Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1889 — NOW FOR A BOGUS CENSUS. [ARTICLE]

NOW FOR A BOGUS CENSUS.

That we Ere to have a bogus federal census has beau certified in the appointment by the President of Robert P. Porter to superintend the statistics of 1890. The figures of~lßßo mutely denounce the war tariff. The remorseless effects of high tax& are the e spread forth for all to see. Another and a still worse showing would Sain the tariff-masters. Acoor.iingly, the ired man of protection, the delegate of monopoly, the private secretaiy of greed, extortion and quackery—the man who for a decade has drawn no dollar that was not a part of the tariff plunder, who has prepared no table of figuies that did not aim to support a lie—this person has been foist on the census itself. The Herald can not condemn General Harrison too harshly for an invasion so i-hameless of a domain that has hitbeito enjoyed the confidence of the people. A bogus census of the United States is shocking in the idea, What ills, then, may not grow out of the thing itself? Robert D. Porter the recipient of pay for all his tariff “arguments,” will proceed to build an array of figures which will prove that the farmer sells iu the daareist market and buys in the cheapest; that woolen mills prosper under a nigh tariff on wools; that wages rise under the effects of immigration, and that immigration declines under the stimulus of war prices for labor and goods. All of the fallacies, overthrown iu the census of 1880, will be carefully reinstated by the false figures of 1890. The free trader of 1892, delivering the speech in joint debate, must appeal for his factß to thb other orator’s figures. The huge enginery of monopoly and tariff, capable of purchasing tho election of a President'and a Congress against a popular plurality of 100,000, has laid sacrilegious hands on the census. A cheap fellow, without love of his country, will now proceed to tabulate for facts the impressions, delusions, snares and base fabrications of every respectable thief in the nation. The total will be the official enumeration of the people, their estate, their employment and their increasing prosperity. Carnegie, Jones and other old-time patronß of the cheap man may depend on a compendium which will exhibit a dwindling aristocracy, a tremendous growth of the well-to-do class, a country without tax, whose levy is a bagatelle, whose yeomanry and labor are constantly employed at fabulous hire, who*e men and masters are bound to each other by the unbioken rnd unyielding' ties of a homo market. The miner Will live in a palace; the operator will share the hovel. Tbemill-worker will go to Europe and do the smuggling; the mill-owner will reap a profit of 60 Jents a day, with long intermissions of loss. All this infernal scoundrelism the low tariff orator must qtiotein 1892, if he shall iare to appeal to the eleventh census.—» Chicago herald.