Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1889 — Some Interesting Tendencies of the Times. [ARTICLE]

Some Interesting Tendencies of the Times.

New York Herald: The Democratic leaders can afford to sit still while the country slowly drifts in their direction. The people made a nrstake last autumn when they voted for a re', publican policy, and are beginning to see it. * * * * * * He (Mr. Harrison) represents certain party policies, however, which he is bound to carry out. He will undoubtedly be true to his convictions, and there is the danger, for the more he insists on carrying out those convictions the worse it will be for the country. Hamilton, the father of the republican party, was an aristocrat. He had no sympathy with the governing masses, always distrusting them, and preferred a monarchy to a republic. He had very little faith in the perpetuity of American institutions, because he despised what are known as “the people.” He felt that the moneyed class should be the ruling class and that the’mastes ought to be kept in the background. Mr. Harrison’s party has inherited that conviction and represents it at this moment. Under the rule of that party the rich continually grow richer and the poor continually grow poorer. Its policy therefore, is a political blunder and in its last results it will become a political crime. It consistently throws its influent e in favor of the monopolist and is the natural parent of the combine. While it continues syndicates will flourish like a green bay tree and the working man will be ruthlessly sacrificed. What it calls protection is simply protection of the few, while the many are driven to strikes to obtain wages above the starvation point.

The word “pr Section” has an alluring sound; the thing it really stands for is damnable. The mill owners of Connecticut and Massachusetts were hoodwinked last autumn. They were told th t if the protective tariff were taken off their raw materials thev would be ruined. They therefore voted for the republican poliicy, £nd went to sleep with the feeing that they had done a pul lie service. They now see that unless they get their raw materials free of duty thev will soon have to close their works and lose what they have made.

A very great change in this respect has taken place within a few months Eastern manufacturers are in the dumps: they voted for the sword which will cut theii own throats, unless they jam it back into its sheath. They now demand a very material reduction of tariff duties. It is a matter of life and death with them. They couldn’t understand this last.year, but now th' ir decaying business has made it altogether too plain. They are penitent, but the penitence comes a little late. If they had re-established the democratic policy of a lower tariff their business would now be booming. They want a larger market for their products. If they eoulu get access to the markets of the whole world they would undersell all competitors and their mills might be run on full time with profit to the owners and working--n en alike. But the republican bo ses won’t admit this, and so the mill owners must dodge bankruptcy if they can and the laborers must keep from starving if they can. It is not Mr. Harrison’s fault. He is a good man with a bad theory, that is all. The democrats have b lea sneer* ed at by party workers because the last campaign was an “educational’ one, in which the democratic party was knocked out. All right. Mr. Harrison’s four years will also be educational, and when they end the people will refuse to be the cat’s paws of mo-

nopohsts any longer. Then the republican party, with its protective humbuggery, will be sent flying. The people are learning their lesson very rapidly. B. Forsythe, of the Chicago Bargain Store, went to the city this week to buy a stock of Clothing and Shoes.

Tht Indiana Democratic Editorial Associationjat its recent meeting at Maxinkuckee, adopted this i resolution: “This association is of the opinion that the city and county officials should purchase sup plies for their offices from local establishments, when the same can be furnished # at equitable rates. ” And yet these same Democratic editors are frantically advocating a directly opposite Nation air obey, insisting that the cheap ’abw manufacturers of the world shall be bro ight in o direct and even competition with the better paid labor

manufacturers of this country, and that sums of money shall be taken out of this country to pay for foreign goods that could as well be made and bought at home. Such resolutions as the above put free trade Democratic editors in a deep hole. Th j protection doetrine is good for them and their localities and a great deal better for tne Nation at large.—Logans port Journal. The Rensselaer Republican sees a ‘pointer’ in the above and copies it with avidity. We see a ‘pointer’ too, of a different nature from

that seen by our neighbor. The Democratic Association is correct in the opinion expressed that “if the Rensselaer Republican has *he facilities, and will furnish the work required to the officers of the county at the rate fcr which it can be obtained in Lafayette, Logansport or Indianapolis,—equitable rates —the Board of Commissioners should give it the preference/' This would be right and proper, and is all that is asked by the Indiana Democratic Editorial Associa* tion. The balance o f the Journal’s article is simply an argument from a monopolistic standpoint. The Democracy believe that this country has all the facilities within its limits, aided by Tariff Reform—free raw material and tariff for revenue only—to successfully compete with any country on the face of the globe, thus increase trade and producduction, provide steady emplo,menc and insure better wages to labor.

Look out for ths biggest bar-> gams you ever saw in a new and complete stock of Clothing, next week, at the Chicago Bargain Store.