Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1888 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

What the American Citizen Has Dons.

Puck: Having come to the end of the political campaign and elected him president for a term of four years, the American citizen may now sit down and ponder the nature and the consequences of the feat he has accomplished. He has saved his country from the dire possibility of free trade, a possibility which was not contemplated by any party engaged in the late contest. Ha has secured fair treatment to the Union soldier by defeating the re-election of a president who has signed more pension bills than any < hree of his predecessors. He has insured the safetv of this nation by driving out of power the paty that in less than four years has built up a better navy than the United States has owned in twenty-five years, r.nd by reinstating the party that reduced the strongest navy in the world to the weakest. He has provided for the prosperity of the country by continuing for four years to come a tariff of customs that taxes every man, woman and child in the nation tor the benefit of a fe ,> manufacturers, that breeds ‘trusts’ and other illegal combinations to raise the price of the necessaries of life, that has all but destroyed our foreign trade, and that renders commercial progress impose! ble— except to the favored few.