Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1889 — A [?]erchant Talks [ARTICLE]

A [?]erchant Talks

The Republicans of New York lost eighteen members of the legislature. Mahone, of Virginia, the republican rebel brigadier, is a dead duck. Depew was exceedingly surprised at the result in lowa. He wasn’t prepared for an earthquake. “Tariff Reform will win as soon as the people thoroughly appreciate the results to be attained.”— Grover Cleveland. One significant feature in the lowa el‘ction is thz.t the noted “war Governor,” Kirkwood, voted for the Deinociatic candidate for Governor. As a result of the late election the “home market” productions' prepared under the auspices of the monopolistic trust organization, have been suddenly dropped by the Republican and other republican organs. Our neighbor feels jolly over the action of tne three new republican judges in knocking out a law enacted by the legislature last winter. The decision simply stamps the men who made it a o a trio of judicial asses. We nvite the attention of our neighbor to comments on the subject by the Indianapolis News, a republican paper Chief Justice Elliott, too, a republican, dissents most emphatically with the opinion of the three ignoramuses.

A Journal scribe was in at Frank Gavan’s when a customer call, d tor (ne of his famous merchant tailor suits. Exposing some goods Mr. Gavin sa’d: “Here is the imported and here is the American of the same brand. The American appeared coarse and shoddy.— Said the customer: “Why can’t America make just as fine goods as foreigners do? Haven’t they got as good machinery? Aie I’t ihey as skillful ?” Said the genial Gavan: “Yes, our machinery and our workmen are the equal of the European in every respect. But owing to the duty oh wool we can’t compete with our foreign neighbors on raw materials. You see we do not grow the fine wools—can t do it in our climate—and ws can’t pay the import duty and com pete with the foreign mills which get this goods free of duty. The consequence is that America with all her skill, intelligence and genius must take a back seat when it comes to fine fabrics and Europe crosses the ocean and furnishes us all our fine clothing. “And” added he with emphasis, “it is such facts as this that makes me a democrat , I tell you all ra w materials should be on the free list, all duties should be reduced and America, the young giant among the nations of the

earth, should stand on a basis of flat-footed competition with all the world. She can do it and at the same time increase her manufactured products, improve their quality and cheapen their price, and in so doing equalize the burdens of life, thus improving the condition of the American people as a whole.” Mr. Gavan talked both wisely and well.—Lafayette Journal. The old salt, refused admittance into the ark, declared to Noah that there would “not be much of a flood after all.” Some republi 3

cans assume the same sang froid with reference to the recent elections. They’ll be as badly fooled as was the ‘old salt.’