Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1890 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

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THE NEW U iniKlElEl v|e|rKlhlolu|sle[X RENSSELAER, IND. Q. S. DALE, Proprietor. mordecai f. chilcote. Attorney -at-Law RiHBSKiiAEB, - - ■ • * Indiana Practices {in ths Courts of Jasper and adQfnlnß counties. Makes collestions a sperialtv Office on north side of Washington opposite Court House- vml SIMON P. THOMPSON. D AVtD J. THOMPSON Attorney - at • Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Rensselaer. - - Indiana Practice in all the Courts. ATM ON L. SPITLER, Collector rmd Abstractor n We pay particular attention to payingtaxfsetltnfe and leasing lands. v2n*B (TO, H. H. GRAHAM, ” * aTTOkNEY-AT-LAW, Reesdeuatb, Indiana. Money to loan on long * JAMES W. DOUTHIT, attorneysat-law and notary public, MT Office in rear room over Hemphill & Honan’s store, Rensselaer, Ind.

Edwin P. Hammond. , HAMMOND & AUSTIN, attorney-at-law, Rensselaer, Ind Instruments. ______ IRA W. YEOMAN, attorney at Law, NOTARY PUBLIC Real Estate aal Collett Agent* REMINGTON, INDIANA, Will practice in all the Courts of Newuoa Beaton and Jasper counties, t HLOTJGHBID9E. VICTOR E. LOUOHRIDGE j, H L.OUGHRFDGE & SON, Physicians and Surgeons. Office In the new Leopold Block, second floor, second door right-hand side of hall: Ten per cent, interest will be added to all accounts running uusettled longer than fifree months. vlnl DR. I. B. WASHBURN Physician & Surgeon Rensselaer , lnd. CJalls promptly attended. Will give special atten tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. Yf W. HARTS ELL, M D HOMCEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. VChronic Diseases a Specialty.^® OFFICE, in Makeever’s New Block. Residence at Makeever House, July 11,1884. Eixri Dwiggiws, P. J. Sears, Val. Sbib, President. View-President. Cashier CITIZENS'ST ATEBANK

bensselaej: vd Dobs a general banking business; Certificates bearing I'ltercut Issued; Exchange bouebt and sold; Honey loaned on farms •t low set rates and on mos i avorable terms Pm. 8.88. john Maneuver Jat Williams. Pres.dent, cwehlc "AEMEES 1 BANK, if* Public I ELAER, INDIAN* • f ve Deposits Bay and Soil Exebtmgt Collections made and promptly remitted. Money Loaned. Do a general Bank* lng Brsiness. AUflftlT. lßßl.

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA. FRIDAY. APRIL 11. 1890.

THE GRASPING TRUSTS.

