Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1890 — A Great Similarity [ARTICLE]

A Great Similarity

There is a marked resemblance in the careers of Grover Cleveland and Robert E. Pattison. They are both sons of poor and hardworking clergymen; early in life they were thrown or their own resources with others to provide for, they both educated themselves, studied law, and entering politics achieved high positions in republican cities and made their mark by splendid administration of fiscal affairs and aggressive fight against jobs and jobbe s. Then, in 1882, on the same day they were elected governors of the two great states of the Union, in both cases overcoming large republican ma > jorities at the preceding election, h e believe Pattison will be again governor of Pennsylvania with Cleveland as president of the United States. —Pittsburgh Post.

Mr. Blaine’s reciprocity letter is a mine of nuggets for the tariff reformer. It is good protectionist doctrine that the effect of a tariff is to cheapen everything, and it is equally sound protection to affirm that all duties are paid by the exporter and not by the consumer. Mr. Blaine does not believe in either of these doctrines. This is what he says: “Nearly all the articles we export to our neigobors are subject to heavy customs taxes; heavy, in many cases, as to prow hibit their Consumption by the masses of the people.” If this does not mean that the effect of a tariff is to increase the cost of articles to the consumer, it has no meaning at all. This is good tariff reform doctrine confirmed by high protection authority.—Springfield Republican. We commend the views of Mr. Blaine to the prayerful tion of the Rensselaer Republican end Monticello Herald.