Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1891 — CARLISLE’S DISCOURAGING FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

CARLISLE’S DISCOURAGING FIGURES.

One of the newspaper correspondents who were prsßent at the birth of the new party at Cincinnati the other day writes that in their great delightsome of the gentry who attended the oomrention tho’t it would be a good idea to go over the river into Kentucky and ask Senator Carlisle what he thought of the new infant. They did so, and they met with a cordial reception. Some of the western de’egates have rather a kindly feeling for Carlisle. They believe he is an honest man, and they wanted his opinion of the revolt they are leading. They talked with the Senator about some of their pet projects and asked what he thought of them Government ownership of railroads and telegraphs was brought up, and Mr. Carlisle turned questioner. “Do yon propose to get possession of these properties by confiscation?’ - he asked them. “No; that wouldn’t be fair,” they admitted. [““Then yon must buy them," was the reply, “and to buy them yon must pay for them, and to pay for »them you must tax vonrselves. Have you any idea how much it will eost? Our government debt at the close of the war was more than two thousand millions, and we have been almost thirty years in paying half of tt— The railroads, telegraphs, telephone lines and the country represent about $10,000,000,000 invested capital; $4,000,000,000 is bonded indebtedness which must be paid. Are yon ready to tax yourselves to raise this money? Then, after yon have got the property, are you ready to tax yourselves to operate it, for the government never yet succeeded in doing business at a profit? Consider another effect; such a plan would add perhaps 1,500,000 men and women to the roll of government employes. How would yon succeed in turning out of power an administration with such resources at its command? The more corrupt it was the more difficult it would be to displace it.” The delegation looked dubious and perplexed, for the qaestions and suggestions were evidently all new to their sanguine and enthusiastic minds. “Anyhow,” broke in one of them, changing the subject, “don’t you think the money power is getting into too few hands?" “Yes, I admit it is a bad sign,” replied Mr. Carlisle. “But how are you going to remedy it? By a revolution or by an act of legislature? Do yon propose to say by your legislature that when a man has earned SIOO or SI,OOO or SIO,OOO that he shall not earn any more? Again there was no response. The visitors presented two or three more of the grievances which form the basis of their revolt, and Mr. Carlisle tested them one after the other with the question: “How can they be remedied by your proposed plan?" And no practical answer was suggested. The fathers of the new party went away with the idea that, after all, the political millennium might not be as near at hand as they imagined it to be. An inch of rain means 100 tons of water on every acre.

The Lathrop, Mo., Monitor dans its subscribers thusly: This 1| is to announce that the weather in this § this winter has been without a || since the morning *** sang together, in consequence of which $ $ * have been Bcarce in this office, and we are obliged -—this opportunity of urgi g our subscriber to } n w^a t they owe on subscription, as we dislike to stand around with a+ in our to keep our creditors from taking, possession of our personal effects. Do U. C? Ex-Senator Regan puts the truth “in a nut shell when he says: “I do not approve of the policy of the ownership of the telegraph by the govornment, but favor the regulation and control of the lates by the states and federal government in their respective spheres." “For similar reasons and because of the great power and patronage the telegraph and railroads would give the federal government, I do not approve of the government ownershio of railroads.” A horse owned in Louisville, Ky„ is over forty-seven years old. He is known as Ivan hoe, and bears on his right flank the scar of a gunshot wound received at Buena Vista in tre Mexican War.