers in South America and other markets of the world where they are now fre© from our com’cetitioh. The Dolicy which would let them into this country would let our immense manufacturing resources out, and with the quicker brain and superior skill of the American workmetf* then tp be exerted to the full, England has a wholesome fear of the contest Aa to Ireland, eighty-five years ago (or exactly in 1808) eh? hack less than flye and a half million ft population, instead of 9, 000,000.. Eorty-one years ago she had eight and a qnarter, and it was a population living almost who ly on the potato—living from the soil direct J and not through earnings of factories; so that when the potato crop failed there came the famine. Further, it was the high restrictive tariff imposed by England that wrought Ireland’s ruin. Under freedom from restrictions her manufactures and kindred industries were thriving. They were broken up root and branch, t the operatives driven to France, Spain and the Netherlands |uuder the brutal and barbarous, tariff policy of duties on exports and imports and all of trade limitations, just like the same policy on Spain’s mrt ruined her colonies and finaly herself. The r-Hi f that lreand got was the relief of free trade, but even that,came too late skill and the habits and the habits aiul the traditions of manufacture which it takes so long a time to acquire had been harried to death with tariff laws. To say that Ireland was “contented and prosperous” eighty-live years ago is to ilv in the face of Ins ory. It was tariffs that ruined Ireland for one thing. For another thing it was th-ecancer of rent which under the accursed system of alien landlordism that still prevails takes even the scanty earnings of grazing and agriculture out of the country. The same explains why in England the masses do not own “the roof over their heads.’’ The land laws have confirmed the conditions of the feudal system, and to-day keep in the hands of thirtyod thousand persons the ownership of the soil of the whole of Great Britain.

The reason there is such a steady stream of emigration from the free-trade British Isles is the same that causes a similar or great- * er emigration from “protection” Geimany, namely, an overcrowded population. The same steady stream set from the British Isles and coloniz d the earth when pro* teetion prevailed there. As to the remainder of this communication: The great statesme n of England do not favor a protective tariff. Those of France and Germany do. We do not concede that Bismarck is our equal in statesmanship, but he does very well, considering. Germany is an armed camp and so is France—the letter with the biggest debt in the world, and high tariffs follow such a condition just as they followed here when the United States was an armed camp. But don’t lose sight of the fact that labor in free trade England is paid.ilmost twice as high as in protected France and Germany; that it is higher there than in any country in Europe; that it has increased over 50 per cent, since the adoption of free trade and that the workingman is nowhere so miserable and oppressed as in Germany, Italy and other high protective countries of‘Europe. — — i —- TbeJunch and meals, gotten up by Antrim are attracting a patronage +o that establishment highly appreciated by the proprietor the ifeof. Antri m says s his ai m will be to deserve it.

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