Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1890 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

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THE NEW RENSSELAER. IND. Q, S. DALE. Prggggllfl, »ORB£CAI F. CHJLLCOTE. 25 Attorney ~ivt>X.av, * . INDIANA i BNSSELAEE. ' Practices Sin tha sS&y 8 of “Sect, opposite Court House- „ nA,VID.T. THOMPSON ‘“°X™ a,-L«. WgPgfr THOMPSON & BKOi-lER, asNSSKLAKR. Prn.-.ijceiu an the Courts. ARIOIn L. SFITLER, <3piieoU-r md Abstratf** ’ We pay i to t>a^®| 2n4g ; selling and leasing innaa. WH. H. GRAHAM, * aTTOkNEY-AT-LAW, Reesdelatr, Indiana. Money to loan on long interoell. JAMESwTioUTHIT, ATTLRNEYsAT-LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIO, a- office m rear room over Hemphill & Bonn’s store,

„ iuvmokd william B. Austin. Sdwin P.Hammond. .»i HAMMOND & AUSTIN, ATTORN E Y~ AT-*L A"W, Rensselaer, Ind avSj'S'SSC. ■ 4555.wT“ ! ‘ - «'• i VSS“ Instruments. * IRA W. A BOMAN, attorney at ISOTAR ¥ PUBLIC Real Hate aM CoMii Agent* REMINGTON, INDIANA. Will practice in all the Courts of Newton Renton and Jasper ™ TOB E ' LOUGUniDOD j, H LOUGHRIDGE & SON, Phvsioiaas and Surgeons. Office in the new Leopold B ock, scco d noor, offi second door right-hand side of hall: X T«n ner cent, interest will he added to ail accounts running unsettled longer than Three months. DR. I. B. WASHBURN Phj sic a’ A Surgeon l\ i v,. -. <»*'/*, lii<i• 'joiiH nrompt'v attended. Will give special atter. 3 tlontothe treatment of Chronic Diseases. w. hahtsell, m- d HOMOEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. Diseases a Specialty.,^] OFFICE, in Makeever’s New Block. Residtnee at Makeever House. . July 11,1884. ' _ __ .» , Eimri Dwiggins, F. ,T, Sears, Val. Skis, President. - Vic«-Presldent. Cashier CrmENS’STATEBANK EENSSECASJ. “U Does a general banking business; Certificates bearing t tcrest issued; 'Ex- . changd’bocirht and sold; Money loaned' on farms at low -st. mb a and or,mo i:i avoiable terms £,Jan. 8. AS, j-oen Makkkvkr Jay Williams. Pres .dept. cwehh -AEMERb BANK, «P, Public Square. . ‘• kTaER, . . ' INDIAN/ ~ ■ - ■ ■ 1 r *4| < .ve Ps»oslj» Buy and Soil Exehasp* Collections made and pronmtly remitted. Money Loaned. Do h general Bank.

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA FRIDAY MA l 30. 1890.

TO OUR FARMERS.

