Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1888 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

VOLUME XII

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*“«” Hou .„ o ,wo»T>i.’ I '' ’’ IICC " T A- MSCOY & C®M bankers, (Successors to A. McCoy & T. Thompson,) Rensselaer, Indpoints Office same place a Anril 2,1886 & Thompson 1 mordecai ?■ Indiana rknsselakb. - - . • Practices |ln the Courts o Ulty. g offl6C onnJfth side of Washington S®, opposite Court House- vlnl DAVXD 3. THOMPSON “ M imraer-at-liw. JoUrrfuMo. THOMPSON A Bensbelaeb. - Practicßin all th© Courts. ARION I>. SFTTKER, Collector abA Abstractor* We pay particular attention to paying tax”selling and leasiag lands. v2n * B

TV- H. H. GRAHAM, ’ ’ * attoknby-at law. Reebdzlatk, Indiama. Money to loan on long iMcrest. JAMES W. DOUTHIT, and notary public. Office up stairs, in Maleever’s new yttllding. Rensselaer. Ind. Bdwtm P. Hammond. William B. Austin. HAMMOND & AUSTIN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Rrnbsklaeh, Ind. Office on second floor of Leopold’s Block, comer of Washington and Vanßensselaer streets. William B. Avstinpurchases, sells and leases real estate, pays taxes and deals in negotiable instruments. may2,,87. W WATSON, A.TTOACN’HJ'Sr-A.T-I-A.’W py Office up Stairs, in Leopold’s Bazay, RENSSELAER, IND. w. HARTSELL, M D HOMOEOPATHIC |PIIYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. WChronic Diseases a Specialty. OFFICE, in Makeever’a New Block. Residence at Makeever House. July 11,1884 J> H. LOUGHRIDGE Physician and Surgeon. Office in the new Leopold Block, second floor, second door right-hand side of hall: Ten per cent. Interest will be added to all Maounts running unsettled longer than ffitree months. vlnl DR. I. B. WASHBURN Physician A Surgeon, AenueZaer, Ind. □ails promptly attended. Will give special atten lion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. Zimri Dwkjoins, F. J. Sears, Val. Seib, President. Vicr-President. Cashier (’ITIZENSSTATEBANK RENSSELAER. IND., Does a general banking"bust'!TS3§ , ; Certificates bearing interest issued; Exchange bought and sold; Money loaned on firms at lowest rates audonmosJavorable teims. Jan. 8,88.

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA. FRIDAY JUNE 29. 18M

FREE RAW MATERIALS.

Congressman Warner, who represents the Kansas City district, is a republican and a red-hot protectionist. The other day, however, when the Mills bill was under co sideiation in the house, he moved an amendment, adding burlap to the fre * list. Burlap is a cloth woven from juie or hemp,' and is largely used in the manufacture of bags. Why Maj Warner wants the duty removed from it is explained by a stockholder in the Kansas City bag company: “The manufacture of bags is one of the greatest industries of the state. Missouri makes more bags and sacks than any other state m the union. She makes the bags for the agriculturalists of the great southwest. The uses to which the burlap bags are put to in this western country are too numerous to mention. They take the places of barrels and boxes for the transportation of vegetables, c< rn wheat and coal. The reduction of the tariff or the putting of the burlap on the free list will make the bags cheaper, and the demand would be greater. The burlap industry is a great •ne|locally.”

All that this gentleman says is no doubt true. Free burlap means cheaper bags for the farmer, and a better market for the bag manufacturers, The government does not need thefrevenue derived from the tax on burlap, and whether it benefits anybody or not, it certainly injures an important industry and imposes a needless burden upon the agricultural interests of the country. What is true of burlap is true of all other ra v materials. Let them come in free and an immense and healthful impetus would be given to the manufacturing interests of the country, while the cost of living would be materially re dttced to the people. The only legitimate protection which the government can afford to iron manufacturers is to give them their raw materials duty free. This will enable them to compete on even terms with their competitors in other countries. It will make a large demand for their products, both. at home and abroad, and a correspondingly larger demand for labor. Coal, lumber, salt, iron and copper ought to be free. It is nothing less than a crime that these raw products should be heavily taxed for the I enefit of a handful of monopolists who control the American source of supply. Free raw materials will do for the manufacturing interests of the country what free burlap will do for the bag-making industry in Protectionist Warner’s district— Indianapolis Sentinel.

