Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1891 — PEA-NUT POLITICS. [ARTICLE]

PEA-NUT POLITICS.

The owners of the protected coke works are evicting their late employes bee ease they refuse to work at starvation wages. Referring to the law governing mechanics liens, since the action taken on the same by the general assembly, the attor-ney-general says: “The law is, as it now stands, precisely the same as it was left at the close of the session of 1889, and lumber men or material men will acquire a lien upon property by giving she usual notioe as heretofore required by statute.” It is amusing to witness the efforts of Republican editors to establish the point that to the McKinley bil lie the farmer indebted for his GO cent corn and 50 cent oats. The farmer smiles at the ludicrous claim, however, when he remembers that the law of supply ana demand contiols the price of grain. He thinks, at the same time, that if it was not for the Me Kinley bill could procure binding twine, farming implements, and numerous necessaries of life much cheaper, and he could then better realize the fair price received for his products, and feel that he was on the road to prosperity.

In speaking of the new tax|recently, the Indianapolis Sentinel was made to say: Under the new law, in brief, the farmer, the wage-earner, the small tradesman, all Jieople pf small means, will pay only their ust proportion of the State and local taxes, whereas they have heretofore paid much less than their just proportion. What the Sentinel editor wrote was that “they have heretofore paid much more than their just proportion,” but a careless compositor entirely changed the meaning by using the word “less". The Sentinel promptly corrected the mistake the next day, but the republican press, among them our neighbor, perseveringly continued to circulate the unoorrected paragraph. The Richmond Telegram, a republiern paper, made itself a conspic. nous mark for the Sentinel in its zeal to make political capital out of a typographical error. The Sentinel responds thus: “As the editor of the Telegram is an ordained minister of the gospel, it is a little hard to see how he can reconcile his present course with the commandment: “Thou shalt not bear false witness. But it is well-known that some republicans habitually forsake their God to serve the republican party and afterwards boast of it.”

Tke Italians being imported into the ooke regions to take the place of the strikers are entitled to pity, for they are on the down road leading from poverty to a worse poverty. They are ow in the position occupied by the present strikers eome years -ago. They, too, took the plaoesof a higher order of workmen who had been ground down beyond the point of endurance bv the same employers who are importing these Italians. The history of the coke region is easily told. American miners were succeeded by English and Irish; these by the Huns. Now the Htms are to give i lace to Italians. When wages are reduced to a point where even they cannot live they will probably be succeeded by Chinese or Hottentots. With every change of nationality in the ffofaM comes a deterioration of the eivilii zafcieo of the mining country. What the would like would be a race of stomachics* end brainless automata who would work dor nothing and board tkemselves. "—■ 1,1 -POO mi m- ■ ■ James, Celeste and George Rude, of Walker township, were given lodgings in •nr jail Monday night on failure to give bonds to keep the peace. They will be brought before Judge Hammond to-mor-row in habeas corpus proceedings. Is yonr dog registered? * •