A High Protection Paper’s Reas6n Why They Exist and Flourish. (Philadelphia Telegraph) The New York Herald, Democratic and anti-protection as it is, has done a good thine for tbe conntry by giving publication to the long list of trusts which Senator Vest, of Missouri, made part of his speech during the debate last Friday on Senator Sherman’s Anti-Trust Bill. We reproduce it here from the editorial page of the Herald for the benefit of those who are of the opinion that a tariff bill always truly represents the good and necessary principles of protection for the people. They will perceive from this list that, in too many cases, it represents only corporate greed and the oppression of the people. Tne list is as follows: 1. The steel and rail trust, buttressed by a tariff tax of sl7 per ton. 2. The nail trust, by a tariff tax of $1.25 per 100 pounds. 3. The iron nut and washer trust, bv a tax of 82 per 100 pounds. 4. The barbed fence-wire trust, by a tax of 60 cents per 100 pounds. 5. The copper trust, |by a tax of $2.50 per 100 pounds. 6. The lead trust, by a tax of $2.50 per 100 pounds. 7. The slate pencil trust, by a tax of 30 per cent. 8. The nickel trust, by a tax of sls per 100 pounds. 9. The zinc trust, by a tax of $2.50 per 100 pounds. 10. The sugar trust, by tax of $2 per 100 pounds. 11. The oil-cloth trust, by a tax of 40 per cent. 12.. The jute bag trust, b / a tax of 40 per cent. 13. Tho cordage trust, by a tax of 30 per cent 14 The paper envelope trust, by a tax of 25 per cent. 15. The gutta percha trust, by a tax of 35 per cent. 16. The castor-oil trust, by a tax of 80 cents per gallon. 17. Ihe linseed oil trust, by a tax of 25 cents per gallon. 18. The cottonseed oil trust, by a tax of 25 cents per gallon. 19. The borax trust, by a tax of ssper 100 pou ds. 20. The ultramarine tiust, a tax of s*f per hundred pounds. Senator Sherman, in support of his hill, added to the foregoing the names of several other trusts, among them that of the Sta dard Oil company and the Diamond Match company, at the head of which is that approved patriot General Alger. The Mateh Trust was composed of thirty-one different factories, all of which except thiiteen were closed as soon as the Trust got control of them In a case in which the Trust, or Diamond Match company was the defendant, General Alger was asked the following question: “It appears that during the years 1881 and 1882 large sums cf money were expended to keep men out of the match business, remove competition, buy machinery and patents, and, in some instances, purchase other match factories. I will ask you to state the reasons, if any there are, why those sums should not be treated as an expense of the business and charged off from th.s account?”

To which he replied: “Because the price of matches was kept up to correspond so as to pay these expenses and make large dividends above what could have been made had those factories been in the market to compete with the busines That question and answer would fit any t ust to which they might or could be applied. They tell the whol<i story, secret and open, of trusts, which exist solely because of duties which are exce sive—excessive far beyond the point of j«st and desirable protection. The manufacturers have gone before the Ways and Means committee and have induced that body

•‘A riBM ADHERENCE TO CORRECT PRINCIPLES.”

to fix such duties as they desired whi h being made the lawful duties, they nave farmed trusts or monopolies, and, by virtue of the law made oy the servants of the people, they have plundered and oppressed the peopfc by restricting production and utting an extortionate price on their goods, which generally are among the neoess ries of life, j * In evefy single case in whiah the duty imposed on any article of general consumption is the vital cause of that article being monopolized by trusts, the duty should be repealed. The action of congress should be unalterable in every such case. The organization of a trust to control the output of any manufacture, and to put an arbitrary price upon it, should be sufficient to place that particular article on the free list. If that policy were made the unchangeable rule of congress, all present trusts would disappear, and no new ones would take their places. v It is the hight of lolly, if it be not insincerity, for Senator Sherman and others to go beating about the bush pretending to de stroy the trusts by the cumber*, seme and inadequate devices of special acts, when they may be destroyed by the very direct and simple process of repealing the particular duties on which the trusts are built and which sustain them. If senator Sherman is sincere in his alleged hatred of trusts, let him move to take away the prop > which support them. If that be done the trusts will fall. Several of the states have adopted anti-trust laws; but in every case they have been proved useless the moment the effort was made to enforce them'. Just as much hs the wheel is turned by the water falling upon it, are the trusts created and fostered by excessive duties — by dut.es which are far and away beyond the point of genuine, honest protection. Tho tariff was never intended to be used as a means to enrish a small class at the loss and to the injury of the great mass of the people It was intended for the mutual benefit; and so soon as it ceases to secure that, in respect to any single duty, that dnty should be removed.

A few very rich men, by reason of duties which are excessive, are enabled in any special line of industry to buy out or drive out of business small manufacturers and so control the entire output and fix upon it whatever price they please. The first thing the Sugars Trust did, after capitalizing what was worth sl4 000,000 at $50,000,000, was to close down half the refineries and nearly double the price of sugar. The Diamond Match Trust, of which that blatant demagogue General Alger is, chief, closed eighteen of its thirty-one factories as so n as it got possession of them. In both cases —in all cases of trusts—excessive duties enabled them to do it Duties which are so high as to create and sustain trusts are not protective but oppressive duties, and should be and with their repeal all trusts would fall.

