Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1895 — Attack On the Salary Law. [ARTICLE]

Attack On the Salary Law.

The l&dianapolis Sentinel says the county officers will test the new law: “The County officers’ association is taking steps to attack the fee and salary law of 1895. The auditors and treasurers are the ones directly interested, as the law only gives

them compensation equal to the fees collected in th°ir offices, which would not pav for stationery used. A circular issued by the auditors announces that the law firm of Gilchrist <fc Deßruler. of Evansville, has been retained to fight the case through the Supreme Court for them for the sum of SI,OOO. The treasurers will also bring another suit “Tne suit will place AttorneyGeneral Ketcham in an embarrassing position, as he may be called upon to defend the law for the state Should he win it would ta’kp. SB,OOO per year out of his pock it and should he lose it he will be enriched by the same amount. It is thought that he wifi ask the governor to name special counsel to defend the interests of the state. ’

“Kid” Landis, of the Delphi Journal, in the last campaign was emphatic and positive in bis assertion that the foreign jobber paid the f ariff tax on goods bro’t to this country, and that the consumer heie did not pay it. A change seems to have come over his dreams. Wo quote from an article copied and indorsed by the Rensselear Republican. He says: “Listen a minute: The present tariff law cuts down the rate paid by importers bringing goods into the country. We thus have increased importations and decreased revenues.” The revenues for the first six months under the present tariff amounted|to $79,686,450 T’nder the last six months of the McKinley monstrosity,the amount was 04,786,541 Increase of customs receipts under present law $14,899,915 In the same article tl e ‘kid’ says “At the same time these imported goods take the place of goods formerly manufactured in this country and thus keep tens of thousands of men in idleness.”

Under the present law a great many articles in the class of “raw material"’ are admitted free, and the result is thus announced by a foreign correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune, the leading organ cf the “kid’s” party: Meantime, American boots aie walking into the English market-, andtheEnglsh maksrs are undersold. The machinery against which the English bootmakers struck is the secret. If their strike had succeeded, high wages and slower production might have crippled the English boot trade and left both men and employers stranded. It is not certain now that they oan hold 1 heir own in their own country against Am< rican competition. What the correspondent says concerning the boot industy is true iii the case oi many others. The present law has furnished an outlet for the over production of this country, and instead of keeping tens of thousands of men in idleness, those thrown out of employment through the onerations of the McKinley bill are fast being reinstated and if the ‘kid’ can't see this he either ‘ hasn’tsens enough to grease a gimlet and deserves to go hungry and barefooted” or is engaged in a brazen attempt at deception, and deserves to have his trains s’olen oh every occasion that he may be a candidate for congressional nomination.

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