Opposing Tax Reduction.—ln a word, the republican party goes to the country as opposing tax reduction except upon whisky and tobacco, or the alternative plan of reducing the revenue by increasing the tariff to a prohibitive point on goods that may be produced in this country. • They would also obviate the necessity of tax reduction by larger expenditure. Here is a plain issue, easily understood, and there is nothing else id question. —Philadelphia Record. “Pet Banks.”—lt was indiscreet in Maj. McKinley to call attention to the “policy of 1c aning the government’s money without interest to ‘pet banks’.” Calling it “democratic” will not ma<e New Yorkers, at any rate, forget that one of the most stately bank buildings in this city, built largely from the profits of that policy, is known ns “Fort Sherman.”—N. Y. Times. Plunder and Monopoly.—Subsidy and plunder, trust and monopoly, animates every sentence of the republican platform.—Pittsburgh Post. In the bright lexicon of Chicago platform makers there is no such vord as reform.—Wheeling Register.

OREGON’S ELECTION.

Private Advices Showing a Small Republican Majority. Mr. M. S. Hellman, of Canyon City, Grant, county, Oregon, who was a delegate to the democratic national convention from Oregon, and has £ remained in St Louis since the adjournment of the convention as the guest es his brother, S. L. Hellman, the well-known merchant, called at the office of the Republic yesterday to state that the official return* in his state show that the republican majority at the recent election was much smaller than usually is the caso. A letter received by nim yesterday from his partner in business, who is himself a reoublican states that the official majority of the republicans is only 700. The reports heretofore sent out by the Associated Press have given the republican majority as 2,000, making it larger than for some years. As will be seen, the facts are directly contrary to these first reports.— The republican majority has been cut down and the answer of Oregon to the appeal of the protectionists for indorsement has been a practical repudiation of protection a<d republicanism. Mr. Hellman is the member selected by the Oregon delegation to represent them on the committee that will visit Washington on the 26th to notify President Cleveland of his nomination. He will remain in St. Louis until he leaves for Washington in a day or two. —St. Louis Republic.

Workingmen Against the Tariff. —The republicans will not get so many of the workingmen’s votes on the tariff issue this year as they have been in the habit of getting, and not nearly so many as they are counting on. This, is, indeed, their chief reliance They are organizing wherever they can get a footing in districts where large numbers of men are employed in mining or manufactures, to secure as large a vole as possible. They have subsidized or established socalled “labpr” papers, they have engaged agitators from among some of the officers of the trades unions and in their own party organs they are pressing the appeal to the workingmen wilh much zeal and such ingenuity as they can command. But thev are not meeting with the success they had hoped for and expected. They find that manv of the workmen in the ‘protected’ industries dish ust their employers and argue that if a lower tariff woulu make lower wages the employers would advocate it. It happens that the “protected” employers have had quite as much trouble witk their men as any others, and have been quite as reluctant to advance or maintain wages unless they were forced to do so. Thus, quite apart from the merits of the tariff question, the protectionists are encountering a deepseated suspicion among the workingmen as to any plan openly advocated by employers.—New York Times.

The Hotel Brotherhood biass band, of Indianapolis, composed entirely of colored musicians, who discourse me st excellent music, serenaded the colored delegates at the Palmer house yesterday afternoon. Of course they attracted a large crowd, who enjoyed the harmony exceedingly* By some inscrutable operation of circumstance the band selected for its opening piece the “Cleveland Quickstep,” and several colored men recognized the tune at once. “Wat dey wan’ ter play dat for?” inquired one of them. “Cleveland may gib us de quickstep next November, but et’stime ’nuff to play dat tune w’en he does. Don’ want no smarter quickstep in mine dan we had four y. ars ago.” “I beleeb dem Musicians am black democrats ennyhow,” said another angrily, “en I don’t want to hear enny moh’ of dere dam bad playin’,” and he stalked off indignantly followed by a number of his friends.—lndianapolis Sun.

A CAMPAIGN SONG.

On the tcmpeet-toMtd bosom «f raging Salt creek We -vill sown be afloat if we don't apring aleak. For our craft ia as cranky as even oar crew— We must drift to our fate in our tippy canoe Chorus—Sing Wow away, blow o’er the waters so blue. We must drift te eur fate in our tippy canoe. We expected to sail in a seaworthy ship. And land at the harboring white house thia trip, Bnt alas, for our hopes, we And that in lieu We are left here to drift in our tippy ea*oe. Chorus—Sing blow away, &c | We had hope that the ship would be placed in command Of that eminent sailor who keeps close at hand An anchor to cart to the windward to do What can never be done with this tippy canoe. Chorus.. Sing blow away <fce. The greatest era of prosperity that this country has ever known was under the revenue tariff of 1846. Agriculture flourished, manufactures labor urospered, the railway system had a phenomenal development, and in fact every legitimate interest in the land enjoyed a healthy growth.

