Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1888 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

VOLUME XII

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— Y j ji c cor Aw*m>MuCov, HOI)UfiaBWOBTH . A. MS'COY & ©©»» (Successors to A. SleCoy & T. Thompson,) RENSSBI.AER, Ink. »-\0 afleieral banking business. Exchange •*"' tu '" ** ol "VuS & MoaDECAi r. r A * iorßey-e-t-JUii w . „ . - Indiana IIMHBBKLAEB. PronHfflfi fin thf- Courts of Jasper and adstreet, opposite Court. House- vlal _ .nmWP.THOItrSON, DAVID J.THOMPFOH Attorney-at-Law. Rotary Pub, v.. THOMPSON & BROTH^dia»a BgNSBKLAEB, Practice in all the Courts. ARION I. S?ITLER t Collector and AbstracterWe pay particular attention to paying tax* , selling and leasing lands. \2niß T|n. H. H. GRAHAM. • attorney-at-law, Rbbsdklatb,lndiana. Money to loan on long interest JAMES W. DOUTHIT, AXXttBNEY '■> AT-LAW AND NOTARY PDBIIC. mr Office in rear room over Hemphill & Honan's store. Rensselaer, Ind. ■ ‘ ■ Edwin P. Hammond. Wiixiam B. Austin HAMMOND & AUSTIN, attobney-at-law, Bensselaee, Ind. Office on second floor of Leopold's Eloctc, corner of Washington Vanßfcnseelaei: streets. William B. Avstin pmchases, sells and leases seal estate, pays taxes and deals in nerotiabie Instruments. mzjm, 87. W WATSON, gAXTOJ*3STHnr-A.T-X.A.W far- Office up Stairs, in Leopold’s Bazay, RENSSELAER, IXVYj W. HARWELL, M- D HOMOEOPATHIC PHYBICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. WGhronic Diseases a Specialty,^) OFFICE, in Maktever'a New Biork. Residence at Makeever House. July 11,1884. _____ J. H. LOUGHIUDGK. . VICTOR X, I.O’JORr.IIKiK' J. H. LOUGHRIDGE & SON, Phyoioisni and Snrgsonn. Office in the new Leopold Block, second floor, second door right-hand side of hall: Ten per cent, interest will be added to all K counts running uusettled longer than ree months. vim DR. I. B. WASHBURN Physician St Surgeon, Rensselaer, Ind. (Jails promptly attended. Will give special atton tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. JJARY E. JACKSON, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. » e ., . • Special attention given to diseases of women ana children. Office on Front street, c nrner of Angelica. Mi. 34. HBMRIMMaHinMMMaiWBVV w Mr-* '".'.-twin cv*A Eimbi Dwigoins, F. J. Sbabs. Yal, Seib, President. Vic "-President Cashier OITIZENS’STATEBANK BENS6ELAEE, INC., Does a general banking llniness; Certificates bearing i’ltereet issued: Exsbange boueht and su’d; Money-loaned on farms at lowest rates a”d or.meaaf terms. ;Jan. 8, 88

! " , XL JASPEB COUNTY. INDIANA. FRIDAY AUGUST 10. 188«

THE TATIEF AND DEBTS.

rciiiiagu Times.] The Times has received a short, letter from Indianapolis inclosing a printed card addressed to worki. -,n 6ii. The writer of the letter lgv; lhat the republican state cem- • • ittes c£ Indiana is sending out thousands of similar cards, lie also says that ‘the argument signed ‘Machinist’ * an the card inclosed seems unanswerable,” and he wants to know whether The Times can answer it. Following is the argument which seems to him unananswerable: say ‘that if free trade makes wpgc* lower those low- i or wages will buy jaist as much, as everything else will be lower in proportion.’ Granted that this statement is correct, how is it with what we owe? Now, I, like thousands of others, have a home partly paid for. lam owing upon it sl,10Q. My weekly dues to the building association are $8,60 p r week. At my present wages, $2 5 0 per day, I can spare this r>y close economy; but if, by means of free trade, my wages fall to £1.50, how can I live and make -those payments? It will be impossible and I will be compelled to lose my home and all I have paid upon it. There are hundreds and thousands of mechanics rod laboring men in the United folates in the same fix. Do they realize that when then vote for free trade they are throwing awsy all they have paid on their little homos and their homes too? Machinist,” It is sufficient answer to this to say that it has nothing whatever to do with any question now beto 3 the America 1 people. As a campaign document it raises a V e issue. No one is proposing free trade, or any sensible approach to it. If there was a political par*y in the country proposing free trade it would be pertinent to inquire as to the effect upon people who oxe money as well as upon other people. But there is uo such p ' y in the country, and therefore no such inquiry has anything to do with the issue now presented to the American people. There is a party which proposes to reduce certain taxes on imported goods. What it actually proposes to do is to be learned from the president’s message of last Deee end from the Mills bill.— There is nothing about either which, if carried into practical effect, would reduce a machinist’s wages, or any other man’s wages, from $2.50 to $1.50, or to $?, or to $2.49 per day. Should the Mills bill become a law it is safe to say that it would not have the effect to reduce the wages of any American mechanic 1 cent a day. But it would have the effect to give him cheaper and bet 4 ;y r . and so to enable him to save more with which to pay for his home. We have a tariff averaging 47 per cent, on dutiable articles. The president and his party propose to reduce the average to about 40 per cent. And this reduction the advocates of high tariff call free trade. If the average were 100 per cent and somebody should propose to reduce it to 75 per cent these same high-tariff men would call that free trade also, and insist that it would cut down wages 40 or 50 per cent, and ruin every workingman who owes anything on his home. A4O per cent tariff is a very long Way from free trade. Those who pretend to be baMling against free trade are making a false pretense. What they are really brttling against is to prevent such a reduction es taxes as would reduce not only what the workingman, irr common with others, has to pay for the support of government, but also what he has to contribute to increase the wealth of men who have already grown rich by the exercis i of the taxing power delegated to them by the government. These men resist the proposal to lower the taxes, not because the effect would be to reduce Wages, for it is to their interest that wages phould be lowr-r, but because the ■ If • * - ,

