Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1893 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Having disposed of my business in Fair Oaks, I am desirous that all persons indebted to me will call at once and make settlement, by cash or nute. T. J. Mallatt. Fair Oaks, Ind., Dec. 15, ’7B.

The eminent protectionist, Hon. John F. Miller, of California, said in 1862:

“2he average American manufacturer is interested generally in two things—namely, the highest protective tariff and the cheapest labor.”

Hon. Ben Butterworth, republican member of Congress, in a speech declared: “2he manuiacturers and the trusts get the protection and the profits of the tariff—the farmer gets the husks and the humbug.”

Even McKinley said last year in a speech at Providence: “No ont ever pretended that protective tariffs were intended to in* crease wages.”

ghe Wilson tariff bill’s good as far as it goes, but it don't go far enough. Jhe tax on diamonds, jewelry, and articles of that class, shoujd be considerably increased, and (he bounty of two cents per pound paid by the consumers thro’ the government to the sugar trusts should be wholly wiped out.

What About Black Ruin.- 2 ae democratic tariff measure has be an introduced and is certain to be* come a. law, yet in speaking of trade prospects the Indianapolis Journal says: “It grows brighter; industrial review shows factories increasing their help. Packing houses have- an abnormally large business—hundreds of men employed last week.” How about th<b.aok ruin that was to envelope tne country ii the democrats tampered with the tariff. JJJerre Haute Gazette.

A Fouk Years’ Debauch.— lt was a fc ur-yeai debauch that caused the national headache Present sobriety is not the cause of theheadache. nation simply had to get s her or die of delirium tremens. Feckless extravagance, bounties, subsidies, jobs, jingoism had to come to an end. The headache is disappearing and the na.. tional neryes aie all-right. We shall be happy yet, 3ou bit, as Homer or some other poet has beautifully said. - Terre Haute Gazette.

2he New York World says:— ‘UJJhe usual handsome dividend j ust declared on the enormous stocks o! the sugar trust is a reminder that the Wilson bill makes a just stroke in behalf of the -'eople.” It is a reminder, too, that the wiping out the entire McKinley bonus to this gtaspiug monopoly would greatly add to tht justice of th stroke!

Prof. lugal. scvutific Optician. 1612 N Halstead street, Chicago, will be at the Makeever House for one week commencing December 18th. All those wishing their eyes fitted accurately will do well to call on him. Examination free. 2hi s -s his s xth annual visit to Rensselaer.

The new election laws passed by the last legislature oi. Indiana changed the time of holding the usual spring elections to the fall. Therefore township trustees, jus* tices of the peace, assessors, constables, road supervisors, and such other officers of townships as may be provided for by law shall be elected at the gener.d election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1894, and ev.-ry four years thereafter, and are to be governed by the provisions of the Saw governing said general elections The names of the township officers are to be printed On separate ballots of a yellow color and deposited in separate boxes from that of the state And county ba lots. The ballot boxes are also to be painteu yellow. The law making this change was approved March 2,1893. The only election we will have next spring will be the city election in May.

Exchanges say that parties ar a traveling over the country with a sample of seed wheal which they show and claim will yield fifty bushels to the They propose to furnish the se°d an i one hundred pounds of phosphate Der eere and ask in return ore-half of the crop. This is certainly a good bargain for the one that furnishes the seed, but it is still better when the signed contracts turn out to be a note for two or three hundred dollars.