Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1888 — LIKE MASTER LIKE MAN. [ARTICLE]

LIKE MASTER LIKE MAN.

The IndianaooJis Journal was in Mareh, 1882, when the Miller antiChinese bill was pending in congress, the personal organ of Benjamin Harrison, as it is to-dav. Like him u strenuously opposed the restriction of Chinese immigration. Its editorial columns were filled with praises of the Chinese, and with denunciations of those who were try ing to keep them out of the country. On March 28, 1882, m a leading editorial, the Journal said: They who shout “The Chines* must go” are as mistaken as the dweller on the Yazoo who stands upon its banks and curses the Father of Waters. Repulsed from our shores, the Chinese flood will pour into Peru, into the South Sea islands, into Spain, i to Cuba, into Mexico, to him the lower levels. But finally ho will overspread di diets whose inhabitants have miscalculated the extent and might of the flood. His virtues are sobriety, tuodeoty, patience and economy, and he is a teacher to the labor of all lands. Whatever his faults, his lesson must be learned|by th* strikers and grumblers everywhere, for none has so suuccessfully met and triumphed over the harder condi. tions of life. He is a wonder and a marvel, an astonish ment and a surprise, but a warnii.g snd an admonition as well.

Six days after the above appeared Benjamin Harrison voted in the senate to sustain President Arthur’s veto of the anti-Chinese bill. Indianapolis Sentinel. f

During the week a prospectus from the pen and office of Bro, J ames, containing an index of the contents of his paper was issued. Democrats need no reminders of their duty from tin. _o;;ree. They are readv for action, and with all honesty of purpose will press for. ward in tho performance of their whole duty and will know without our telling that they require no promptings from that quarter.— Bro. James’ political antecedents are well known, and will commend him to no square Democrat. He is a Republican—a stalwart of tK stalwarts —and has no claim upon the confidence of fair minded Democrats.

The republican Senate recently passed a bill declaring forfeited about 5,000,000 acres On being sent to the demoeratic House it was amended, increasing the number of acres forfeited to over 54,000,000. Will the Senate accept the bill as amended?

Hon. A. P. Fitch, republican M, G. from New York, made a strong speech in favor of the Mills Tariff bill, and was burned in effigy by republican free-whisky zealots.— He has cut loose from that party.

Editor Gruelle, of the Indianapolis Labor Signal says: “The selection of Benjamin Harrison was a serious blunder. He is opposed by the organized laborers of this and every other State on account of his record in the Senate, his votes on the Chinese question, his action during the railroad strike in 1887 and during the Senatorial canvass two years ago. There is every probability that as soon as the excitement dies away there uqll be organized opposition to him among the. Knights of Labor and ti*ades unions. I have already talked with numerous Republican laborers who declare their intention of voting agrinst him.” Editor Gruelle supported Judge Gresham at Chicago.

Senator L. D. Waiting, of Illinois. a life-long ' r übliaan, in abjuring his aSlli tl n with the Re-

pul lican party, ...*y3: “The tariff question is substantial iy all tbai theio its in our politics to-day. I bold t at it is not for the good of free institutions i r civilization that our agricultural domainsfshall decline in prosperity and consequently in intelligence and induence. If I could see relief for the farmers in a high protective tariff I should be at home these warm nights instead of Raveling around the country. But the farmers must be aroused from their lethargy. They must be made to see that when any class in the community is protected another clttbS must pay for such protec tion. When they realize that they themselves, being in the majority, get absolutely no protection, and that when they buy necessaries they pay a high price to protect manufacturers who are in the minority, they will set as one man. They vyill not act as Democrats or Republicans, but as men who appreciate the necessity of revenue reform so that the greatest number may enjoy the greatest good.”

The windy editor of the Democrat made a bad break when he said the tax on dogs collected in 1887 in Jasper county was $8,370,76. The official report has it $977,10—a difference of only $7,393.06. John Jessen was right when h.j said thejnew paper would be a— Hummer Groceries! Groceries It Groceries !!! Cheap as the cheapest, at J. W. Duvall’s new Grocery.