« to hl The Union Township Hendricks League No. 3 will meet at the Center School House, Union Tw’p, on Saturday, June 23d. Evening. The Barkley Township Hendricks League No. 2 will meet at Center School House, Barkley Township, Saturday > June 80th.— Evening. The Democrats will meet at the following named places and time for th® purpose of organizing branches of the Hendricks League: Milrov Township, Center School House, July 7th. Evening. Wheatfield Township, Wheatfield, Saturday, July 14th. Evening Kankakee Township, Dunnville, Monday, July 16th. Evening. Let all Democrats turn out. By order of Jasper County League Organizing Committee. DAVID W. SHIELDS, President. A. N. Lakin, Sec’y.

W SIB Stß! The Annual Session of the Jasper County Summer School for tenchers will be held in the High School Building, Rensselaer. Ind., beginning, July 16,1888, and continuing five weeks. The Instruction will be under the charge of Prof. F. W. Reubelt, superintendent of the B ensselaer schools, assisted by I. C. Reubelt and Amanda W. Warren, of the same schools. The Course of Study will include all the common school branches, Pedagogy and such of the sciences as may be desired. The work will be given by topics and any good text book may be used. The Primary Practice Work will be under the sup-rvision of Mrs. Warren and it will be the aim to make it one of the most interesting features of the school Tuition for the term $4.50 if paid in advance, if not paid in advance $1 per week will be charged. The County Institute will immediately fellow the summer school. The usual special rates for board can be secured. Believing it to be your desire to improve and advance in your work, I shall expect you in attendance during the entire term. Our very poorest teachers are satisfied with present attainments; our best ones, ready and willing to receive information from any source. Your friend, J. F. Warren, Co. Supt. J. C.

DON’T LIKE THE PLATFORM

Cutting Crltioism by a W estern Republican Organ. [The Republic.] Denver, Col., June 22.—The Colorado Springs Gazette, one of the leading republican organs of the Rocky mountains and more especially of Colorado, speaking editorially of the platform adopted at the Chicago convention, says: “The republican platform is a disappointment It is, however, large enough to hold everything but Chinamen. It lacks the ring of the republican platform of 1856 and|lß6o, or even that of 1884, when a strong conviction of right and wrong prompted every utterance. The evident lack of conviction of right and wrong prompted every utterance. The evident lack of conviction has changed a statement of principles into a long special plea for the republican party and a severe arraignment of the democratic party. Tt has not the sober dignity of statesmanship, but the skillful pleading of a smart attorney. In sc me parts it is so manifestly unfair and tricky that it is almost an insult to the intelligence of the voteis of this country. For example, the plank on teiritories says, as a hit at Cleveland,

from the bona fide residents of tie territory wherein they are to serve.’ This was never the policy of the party when in power. Regarding the admission of territories both parties act upon the same. Colorado was admitted in 1876, because both parties expected the electoral vote. Political advantage has always been considered by the dominant party in admitting a lerritory to statehood. “The plank favoring silver is right, but when it goes on to eondamn the policy of the democratic administration in its efforts to demonetize silver, it is absurd. Silver was demonetized by a republi - can congress. Since it was de - monetized every republican administration has been hostile to it. These are facts that every intelliSent man is possessed of. The r.-t clause was sufficient and was a pledge for the nominee even if be should be Sherman. The plank on the rehabilitation of our American merchant marine is much the same. The party did and could do nothing toward this in the twenty-four years it was in power. It proposes no change of policy. The condemnation of the democratic administration in not taking hold of the Nicaragua canal is the same kind. This platform makes one long for the honesty of a Greeley, the statesmanship of a Lincoln, and the conviction of a Sumner.”

A Severe Dose.— We wait with some curiosity to learn the re spouse of Congressman Knute Nelson and the tens of thousands of republicans in Minnesota whom he represents to the tariff features of the platform. There are elements in Michigan, lowa, Nebraska, and even in Kansas, whish are likely to be heard from before the campaign is over. In the meantime “phanzv th® phelinks” of the editors of the Chicago TribuneHorace Greeley, in accepting the nomination of Gen. Scott to the presidency in 1852, made the characteristically quiet remark that he “spit upon the platform” that accompanied it. Perhaps Brother Medill will take his resentment out in something the same way.—Boston Herald. Who Selected the Candidate. —The land-grant railroads selected the republican candidate for the presidency and the confederated trusts framed the platform.— The verdict of the people on both will ba heard in November. —St Louis Republic. Dear Clothes, Cheap Whisky. —We don’t see anything in the republican platform about the saloon m politics. The republican antisaloon movement gives up the ghost to cheap whisky and dear clothes.—Pittsburgh Post

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