You will soon be called upon by the Democratic and Republican parties to aid in perfecting a thorough organization of those parties for the coming battle of ballots. Carefully consider the attitude of these parties upon the vital questions of to-day! Educate yourselves, take a decisive stand, laying aside all prejudices, and your position cannot other thar lavorable to the Democracy. You are an active principal in the business and producing world, and as such cannot afford to support a policy the application of which means hampered markets, tiie coddling of trusts and combines with special privileges to favored individuals. Protection, a combination of knavery and theft, is the trap set to eatch the unwaiy and uninformed. The McKinleyite meets you with a kiss, and, while he presses his lips, scented with free ottar of roses, to your brow, thrusts a dagger into your heart in the way of increased taxes on clothing and other necessaries of life. The farmer is not banefitted in the least by the duties on agricultural products. We produce a surplus which must find a foreign market. England is our largest purchaser, and Liverpool th. * g eatest market for American grain pr ducts. Now, in ail cases where there is a surplus the piices in the home market is fixed where that surplus is sold, consequently the price of a bushel of wheat, corn or oats, and the price of beef or pork is fixed in Liverpool, in other words, the price in New York or Chicago is the pifie in Liverpool, less transpomtation, commissions, etc. ’ The tariff duty piaced on farm products is a delusion and a Lnare. It is a mantle to cover the deformity of the devils fish which sdeks the profits of the farm, and a large per cent of labor’s hire, into Aa rapacious maw. It increases the price of machinery, farming implements and necessities by confining our people to a liom s market which is controlled by trusts and combines that could not exist bu + for a protect ve tariff. Take a lesson from the protected barbed wire and binding twine trusts. It is give but never receive. Now, to iifus trate, suppose a farmer sell- $lO worth of wheat in Liverpool and purchases a $lO suit of clothing in the same market. The natural .’aws ot trade, supply and demand, govern both sale and- purchase. All exchanges, barters or sales must be fair if the same law fixing values govern both sides of the transaction. The farmer finds on arriving at New Yorn that he must pay a tariff tax of G 8 per cent, before he is allowed to remove his goods from the custom house.ow -the suit, under the natural laws of trade cost him $lO, which, with the tariff of $6,80 costs him really $16,80. In other words, he exchanged $lO worth of wheat for $lO worth of clothing and paid $6,80 m addition to the government for having the audacity to make the exchange. Is that fairtrade? Now suppose he wishes to duplicate that suit in New York city, it will cost him the same amount—if imported goods the importer adding th ereto the tax paid by him; if home manufacture the manufacturer, having taken advantage of tne tariff tax, adds, receives and transfers to his pockets the ain’t. Now if the tariff increases the price of a suit of clothing, either a foreign or domestic article, to nearly double the price of the same, if governed only by the natural laws of trade, why does not the high tariff and blessed home market increase the price of the farmer’s wheat in like proportion ? Simply because the farmer produces a surplus and no tariff can have any effect upon the price except to lower it by preventing a tair exchange of products with our foreign purchaser. The devilfish gefs in its work by compelling you to give on rn average cue and onehalf bushels of wheat for an artis cle which with fair trade could be purchased wich one bushel. Are

•‘A FIRM ADHERENCE TO CORRECT PRINCIPLES.”

you not getting tired of be'ng robbed for the bent fit of favored classes? If so, vote for the partv that advocates equal rights to all and exclusive privileges to none: that makes war on trusts and com D bines of all forms: that ad ocate3 honest election laws, a iree ballot and f. fair count: that denounces unnecessary taxation as unjust taxation.

A NORTH-END DEMOCRAT

Editor Sentinel: A few weeks ago we gave to your readers a little political gossip from these parts, which seems to have given Senator Thompson very serious concern. We made . o particular charge against the senator, offered no very particular criticism upon his legislative record, nor made any special plea for Mr. Dunn’s nominal tion.

. We merely gave some of the objections that certain republicans up here have against Thomp-. son’s re-election, together with their opinion of Dunn’s fitness for the senator’s place. Being but a common farmer we do not wish to get into a hewspaper quarrel With Mr. Thompson. We have not the time to examine all the references he has cPed us to, and have not the books at hand to examine even had we the time. He acknowledges his opposition to tiie school-book and election laws, the most important enacted during his term, laws that aretaonjust, right, and approved by four-fifths of the voters of the state. As betweej Thompson and Dunn the democracy of this senatorial district has perhaps no parti: ular preference unless it be that Thompson be the weaker candidate. Republicans in this locality des clare they will not forgive him for displaying the “white feather” in 1887 \ This is a matter to be settled by our republican friends, and we do not wish to have anything lurther:o do with it.

A NORTH END DEMOCRAT.

FARMERS AND THE CENSUS.

