Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1889 — George Furnished the Arins. [ARTICLE]

George Furnished the Arins.

Our neighbor seems to take to heart the remarks of Mrs. Helen Gougar at tie prohibition meeting and dips his editorial pen in gall to respond. Benator Voorhee?, last Saturday, at Scottsburg, this State, most unmercifully scored the monopolistic hordes. Now lot the big organ—the Indianapolis Journal- set up a howl, so that its little monkeys over the State may join in the chorus. The public debt increased during the months of July and August $7,394,006. Touring the corresponding months of the four years of the Cleveland administration the decrease was as follows: 1885.. $11,541,842 1886 10,959,802 1887 9,654,37 i 1888 11,461,974 Senator Yoorkees: The present high protective tariff is simply a huge, complicated, far-reaching, close-searching, insatiate,'grasping anu oppressive instrumentality of the plutocracy for the consolidation of the wealth and the power of wealth in the hands of a few at the expense of the many; it is a vast machine, put in motion by unjust and dishonest laws, to take hard-earned money out of your pockets, and place it to the credit of those who toil not, neither do they spin, but who, in bank ac*. count and dazzling riches, outshine Solomon in his greatest glory.

The Oxford Tribune soberlv reproduces the following from the Page (Va.) Courier: In 1861 it took just one bushe of corn to buy a pound of nails; now o e bushel of corn will buy ten pounds of nails. Then it required sixty-four bushels of barley to boy one yard of broadcioth; now the same amount of barley will pay for twenty yards of broadcloth. It then required the price of on 3 bushel of wheat to pay for one 3*ard of calico; now one bushel of wheat will buy twenty yards of calico. In 1861 the monopolistic protective tariff had not yet got in its work, and the country was moving along with the revenues derived from the tariff of 1846. Nails, broadcloth, calico, and everything else, except farm products, were cheaper then than now.

lii 1861, the market reports in our files of that date give wheat at 85 and 95. Per eontra, a farmer of this Marion township informed ns one dav this week he had dis. iposed of this year’s crop of wheat at 60c. In 1861, corn, oats, etc., rated proportionally with wheat as quoted that year. Bit the silliest, low-down, farfetched lie contained in the Virginia organ of Mahon e, accepted as so much gospel by our old friend Johnnie, and doled out I y him to his readers as sober truth, is thß statement that: “It then (in 1861) required the price of one bushel of wheat (85©. a 95c.) to pay for one yard of calico;” and that “now one b’.shel of wheat (60c.) will buy twenty yards of calico.” Of course the Virginia organ of the republican confederate brigadier means that 60c. will buy 20 yards of 3c. calico. But when it says that in 1861 calico sold at 85c and 95 c. per yard, it lies bad.

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