Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1891 — SOME EXCELLENT ADVICE. [ARTICLE]

SOME EXCELLENT ADVICE.

The editcr of the Logahsport Chronicle offers some good advice to a certain class of his readers which we here reproduce: Don’t—Dear reador of the Chronicle, don’t think the editor loses any sleep if you stop your paper. Don’t forget to send the amount due when you order your paper discontinued. Don’t forget to send your old ns well as your new address when you ohange your post office, Dou’t keep the paper waiting a year or even longer for subscription, but pay promptly. Don’t get angry when yon receive a bill, but go to the post office and remit the amount. Don’t forget that it is just as great a sin to defraud a paper out of its just dues as it is to cheat the butcher or the baker. Don’t let it escape your memory tb at the new postal laws makes it a larceny to take a paper and refuse to par for it. Don’t call at this office and tell us how to run the paper, saying “Why don’t you put in this?” or “Why don’t you leave that out?" it is better I o start a jiaperof your own. Don’t think that because you are good for any amount that we should not be in a hurry to get it; but remember that as long as it i in your pooket it does us no good, * * * * * * * Don't blame us if there is not a notice of the last meeting of your society. It w is your fault as muoh as that of any one else.lfor ali you had to do was to send an aoeonnt of the affair, and if worthy you would have seen it in the Chronicle. Don’t forget dear reader, that those who defraud a paper out of what it is due will have to settte the bill in the next world, in a place where no paper can b j published on account of the calorific state of the atmosphere. Don’t get excited and stop your paper if you see something in it that does not agree with vour ideas; but remember that there is a chance, and a large one, too, of your being wrong, nndthe artic e may call forth words of praise from nine-tenths of the subscribers.

The commissioner of internal revenue estimates that it will take 112,000,000 a year to pay the sugar barons the bounty provided by the McKinley bill. This means $1,000,000 a month, or thirty-four thousand dollars a day. All this money is takeu out of the sum paid by the consumers of this country in the way of a tariff and turned over to these proteoted barons of monopoly.

“Every man who desires to cast an intelligent ballot,’’truthfully says the White County Democrat, “should acquaint himself with the condition of affairs in this country. Between campaigns and not during the heat nnd strife of a political conflict is the time to obtain information and to form nn unbiased opinion of men and measures. The conflict of 1892 promises to be one of the fiercest, as well as the most important, ever fought. The result will probably decide whether this is a government of the people and for the people, or whether it is a government for the “rich and well born,” the expense to be borne by the people. The question is, shall the people contribute sufficent to pay governmental expense and retain the rest for their own use, or shall they continue to turn out a grist of millionaires eaoh year. Read up.”

In many of the counties in Kansas the democratic element of the alliances demand of their party straghtnominetions. They insist that the alliance is not a partisan organization, ana that so far ns the effort making to connect it with the People’s Pmty movement is concerned they can see no necessity for taking stock in it, believing that there is no true reform demanded by the new party platform that cannot be more easily obtained by placing the democratic party in power. The correct idea.

Huntington county is making it hot for tax-dodging bankers. The cr shier * of the Citizens’ and Hnr tiugton County Banks were each fined SIOOO for refnsing to be sworn and to answer quesCons before the county assessor, as to the amount of money on deposit on the Ist of April in their respective institutions.

White County Democrat: “Old Jesse Harper is in Kentucky making third party speeches. Years ago old Jesse lived in Warren county this state and eked out an indifferent livelihood, chiefly through the exertions of his law partner. He was a virulent republican and was finally hired by the campaign committee to make speeches at $lO apiece. This amount was so much more than he had ever received before that he concluded politics was his 1 mission and that “there wasjuillions in it" i for him. The next time the republican [ committee wanted him to make speeches he raised his price to SSO. He was not employed and has been a rosming dis- ! gruntled reformer ever since. He is a farmer by profession, though a lawyer by practice; a reformer by pretense and a fraud in fact. Such in brief is the pedigree of the man who recently attempted j to deceive the people of this county in | the interest, not of the f inner, but of the professional office seeker.” Yes, old Jesse, like many other-i assoi ciated with him just now, have assumed a lead in every new party movement that has sprung into existance. Unal le to forge to the froi t in the old parties of their choice, they seek employment as shepherds of new flocks in naw pastures. But they are not the leaders to tic to. The sole aim of that class of men's parse cal preferment. • Failing in that they-»t least have employment, nd they are not working for nothing.