Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1888 — Page 4

THE REPUBLICAN Thursday, Septemrrh 13* 1888.

w National Ticket. For President, BENJAMIN HARRISON, of Indiana. For Vice President, lEVI P. MORTON, of New York.

THINGS TO THINK OF .

•‘The main question at issue [in America] is ENGLISH KHEE trade against the CONTINENTAL SYSTEM OK '.HiOTKCxion. * * The- American election is infinitely more important to Englishmen than' their own internal politics just at this juncture. * * lhe result of the American election will help to decide many important issues in Great Britain/’- -London Sunday Times, July 15. 1888. “Protection to home industries I regard as the most important plank in any platform after -the Union must and shall bo preserved.’ ’'-Gen. fJ. S. Grant in 1883, , . _ - ..... «»It is my deliberate judgment that the prosperity of America Is mainly due to her system of protective laws/’ - - Prince Bismarck. “We should be slow’ to abandon that system of protective duties which looks to the promotion and development of ! American mdustry and to the preservation of the highest possible scale of wages for the Ameiican workman.”--Benjamin Harrison, “No man’s wages should be so low that he cannot make provisions in his days of vigor lor the incapacity of accident or the feebleness of old age,”— Benjamin Harrison. “The wagts of the American laborer cannot be reduced except with the conseut and the votes of the American laborer himself. The appeal lies to him.” James G. Ratine. “We believe in the preservation of the American market for our American B reducers and workmen.”—Benjamin larrison. • - is not the time to weigh in an apothecary’s scale the services or the rewards of the men who saved the Nation.” j Benjamin Harrison. • “Against whom is it that the Republican party has been unable to protect your race?”—Benjamin Harrison to the colored voters. “Yes I was a rebel and a Democrat, -but I thank 4iod I have never been a Republican."—Rev, John A. Brooks. Third-party Prohibition candidate for Vice President. “We don’t want any Republicans in our counlry.’’—Senator Colquttt and Representative Stewart, of Georgia. “With President Cleveland Great Britain knows where she is.’ ’ - - Glasgow Herald. “The only time England can use an Irishman is when heemigrates to Amer. Yeaftnd votes for free trade.”—London Sunday Times. July 15. “On the adoption of free trade by the United States depends the greater share of English prosperity for a good many years to come. As the British Hosiery Review reiterates, ‘We venture to assert that England will reap the largest share of any advantages that may arise by the adoption of the new ideas now advocated by the free-trade , party in the United States.’ ’’ —London Economist “1 hold it to be true tha< whenever the market price is so low that the man or the woman who makes an ar tide cannot get a fair living out of the making of it, it is too low.”—Benjamin Harrison. “I believe in free trade as I believe In the Protestant religion.”—President Cleveland. -Grover Cleveland has done more to advance the cause of free trade than any Prime Minister of England has . ever done.”—London Spectator. 41 We [the capitalists] can control the workingman only so long as he eats up to-day what he earns to-morrow.”—W. L Scott, Mr. Cleveland's political manager.

Millions to England to pay for whatought to be produced at home, but not one cent of surplus, is the democratic theory. mmm—mmmmrntmmmm + JL, The official figures, taken from the books of the Auditor of State, allow an increase of the debt of the State ‘during four years of

Democratic of $l,BlO, 877.90. How So the tax payers of Indiaua like that exhibit’

President Cleveland went fishing on Decoration Day, in 188 G, and in 1888 declined to attend the dedication exercises at Gettysburg, on the pica of pressure of public business. A few weeks later he went ou a fisfiiug trip of several days duration, He has not a glimmer of truly patriotic feeling in his selfish and soidid soul,

A president who can spare to the thousands of dreadfully distressed victims qf the Charleston earthquake only a paltry twenty dollars, and yet can give ten thousand dollars towards securing Ins re-election. Think of it, decent Democrats and blusfi. - Twenty dollars! or less than one sixth of his Salary for one day. Ten thousand dollars! or equal to his salary for one fifth of a whole year.

