Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1889 — GET IT BACK. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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Tlie St. John prohibition speech in thb court house, at this place, on Monday last, seems to have stirred up the bitterest gall with which our neighbor is possessed. Bro. Marshall says: “St. John and other democratic free trade advocates have much to say about “Man’s God-given right to buy where they can buy the cheapest,” but if a man has a Godgiven right to buy where he can buy the cheapest, his right to hire where he can hire the cheapest is equally God-given and inviolable, yet St. John could not denounce too strongly the mine owners of Clay county, and certain manufacturers he mentioned in eastern states, for hiring their work done by those who would do it the cheapest,” etc. Oar neighbor no doubt thinks the above is a clinching argument, but then it isn’t. He argues in the interest of monopolies, and against the masses. His leaders, and the press and platforms of his party have steadily declared that ‘ protection as advocated by them, was designed solelely for the benefit of labor; that while it filched from the millions and millions of of homes, it intended to give steady employment and living wages to the toilers in the protected industries of the land. And what is the result? What the govern* ment has taken from the masses, has been converted by the few employe is of labor to their own benefi ; has been taken from the people and added to the hoarded millions of the monopolist. He has ha 3 had the “God-given right,” so urgently demanded for him by the Republican, of procuring the cheapest labor he could find, and the toilers in his mines and factories have not been protected against it. He has had the “Godgiven right” to go to foreign lands and fill the places of men who re u fused longer to work for starvation wages, with the pauper of those climes. The millions have been compelled to pay tribute to to the few barons, while they have been denied the “God-given right” to buy where they could buy the cheapest.” The Democracy now demand that the poople be vouchsafed the “God-given right to buy where they can buy cheapest.” We will not denounce St. John because he agrees wit us in this. We believe that Tariff Reduction—Tariff Reform—will inure to tlic benefit of the whole people. It will increase our trade, increase produc* tion, increase wages, and add increased prospertity to a!) industries.

When our neighbor intimated that his pets- tiie monopolists—should have the ‘‘God-given right to hire wher : tVey can Lire the cheapest” he seemed to forget that they had enjoyed xt ail along, and exercised it, too, with a vengd ine . Opposi tion to it by starving employees, was put down by the strong arm of the government. Our neighi or is f requently a little off. Tlir tans ol 1 j 11, we believe has been regai led as near free trade as any that has existed in the government. Looting over Hies of papers published in 1850, *57, 53 and ’59, in lim market reports wheat is recorded as selling at $1.25 to $1.60; rj e, 70c to 85cj corn 45e to 60e and cats at 35c to 4oc. This under a so-called free i

trade tariff! What prices do our farmers get for these cereals to. day, under a high protective tariff? “Any man 65 years old, and with a clear head, can remember when corn was selling for 10 eents a bushel, and when a man would trade 40 bushels of it for a pair of cowhide boots, when dressed pork was SI 50 a hundred, and no sale at all for live hogs, when six good cows would be traded for a set of harness,” etc. —Republican. Any old duffer that would stuff our neighbor with such truck as the above, and make him believe that the prices given were occasioned by low tariff, ought to be handed over te officers of the hu mane society for proper punishment. St. John and Mrs. Gougar addressed large and attentive audences in +he court house, at this place last Monday afternoon and evening, in the interest of prohi. bi'ion. At times the speakers were severe on both the old parties. The Democrats took the medicine like men and came up smiling, but the republicans have been mad ever since, and refuse to be pacicified.

Chicago Herald. The democratic party notes that the republican embezzl i ment stands confessed. It is to be understood that further peculations will cease until they can be bottomed on republican legislation. But the dismissal of the agent c f these republican peculations will nos close the gap existing in the na>tion’e finances. Ac the Herald understands this great scandal, there was a legal pension appropriation of some $80,000,000 for the year ending Juse 30,1889. Tanner entered office the 26th of March, 1889. There remained before him three months of the fiscal year. When this money gave out he did not act in a lawful manner.; He did not cease paying claims and pensions. If a federal court at Chicago runs of money, there is no gas, no service . Any other course is anarchial. When the money shall all be gone the pensionor, no matter how deserving, will get no pension. That is federal insolvency. But instead of stopping at the $80,000,000, Tan er appropriated SB,OOO, 000 more. How did he get it? He waited till July Ist and then drew $15,000,000 in a lump froai the appropriation! |of $80,000,000 for 1890. He illegally paid the deficit for 1889 and drew $15,000,* 000 and $5,000,000 more by Sept. 1, 1889. Thus in sixty-two days he drew $35 000,000, or at the rate of $213,000,000 a yeai, or at the rate •f nearly $600,000 a day. What did he do with a sum so vast? He re*rated pensions. Who got the money? For one, the First Assistant Commissioner Hiram Smith, second watch dog of the treasury, received $6,035.72 of back pay and a larger pension. Forty-eight other paying tellers wrote their own cnecks and took their owr fill. The eight millions of deficiency fo*-1389 were so farstolen that it wiil require a vote of Congress to make them legal pensioners will not be paid beeause ihe robbers got the money. The democratic party, having forced the embezzlement upon t' e attention of tne honesty ;»f the ration, demands that the iu- • ri. o shall pursue the robbers and get back ihe^pelf.lt belongs to the pensioners. It was app opriate.’ for them. Tanner Las given it to the Mandersons and Smiths, ihe Attorney General should attack it everywhere, fur its replevin would stop the new and ill gal pen - sions. If this be not promptly done, democracy should demand the impeachment of the President for high crime and misdemeanor.

Jumes W. Douthit, Esq., will occupy the room back of the Rensselaer Bank, Nowels bui'ding, after the Ist October ne. t with his law office. * 9 Oh, my c mntrymen! Our new stock, bought at the fountain-head at our own price, enables us to make prices absolutely astonishing in everything. W e have not room for prices on paper. Chicago Bargain Store.

if r • The case of State vs* Geregereioski on trial m the White Circuit Court, at Montieello for the murder of his wife’s infant resulted in a verdict of guilty, with imprisonment for life. We learn that the above defendant hung himself in his cell last Thursday night. The Guiteaus of the Republican party are now on the track of President Harrison. Cause —Remov of Tanner. It is said detectives are now emploved to protect him. Lock out for bargains at Priest & Paxton’s. Try Ladd’s famous full cream ch#ese at Priest & Paxton’s. The Indianapolis Sentinel Co. is offering as a premium wi h the Indiana State Sentinel, a magnificent engraving of Munkaoy’s "Christ before Pilate,” Rosa Bonheur’s “Horse Fair” and the “Lion.’ at Home,” by the same artist. Subscribers can obtain any one of theee by paying a nominal sum to cover the cost of putting up and forwarding the picture. The engravings are readily sold at sl, but it is proposed to ask an advance of little more that one-tenth of that amount over the regular subscription price for the weekly Sentinel and the picture. The Sentinel Co. will send any on© of the pictures to new subscribers, or old subscribers renewing their subscriptions, and the Weekly o*.e year for $1.15. This is only 15c. to cover express charges from New Y rk, postage, wrapper, clerical work and other incidentals. The picture is given free. It is a remarkable offer.