Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1888 — THINGS TO THINK OF. [ARTICLE]

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.