Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1890 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

If there* is a farmer in Jasper county that wants the best mowing; machine on the earth you can fine it at C."A. Roberts’ implement house, who guarantees that any boy twelve years old can lift the cutter bar. Any man can raise the bar without touching the lever with his hands. Call and sea if this is not a fact. The machine is sold on its merits. No cheap, shabby good , but the best. What you sqe, you know; and what you read and hear, there is to be allowance made for. Thanking you for past favors, I remain Yours, Respectfully, C. A. Roberts.

A Tax on Raw Material a Tax on Labor* “None so blind as those who will not see.” That a tariff on raw ma tsrial not only tends to but is bound to lower wages I can prove in a very few words. You live on the other side of the line, where they don’t tax wool. You use 6,000 runds per day in your factory. live on this side of the line, where they do t.x wool (say 10 cents per pound), and I use the same number of pouads you do. You have just S6OO per day the advantage of me. The only way 1 can compete with you is to lower my wages just that much, or make my employes do that much mere work. A man, horse, or mule who can’t see that should be hit on the head with a hammer, and it is almost as plain that the tariff is a tax collected off the many for the benefit of the fe «v. I claim to be the originator of that expression, and first used it in a short letter to your paper during the Cleveland campaign of 1884 But ac* cording to my own argument, I should have been hit on the head with a hammer, for I used to be a strong tariff man, but I only had heard one side. Willis H. Law** rence, in Philadelphia Record. ■ *■■■ ol e 1 1 -■' ■ i ■— i *■ Special bargain in clothing, shoes and slippers, for the month of June Chicago Bargain Store.

Why the Fanner Stays Poor. Philadelphia Times: But the chief cause of the farmer’s lack of prosperity lies in another direction Low prices for his orops would not be so bad provided he was able to buy the goods he consumes correspondingly cheap. But when he must pay out of his small income war taxes on all or nearly all the goods he buys he can never hope to be prosperous. With the price

of his sugar increased 50 per cent, and that of the clothing for himself and family and the tools and machinery he us. *s in his daily occupation increased in a still great-* er ratio by a tariff maintained to foster trusts and monopolies and pile rp money to be squandered by politicians and jobber.-’, he will be compelled to scratch a poorman’s head indefinitely.

A good quality of binding twine, prices reasonable, at C. A. Roberts’. Call and inspect it. Young Jim Blaine has just been blackballed by the Athletic Club at Washington. It would be a queer club that didn’t blackball young Jim. Old Jim was blackballed by the great Democratic Club in 1884, Lawns and Chadies 4 cts. per yard to 15 cts per yd. Chicago Bargain Store. Reed, McKinley, or some otherfood protectionist should call Mr. Uaine to one side and whisper to him that he is making sad havoc with the “home market argument.”

Go to C. A. Roberts for a fine line of buggies, carts and spring wagons. ' *HB XO3DRHN SAUL This is the most remarkable coi version in the annals of American politics.—Boston Post. The Secretary of State— even Blaine, who frothed at the month daring the campaign of 1388 whenever jfcfce Mills fpll was refer**