Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1890 — SERVICES AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH. [ARTICLE]

SERVICES AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH.

Sugd*y school every Sopday at 9:30a. m. On the 2d and 4th Sundays in each month, preaching at 10:45 a. m. and at the. usual hour in the evening. Covenant meeting, Saturday before the second Sunday in each month, at 2:00 p. m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening. All are cordially invited to attend any of these services. U. M. McGuire.

Official tables show that while the aggregate wealth of New England has increased more rapidly than that oiany other section of the country during the two decades last past, the agricultural wealth of that section has decreased. The manufacturers have become rich and the farmers have become poor—so poor that thousands of them are deserting their farms. The fact that the manufacturers are permitted to levy a tax of 47 per cent, on the articles the farmers buy for themselves and their families may not be the only cause for the contrast in the condition of the two classes, but it is a reasonable supposition that it is by far the most potent cause.—Lafayette Journal.

I he home market has struck Tippecanoe county farmers with vengeance. Last year the v raised a good crop of corn, but unfortunately for them, they can not get enough for it to pay tne expenses of handling it. On Saturday the price for corn in Lafayette fell off three points, and now coin must be perfectly sound and of good quality to command 21 cents per bushel. At Hlen Hall, Odell Corner and other points, corn was only quoted at 13 cents. With corn at that Srice, oats at 18 and wheat at 3 cents per bushel the prospect for the farmers is not promising. At the same time the 47 per cent, tariff on all the farmer haß to buy still hangs on with a promise from a Republican administration, in all branches, it will remain at that point, if not even raised higher, l'he farmers will evidently get their eyes open by November—Lafayette Journal.

In the whole history of noli-J-ical parties in this country none have withstood the shcck of yeais save alone the Democratic party. Some may ask what is the secret of its vitality? There is no secret about it. The party was founded on a principle as firm as the con stitution. The party is the people. It was not conceive d and bom for any class, but for the whole people and will live so long as the spirit of freedom fin 1s an abiding place in the human breast. The “hearing’, before the ways and means committee is scaring the high tax republicans, because: 1. Every man who has any thing to say in that presence speak for himself. He has an ax to grind. He wants the tariff raised, or he wants it lowered for his own individual benefit. He is simply trying to fix things so that he may make more money. 2. Not one of the men who ask for more tariff makes any pretense that his request is for any body’s benefit except his own. Not one of them has anvtning to say about wages. All admit that a tariff is a tax. 3. The beneficiaries of the tariff reveal, by the demands that they make, the fact that tariffs, when laid for protection, are intended to give one industry the right to prey upon all other industries, 4. /' lmost every protected manufacturer who has yet ap peared before the committee wants more tariff and not less tariff. r \ 5. In the case of the few who want less tariff on any particular article it is al ways noticeable that that article is one that they are compelled to buy—not one that they have toseU.