Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1897 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

-IH9OEXHORT, s 1 MPORT, *6«O,SffG,U33. Balance oi* Trude lor TJncle Sam, Larg-etst ever known! The Dingley bill can’t beat the above showing. A “revenue” tariff is no trust creator. A “protective” tariff is no revenue producer. A “protective” tariff will no more produce revenue for the government than a “revenve” tariff will fill the coffers of the trusts and combines ^ *" ■ ■ 1 Congressman Hopkins (rep ) says the reciprocity clause of the pending tariff bill will not'hold water in court. This is itrange, as the whole bill was desig ed io hold the wave of prosperity. That was a tremendous gathering in Columbus to to place in nomination a Democratic State Ticket. Ihe convention did its work well; the ticket is a winner, and the resolutions contain no uncertain sound.

It was win. McKinley, now pres iient of the United States, who said in a speech at Toledo only three years ago, that Gr >ver Clove, land had made gold tne master and all things else the servant. In what way has he changed the policy which he then condemned ? ——• -44, “Strike of Miners Is On”—“National Executive Board Orders All the Men to Quit Work July 4” “Circular Which Affects Goal Producing In Five States”—“Mine Workers Are Entitled to a Fair Day ’e Pay For a Fair Day’s Work” are “the pleas'ng(?) headlines to the news of to-day.”

The Indianapolis Sentinel says that secretary of the treasury Gage “is too unreliable for the job he is holding. Only a few weeks ago he assured some ot our most succulent capitalists that prosperity was imminent—he saw it above the horizon—and now, having gone back home and looked over his mail, he comes out wi‘h a public announcement that “I feel assured that by the time June 30, 1898, shall have rolled round, rhe government's af* fairs will be in even better condition, while the people of the country will have cause for thankfulness that a new era of industrial activity and uiosperify has set in.’’ Whv, Gage! that is a whole year away Even Bradstreets had only put it off until fall. We jan stand a great ueal, but unless $ Hanna suppresses this procrast’nator we sluill be forced to protest against the administration. If the cabinet cannot do anything else it can at least make comforting prophecies, and we insist that the members do so or resign.

John Sherman says “A combination of persons engaged in a common business would seem on its face to be a fair en ugh matter, but in reality such combi ations p.event healthy competition and control output and t rices. * * i “The trust people say the effect of their combinations is to lower prices of (he products which ti-ey control. Ido not believe it. The tendency to cont<ol the output and i put up prices must naturally come with the control of any important industry or trade. “When a man makes tiis money on a fair basis of trade nc man ■ envies him or has a right to.When he makes ajortune with the trusts which shut out competition or restrain trade he is denounced, rand this has been done by all peo- ' pie and at all times. It is unfair competition and u r fair combination that have roused up this cry 1 against trusts.” i A “protective” tariff is the great generator and life-blood of trusts.