Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1890 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Yoorheesat Logansport, u toberSth. ■ - Plumb, Taddock and Pettigrew, republican senators voted against the McKinley t « bi »* Tbe Republican majority in Congres B has wiped out the Demo oratic surplus.— They have converted the surplus into a deficit. We have not seen in the prooceeding 8 of congress that Billy Owen ottered any bill to provide a bounty for the products es ourfarmers. Billy fa ors the trusts alone. The Indianapolis Sentinel warns farm, ers to lookout for agents selling the St. John plow. They double up iheir notes Bfier leaving the purchaser an-: har e been working their scheme in the northern part of ihe state'. All raw sugars thnt the trust uses are free—all the refined sugars that the people must buy are taxed—and the trust is to be paid a bounty besides, by the government, Billy Owen voted for this. If a limited reciprocity trade, according to Hr. Blaine’s recently adopted theoriesshould be a good thing for our people’ why should not an extended reciprocity trade prove more beneficial? What is reciprocity, pure and simple, but free trade? Billy Owen voted for the McKinley bill as reported from the oonference committee. It increases the revenues of the Carnegies and reduces the revenues of the government; it pays a bounty of $7,000,000 or $8,000,000 a year to the sugar combines. It giveß no relief to the people.— The average rate of duty is 60 per centthat or the law which it suaplents wa ß about 4 f.J per cent. Reader, how Jo you like it? Billy Owen, when here, must have received a few pointers from his friends, for no sooner did he reach Washington th m he sent back a written endorsement of the Farmer’s alliance platform, then entered the house and introduced a bill for the issuance of $500,000,000 in bonds to pay pensioners from date of discharge ia-tead of from date of application.— 1 i entry Biily found Lis fences among ur *' and soldiers in a Lad state of rep nr.