The census year began June 1, 1889, and ends May 31,1890. Each state has from one to eleven supervisors’ districts. There are 175 supervisors in all. There are 42, 000 enumerators, who in ail parts of the country will begin their work Monday morning, June 2, 1890. Every farm will be visited before June 30, and the following questions will, be asked, keeping in mind that the figures you are to give nearly all pertain to the crops of 1889, and not to the growing crops of 1890: 1. Your name as occupant of the farm. 2. Are you owner, renter for money, or for share of the crops of the farm ? 3. Are you white or black? 4. Number of acres of land, improved or unimproved. 5. Acres irrigated. 6. Number of artesian wells flowing. 7. Value of farm, buildings, implements, machinery, and live stock. 8. ’ Fences: Cost of building and repairing. 9. Cost of fertilizers. 10. Labor: Amounts paid for labor, including board; weeks of hired labor, white or black. 11. Products: Estimated value of all farm productions sold, consumed, or on hand for 1889. 12. Forestry: Amount of wood cut, and value of all forest products sold. 13, Grasslands: Acres of each kind-of grasslands cut for hay or pastured; tons of hay and straw sold; clover and grass seeds produced and sold; silos and their capacity. 14. Sugar: Cane, sorghum, maple and beet; sugar and molasses; acres, product and value of each. 15. Caster Beans: Acres. 10. Cereals: Barley, buckwheat, Indian corn, oats, rye, wheat; acres, crop, amount of each sold and consumed, and value. 17. Piice: Acres,crop and value. 18. Tobacco: Acres, crop, amount sold and value. 19. Peas and Beans: Bushels and value of crop sold. 20. Peanuts: Acres, bushels and value. 21. flops: acres

A FARMER.

pounds, and value. 22. Fibers: Cotton, flax and hemp; acres, crop and value. 23. Broom corn: acres, pounds and value. 24. Live Stock: Horses, mules and asses; number on hand June 1, 1890; number foalep in 1889; number sold in number died in 1889. 25. Sheep: Number on hand June 1, 1899, of “fine wool,” “long wool 4 ” and all other; number of lambs dropped in 1880; ‘ spring lambs” sold in 1889; sold in 1889 other than “spring lambs;” slaughtered for use on farm in 1889; killed by dogs in 1889; died from other causes in 1889. 26. Wool: shorn spring of 1890 and fall of 1889. 57. Goats: number of Angora and common. 28. Dogs: on farm June 1, 1890. 29. Neat Cattle: Working oxen, milch cows, and other cattle on band Junel, 190;number of pure bred, grade and common; calves dropped in 1889; cattle sold in 1899, slaughtered for use on the farm, and died in 1889. (30) Dairy: Milk —total gallons produced on farm; sold for use in families; sent to creamery or factory; used on farm, including for butter or cheese; used on farm in raising cream for sale, including for creamery or factory. Butter—pounds made on farm and sold in 1889. Cream—quarts sent to creamery

or factory; sold other than to creamery or factory. Cheese — pounds made on farm and sold in 1889. 31. Swine: Number on hand Jume 1, 1890; sold in 1889; consumed on furm and died in 1889. 32. Poultry: Number each of chickens, turkeys, geese and ducks on hand June Ist, 1889; value of all poultry products sold; eggs produced, spld, and vklue in 1889. 33. Bees: Number of of honey and wax produce!* am! value. 34. Onions: Field crop—number of acres, bushels produc ed and sold, and value. 35. Potatoes: Sweet and liish, bushels produced and sold. 36. Market gardens and small fruits: Number of acres in vegetables, blackberries, cranbeiries, raspberries, strawberries, and other small fruits, and total value of products in 1889. 37. Vegetables and fruits for canning: Number of acres, and products, in bushels, of peas and beans, green corn, tomatoes, other vegetables and fruits. 38. Orchards: Apples, apricots, cherries, peaches, pears, plums, and prunes, and other orchard fruits; in each the number of acres, crop in 1889, number of young trees not bearing, and value of all orchard products sold. 39. Vineyards: Number of acres in vines bearing and in young vines not bearing; products of grapes and raisins, and value in 1889.

