Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1889 — The Democratic Central Committee. [ARTICLE]

The Democratic Central Committee.

The members of the Jasper County Democratic Central Com mittee are requested to meet at Rensselaer, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, ’B9, at 1 o’clock p. m., for the transaction of important business. LEE E. GLAZEBROOK, ChairmanY. E. Lougheidge, SecV. Rensselaer, October 2, 1889.

The Legislature in Washington is in doubt. Democrats and Republicans claim it. The Republicans carried Noith and South Dakota and Washington, and the Democrats Montana at the recent election. The public debt increased during the months of July and August $7,394,000. Turing 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 9,654,371 1888 11,461,974

Several judges of the Superior Court of Indianapolis have decided that it is not illegal for can din dates to contribute money to pay for printing tickets, polling wards or other clerical work. But it is held illegal to hire wagons * and drivers, challengers, persons t« swear in voters, to hold poll b oks or tickets, or to direct or manage wagons or drivers. It is considered leg 1 to hire wagons without drivers to aid voters in getting to the polls. This euts down the hustling that has been in vogue on election day for years to a very 1 narrow margin. Verily the darf of the boodle politician are nearly o»f*r. The millenium is near, too.

The sugar situation stands in about this way : There are duties on both raw and refined sugars. The duty on raw sugar has an eles ■sent of protection in it, but is, in effect, a revenue duty, yielding over $55,000,000 to the treasury. On the other hand, the duty on refined sugar is pro ective almost to the prohibitory point. It yields only about $1,500,000 to the treasury. Repealing the duty an raw sugar would benefit the trustsRepealing the duty on refined sugar would smash it, and cheapen the cost of this prime necessity of life to eveiyone of the 63,000,000 of consumers in this country. The people consume about 3,000.000,000 pounds of sugar annually, and the tariff duty enables the trust to extort at least $30,000,000 a yeai from them. The way to break the trust is to repeal the duty on refined sugar, or cut it down to such a point as will admit of the impor-’ tation of refined sugar in competition with the product of the trust. —Pittsburgh Post.

The las£ Legislature appropria* ted $5,000 for the purp >se of encouraging Farmers’ Institutes throughout the State, allowing to every County Institute held the sum of S4O to defray expenses of same. Jasper County is connected with the 12th Agricultural District, and J. M. Boggs, of Lafay-. e tte, is Superintendent of Fawners’ I nstitutes therein. T>. H. Xec man and other prominent farmers in this county, are agitating the ques-

tion of an Institute this fall, and we suggest that they push the matter.

Editor Sentinel: In last week’s issue of the Republican we find the following: “St. John * * *■ attempted, in the democratic portion of his speech last Monday night (afternoon ) to make his readers (hearers) believe that to the success of the republican party iast fall was due the fact that oite are vorth, from 15 to 18 cents per bushel. Now if the martyr (St. John) is right|in|attributing the low pi ioe of oats to the republican party,, it is evident that to the same party belongs the credit of the very satisfactory price of corn, the high price of pork, ;say $4.50 live weight, the uniformly high price of eggs this season, the good price of butter and the fair prices of horses. Cattle are pretty cheap but they got that way in Cleveland’s time. Hay also is down low, but that, too,, went down in democratic days, and the outlook now is for better-prices.” Such articles as the at ove Will not mislead the farmers, -n ho keep well posted on the prices of farm products and also upon all articles of merchandise which he is compelled to p -rehasc. Me also knows that one year ago oats was worth abov t 25 cents per bushel, and that the price of 4 bushels of oats would purchase 16 lbs. of common light brown sugar, and that at pr< Bent under Harrison and protection it requires 6£ bushels to pay for 10 lbs. of the same grade, making a saving under a Democratic administration of 2| bushels of o>ts and six pounds of sugar. The price of corn at Chicago is 31 cents per bushel which is several cents less than the price of corn at this time last year.— Pork is stated to be about $4.50 live weight, but the Chicago quotation places the price at from $3.90 to $4.75, from which deduct the cost of transportation, <fcc., which would bring the grade of hogs raised by tke Jasper county farmers down to from $3.50 to $3.90, home market, making the Plioe from 75 cents to $1 less than the prices of one year ago. The* Indianapolis markets of Wednes. day 1 quote butter at from 5 to 10 bent*,- which is very satisfactory indeed from a protectionist point of view, but nevertheless we farm * ers ‘know that the, same can not be produced at that price. The farmers alsu know that i horse that will bring SIOO now would haye sold one year ago at from $126 to $l6O. Fat cows and heifers sold on the local market and to ship-, pers in 1887 and 1888 at’from $2 to $2.75 per hundred, live weight, the same now selling at from $1.50 to $2, and some bunches have sold as low as from $1.25 to $1.40, and other cattle in proportion, making a loss to the farmer and stockman of 75 cents per hundred. The only farm product that brings a fair price at present, which might be credited to tme repubublican party, is eggs, and the fact that the high price of poultry last year induced the farmeis to sell off poultry to such an extent that the supply this year is not equa to the demand, we suspect ha something to do with present ' rices. However, we would adv : : e the market reporter of the Republican to post himself on the mw ets before attempting to write an other article as false as the th eon he attempts to prov >. Very truly,

CRAPE ISLAND.

September 26, 1839.

The Chicago Bargain Store, that caused the great crash of the trust on high prices, deserves a share of the trade of every citizen in Jasper county, as they have come i o stay, and have an immense stock of Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, and a 5c and 10c goods counter, <fcc. One price for cash. Chicago Bargain Store.