Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1889 — FARMERS TAKE WARNING. [ARTICLE]

FARMERS TAKE WARNING.

Chicago Hera.cl: The tariff has undoubtedly lost us a share of the English graiu trad-. Our levying of heavy duties on her goods lias been an incentive to her encouragement of wheat growing in In di£, and she is now getting a large quantity of wheat from that country. The same result has followed the operation of our tariff in an other direction. Au American from the Argentine Repub-.ic, where be is engaged in business, is now in this country to purchase the machinery for a number of giain elevators. He sa}’s that the heavy tax placed upon the quality of wool produced in that republic by our present schedule has rendered the exportation of wool to the United States impossible, and that, in the absence of a demand as great as they might supply, they have taken to the raising of wheat with wonderful success. — He says also that a vast area of the country consists of the finest wheat lands, and believes that the republic will soon be «ble to supply a large share of the wheat consumed in Europe. The bad effects of protection may become so obvious at last as to require no other “free trade arguments” to enlighten the sluggish cerebral matter of even the Tribune’s “foci farmers.”

The Fites played in their comic farce ‘Blundering Bob and the Scenes in the Picture Gallery,” at Lowel, last night, in the presence of a packed house, and Joe kept the audience j - roar during the entire enter ta : 10 nt. Ht; is ii whole circus in nimself. Mrs. Sadie Fite sung some splendid comic songs. She is a splendid actress in the part of the “Irish Girl.” The whole plav is a success. Don’t miss the fun. /1 Opera House, in Rensselaer, Saturday evenin' \ Dec. 28, and Monday evenin' 30th.

The Monon route will soil reduced rate tickets, for the Holdays, on December 31st and January Ist. Tickets good returning until January 3d. For particulars enquire of the station agents.