He sat at his door at noonday, lonely and gloomy and sad, brooding over the price of his corn crop and figuriDg how much he had. He had worked fiotn early spring* time, early and late and hard, and he was counting his assets and figuring out his reward. He figured that it took two aeres to buy his two boys new boots, and 10 acres more on top of this to fit them out with new suits. To buy his wife a protected dress took 100 bushels mOre, while fiv? acres went in a solid lump for the carpet on the floor. His tax and his grocery bill absorbed his crop of oats, while the interest on his farm mortgage took all his fattened shoats. The shingles on his cowshed and the lumber for his barn had eaten up his beef steers and the balance of his corn. So he sat in hie dcor at noonday, lonely and gloomy and sore, as be figured up

A Tart Poem:

his wealth a little less than it was the year before. “By gam, they say I’m protected, but 1 know there’s something wrong; Iv’e been deceived and gulled afid hoodwink ed by this high-protection song. They told of rebellious traitors, and held up the b’oody rag, and I followed along like a pumpkin, and now lam holding the bag. But from this time on I’ll investigate, and get to the bottom of facts, and I’ll bet $4 to begin with that the tariff is a tax.”

An endless variety of new style ribbons and wonderful cheap, at Chicago Bargain Store. —» ■

How Soldiers’ Widows Fare:

✓ [St Louis Post D'spateh] When President Cleveland refuged to reappoint Miss Sweet as pension agent at Chicago itwas to give ihe place to the widow of the gallant Colonel Mulligan who was killed in battle. President Harri son has refused to reappoint MrsMulligan and given the office to an active Republican politician who can vote and work up delegations. The exclusive right to sell 0. B. Cones’ boss over-all pants, in Rensselaer, has been given to the Chicago Bargain Store and hereafter their goods will nst be sold to any other dealer.

Rspublican Gerrymandering:

(Sioux City Tribun#)’ The disfranchisement of Democrats in Massaclusetts is almost as bad as it is in lowa. In the former Stale the Democrats polled 160,719 votes, while the Republicans polled 178,811 votes, and yet the Republicans have ten Representa* tives in the present House, and the Democrats have only two. It takes 75,000 votes iu Massachusetts to elect c. Democrat to uongress,and requires only 17,881 votes to elect a Republican. The empty talk about disfranchisement of negroes in the South falls flat before these official figures. J ust received a largo stock of men’s and boys’ soft and stiff hats. All the latest shapes, shades and styles, at Chicago Bargain Store.

Tariff Stultification.

[Buffalo Courier,) A correspondent of the Rochester Union, noticing the statement of Representative Bayne, of Pennsylvania, adopted as its own by the Rochester Democrat and Chroni-. cle, that if canned-goods manufacturers will submit to the proposed new tariff of 216 cents a pound on tin plate for a few years they “will get cheaper tin than ever before,” is cruel enough to aok if it is expected that the proposed new duties on farm products will work the same way? The McKinley bill proposes to increase these duties to the following rates: On barley, 30 cents a bushel; corn, 10 cents; oats, 10 cents; rye, 10 cent.-!; wheat, 10 cents; wheat flour, 20 percent.; butter and cheese, 6 cents per pound; eggs, 5 cents a dozen; cabbages, 3 cents apiece; onions, 40 cents a bushel; hay, $4 a ton; vegetable m their natural state, 25 per cent.; hops, 15 cents peJ pound. Will the effect of these duties be that;'in a few years we shall get farm products cheaper than ever before? If not, why not 9 Will a high duty make one product cheap and make another dear? And if low orices are the end aimed a* by high duties, what sort of comfort can the farmers get from Major McKinley’s new tariff?

For a perfect fitting fine shoe, go to the Chicago Bargain Store.