Besides these questions on the Schedule No. 2, Superintendent Robert P. Porter has ordered several special investigations in the interests of agriculture, among which are Viniculture, Nurseries, Florists, Seed and Truck Farms, Semi-tropic Fruits, Oranges, etc., Live Stock on the great ranges, and in cities and villages; also the uames and number of all the various farmer’s organizations, such as Agricultural and Horticultural Societies, Poultry and Beo Associations, Farmers’ Clubs, Granges, Alliances, Wheels, Unions, Leagues, etc. * la no part of the census work have the lines been extended more than in the direction as agriculture, and if farmers will co-operate with tiie enumerators and other officials in promptly furnishing the correct figures more comprehensive returns regarding our greatest industry will be obtained than ever before.

COUNTING THE PEOPLE.

Seme of the Inquiries to be made by the Census Enumerators in June. The Eleventh Census of the United States will betaken during the month of June. The census enumerators will begin their w’ork on Monday, June 2, and will visit every house and ask questions concerning every person and every amily in the United States, The

questions that will be asked call for the name of every persou residing in the United States on the first day of June, with their sex and ago, and whether white, black, mulatto, quadr oon, octoroon, or Chinese, J apanose, or Indian. Inquiry will also bo made of every person as to whether they are single, married, widowed, or ivorced, and, if married whether married during the census year. The place of birth of each person, and the plaee of birth of the father and mother of each person, will also be called for, as well as a stotern nt as to the profession, trade, or occupation followed aud the number of months unemployed during the census year. For all persona ten years of age or over a return must be made b}' the enumerator as fcc the number able to read and write, and also the number who can speak English For those who can not speak English the particular language or dialeot spoken by them will be ascertained. Tor children of school age, also, the number oi months they attended school will be recorded by the census enumerators. In the case of mothers an inquiry will bo made as to the number of children they have had, and the number of these children living at the present t mo, This inquiry is to be made of all

women who are or have been married, including ill who are widows or have been divorced. Foreign bofn maios of adult age, that is, 21 years of age or ever, will be asked as to the number of years they have been m tiro United States, i nd whether they are naturalized or have taken out natu»a’ization paf'-rs. Of the head of each family visited the question wiU bo asked as to the number of persons in the family, and whether his home is ow hired; also, if owned, whether (he home is free from mortgage incumbrance. 3f tu 3 head of th » family is a farmer, similar inquiries will be made con - cerning the ownership of the farm. In addition io those inquiries, all of which aro made on the population schedule, the law under which the census is taken makes provis - ion fhr special inquiries concern - ing such of the population as may be mentally or physic lly defective in any respect, that is, insane, fee. ble-minded, deaf, blind, or cripoled, or who may be temporarily disabled by sickness, disease or accident at the.time of the enumerator’s vid t. Certain special inquiries will also be made concerningjinmates < f prisons and reformatories and of charitable and .benevolent institutions. Besides this, a statement will be called for concerning all persona who hay 3 died during the census year, giving their name, age, sex, occupation, and cause of death.

This official count of the people comes but once :n ten years, and every family and every person should consider it to be their duty to answer the questions oE the census enumerator willingly and promptly, so that definite and accurate information may no gained concerning the 65,000,C00 people living within the bounds of this ' great country.

HO liaV ? UYCi <UKI u pointed out the fact tnafc the Republican method of making a tariff bill wa: to ask the beneficiaries of it how much they wanted, and to fix the rates accordingly. W e protested against the iniquity and indecency of allowing the tax eaters to determi e how much the tax.p yers shall be burdened. In his remarkable speech of lasli Tuesday Mr. Butterworlb, Republican as he is, protested in like manner again : t taxes to be assessed by the beneficiaries of ie :ntion, and without nbnndon’ug the le-e ementary principles of protection he protested against an api lication of those principles that taxed the public a great deal more than the protected industry was worth even to its capitalists and workmen . —National Democrat.

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