Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1894 — REPUBLICANS RESPONSIBLE. COMPELLED TO BORROW. [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICANS RESPONSIBLE. COMPELLED TO BORROW.

The Slavs and Huns who are now rioting in the mi. ing fields of Pennsylvania were brought here by the beneficiaries of the McKinley bill to lower the wages oi American labor. Non-competitio. enables them to dictate rates for the sals of th?ir products, and the importation of Huns and Slavs provide them with labor at low rates. No wonder that they soon become millionaires.

“11 is not pleasant,” says the Indianapolis Sentinel, “to con tern, plate the riotiug of Huns and Slavs iff Pennsylvai la. It is not pleasant to contemplate the ded habits and the barbarous modes of living of these degraded semisavages. It is r ght and proper enough to say that this class oi. immigrants is not wanted in the Dnit.d States. But the selfish interests that brought them here cannot be held entirely blameless for the crimes. These men were brought here to help out the “pro-, tected” interests of Pennsylvania in their struggle against American labor, which demanded a share of that ‘protection” wnich a misguided government was giving to the employer These men were bro’t here to compete with the “protected” labor of America. The emwho stoutly insisted that the government should give them a monopoly, an exclusive Market for their product, insisted with equal vehemence that thty should be allow d to purchase labor|in the cheapest market. And they found it in the half savages of the lower Danube. These same “protected” employers who prate so loudly of their love for the workingmen, are the men who brought the ignorant Huns to this country. And if their j roperty is now destroyed by them it must be admitted that, the’-e is an element of poetic justice in the dispensation.”

Prof. Schouler, the well known historian, discusses a mjmbeifof points concerning Hawaiian affairs in the Forum, teat are not really involved in the political phase of the question, and among other things he disposes of the personal assault on the late queen in this way:

Liliuokalaci’s chastit is defend ed by her frier ds and denied by her enemies; she has always been re-c-ived at her capital with the greatest respect, and greeted in society bv the wives and daughters of the leading foreign residents, which is of iteelf an imp >rtantc rcumstafcce in hei favoi. But be the truth wha; it may, tile coarse and calumnious epithets with which so many of our ow countrymen have lately befouled her in the pi ess, and, worst of all, President Harrison’s recent minister, who should have bejn the last person t forfeit dignity in that respect—anr*. all without an indictment, an investigation, an affidavit, ot even a really compromising fact to adduce against her—shoul d cause the biood of every honorable man to curdle with indignation. R ferring to this same Harriso man minister, Senator Turp e in the Sena e scored him thusly:

In his relation of th se events placed in the record of Congress, before referred to, Mr. Stevens, a.luding to the late sovereign of the Hawaiian Kingdom uses, ten times, the expression, “ r he fallen Queen” —and again he says “The justly dethroned Queen,” and anon t.e mentions her as “The late immoral occupant of the throne,” i.nd yet agaiu he speaks of The Queen and her paramour ” Are these tl e choice phrases of official correspondence, or is this the polished language of diploma** cy? It may be said, indeed, in answer, that at the time he used these expressions, he had returned from his mission anil had ceased to be a diplomatist. But did this I place him beyond the pale es manly : civility <:nd those amenities be** ! coming one who had been in such a high and gracious station? Was it necessary for any purpo* ses of state, was it needed for the maintenance of the Hawaiian Bepublic or for tne success of the Provisional Government, that he should recur with coarse and callous iteratio to the misforfunes of the discrowned nr that he should assail th° listening ears of Christendom with hm story of the frailty of a fallen wama”-?

For years he had been the representative of the Dnited States near the court of the Hawaiian Kingiom. How well we may recollect —how well he may recall—that day when he was escorted to the palace, ushered with all oourteous ceremonial into the throne room and made his bow of presentation, receiving and returning congratulations upon the renewal of diplomanc intercourse between the two countries so long bound 1 ogether by closest ties of friendship. That day he saw for the first time her who was for many months to be his hostess, dispensing the social courtesies and attentions due to his high pos:tion as a privileged and favored guest Was no voice borne inward to him from afar, no whisper of remonstrance touching these cruel reproaches against the perohance erring daughter, descendant cf a once mighty race, saying, “Ob, not from you—not from you shou.d come this vilest of accusations against woman!” We need not resort to inference for a just estimation of the minister who indites dispatches of this tenor and fashion. The official character is self-depicted, selfdescribed. Who would attempt to touch, to mar, or to amend this full-len 'th, faultless, perfect portrait of tue international spy, ingrate, and outlaw, drawn in all the dark piofusion of its native hues.

The Wilson Tariff bill passed the House, with income feature annexed, by a majority of 64. Now let the Senate act promptly and pass it without delAy.

Id elosiug the debate against the Wilson bill T. B. Reed emphatically denied that the supporters of the McKinley monstrosity ever claimed that it would increase wages. Of course not. It was solely designed to increase the profits of monopolies and oombines at the expense of the consumer.

The solid Democratic delegation in congress from Indiana supported the Wilson bill. We note, with p>asure, that Mr. Banta, the well and favorably known agent of the Dayton, Ohio, Nurseries is making his annual rounds of this and adjonin counies. Mr. B. has been making this route to the past seven or eight years and has made an extensive acquaintance. He is highly esteemed and his mode of fair dealing has made friends of all with whom he has come in contact.

Mrs. Anna S. Austin has been elected mayor of Pleasanton, Kano sas, by a snug major ty. Tom Beed tackled Bourke Cockran in debate the other day and the press dispatches say that Beed met with a surprise be did not relish . The burly Maine man will have a wholesome respect for the New Yorker hereafter. •

Some of our republican r ontemporaries attempt to excuse the Harrison administration for squandering the surplus accumulated by Mr. Cleveland by saying that it was used to pay the government debt* But Harrison did not pay as much debt as Cleveland did. The re-* duction of the bonded debt from March 1, 1886, to March 1,1889, was $338,042.8 TO, while from March 1, 1889, to March 1,1893, it was only $259,671,960. In other words Cleveland paid off $178,970,870 more bonded debt in four years than Harrison did. And that is not all. "While Cleveland left a handsome surplus to nis successor* Harrison not only exhausted the treasury, but created a floating debt of $22,272,061. Nothing could be more extravagant than the Hairison administration.

Dtnme*, 14-year old son of Charley Pnllins, Barkley township, caught two wolves last week

Bro. McEwen, of the Rensselaer Sentinel, is a candidate for postmaster at that place, and if years of hard labor in the interest of his party will count for anything in the race Le is now making, he will get it too.- Morocco Courier. The Bepublico-*Peopo editor of the Pilot calls Senator Voorhees ! a liar.’ Of course the Senator, if j he happens to see, it, will ‘consider 11 he source.*