Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1892 — Governor Porter’s Return to Indiana. [ARTICLE]

Governor Porter’s Return to Indiana.

It is gravely announced in the Indianapolis Journal that Governor Porter has resigned his position as minister to Italy for the express purpose of returning to Indiana and informing his farmer friends that they are greatly protected and benefited by the duties imposed upon farming products by the McKinley bill. Governor Porter will show while he is on the stump that the farmers would be utterly ruined had not the McKinley bill placed this tariff on straw, beans, peas, broom com, potatoes, milk, hops, hay and vegetables of all kinds. As there is great danger of the farmers of this country coming into contact with the farmers of other countries in the production of the above named articles, Governor- Porter will impress upon them, the great work of erecting a “Chinese wall” around our borders so as to prevent these articles being imported into this country and coming into competition with the same articles raised upon our farms. He will grow extremely eloquent while presenting these facts to his farmer friends of Indiana; but he may learn before the canvass closes that while he has been luxuriating at the court of the King of Italy on a salary oi SIO,OOO that the farmers of Indiana have thoroughly studied the tax and that they will no longer be humbugged by such cheap argument as Governor Porter and his party are giving them on the tariff. They have all learned that the McKinley bill was not made for the farmer but for the manufacturer and that the duties placed upon farming products in that bill were intended to catch the vote of the farmer while he was being robbed in the interest of the manufacturer.