Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1884 — VOTE FOR YOUR INTERESTS. [ARTICLE]

VOTE FOR YOUR INTERESTS.

Sdlf preservation is the first I law of politics, therefore: The working man. who thinks that the demand for labor is too great and that wages are too high !in this country, now should vote for Cleveland and free-trade prices. The farmer who believes that a community of factory* operatives , working fol thirty-five cents a day would furnish a better market for his butter, beef, and other farm products than one composed of men and wofiien whose average earnings are a dollar a day, should ;go and join a Cleveland club and shout for tariff exclusively for revenue.

The man who can satisfy himself that he would be better off’ if all the money needed to run the government was raised by taxing tea, coffee, sugar,- spices and other articles which we cannot produce and must buy abioad, in order that those things which we make and have to sell may be free and cheap, should get right out us the Republican party and join one that stands for a tariff for revenue only. _ t The honest wool grower, who Wants to see the price of wbol reduced G, 8 or 10 cents a pound in older that he tnay buy foreign blankets made of foreign wool 25 cents apiece less than he can now, should not let any little sensitiveness about the character of candidates drive them away from the Democratic platform and candidate. Every owner of a wood lot who wants to help “preserve our American forests”* by letting in Canadian timber free of duty and thereby reducing the pi-ice in this country until the cost of cutting, sawing and drawing to market will eat up the entire proceeds, should be a Democrat this fall, whatever he may have been in the past, G- : ■ ' ■. -. '-kA Everybody who believes that there are too many able-bodied foreigners in the United States, and that they should be starved out, should hold up both hail Is against any protection to th? America*! industries in which they are engaged rind vote for Cleveland. Everybody Who is' Convinced that the British policy is better for America than the American policy, should join the British party and vote the British ‘ticket, ■which is supported by every English journal, and is run largely in English interests.