Republicans who are disposed i> recognize and suppoit the Chicago Tribune as a Republican paper should remember tliat the paper is quoted vastly more by democratic papers, in suppoi t of their principles than it is by Republican papers. The journal which furnishes more aid and comfort to the enemies of the Republican party than to its friends, is not a Republican paper and should not be so regarded.

We are pleased to know that the circulation of that able, high-toned and always reliable Republican paper, the Chicago luter-Ocean, is increasing in this community, and equally glad to know that the emulation of the unreliable free-boot-er, the Chicago Tribune, is growing beautifully less. A year ago only about G or 7 daily InterOceans were taken in Rensselaer and about 18 or 20 Tribunes. The proportion is now reversed and 24 Inter-Oceans are taken and only 10 Tribunes.

Four years ago all the Democratic orators and papers were freely proclaiming the existence of 400 millions of surplus in the treasury, and promising its distribution among the people. Now they don’t pretend to claim that there is more than 120 millions of surplus in the treasury, and say nothing about the statement by their own national treasurer which shows tliat, after deducting the 40 million dollars loaned illegally and without interest to certain pet national banks, and also deducting the amounts needed to pay just obligations to the government now due, that there is practically no surplus at all.

Gen. Harrison is a good and popular candidate. His speeches are admirable, safe, pointed and happy. He is sustaining himself iu a remarkable manner, and it is a matter of- general comment that he is growing on the country. He is an honest, able, sound man, and we think that all of the evil courses of the Democratic Commttee will not be potent enough to make a majority of the voters in this country say or think anything else about him.

The Republicans did not commence this campaign w ith a forced hurrah and a strained effort at noise and effect, but they willclose it with a tremendous, far-reaching, solid boom, that shall draw victory iu its rippling and luminous wake.

The expenses of this government for the present financial year, if the appropriations recommended by the administration are all ratified by Congress, will lack only 12 million dollars of equal* iug the estimated revenues of the government daring the same period. The Mills bill, its authors claim, would reduce the revenue to the extent of 60 milliou dollars; Thus if the democrats had all the appropriations they ask for and all the redaction of revenue they ask for, the result would be a delict in the treasury at the end of the year of 48 millions of dollars, which would mean an increase of

the national debt to that amount. And that would be strictly in accordance with Democratic practices every time they succeed in getting full control of the government. ~y Now that the Democrats Rave got frightened outof their free trade clamor an[l the surplus levenue cry lias been knocked in the head by the Democratic appropriations, the word has gone out to try the bluff game and to claim everything in sight. Here is a rigmarole that a reputable citizen beard repeated by three prominent Democrats, within a few days tttne and and almost identically in the shme words. It ran about like this: /‘You cant find an intelligent Republican anywhere, who is well posted in political matters who docs not -know that the Republicans havn’t a ghost of a show for carrying the election this year.” It is merely a piece of pre-ar-ranged bluff and “rats” is the only answer required. As one of many circumstances showing to what an extent the workingmen, and especially the Irish, in New York are|leaving the British free trade party and going over to the protection ranks, the formation of a Workingmen’s Protection League, in the Ninth Ward in Brooklyn, one day last week may b 9 properly mentioned. Seventy-five names were enrolled the first meeting. Of the resolutions adopted the following is the most significant:: Resolved, tliat we, the members of the Ninth Ward Workingmen’s Protection League, who have all been lifelong Democrats and who to a considerable extent have been efri ven from Ireland by the cursed Free Trade, do pledge our earnest support to the nominees of the National p Republican ticket this fall, and that we urge all citizens who earn their bread by the sweat of their brow to join our league and promote its objects.

