Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1912 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports from Many Parts of the Country SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in Distant and Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. How Protection Protects. Who says the republican ipolicy of protection , doesn’t protect the American laborer? Down in rockribed, tariff-protected Pennsylvania a town called Roseto has just been incorporated and will soon hold its first town or borough election. The town has a population of 2,000 people and every mother’s son of them are Italians and all the candidates for the borough offices are Italians. In fact the town is exclusively Italian, and ought to convince the most skeptical American laborer that he Is protected by the republican tariff wall from the “Dago” laborer several thousand miles away—the Dago comes across the ocean .in spite of the republican tears that are shed each campaign for the American laborer, and competes with the latter on his own dunghill!