Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1897 — Had the Usual Experience. [ARTICLE]

Had the Usual Experience.

Reggy—Here’s good news for you. Your grandfather has just died leaving you a cool SIOO,OOO. WflMa—Good heavens, what a godsend! New, thank heaven, I can keep my Mayale in complete repair.—Now klVla TYVTmL.

A million bushels of wheat were loaded the other day for foreign ports. It was of the old crop, and had been bought up at its lowest price Short crops in Europe made it an easy matter to bull up prices and the capitalists are the beneficiaries. So long as McKinley continues to declare that the foreign manufadturer pays the tariff duty on his goods shipped to this country, no Democrat will sneer at the Jour nal for claiming that credit is sole ly due “to Republican policy” for “our gool crops of farm products and increasing demand for them.” Our youthful neighbor is indignant and complains thusly (“Of course they refuse to give any credit to Republican policy”) for “our good crops of farm pro ducts and increasing demand for them ” Our dimocratic friends should cease their “aggrawations."

In a spirit of sarcasm the Columbus Press says that it is pitiful to see those once proud coal barons driven away from their mines and compelled to pass the summer in their yachts far from home and friends, while the reckless and ovei fed miners remain at home enjoying the grand chorus of prosperity at 42 cents a c av.

Tne leader in the junior repub-, lican organ this week ann unces: *•I n 1892 our country was enjoying the highest degree of prosper' ity in its history.” * * * Let’s see! 1892! That was the year of the great “Homestead” strike, when the great state of Pennsylvania paid f, om the taxes of her people half a mill : on dollars to protect the property of one Carne ie from the fury of in<n maddened at the refusal of living wages for their labor. Carnegie, bad hied himself to lue austJa in Scotland lor personal safety. 1892! The year when a successor to our own Bennie Harrison was chosen. The people of that time do not seem to have realized that they were “enjoying the high estpros; erity in its (the country’s) history,” and desired a big change for the better, hence the t emendous vote which retired Bennie Harrison to private life It was the closing year, too, of an admin isiration which had looted the treasury of the millions of surplus left by Mr. Cleveland’s first ad ministration, and also of the vast collections drawn from the people during the four years of its existence, and which had to i esort to the banks for aid to tide it to its close, leaving a big deficiency in the place of the large surplus it had received. It had also placed upon the statute books the McKinley bill, having for its object the reduction of revenue collections. Had Cleveland stood true to his party and the platform upon wlrch ho waj nominated and elected, McKinley would have been relegated to Canton.

The Journal man, we think, is not responsible for the article in question. He could not give such statements to his readers, if acquainted with the true condition of the country at the time referred to, but he should not permit his writers to place him in such hole. A majority of his readers re« member the kind of prosperity existing in 1892. The military of Pennsylvania remember the weary days spent in the |camps around “Homestead." And Harrison and his supporters remember their fruitless appeals to Carnegie, secure in his castle in Scot** land, and his attitude— the same as the Vanderbilts—“the party and the public be d d!”

the t ennsylvania Democrats show no disposition to waver in the contest to establish the coinage rights of silver. In his address before the Democratic state con * vention, chairman Irwin said: “While we meet as Democrats of Pennsylvania, let us not forget that in a larger sense we are members of the great national Democratic party, the party of Jackson, the

■ greatest champion of the people's ' rights in Ameaican history; the I same party which, in 1896, “unuer i the magnificent leadership of W. J. Bryan, 6,500,000 strong, animated by a purpose as sincere and earnest and a motive as; high and patriotic as that which characterized the hosts which were ma abated by Peter, the Hert it, on the plains of Asia, began the battle in defense of the plain people—the producers of wealth—and the same party which stands ready today to "ontinue that battle, and which in 1900, on the same platform and under the same magnificent lead > ership, will carry our banner to ' ictory, restore to the people the gold and silver of the constitution, overthrow the money power and the organized trusts and enthrone the people in governmental affairs. “They tell us that prosperity has come; thatsl wheat means the death of the silver question. I’hey forget that we had $1 wheat in '9l and the Homeptead strike in 1892. They have given us a tariff bill which was justly characterized by a distinguished senator as the most infamous tariff law ever placed up on the statute book in any country. Every line of it was writte . in the interest of the trusts that contrib. uted the money to make McKinley’s election possible. It has been followed by strikes and lockouts, the reduction of wages and an increase in the cost of all the necessaiies of lite.”