The Infamous Tax

Wilmington (N C) Messe -ger CThe tin plate tax in the radical scheme of plunder is au infamy. It is proposed to increase it ; It is without semblance ot justification, and for the following reasons: Eirst, everybody uses tin plate in some way. Second, no plate is made in the United States. Third, the tax paid by home users amouts to 16,000,000 a year now. Fourth, the increase of ta‘J proposed will

make the annual tax $14,000,000. Fifth, this tax and increase of burden is sorely for the benefit of a set of sLarpers and robbers infesto ing the lobbies in Washington. r T?hey do not make any tin plate, rUAikey will doit if the Congress sheßdare to put this great tax uoon the universal consumers. Nqw every householder, every farmer, every canning manufacturer, everybody who eats canned goods or uses cans, etc., is indeed a very great outrage that is sought to be fastened upon the people by a set of devourers and blood suckers. The first city 10 protest is Philadelphia, in tli highly protected state of Pennsylvania. Why buy a cheap made over-all when you can buy C. B. Cones’, best made in the world, at same price as cheap ones. Chicago Bargain Store-

THE VILLAGE BIG MAN.

HU Sudden Dwindling on Entering tbe Hubbub of the Dig City. While traveling did you ever notiqe the advent Into the train of the villagd big munP usks the Cincinnati Times* Star. Every town has ita big man—, not generally more than one. That is; there is no other man who approaches nearih importance the certain man. aHe is most always a la%jfcr, occasionally a doctor. But about hifl entering the car: The big man had several modes of communicating the fact of his presence. Generally it ii with his nose. Sometimes a resounding “hawk,” stamp of cano, or thq tremendously loud and solemn toned Of hip voice in making tho simplest, most threadbare exp' ession. Mostly,! however, his nose it is which gives no uncertain sound, and by which all are made aware of tho presence of an iq« dividual of note. Ho is immovable and silent, save an occasional blast, as a wayside tree. Ha poses In the seat with a grace* nil majesty thafc comes of long year* of constant, diligwt practice. By and by the city is reached. Big man mw consciously reveals an almost imperceptible interest And oven anxiety. BeSns to half realize that he is out ol s depths in this great massing of huge buildings and with no familiarly awed country neighbors’ countenances in sight. Lo, his stupendous air ol importance is at swift ebb. And as he alights from the car and walks out in the crowd, his is all the appearance ol mingled curiosity, mistrust and gen-\ eral wide-eyed verdancy of the veriest jay. Verily, how we apples do swim-H at home.

HIS REVENGE ON THE TOWN.

A North Carolina Village Practically Kilted by a Quee&Will, At Spartansbprg, N. C*a queer will, 1 savoring strongly of revenge, being that of the last of the Wakefield broth* ers, has been probated. The Wake-i fields were rich bachelors and gave td the town the land on which tho lieidN ville high school stands. Because the town did not name the school after them they became angary at the authorities. Ohe of the brothers died, leaving his property to the other. He died ten days ago, leaving 5,000 acres ol land surrounding the town to his sister during her life. At her death it goes in trust for ninety-nine years to the probate judge of this county. At the expiration of that time it goes to the heirs. The effect of the will is to kill the town, because it can not get land on which to build for mor* than 100 years.

A Vegetarian Cat.

E. J Cable of Litchfield has a cat which is really remarkable. His fur is ■able, blacker than the blackest midttght, and he is the only vegetarian eat we ever knew. When any of the family are peeling potatoes he ‘ ‘cuts up” at a great rate until he is fed some raw potatoes. He usually eats from one to three. He also eats apples, but his favorite dish is muskmelon. If a muskmelon is brought into the house secretly he will know it as quickly as most cam Would if it were raw beef. He will jump up, mew, and run around after a piece of it and act as wildly over it as most cats do over mice.

| “Hard work has done dharlte Barrett good. Just see what huge mus» bles he has on his arms.” , “Yes he wasn’t so last year. What was his work on the ranch P” | “He did the carving at meals.”

Must Have Had a Tough Time.

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