Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1891 — Evidenty Earns His Pay. [ARTICLE]

Evidenty Earns His Pay.

Lexington, Ga., has a town marshal well equipped for his duties. A few davs ago, it is said, ho had occasion to arrest three evildoers in a bunch. He gathered ono under each arm, their legs dangling in the air, and drove the third along in front, and in that way proceeded to the calaboose, where all three prisoners were locked up. Protectionists are nevor weary of pointing to the English working classes as a proof of the bad effects of “British free trade” and of the superlative wisdom of the American system of protection. Let them answer this question: How does it happen that forty years ago, when England began her present policy, she had one pauper to every twentythree of her population, and that now there is only ono pauper to every fortyone? And how does it appear that in the same period, the ratio of paupers to the whole number of people in the United States has increased? Woolex hosiery and underwear costing 30 cents a pound started out 100 years ago with a protective duty of 5 per cent. These goods have gradually climbed up the protective ladder till now, McKinley having put on a duty of over 200 per cent When do stockings cease to need protection? Is this a decent way for our stockings to celebrate a century of protection? Five students of the California State University, at Berkeley, caused a surprise to the professors, the other night, by hoisting a beer-barrel to the flagstaff. Brooding can change a grat into a cameL