One of our Democratic exchanges has the gall to pronounce a lie the statement that Democratic orators in 1884, said there was a surplus of 400 millions in the treasury and that when the Democrats got in power, it shonld be divided among the people giving to every man woman and child about eight dollars each. There are tens of thousands of people-in Indiana, to-day, who heard Hendricks, Voorhees and other demagogues of that stiipe, talk in that yery strain. It was one of their strong cards in the campaign and they played it for all there was in it. Rensselaer’s most prominent and respected citizens, heard Voorhees make "Statements and plainly implied promises, like the above, in a speech in Benton county, in 1884; and another respected and reputable citizen of our town beard Hendricks talk in the same way, in a speech at Wabash.

j The news from Maine is glorious. The Republican majority is upwards of 20,000, the largest since 11806. 2 - The State Senate is unanimously Republican and the House by an overwhelming majority. Every county officer in the state are Republicans, except two. Tom Reed, whom the Democrats even hoped to defeat, is elected to Congress by 2,500 majority. As has been the case in every election since 1886, the prohibitioh vote fell off, everywhere, i Whatever bravado Democrats may now indulge in, over this election, the fact still remains inbfue, that the result is mjghty discouraging and disappointing to them and correspondingly encouraging to the Republicans. The Democrats made a hard fight and confidently expected to cut down the majority to eight or ten thousand. There is a young man living in Newton township who was born during war times and named after the two men whom his parents admired above all other men, namely Robert E ‘Lee and Jefferson Datis. That boy cast his first vote in 1084, and, as might have beeii expected from a young tnan with sthih a name sis his and brought up under aucb influence*,

he voted the democratic ticket. This circumstance recalls' a truth the late lamented Logan uttered a few years ago, |t was, ig effect, j that most of the boys born in war J times, in the northern states, were] son 6 of stay-at-home, autirwar democrats. These yot\ng men would most of them, cast their first votes iu 1884, and voting $s did their fathers before them,, would vote the democratic ticket. It would t" thus naturally happen that of the first voters of 1884 an unduly large proportion would be Democrats. On t[ie other hand, the great majority of the boys born during the three or four years directly following the war were the. sons of Union soldiers. The vast majority of these soldiers were, and still are, Republicans and their sons, like the sons of men who honored Lee and Davis* vote as their fathers vote. The young men born during the first two or three years after the war will cast their first presidential votes this year, and the proportion of 1884 will be reversed and instead of a majority of the first voters going to the .Democrats, they will be cast for j| the Republicans. We .believe, in fact, that it would be a low estimate to say that 20,000 first presidential votes will be cast in Indiana, this year, and that at least 14,000 of these will be by Republican voters. In this one factor alone will be gain enough to overcome the Democratic majority of 1884.

AN UNSELFISH PATRIOT.

Grover Cleveland, whom that poor unbalanced mugwump, James Russell Lowell, calls the greatest President since Washington, sent twenty dollars to the ruined and suffering people of Charleston, when the earthquake had demollshecl their homes.To the Democratic Committee, in defiance of all cannons of official decency and precedent, he sent Ten Thousand Dollars to influence the people to vote for his own re-election.

What the Third Party Wants.

Hon. Albert Griffin, of Kansas } Chairman for the Anti-saloon Republican National committee, has set to work to condense the programme of the Third party and to Jlrrief way its hopes and plans. Every conscientious Republican will do well to read what he says, and here it is: If we can defeat the" Republican party this year, by drawing from its ranks enough zealous temperance, men to enable the saloon party to triumph; and if the Republican party becomes so, cowed that it refuses even to kick, and straightway gives up the ghost; and if its members prove to be devoid of human nature, and conclude to kiss the hand that sffiote them; and if woman suffrage does not prove to be “an old man of the mountain” on our shoulders: arid if a majority of the people suddenly become indifferent to the tariff, currency, immigration, labor, land and other questions, about which they now care more than they do about anything else; or if we are able to make the supporters of both sides of other questions believe that we favor their views; and if enough of these antagnistic elements can be welded together under our leadership to constitute party, we will surely win. And then, and in that case, if our legislators are uniformly wise, and our officers zealous and efficieut; and i/no new set of misguided en thusiasts, rejected officeseekers, cranks and marplots are led by our success to follow our example, and break our party to pieces, in order to use the fragments in the building of another, before we shall have done our perfect work, we will wipe the saloons from the face of the earth—as soon as we can and everything will be lovely—with us on top* The Republicans of the senatorial district composed of Carroll, White and Pulaski counties have nominated as their candidate John O’Conner, an Irishman and a “reformed” Democrat. He is an able man and very popular among all classes of peopje, and despite the' large democratic majority of tJiei district his chances for election are excellent, fle was formerly a railroad man and had touch to do do with tne construction of the Air Line railroad and at that time became well attd favorably known to many cxtiseus of Jarfper county.

