Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1894 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

By a recent decision of Judge Robs of the United States circuit court at Los Angeles 700,000 acres near that city become public lands and will be thrown open to settle ment accordingly. The land was claimed by the Southern Pacific railway company. Thu States brought suit for it as wrongfully held by the company and won. Here will be opportunity for many more free farms and fruit gardens.

The excitement over the strike hroughout the country has been intense. The sympathy of the masses was with the laboring men so long as they confined their actions within the limits of law and order. For years republican legislation has tended to build up monopolies, combines and trusts, create millionaires at the expense of the masses. * Plutocrats” like Vaiiderbi't, Carnegie and Pullman have snapped their fingers and insisted that “the public be damned!” “we have nothing to arbitrate!” when reproached with unfair treatment of * the public from which they have received so much, or when approached with a petition for living wages, or a remonstrance against a reduction. “Protective duties has made the wealth of these “plutocrats” but afforded no protection to the demand for living wages by wageearners. “Protection” which has prohibted competition and enabled the Carnegies, Vanderbilts and Pullmans to count their weaKh by millions, certainly made it possible for them to pay fair wages to their employes, but they have refused to do so. “Protection to home industry” has proven a false crv. It is, mo-e properly speaking, “protection to the owners of the product of home industry.” Not ons ly this. While the owners Jof the product of home industry have been protected agams* competition and fixed their own price for their pi oducts, they had “free Hade in the empiomentof labor,” and took full advantage of it, even to the extent of employing foreign co - trac labor. Republican legislation in the interest of caoital and agsinst the masses, and the lordly assumptio sos the “plutocratic’ b?neticiaries or class legislation have been the greatest agencies in fomenting the strife now upon us Let Congress take the matter in hand, and try, by legislation, to prevent repetitions .n future.— Pass “a tariff for rev j ue” bill. Competition is said to b the life of trade. Importation and exportation will increase; labor will b. in demand, and better prices will be paid for labor; ne>essaries of life veil! be cheaner and enter more largely in daily ponsumpticn; revpuue will flow into the national treasury instead of into the coffers of the monopolists. “Small profits and quick sales” will be the motto of our great manufacturing concerns. There will be activity and energy displayed in trade, and a more equal distribution of Hi© rewards of labor. In addition to this, Congress should provide for the establishment of a national board of arbi - tration, with full power to detein mine matters in dispute. This j should be done in order to relieve | the government of the expense I attending such outbreaks as | C' rnegip’s in ’BB, and Pullman’s i now op.

1 he Republicans hereabouts a r e shouting for Cleveland and Matthews, even dovvu to Bro Marshall, all ('i which is exceedingly grati fying to us and Democrats generally. The London Times, looking no onr great coal strike, our railroad strikes and our marc king armies, says that Amtrica again shakestne idea that America is the workman's paradise. This is true, America does that every time her people taste of the fruit of Free Ttade tree. It is that act which puts the entire people of out an i dust rial paradise. —Rensselaer Republican. The hi*»h protection McKinley