Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1888 — THINGS TO THINK OF. [ARTICLE]

THINGS TO THINK OF.

“The main t/aestion at issue [in America] v> English kukk tuaoe against the CONTINENTAL SYSTEM OK I‘ROTECrioN, * * The American election is infinitely more important to Englishmen than their ovtu internal politics just at this vjpucture. * * l'lio result of the American election will help to decide many important issues in Great Britain.”- -London Sunday Times, July 15. 1888. ‘‘Protection to home I regard as the most important plank in any platform aftor ‘the Union must and shall be prusarved.”'-Gcn. U. S. (Irani in 1883. ‘•lt is my deliberate jndgmont that the prosperity of America is mainly du« to her system of protective laws.” -Prince Bismarck. “Wo should be slow to abandonth&h system of protective duties which looks to the promotion and development of industry and to the preserSjßjoii of the highest possible scale of iHges for the Ametioan workman.’"--Benjamin Harrison. “So 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 ago,”— Benjamin Harrison. “The wages of the American laborer cannot be reduced except with the consent and the votes of the American laborer himself. The appeal lies to him.” —James G. Blaine. “We believe in the preservation of the American market for our American producers and workmen.’’—Benjamin Harrison. ' “This is not the time to weigh in an apothecary’s scale the services or the rewards of the men who sayed the Nation.” j Benjamin Harrison. “Against whom is it that the Republican party has been unable to protect your nice?"'—Benjamin Harrison to the colored voters. “Yes I was a rebel and a Democrat t but I thank God I have never been a Republican."’ —Rev. John A. Brooks. Third-party Prohibition candidate for Vice President. • —*■■■-■ Y“; “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. - ■ ' •' t“The only time England can use an Irishman is when he emigrates to A raer. ica and votes for free trade.”—London Sunday Times,*Julv 15. “On the adoption of free trade by the United States depends the greater share of English prosperity for a goodmany years to come. As the British Hosiery Review reiterates, ‘Weventu-e 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. . ■' " ' . t*/ ' If the election were to be held to-morrow we don’t believe Cleveland would get the electoral vote of a single northern state, and if the tide continues to flow until November 6th, and there is no earthly reason to donbt that it he will lose several of the states in the bargain.

c Methodists who are told that 'V. they cauuot be oousistent with the doctrines, of their church, unless they vote the prohibition ticket, should refer their advisers to the resolutions passed by the last general conference: “We believe it to be the wisest policy and. the supreme duty of all legislative bodies to enact such legislation that, under the form of the constitution, the people may protect tbc home against the saloon by no license vote under the ocul option regimen, and as soou as possible by constitutional pro-, hibitory amendments,” ' ' Hit is‘.the American consumer who pays the tariff, why is it that the British manufacturer is so anxious to have the tariff removed? Why is it, in fact, if the consumer pay 6 the tariff, that the tariff intereposes any barrier to importations? If it is the American consumer who pays the tariff, the British, manufacturer will sell as many, goods here, and make as much money, under a high tariff as under no tariff at aR. ... ■

Votes were take on many trains to and from Columbus last week, to ascertain the feelings of the old soldiers on the presidency. The result was invariably about 10 to 1 in favor of Harrison. Gue of our townsman, J, C. Porter, whose entire credibility will' be disputed by no one*, reports a ballot taken upon a train upon which he was a passenger, between the cities of Columbus and Cleveland, with the result that there were 180 votes for Harrison and 20 for Cleveland; and we will venture to. say that not half of those twenty were cast by loyal Union soldiers.

There was auotker rousing good meeting at Hogan last Saturday night. Hon. I. D. Dium was the principal speaker, but there were short addresses by other speakeis. Among these was Wm, Lakin, a rntyi well known throughout the county, who has always been a rockrooted Democrat heretofore. He is now a strong Republican and ready to give good reasons for his change of political faith. He is an old soldier and Cleveland’s pension vetoes and Rebel flag order, opened his eyes to the fact that the “Confederacy is in the saddle”, and his patriotism overcame his partisan predelictious, Gen. Cyrus Bussey, of New York, spoke in the Opera House, last Thursday evening, to a very large audience. Geu. Bussey is a plain and unpretentious man and a plain and unpretentious speaker, but he thoroughly kuows what he is talking about and tells it in a manner so clear and earnest that none can doubt his sincerity or fail to understaifd his ideas. His explanation and defense of the protective tariff and exposure of the falseness of the Democratic position in regard to the same, were especially admirable. His speech can not fail to have good efect/upon the Republican cause and we have yet to hear of a single Republican who has any adverse criticism to offer in regard to it. None of Cleveland’s pension vetoes has created more indignation among right-minded people than that of the widow of Lieut. Clinton D. Smith, of Winchester, this state. This man suffered tortures for nearly twenty’ years, aud finally fell a victim to a wound receiv- i ed in battle. The fact that he had , sometimes, by the advice of a phy- j sician, resorted to morphine to alleviate his sufferings, gaye the Presi leut a pretext for vetoiug a j pension for his widow, and, at the i same time, slandering the memory ! of the dead soidief. Attention is called ar.e# to the case by the ' statement of a friend and fellowworkman, who says that during the ten years following the war cot lees th: n ninety-seven surgical operations were performed cm his arm and shoulder. Yet the president iot only vetoed liis widow’s pension, but libeled her dead husband's memory.