effect would be to reduce toeiiprog’s somewhat. What is called protection is al rays for the benefit cf those who pay wages -nd uevt:r for th 1 , benefit of who earn wages. The former are alwnyr. !ho beneficiaries of tariff -\- a ion aud the latter are always ;lie dupes and victims of the real ben eticirries. There •« ground for a suspicu' that the other of ihe above avgu ! mo.' sig ed “Machinist” is »pd : litical party maehinii i. mo not a I machinist of any other kln-U-Ther is ground tor tbs suspLion • that he is one of the kind *i litiiiv' | special business it is to make people believe that taxes enrich the men who pay thorn. Such .is he would probably not succeed so well if the bills for all the workingmen were made out to them in proper form thus: Goods $ 1.90 Tariff taxes thereon 47 Total $ 1.47

THE CONTRACT LABOR LAW.

[Labor Sigurd.] A valuable friend and patron of the Signal asks for information m regard to the foreign contract labor law, and particularly wants to know if a law was passed by Congress tojprotcet the American contractors for such labor by enforcing rlie terms of the contract in the courts of this country. Iu reply, the Signal will state that a Republican Congress iu 1864—a year in which Democrats were as scarce as hen . teeth iu Congress —passed what is kriovu t.z the “Contract Labor Law,” and which law * , as approved and signed ’/ . V dm,a Lincoln, a Fresident v/Lcso Republicanism will hardy called h to question by any de- ." ader of th®tariff-oreated extortioners and monopolists of to-day. T’lip (second section of that infanious enuctment reads as follows: *■ \ p I bo it further enaetod, That c . -ts that shall he made by emigrants to the United folates in foreign countries, in conformity to regulations that may be osi u.ikhod by the said commission. !', whereby emigrants shall pledge die wages of theii labor for a form 7.o'i exceeding twelve months, to repay the expense of their emigration, shell be held to be valid in law, and may be enforced in the courts of the United Stgtes or of the several States and Territoris; , and such advance, if so stipulated in the contract, and the contract be recorded in the recorder’s office in the county where tho emigrants shall settle, shall operate as alien upon any land thereafter acquired by the emigrants, whether under the homestead law when the title is consun mated or on property otherwise acquired until liquidated by the emigrants; but nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize any contract contravening the Constitution of the United Staves or creating in any way the relation of slavery or servitude.” This precious law can be seen in all its original beauty and glory in the United States Statutes at Large volume 15,1863-1865. The Democrats and Independents in Congress made several futile attempts to repeal it, the Republicans voting solidly against them, and it was not until 1885, when the Demo-

crats had succeeded in securing a decisive majority in the House, and within two votes of a tie in the Senate, and that their efforts were crowned with success, and then only with the help of the Senators from California and Oregon, all the other Republican Senators, including Hon. Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana, opposing the repeal. Such is the short and sweet story of the “Contract Labor Law.” Turpentine and black varnish, put with any good stove polish, is the blacking used by hardware dealers for ljolishing heating stoves If properly put on, it will last throughaut the season.—Scientific Amencan.

USEFUL HINTS.

Fainting a Tin Roof. —Messrs. Merchant k Go., the extensive .dealers in tin, recon};,.. ;*d the following as an excel!; r.t . dr.t lotus purpose of paint a tin root s: I Id Bg Venetian red, 1 ft). redlead, : gallon pure linseed oik Th * suDstitu iou of benzine or ! tish oils tor the pure linseed oil au 1 not be allowed. X . » roof will last longer and be less Table to rust if painted ot> tbr- unci • surface before laying. — It ; . ; ■■ ai plan to put ouo or two l..ye: » felt paper under the tin to servo as a cushion for same, and to dm*den the noise falling on the tin. A year after the first coating the roof should be painted again, and then a good roof wall only require painting once n four years. A roof of first-class material well soldered and properly laid should last forty years.— Scientific Amencan.