THE MILLS TARIFF BILL.

AN EXTREMELY PARTI6AN AND SECTIONAL MEASURE. , Chlrf Aim Seema to lie to Hart northern Industrie* How It Would A fleet the Weatern Former If It Ever ytfffilffl I Us Vegetal)lea on the Free List. _ The Tribune publishes a comparative statement,of the present rates of duty on all imports affected by the Mills bill and qf those which that measures proposes to substitute for them. There is no earthly eliaece that the Democratic (artisan and sectional Mills bill will become aa law, hut it will be interesting for western fanners to know what it proposes to dq, As it Inis been, prepared by the house committee on ways and means it may be taken for granted that it is accurate. While it wifi lie interesting reading to all manufacturers and inqxirters it \yill attract the special attention of western farmers, for its perusal will prove to them the truth of the. claim made by The Tribune that the Mills bill was a par-, tjsan and sectional one whose chief aim was to hurt northern industries, while southern ones were barely touched or were left unaffected, It will also show them that much of that measure of protection which has hitherto been extended tp farming interests isnow to lie “withdrawn if the Democracy gain at the election this fall the control of the legislative and executive branches of the government. Wool, of course, is put on the free list, and next to this staple the hand of Congressman Mills falls heavily on the growers of flax and hemp. At present the farmer who raises the first of these is protected by a duty of S4O per ton on dressed flax. Tliat it is now promised to reduce to $lO, The duty on flax thread and flax manufactures is cut from 40 down to 25 per cent. Hemp warn is lowered from 35 to 15 per cent., and manufactures of hemp lose 10 per cent. This is by no means all that these special interests have to suffer. Hemp, on which there is now a duty of $25 a ton, and hemp aryl flax tow, on which there is one of $lO each, are put on the free list, as are also manila and substitutes. wliichA now pay $25 a ton: jute, which has paid 20 per cent; and sisal grass, which has paid sls per ton. Unhackled flax, on which there has hitherto l>ecn a duty of S2O a ton, is also put on the free list, and tfiC duty on linseed oil is lowered from 25 cents a gallon to 15, while that on castor oil is advanced.

The farmer, in looking farther to see the extent of the tender consideration of Roger Q. Mills for his welfare, will find that vegetables, fresh or in brine, which have hitherto paid 10 per cent, are on the free list. He will remember the heavy importation of German and English potatoes' into this country last winter and will wonder whether it will lie increased if they are made duty-free. He will also notice that the duty on the starch, into which much of his corn or potatoes is manufactured, is to be lowered from two cents a jiound to one cent His beans and peas have been protected by a 10 per cent duty, but that is to lie removed altogether, while his garden seeds, which -have hitherto been protected 20 per cent, will have to meet the untaxed competition of the foreign article. Even his oil seeds are menaced and the imported ones are to pay nothing, instead of the quarter-cent per pound they have i een paying. Ground mustard drops from 10 cents a pound to 6. and beeswax, which used to lie sheltered liv a 20 per cent dyty. will go on the free list. * Nor are his other interests unaffected. Meats, game, and poultry, which have been (laying 10 per cent, are to go on that same capacious free list, if the Mills bill passes; and the competition of foreign tallow, which . has hitherto been limited by a duty of a cent-a pouuffi wi|l be unchecked. Fresh milk and eggs and other dairy products will come in free if Mills has his way. Brooin corn—an important staple—is also put on the free list. Some of these items are of little value, and the proposed reduction will not worry the farmers. Others, however—and es(>eeially those which deal with wool, flax, hemp, milk, eggs, broom corn and vegetables—will be apt to strike them unfavorably, and will not tend to increase their admiration for the party which, as its first step in what it -calls tariff reform, suggests these particular changes.—Chicago Tribune.

