Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1888 — THE GREAT SOLDIER IS DEAD. [ARTICLE]

THE GREAT SOLDIER IS DEAD.

Geo. Phil. H. Sheridan, made his first and only surrender at 10:20 p. m., on Monday night, August 6,1858, Up to within an hour of his death he seemed bright and hope- , ful, end there was nothing to indicate the sudden relapse and dis- - solution. At 9:30 he was suddenly attacked with Leart failure, which, failing to yield to the usual remedies, the General gradually sank into complete unconsciousness, from which he quietly and speedily passed into the last long sleep of death. Another great hero of the war has gone. Again a loyal ration mourn* ,"n<t weeps; Mot hits glory ami his fame are living on; While love and honor, guard the tomb wherein he sleei>s.

Every Repnulican should stand > firm for Republican principles and Harrison and Morton. v - England and the rebel brigadiers worked together from 1661 to 1866. ’ They are at it again bat by different methods this time.

w. L. Scott, thq; great coal baron and Democratic member of-” Congress, is a coni monopolist ami a free-trader. Whenever he crooks his fiuger coal takes a rise. “Down with the war tariff of 47 per cent.”— Chorus of Democratic newspapers. > f , While.Ahe Mills hill levies a ►tariff of G 8 per cent., upon sugar and 100 per cent, upon rice. Gyeat is Tariff Reform. A “war tariff” which averages 47 per cent, is a dreadful thing,, in the eyes of the democrats, but the Mills tell lays a tariff pf ONE 11 UN DU ED per cent, upon rice and SIXTY-EIGHT per cent, upon sugar. Sugar and rice are products of the Solid South. Seel Let us see! Isn’t the local publication which last week advocated the establishment in Rensselaer of a Chiuese laundryman, to starve out the poor widows who already liave far too little to do, a professed exponent of the party which has so much to say about Mr. Harrison’s so-called Chinese record?

If. wages are so mftcli 'better in England and other free-tmcle countries of the old world, why do not laborers leave this country and go to England, France and Belgium by the hundreds of thousands? •; More than half a million immigrants came to Americaduiingthe year ending Jane 30,1888. Will some democrat please explain?

How can any man of common sense and common judgment fail to see the hypocritical disliofiesty and demagogism of the democratic demand for tariff reform, when the Mills bill takes off the entire duty of 55 per cent, from wool, 40 per cent, from salt, 17 per cent, from lumber, 35 per cent, from fruits, 20 per cent, from hemp and flax aud lets all these productions of Republican states or districts in, duty free, and yet puts a duty of 100 per cent, upon rice, and one of 68 per cent, upon sugar, both production a of democratic states?

Ip tjbe Forum for August, Geo. \\. Gable propounds the following conundrum: “What shall the negro do?” That depends upon circumstances. We think he should vote the Republican ticket whenever lie can do so honestly and can have it honestly counted. And if any democrat shoots a negro because of his politics, then he or his friends should shoot the democrats who shot th 6 negro. They would then soon receive the respect due them from that class who now deny them the rights guaranteed by the Goustitution of the United States.

The worst enemies of every cause are its fanatical friends. The most potent foes in the way ; of the grand march of Temperance Reform, to-day, is the little band of enthusiasts who think there is only one way of combatting intemperance and who denounce as sinners in league with Satan every I person who does not fall in with ! their way of thinking and acting. ! Who are daily embittering, the iminds of hundreds against the very cause of Temperance itself, by their intolerance and bigottry ; and their altempis to turn every I temperance meeting, "of every kind, aud in every place and on every day, into a political pow- | wow.- Who lend themselves, as willing dupes aud tools, of malig- ; uant sore-head Republicans or Scheming and dishonest Democrats, to pull down and destroy the only party that ever, in any Northern state, city or towu, gave the people any advanced temperance legislation.

Some democrats claim the Mills bill is not open to jtlie charge of striking at a distinctively northern industry when it takes the tariff off of wool, because as they claim Texas produces more wool than any other state in the Union. But let us look into that matter, a little; Texas has more sheep than

iny other state, but is does no! produce neorly so much wool a? Ohio. The sheep in' TeSrifc'are kept more for the production oi mutton. Furthermore, .there if no general demand from the people of Texas to have wool protected, and no danger of losing the state to democrats incurred by Removing the tariff' upon it. The reason for this is apparent "to anyone who is informed as to the condition of the sheep raising indus--1 try in Texas. There, unliktf the situation iu Ohio, it is ip only a few hands, not more than one man in a hundred,probably, owns sheep in Texas, and as the sheep which are owned, are kept in .immense flocks, on the open ranges, they spoil the pasture for the raising of other kinds of livestock, and it thus happens that the great mass of the people of Texas thoroughly hate the sheep raising bittiness will be glad to see it placed at a disadvantage, by the withdrawal of the tariff on wool. It is therefore apparent that the democrats sacrifice nothing and risk nothing, from a partisan point of view by putting wool on the free list.

The Constitution of tke Confederate States, among other things, prohibited the laying of “any duties or taxes on importations from foreign countries, to promote or foster any branch of industry.” Five of the eight members of Congress, whom Speaker Carlisle appointed as members of the Ways and Means Committee, had sworn to maintain the Confederate constitution with their lives, in the Con federate 1 -army. Are they less free-traders to-day than they- were in IS6I to 1865? No. Those men were so appornted by Mr. Carlisle after frequent consultations with President Cleveland. ,

Richard Taylor, a LieutenantGeneral in the. Confederate army says: J‘We made two great mistakes. Had we avoided them we should have conquered you. The first was, that we did not substantially destroy the protective features of the tariff in the session of 1857 and 1858, by an act which provided a rapid sliding scale ..to free trade. ** * * *, We could have passed such a law and held it tight bn you till it closed the furnaces, work shops, woolen and notton mills, and steel and bar iron works of the whole North and West, and scattered your workmen over the prairies and territories. When the war for the Union came you would not have been ready for the war, you could not have armed and equipped and put in the field a large army nor built a large navy. You would Have been without supplies, machinery and workmen, and you would have been without money and credit.” Does it not look as though the Democratic party is now tending to that point in its legislation? Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, of Maryland, who is president of the M nryland Confederate society, oh the 6th of June last, upon the day they decorated the Confederate soldiers’ graves, said: “Thesouth is progressing. She is not dead. '’These' old Confederate soldiers and their descendants elect ninety • out of every hundred congress- ! men, thirty-four U. S. senators, and the President of the United 7 States. The government of the ‘ United States is controlled by Confederate soldiers. It is always ! the case that when you get into a position to command respect you j will get respect. These old Confederate soldiers are not idle.”