Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1888 — A STORY WITH A MORAL. [ARTICLE]

A STORY WITH A MORAL.

“A ship at sea was overtaken by a plague, and her passengers and crew were dying off in rapid succession. As a sanitary measure, in order to prevent, as far as possible the spread of the malady, the captain gave orders to immediately throw overboard tne bodies o? the dead as soon as life was known to be extinct, and for this special service he detailed a large burly negro, who was one of the ship’s crew. The negro went faithfully to work carrying out rigidly the the order, until after awhile the captain observed him dragging one of the ship’s crew, a man whose reputation for truth and veracity was not to be envied, toward the bulwarks to throw him overboard. The man was sick with the plague, but was protesting as best he could, asserting that he was not dead. The captain, calling to the negro, asked: “ ‘What are you going to do with that man?’ “ ‘G’wine to throw him o’erboard, sah. He’s dead.’ “‘Dead!’thundered the captain, ‘isn’t he telling you with his own mouth that he is not dead?’ “ ‘Yes, sah,’ responded the negro, ‘but he’s sueh a liar that nobody can believe him.’ ”

Moral. —Now in view of the lying predictions and false representations made by the republican party during the campaign of 1884, that if the democratic party came in power Union soldiers’ pensions would be stopped; rebel soldiers would be pensioned; the rebel debt would be paid; the regroes would be remanded to slavery or their value paid to their former masters, etc., etc., —and its present hvpocritical deceitful cry of “free trade” as against an imperative demand for a reform of our tariff laws recommended by President Cleveland, and being carried into effect by the democratic party, so so that the masses of the people—the wage-worker and the whole body of the consumers and workers can have something near an equal chance with the hitherto favored few, don’t it look as if the people will and horestly ought to adopt the negro sailor’s logic—consider that party dead, drag it to the bulwarks and throw it overboard. In this case there is no ship master with arbitrary power to stop the performance. Th e people happen to be boss of this machine, and the negro is going to largely assist in getting rid of the falsifying, demoralizing, plague-produc-ing party.

Peru Sentinel: Gen. Chalmers, the infamous rebel scoundrel who murdered in cold blood Union soldiers at Ft. Pillow, is the republican candidate for congress of the Second Mississippi district. How do the Union soldiers like it?

Hartford (Ct.) Times- The republican party blocks the prosperity of the manufacturers by taxing them heavily and unnecessarily. Their policy of so taxing the manufacturers has closed up over forty woolen mills in New England, and it has crippled others. Those that move are kept along by the use of shoddy.