An Old Saying of Gen. W. H. Harrison.

The story is told of William Henry Harrison, that having suffered much from depredations in his garden and orchard, the gardener urged him to get a dog to protect his fruit. But the president said. "There is a better way; we must get a Sunday school teacher to look after those boys.” How often we meet policy in the management of human affairs! We expect to protect ourselves by brutal measures, by closed fences, or higher walls; when the only true and lasting safety consists in the diffusion of those rational and moral principles which transform men into self-respecting and self-governing beings. The solid wall, the bull-dog, and the combination lock may keep the thief out of private premises, or m the public prison—for a while; at least until he can giisou the dog or overcome the barrier. ut none of these things converts the thief or lessens his numbers. Only the early inculcation of justice, and a trainipg in tlie sense of human brotherhood cart do that. ’ ■ , It seems imiiossible for Harper's Weekly to describe the Republican platform fairly or accurately It now says that "The*platform does not propose free whisky as an independent measure,” but "the declaration is that the national taxes on whisky should be repealed rattier than that any protective taxes uuoh the most necessary articles should be diminished,” The platform says nothing of the kirhl. The phrase used is "The surrender df any part of our protective system. “This is very different. It is possible to diminish the tax upon some articles without surrendering arty part of our protective system. There is sugar, for instance, which is certainly one of "the most necessary articles.’' The Republicans in the house voted solidy to cut the tax down one-half, and the Democrats voted solidly the other way. The Women’s National Republican committee, under the lead of Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, of lowa, has issued a circular to the wonlen of the United States advocating the exertion of their influenfe in Bdialf df the Republican ticket. The women of this OOUHtry evidently are determined that the borne shall not be pauperised by English ffM trade,—BuD MtoSftpnm.

CLEVELAND’S LABOR REGORB.

lyhy lionet! and Intelligent Workingman, Are Opposed to sfovpr Cleveland, -y The official acts of GrovA-r Cleveland, while governor of New York, were so, notoriously against the interest of labors ing men i * the vetoing of many import-,, ans measures, that —the- Workingmen's 'Municipal Reform league, of New York city, have determined, that their fellowlaborers throughout the country shall become acmiaiiited with his record, and -have therefore issued a circular setting forth eleven reasons why workingmen will not vote for Cleveland. George. Blair, whose signature is appended to, the circular, was a state prison inspector when Cleveland wijs governor, and A. F. Smith, another signer, is ox-president of a Democratic chu> and first master workman of the Eccentric Engineer’s, union. Following is the circular: • To THE Wouklnumex of the Uniteix States: “A circular end waiving the following C aints in opposition to the candidacy of rover Cleveland for president of the. United States was issued by the representative workingmen of New York state, Who sent a committee to tho Democratic convention at Chicago, in 1884. for that purpose. Eleven reasons why workingmen will not vote for Cleveland: “While governor of the state of New York he opposed the following *h£bor measures: “He vetoed the bill establishing a department of labor, and making the secretary of said department a cabinet officer. - 0 . “He vetoed the mechanic’s-lien law bill, making the wages of workingmen engaged in the construction of buildings a first mortgage on.tlle property. “He vetoed the life-aiid-limb bill, making employers responsible for accidents, happening from imperfect machinery Or inferior construction of buildings. . “He vetoed the tenement house cigar bill, forbidding the manufacture of cigars in a tenement house. “lie vetoed the hill compelling the elevated railroads of New York city to charge only 5 cents fare. "He vetoed the printers’ bill requiring all the state printing to be done by union workmen. . “He vetoed a hill making ton hours a legal day’s work few all Street car employes. , ••He vetoed the hill abolishing convict ualnir in prisons, although this proposition, when submitted to the popular vote of the people, was cajrried by a majority okdO.UUO. \lle vetoed the child labor hill, providing for the ins|>ection of factories wherechildren were employed, and prohibiting the employment of children under 14 years of age. “He signed the bill compelling the stationary engineers of New York city to pay a tax of $1 per year to the police pension fund, or be debarred from following their vacation. "He signed the bill reducing the fees of the New York harbor pilots, which hill bene fitted only the foreign steamer monopolies. George Blair. “Lfliairman Packing Box Makers. “A, F. Smith, “Secretary Stationary Engineers.” Since the expiration of his term as governor, the 5-cent fare is a fact. All the other measures which he vetoed have been (Kissed and are in operation. The engineer’s tax hill, after being in operation one year, has be„en repealed; Brothers, with this record, not of public utterances, hut of officials acts, are you willing to elect this man to run over us for another four years in the interest of monopoly and foreign syndicates? A. H. Gallahue, Chaiman Workingmen’ Municipal Reform league of New York.

