Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1890 — A Tere-a-Tete Interrupted. [ARTICLE]

A Tere-a-Tete Interrupted.

A Henry street girl and Cass uveau* .voting man were standing on the corner at the intersection of two street* the other night waiting for a car. “You never looked as well in your life before, Clara,” said the young loan in a tender tone He spoke low Iknd. only for the ear ol his companion, hut immediately a loud voice responded: “Rats!” The youth felt highly insulted, and turned round to chastise the party whc had spoken, but the girl soothed him and said it wasn't meant for them, and he calmed down. ‘ ‘That car isn’t in sight yet, ” he said. “Tell me that you love me, Clara, as much as I ” “O, pshaw!” cried the unseen party. “I'll brain him,” shouted the angry lover, brandishing his cane. “Your a rascal,” called a hoars* voU'o, and as a piece of cracker fell or. the lover’s head he looked up and »aw the Ycndome parrot in her cagr above. They take the other eorne* now, Ea+s.

It is now said, by those wuio pretend to know, that Simon r. Thompson of Rensselaer’ will be a candidate for Judge at the forthcoming Republican convention, to be held at Rensselaer on the 18th of June Kenthind Democrat. The merchants of Chicago, without regard to party, are petitioning the United States Senate to take the McKinley bill in hand and so modify it a to reduce taxation instead of i creasing. The people are on the lookout for that bill and when they get a whack at it they will“reduce” the party that fathers it. • Just watch the result of congressional elections this fall.

“Very little of Scotland wheat supply comes now from America,” said Guthrie Smith, of Edinburgh, Scotland, who registered this morning at the Lei and Hotel. “India has taken America’s place and now we not only get from there about as good quality of wheat as we did from America, but at much cheaper rates. And at the present rate of develop roent of the grain lands of India we wi ll in a short time be able to buy wheat in Scotland at £1 per quarter (eight bushels). That is equal to 60 cents per bushel in this country. It is claimed by some of India’s enthusiastic residents that they will he able to supply the world with grain. That, however, is, I think, an exaggeration. But capital is being used very plentifully there in building railroads, and where the stock is not watered the raising of grain and its shipment to Great Britain yields a fair profit all around. “IT is. will be bad, of course, for your farmer,” Mr. Smith continued, ‘ and I feel sorry for him. But it is his own fault. 11(3 will vote for protection, and by so doing rob himself of foreign markets for his goods. We abroad may want your grain, but unless you take something from us the shipowners will have to charge yon double freight. They can’t afford to rup both ways on the rate for one way.” “It is often stated* here that Ureal Britain w<yi!d be the first to mourn if merica " 18 Ihtt

louder will we have foreign markets without having to compete with you.”—Chicago Post.

Just before the McKinley bill passed the house, Mr. Bland of Missouri described the situation in that body very faithfully. We quote from the Record: “I see gentlemen rising on tbat (Republican) side of the house, one contending lor a high duty on lead, another for a low duty on lead, each one of them declaring that his particular industry will be ruined unless liis theory is carried out. On the other hand, one wants a high duty on glass and another a low duty; and so on throughout the whole of the schedules. It is not a question as to wether the government needs the revenue or not; it is not a question whether we are levying duties for the purpose of raising revenue to go into the treasury; it is not a question whether the majority of the American people are to be benefited by this bill; but it is a scramble, a trade, and a bargain on the part of the gentlemen on that side of the house to see who can get the most of the steal in this bill. It is a n ere bargain and sale; a trade, a scramble, a grab game; and it seems that those who have got their maw into it are standing watch so as to crowd all the rest out. The whole thing is a steal and a robbery of the great American peoole.