Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1889 — READ AND PONDER. [ARTICLE]

READ AND PONDER.

The Democracy of Knox county, IHr o!~, has issued ar address hiarmg on the promises vs. the fiuits of the republican achuinit (ration from which we erdraet the following : They have under the guise of assisting the laborer, pass -d iaiqJtus laws that have e;>, oled the building of huge corporations, which, forming together, defy the the it»ws of healthy trade, and are fast becoming so formidable that they defy the feeble attempt of of legislation The infamous and iniquitous tariff robbery, m-ds for the express benefit of the few, is upheld by the power of corruption that has disgraced our iato election in New York and Indiana. That while tariff keeps out foreign blankets, salt, wool, iron, wood a-d lumber, it ius not prevented huge English trusts to come to our shores and control our roads, own our glass manufactories, iron foui> dries, and form the salt trust, brewery trust and steel trust that are robbing the people. The recent rebellion of the farmers against the binding twine trust, In raising the price of bindingtwine from 7 to 22 cents is just; it is a small item when compared with the other trusts formed for robbing the people. We quote Chicago markets: One year ago— Now are— Corn quoted at $ .60 $ .324 Oats “ .40 .22| Rye “ .50 .30 Wheat “ [email protected]@b0 Pork " 17.00 11.374 Hogs “ [email protected] 4.50 Cattle, “ [email protected] 4-20 Thus while wa pay one-ffhird more for sugar, three times as much for our binding twine, just as much for shoes and clothes, the produce of the farm has fallen off at least 20 per cent, in price, and no steps are taken to meet the de pression. The entire west voted to sustain the platform of the republican party, Kansas giving 80,000 majority last November for the republican electors. . Since January 1 last, Kausas fanners to the number of 2,500 abandoned their farms to mortgages, held by eastern capitalists. The comptroller or banks in New York has isrued a circular stating that sayings banks she nld no longer invest in western land mortgages, as the security is not good. Massachusetts’ legislature has prohibited further western loans. More thnu

this. While western farmfgs have blindly gone to the poll# tb sustain high t,i ’xff for eastern capitalists, the election is hardly over before Pennsylvania, New York, Maine, Michigan and other states especially cared for by the tariff at the expense of the western consumer, have passed laws prohibiting dressed meats from finding a market within their jurisdiction, which virtually deprives us of any market, Year after year the American farmer is becoming recognized as the especial slave of the other classes. The agricultural fairs are abandoned or become mere race tracks for joGkeys and sharpers. The son leaves the old hornet stead to seek a calling in the city, the name of a farmer becomes associated with the swine herd, while the cartoonist clothes him as a scarecrow.

The promised prosperity to follow Harrison’s election has not materialized. In Galesburg men formerly getting $1 and $1.25, are working for 87f eents a day—some less. In lowa men are working on public works at 24 hours a wees at 12| cents an hoar. In Pittsburgh Mr. Carnegie, who electrified the world with his bold stand for the defeat of Cleyeland and the maintenanc< of trusts met the demand of his men for an advance on their wages by reducing them 20 per cent. That around Harrisbnrk Pa, 1,000 strong, willing men and their families are starving, the mills being shut while the owners are in Europe feasting with royal-

iy, the announcement being made by ship owners that they eannot carry'fsll seeking foreign resorts from An erica. That while the western farmer is to-day trudging between firs rows or corn fighting weeds, Chaanaey M. Depew, John Sherman, Morton, Cameron, Sawyer, Qu-r. I>. P. Jones and a thousand ethers who made the political arena ring with praises of the heaulies of protection and love for America, have gone t* Europe to spend the cash needed to build up a home market. We don’t hear of .armers going. From the buying oi their ticket until they p y the lackey to curry off their foreign boaglit goods from the : t ;mer on their return, not a eent gees intis American poekets. If the; had to wait until American steamers took them they coaid not go. Wo have not a ship to tarry one o* us to Europe. Thirty year ago we had 5,275.000 tons of bottom slips. Americans are being driven from the fields of labor, ;nd the eastern manufactories are filkd with imported paupers from Belgium, Italy, Hungary, etc , who work for 50 to 75 cents a day, and live on $4 or $5 a month and send the balahee to native countries. We have come to stay, if business will justify us, and if low prices is an object to you, as we are bound to undersell all competitors. Chicago Bargain House.