For Swollen Feet.—Policemen, mail carriers, and others whose occupation keeps them op iheix feet a great deal, often are troubled with chafed, sore and blistered feet, especially in ex - tremely hot weather, no matter how comfortably their shoes may fit. A powder is used in the German army for sifting into the shoes and stockings of foot soldiers, called “Fusslreupulver,” and consists of 3 parts salicylic acid, i° parts starch and 87 parts pulv- ] erized soaostone. It keeps the tV eid p:- events chafing and rap“uiy laris sore spots. Finely pul vevizod soapstone alone is very good —Scientific American.

» To Build a Chimney. -To build a chimney that will draw forever and not fill up with soot, you must build it largo enough— sixteen Inches square, use good brick, and claV instead of lime up to the | comb; plaster it inside with clay | ru ed with salt; for chimney tops use t; e very best of brick, wet them and lay them in cement mor;’ tar. The chimney should not be built tight to beams and rafters; there is where the cracks in your chimneys come, and where most of the fires originate, as the chimney sometimes gets red hot. A claim ney built from cellar up is better and less dangerous than one hung on the wall. Don’t get your stove pipe hole too close to the ceiling—eighteen inches from it. -Scientific American. Resorcin in Diarrhoea.— A case of severe diarrhoea controlled by the administration of resorcin is reported by Mr. G. E. J. Greene (Lancet, June 23, p. 1277). The patient was a boy seven years of age, and there was a history of gastric trouble and tormina on tho first and second days, for which cateehu, opium, chloroform, and chalk had been prescribed without benefit. A ten grain dose of re sorcin in half an ounce of water every hour was then ordered, and after the fifth dose the motions wei/e reduced in number, and.from having been very offensive were rendered odorless. The dose was afterward raised to fifteen grains every third or fourth hour, and in three days the diarrhoea was completely controlled.—Scientific A| merican.

One of the new applications of a waste prodnct to a useful purpose is the manufacture of paper out of cedar wood pulp, for underlaying carpets, wrapping of wool, furs, etc. The paper makers procure the cedar chips of pencil menu facturere, ana the paper made of this material will, it is claimed, preserve articles wrapped in it from moths. —Scientific American. A Cheap Ice Chest.— Take two dry goods boxes, one of which is enough smaller than the other to leave a space of about three inches all around when it is placed inside. Fill the space within the two with sawdust packed closely; and cover with a heavy lid made to fit neatly inside the larger box Insert a ! ’ r

{small pipo iu the bottom of the i chest to c Try off the water from j the melting ice, and you have a i very and tolerably effective ice box for fa mil n or grocers’ use. —Scientific American. A Stopper for Rats. — A cor~ .respondent Bays: Soak one or it. or* newspapers knead them into a pulp, 1 dip the pulp in a suitable solution of oxalic acid. V\ bile wet, force tho pulp into any crevice or hole made by mice or rats. Result a disgusted retreat, with sore snouts and feet, on the part of the wouldbe intruders.— Scientific Ameiisan

THINGS TO CONSIDER.

The following propositions by a laboring man are well worthy of consideration: 1. Have you everjeaen a laborer who cared a niekh whether he worked for r prate ctou or an unprotected employer? 2. Have you ever soon a laborer who expected to receive, more wages from a protected than an un - protected employer? 3. Have you ever seen a protect ed manufacturer pr.y higher wages than he was compelled to? 4. Have you over seen a very wealthy firm pay more wages than a moderately wealthy one? 6. Have you ever given more for anything than you were required

No; and furthermore, if you should, you would call yourself e tool. 6. If, then, the unprotected manufacturer pays yo u higl wages, and still is able to make u profit, fcy what method of reasoning do yon arrive at tho concUißioa that the protected manufacturer pays higher wages because of pro toction? 7. And if the protected manufacturer does net pay more than the unprotected one, what becomes of your protection theories? 8. Is it your unswe* that protection raises all classes of wages in all occupations? 9. If that is it, then, as labor is not protected from foreign immigration, you must of course include the raising of all wages in all countries. Now, if that is true, then how about the pauper wages of Europe? 10. If you say capita’ will not be invested unless it is protected, how do you explain the fact that it is being invested in uprotected industries? 11. If protection prevents us from selling in foreign markets does not protection make loss work instead of more? 12. If there is free trade in labor and high protective prices for those things which laborers must buy, is not the laborer being rob - bed instead of benefited? 13. If protectionists desire to pay high wages, why do they al ways employ the cheapest labor they can nna? 14. If wages are increased by protection, why do these protected manufacturers indorse protection and spenA large sums of money to uphold it? 15. If unprotected industries pay the same wages as those that are protected, are they not as vri uable, and if so, why burden them by making them pay heavy taxes to the protected onee ?

Ben Harrison’s record on the land question is as faulty as his record on the Chinese immigration. While a member of the Senate he voted against all measures for the reclamation of unearned lands granted by Protectionist Congresses to the cormorant railroad cor porations of the West and Northwest It is said tihat the Chirese women in California are nearly every one of them to be found in houses of prostitution. The courts furnish frequent evidences of the sale of Chinese women for purposes of prostitution. Home life, as we understand it and hojjor it, is uu known to them.

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