Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1891 — A TARIFF STORM RISING. [ARTICLE]

A TARIFF STORM RISING.

[Pittsburgh Post.] And where, pray, are the increased wages for American workingmen promised as a certainty to follow the passage ol the McK nley bill? Has not the trend of wages been downward? The strikes and lockouts from one end of the Union to the other, almost exclusively in the protected industries, answer ihe questions. The McKinley bill was framed to care for the fat-fried contributors to campaign funds, and the fat fried are taking preoious good good care of themselves with the aid of imported cheap labor, ruthless evictions, deputy sheriffs, soldiers—all warring against organized labor. The belter the McKinley bill is understood in its purpose and working the more intense the anger against it. The cyclone oi 1890 will be as a summer gale to the storm that is rising.

Representative Buchanan, of New Jersey, says the Democrats in Congress next December will adopt the Reed rules. If they don’t, be says, the Republicans will “mesmerize them.” Mr. Buchanan speaks without reflection. Reed rales are not needed to enable a majority to govern.— They are only needed when a party that ought to have a majority doesn’t have it. In the last House the nominal majority of the Republicans was so small that they had great difficulty in producing a real majority In the hext House the Democrats will be able to let 30 or 40 men go a fishing and then have a quorum without any Republican assistance. The Republicans in the next House will not mesmerize anybody, but there is some danger that they will not be nu erous enough <o keep the huge Democratic majority fully awake—Natiohal Democrat.

Why the Cobpobations Kick.— One pretty good test of a law is to be found m those who oppose it. All the corporations and large interests that have hitherto escaped taxation altogether or only paid a small amount aie bitterly opposed to the new tax *aw passed by the last legislature. It makes these interests pay up and to that extent it lightens the burdens on the laboring, producing masses. —Terre Haute Gazette. A Succession op Climaxes.—Harrison declared in Denver that his reception here was the climax of his tour. He had three climaxes later on—one at Omaha, another at Springfield and the last at Indianapolis. The president lost Denver’s climax en route.—Rocky Mountain News. An increase of 1,695 in the number of Government employes, and of more than $5,100,000 in the annual pay roll—something more than $3,000 each on an average—was one of the minor achievements of the Reed Congress. A prize of SI,OOO for the best hymn suitable for use in the churches and synagogues of New York city on hospital days has lately been awarded to Miss Harriet McEwea Kimball, of Portsmouth, N. H.