Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1893 — POINTS PICKED UP. [ARTICLE]

POINTS PICKED UP.

An Englishman who recently visited Boston professed to be surprised by the fact that the men there use ice-water in shaving. Under the new tariff in France the Frenchmen must pay double the prioe they have formerly been charged for their vln ordinaire and their beer. The latest victim of the whipping-post In Delaware chewed tobaoco while the sheriff was wielding the cat, and left the post with a broad grin on his face. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs, as a solution of the present difficulties, has reoommended an allotment ol lands In severalty fer the Utes in Colorado. The health offioer of Philadelphia has been directed to prosecute 130 clergymen fer a fine of $lO for eaeh of 419 marriages that they neglected to reperl

The Indianapolis News says ‘‘if any one doubts the inherent wicked” of the Democrats, their desperate desire, their infatuated purpose, to wreck and ruin the country, their incapaci.y and geueral cussedness, let him read the resolutions adopted bvthe Republican leaders of Indiana at their recent meeting. The fact is, all political virtue is in the possession of the Republicans. As Democrats have to oppose the Republicans, they are obliged perfosce to Dut up with political vices. Ah, it is a spectacle to make angels weep to see more than half of the people of the most intelligent nation of the globe deliberately preferring the party of po iticnl vice to the party w u ich has a monopoly of political virtue! There was never better prooi of the total depravity of the average man. — he Republicans stand for all that is righteous, high and hoi?; the Democrats for all that is base and wicked, and of evil report. We know this because the Republican leaders frankly earn so Ard yet there are millions on millions of Democrats!”

The new tariff bid proposes free raw material; cheaper lumber, c heaper nails, cheaper glass, cheap* er white lead, cheaper building materials in alltlmr ramitic-dions, consequently good homes at much less cost; cheaper binding twine, cheaper agricultural implements, etc., eta., for the benefit of farmers; cheaper clothes and woolen goods, cheaper sugar, cheaper salt, cheaper coal, sheaper everything in line of the necessaries of lite, for the masses.

The free raw material clause of the bill will enable our manufacs tu.ers to assume a conspicuous place in the markets of the world, vastly increase the output, and in consequence employ more labor at remunerative wages. Monopolies and trusts are given a death blow, and what the people voted so cheaper necessities without interference with lahor interests—will result from the adoption of the measure.

When the republicans won “projection” victories a few weeks ago the price of wheat dropped three cents. The day after the new tariff bill was announced it g ined two cents!

Llepublicaus who, in disparage., ruent of the Wilson bill, say that if was built along the lines of the Walker tariff of 1846, coaid hardly give the new measure greater praise. The Walker tariff has been praised Id such eminent Ripublican statesmen as Mr. Blaine and Senator Allison as the most perfect taiiff bill the country ever had.

The President’s message is a fore ful and comprehensive state paper throughout. Mr. Cleveland minces no words. He says what he means, and m.-aus what he s..vs. He is thoroughly iu accord with the platform upon which he was elected. A Democratic congress will do well to carry out his recommendations without delay.

Bro. Marshall has no Jove for the man of the people—Grover Cleveland— heDce bis ‘cuss words’ over the message.

The Inters Ocean asks, “Why are the workshops and furnaces, and the diversified manufacturing es tablishmeuts closed?” Because McKinley’s Chinese wall killed our foreign market. The “homemarket” is glutted.—Valparaiso Messenger.

Carnegie says that he can make sWI rails and other articles of steel cheaper than can be done in Europe, tariff or no tariff. This s’atement is particular’y interesting at this time wnen Birins ingham people announce that they will fallow the reiusal of the ways anu means committee to continue a tariff on iron by making an open fieht for their demands in congress. John G. Reynolds has returned from Nashville, Tennessee