The Reduction of the Tariff.

Every reduction of our tariff has been followed by a decrease of domestic production, and a decrease, or litter loss, of the wages of labor. No exception to this invariable relation of cause to effect can be found in the history of the United States. Dead sure is it that if Mr. Mills’ tariff reduction bill . becomes a taw, the English, Belgian, German and French manufacturers will take off from,the prices of goods they send here just the amount of the tariff reductions. “On you, workingmen, then, will fall tluTcrushing“weigtrt of tire president’s first step toward free trade. For our -manufacturers will liave to meet those reductions in price or go out of business. If they keep their establishments open, they will be compelled, however much they may hate to do it, to reduce your wages to the level of the wages paid by tlieir competitors in England, Belgium, France and Germany. They will be obliged to do this or be bankrupt. You know the difference in the wages paid tor skilled industry in America and in Europe. It is killing. The difference is one-half, ves. often mote tliao one-half/ —New York Sun (Dem). Hugh R. Crawford, a strong anev man. of New York, was appealed to and for the third party managers. They received this scorcher in reply: “I would consider it a shame and a disgrace to aid the Unloyal free trade Democratic rarty by voting with the Prohibitionists. have given my limited means to the cause of temperance, hut 1 do not projtose to aid and al>et the promulgation of all kinds-of crime by assisting the Democratic party and the whisky ring of auf state, as led by Governor Hill and its exponent, President Cleveland, by throwing away my- vote on Fisk and Brooks.” Things are very cheap to consumers in free trade India. You only have to pay 15 cents for a whole leg of mutton. The only drawback is if you work for wages it will take you three and three-fourth.} days to earn the 15 cents. Then you will eonglude that a leg of mutton is too rich for your stomach and will dine on boiled rice and corn cake. To buy a leg of mut-, ton for Sunday dinner would bankrupt a family of laborers in India; and yet Mr. Cleveland anil the Democratic house of representatives want free trade so that the farmers of this count rd will have to compete with this cheap lands. Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, simply corroborates the views of all sensible men when lie says "that Gen. Harrison's course in f-lie railroad troubles of the west was consistent, and his record satisfactory to railroad men. If Gen. Harrison possesses one characteristic which is preeminent, -it is a keen sense of justice, and this hits made him at all times an intelligent frieud of workingmen.”—Buffalo Ex- ,, . . . Cheapness is the bait they hokl out to catch voters. The wage worker is to work all the year for cheap wages that he may buy once- a year a cheap suit of cloth«>s. When he comes to Compare What he has saved by that operation we don’t believe he will be Very much •dated pv«r hi* profit#,—lrfeh World,