Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1889 — A PLEASANT GATHERING. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A PLEASANT GATHERING.

The State Board of Edvoation has accepted the bid of the Indiana school-book company to furnish the school-books, under the new law. They trust and its supporters may now retire with as good grace as possible. Our neighbor this week seems to be drifting about on adverse and contrary winds. In a short editorial article, he declares “that never in the history of the country wab there a time when the wages of labor or the products of the soil would purchase so much of the necessaries and comforts of hfe as now; and there is no other country on earth where working" men and farmers earn and enjoy so much as they do in this land of tariff protection. 5 ’ Our neghbor is exceedingly wiid in his stvteInenls. He giv.s his readers no information with reference to the existing state cf affairs in the ‘tariff protected’coal Sel ls of Clay coiuty, v here the coal barons are seedaur to reduce the compensation of tiie workingmen—through whose toil they have become millionaires - down to what would be equivalent to 55 cents per day.— He will not inform his readers that the (Ji v county cm i minerseniplo -ed in a largely protected industry- -are in an actual state of starvat.on, dependent for what little they get upon the charities of the people -would not even insert, for the information of tlie charitably disposed of his readers, the enforced proclamation of his own Governor announcing that these workingmen are in need, and entitled to the charities of the people He will not inform his readers that Carnegie, whose income from the toil of his workingmen is $5,000 per day, is now advertising for men to take the places of workingmen who refuse to be reduced still lower in the scale of starvation. But the funny part of our neighbor's claim for ‘the benefits of protection’ is that it lends to add to the fertility of the soil, increases production to such an extent that “there is no other country on earth where * * farm-

ncard e«r.i ami enjoy so ranch ns they (}<> i i this* iiiiu of tnriff protection . > knn a the farmer hai no placeiin the arifr schedule, and have always been at a Joss to de - termine wherein he derived her e fits from it, but our neighbor explains it to our satisfaction! Another funny claim is, in Ihe :v----production of an arti I‘from the, InteivOeean whicJi seeks to pr v< that the protective tariff does enhance the price of the artieb i is designed to pjoteet.

A 'Cincinnati HtarvTimes reporter re .Kiitiy interviewed miner, and from the interview we culi the following, referring to a m:uer> who was i Is* ) clerk of the village: “Why, a neighbor heard the children of the clerk of the vill?g e crying one night and went over and found that they were crying because the mother was trying to pat them to bed hungry. Think of that, the oleak of the corporation, a man elected to office by his fellow-citniens and known and respected by all sending his children hungry to bed, with nothing in the house to give them.” This of an employe of a heavily protected industry! But then it should be remembered that it is the million lire employer -who receives the benefit of protection in the enhanced price of the protect-

ed article. Who baa net heard the proposition—“let the government I take oare of the rich, and the rich will take care of the poor.” The workings of that plan is now beautiful? illustrated in the protected plaits all oyer the land. The Republican gives the Be publican Town Board of Rensselaer a regular “bazoo” for its award of the contract for a large culvert to Lewis Day for three hundred dollars more than the lowest bid. We know the Board did not do it through any love entertained lor Day’s politics, and the columns of the Sentinel are open to the Board for any explanation it may desire to make. About 100,000 of the colored citizens of Kansas propose to emigrate to Oklahoma.

A large number of the relatives or John Barkley acembied at the residenG-*of Mri. lane Shaw, liis sister, in Baikle, ic/./nship, on Tuesday last, to pas i a d :j together before his departure for his home in Mis.io tri. Mr. k, had designed leaving on Monday, but on the suggestion that it would be pleasant and agreeable to have an assemblage of the friends ho postponed his leave - taking for two days. The affair was gotten upon exceedingly short notice, ardii Hr hurry uotico faded to reach ; Nevertheless there were pru.-en Sisters—Bell Barkley, rdu-" Parkison. lane Shaw and Rc:r Murray. Brother-in- law—W. W. Murray. Sister-in-law Mrs. H. A. Barkley. Nephews u.d nsices, and farm iius—Mary, vV>i! and Cnarlie iVarray; V/ilii3 and Earl Barkley; 11. B. Murray and family; Granville Moody and family; Geo. 8., Ed., Jas. and Ad. Parkison and families; Sam. English and wife. Cousins —Jas W. McEwen and family. Neighbors—\\ m. Bull, wife and daughter; Smith Newell and wife; Miss Dora English, and before the party broke up Ad. Parkison, of this place, put in an appearance and was welcomed. About sixty-five took Dart in the fesiivities. It was regretted that other relatives couid not be reached by mail, and that the time of those having matter in charge was necessarily so fully occupied as to preclude the service of personal notice.

The well known hospitality and ability of the friends in the Barkley settlement to provide abundantly for any occasion renders it unnecessary for us to go into de* tails with referenee to this. The large tables, spread in the handsome grove, fairly groaned under the weight of luxurious plenty. The raj was happily, pleat an by and profitably spent, and n- ■ *i i 1 the sun began to sink in the weo. was a movement mide to bring the enjoyments of *he day to a -dse. The occasion will long be re ■■ -abered by tiros' 3 who paniand particularly .by John il i'.ley, in whose honor it was np. It forms a page in his n: -aisi. iy which, in the rein lin..g ye, •• i hat may ic till >! Imi Jura, ir :i ‘ ;k back upon with picas*, t ■ ; - li ms.