Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1888 — POLITICAL ACROLTICS. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL ACROLTICS.

I. C lean record, L ight taxation, E very promise fulfilled, V etoes all right, E qual rights for all, L aborers respected, A n honest administration, N o more war taxes now, D own with high taxes. 11. T axes reduced, H emp for high crimes, U seless expenditures stopped, R ailroad land grants stopped, M oney for the honest laborer, A 11 men shall have equal rights, N o Chines.? in ours. 111. H igh taxation, A ping monarchy, R ailroad land grabbers, R ule or ruin, I nviter c f Chinese, *3 hadow of J. G. B. O n my ancestry I stand, N ominated for grandpa. IV. M oney, monopoly & monarchy, O bey your bosses, R um and tobacco free, T rusts, stocks, banks & railroads O n mv barrel I stand, N ot going to get there, Eli. H. G. McE. Cornith, Miss., Aug. 6, 1888.

Keep Ir Before thb People.— The ten years between 1850 and 1860 were the low tariff years.— These years were a period of speedy devel pment and much more rapid development than the period ending at our last census year, 18*0, which was a period of contracted war tariff. The value of farms increased between 1850 and 1860 126 per cent Between 1870 and 1880 farms increased in value only 10 per cent. The manufactured products between 1850 and 1860 increased in value 87 per cent. Under the war tariff the increase was 27 per c*nt. During the low tariff decade the capital invested in manufactories increased 9o per cent. B >tween 1870 and 1880 the increase was 32 per cent.—Kansas City Times.

“If I had my way abont it, I would put the manufacturers of Pennsylvania, who are more highly protected than anybody else, and who make large fortunes every year, under the fire and fry the fat out of them.”—Senator Morrill. The managers of the Remington fair have just made a notable addition to the attractions of their fine grounds, by the purchase of 12% acres of grove, which adjoined the grounds on the west