Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1894 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Having disposed of my Dusmess in Fair Oa&s, I am desirous that all persons indebted to me will call at once and make settlement, by cash or note. T. J. Mallatt. Fair Oaks, Ind., Dec. 15, ’7B. The Indiana Engineering Societv is in session at Indianapolis, and the Sentinel of that city thus refers to the part taken in the program by a pair of well known gentlemen from this locality: “J. E. Alter of Rensselaer gave a dialectic description of his experiences in dealing with farmers in allotting drains, which was appreciated onjaccountof its humor “The Location, Designing and Construction of Open Ditches” was treated at length by L. A. Bostwick of Rensselaer, he holding that open ditches serve two purposes; irrigation in the arid districts and drainage. It was a valuable paper and especially interesting to the society, . s it in detail the methods of apnlyin thi well known formula for the flow of water to the debign of ditches for accomplish in - the purpose desired.” Republican newspapers (our own Rensselaer Republican included ) are saying that the Democrats on the Ways and M«ans Committee repiesent small towns and for that reason have no svm» pa thy with protected manufacturers. They virtually maintain tnat the Government was crated to foster manufacturing concerns.— The Reoub ican newspapers give only the following memtersof the committee: “W. 1. Wilson, Charleston, W. Ya.; population, 2,287. “Benton McMillan, Carthage, Tenn.; population 478. “Henry G Tucker, Quitman, Ga ; population 1,868. “C. R. Breckinridge, Pine Blutt, Ark.; population less than 1,000. “Alex. B. Montgomery, Elizabeth, Ky.; population 2,260.” The dishonesty of the desparate game, and the plain inte Lon to deceive thejpeople, is revealed in the omission of the names of six more Democrats who are on the committee. They are: J. R. Whiting,St. Clair, Mich., population 2,253. M. T. Stevens, North Andover, Mass., population 3,742. Wm. J. Bryan, Lincoln, Nebraska, population 55,154. W. D. Bynum, Indianapolis, population 105,430. John C. Tarsney, Kansas City, Mo., population 132,716. Wm. Bourko Cockran, New York population 1,515,801. But this is not all. Mr. McMillan who hails fit Pm a town that contains but 478 inhabitarts represents just as many people as Mr. Cockran who hails from a city that contains a million and a hnlf people. The Democrats on this commi - tee represent, or ought to represmt, th.* 5,553,142 citizens of the United States who voted one yf ar ago for the abolition of unconstitutional protection, and the enactment of a constitutional tariff for revenue only; tnat is to s.iy, they represent a majorisy of tne voters of the United States, together with their wives and families. The Democrats on the Ways and Means committee represent all th-se millions of citizens, in the sense that they have'been charged by the Democracy to redeem the pledge of last year’s platform by reporting to the house a tariff bill framed in accordance with the declarations of that platform.

BOSS REED’S FALLACY. M. M. Trumbull, in The Open Court, exposes the fallacy of the assertion that foreigners pay our taxes. He says: “The minority of the Ways and Means committee have presented their report in opposition to the Wllson bill. I have rr act ths first paragraph nly, and if the charge there brought against the bill is true, it is not necessary to read anj more- Mr. Wilso t has been guilty of statesmanship, by which, according to the m nority report, Ihe larger burthen of taxation has been transferred from foreigners and put u on our own citizens. It will lie a great hardship if our own taxes are to be paid by our own citizens, instead of by the foreigner; but is a pleasant thing to learn that at present the larger burthen of American taxation is borne by foreigners, who pay their own tax*.