Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1887 — One Way to Secure the Conventions. [ARTICLE]

One Way to Secure the Conventions.

Jobakn MoeT'appeare to have founded some of his dislike to American institutions on experience, end remarks to a New York reporter by way of comparison: ‘‘ln England I had a cell four times as large as this, nicely tarnished, while in Austria I wassimply restrained of my liberty.” Why does not the complaining anarchist take advantage of his informs*ion and move on, out of America, where he can get more satisfactory entertainment? The sugar trust, it’ is reported, has gone into actual operation. The buving ent and closing of small refineries has began, and it is reasonable to suppose that the business will soon be in “few and strong hands. The sugar market is •firm” jnst now, with the probability that it will be firmer a month or two hence. It is perhaps well that this “combine” has gone to work now rather than six months later. Congress is now in session, and if the gentlemen at the head of the scheme posh prices up, as they are expected to do, legislation will be invoked to stamp out the conspiracy. A big contest between the trusts and the people is inevitable. If 3,000 or 4,000 individuals are more .powerful than 41,000,000, the country would like to know that fact now. It is getting to be well known that enr semi-quacks and onr coarser sort of public people get a recognition in England that they do not here. Buffalo Bill carried London by stoim. And now John L Sullivan, who can travel through this country without the note of a gamin, or bringing enthusiasm into the eye of a tramp, has been doing the ■rather land in a way to astonish onr •wn people. He has been received at the railroad stations by crowds greater and more enthusiastic than ever greeted any foreigner who ever visited that land. “He has stirred, up more enthusiasm in five minntes with his fists than the Qaeen’s jabilee, backed by all the home and foreign royalties coaid do by a whole summer's work.” What is the real underlying basis of English civilization is yet a question. It is certain that it aontains a great deal of barbarism, and it may be an unconqnerable amount. “Eaaa is eggs. They come high, and we muß' have ’em.” In 1884, which was the first year that the experiment wf importing eggs to this country was tried, 14,000,000 eggs were sold at an average of 21 cents per dozen. During 1886 about 28,720,000 foreign eggs were sold at an average of 18 cents per dozen. Bat last year such a number of importers had been engaged in the business that many abandoned, any farther attempt at importing eggs, the price, owing to competition, having fallen to 16 and 17 cents per dozen. Bat it still goes on. The canse of it is that eggs from Antwerp can be landed in New York about as soon as eggs from Minnesota, and there are more of them. %g producing increases with density of population. Wherever there are human beings there are chickens, and wherever human beings are so crowded together there chickens are crowded. Civilization and population are ever accompanied by these fowls. In the contracted territory of Europe there are 30*3,000,000 human beings, while scattered over ohr own vast territory there are only 60.000,000.

Omaha World. Omaha Man—l wish to secure your vote in favor of having the Presidential conventions meet in Omaha. Washington Statesman—Have yon food hotel accommodations? “Plenty and to spare.’* - “Good board?” “Omaha is the very center of the food supply of the nation; everything in abundanco.” “Good air?” “Fresh from the Rockies.” “How’s the water?” "Not fit to drink.” “Well, we’ll come.”