Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1888 — SHOTS IN THE BULL’S EYE. [ARTICLE]

SHOTS IN THE BULL’S EYE.

. * —*—■ —iFf" l 1 ■ “"r —■ —•* —* —— Pointed Paragraphs That Go to the Center r . of the Question. I believe in free trade as 1 believe in the Protestant religion.—President Cleveland. Farmers should rememlier that there is now a tariff of 20 cents on wheat, which keei>B out tile Canadian and other foreign products* and that the Democrats propose to,remove this protection. —Omaha Republican. The general secretary of the Knights <>f Labor makes a statement which every member of the order is able to comprehend. He declares that the objects (if the ot;der and of the protective policy areprecisely the same. They are both designed to limit disastrous competition, and for that reason every be a protectionist as wtfll.—Sap Francisco Chronicle. ‘ “I am like, the boy who hired his sister, to make his shirts'. Home one said, ‘You could have taken those shirts to the factory and had them made and saved s2.’ ‘Yes.’ said the Ixiy protectionLst, ‘Sister Sally got a pretty fair price. She always pays me well for what I -do for her. That is still under the same roof * with me, and if sickness or trouble or hard luck comes to any of our family that money is there in the house."—Hon. William E. Mason. Tbc Enquirer prints another set of purported letters from initial correspondents asking if it is true that the Mills hill leaves the duties as .they were on southern products and removes them entirely from many northern products. It makes a show of indignant denial, and marshals some figures about the reduction of the duties on rice and sugar which a plain, honest man would say are deliberately intended to deceive. Had, it really received any such letters as it. pretemls, and. desired to ai)sw<;r them, truthfully and honest ly, it, would have said that under the Mills hill the duty orv rice is. VX) 1-2 per cent, on sugar 68 |x*r cent, and oi\ wool, salt. luuilx*r, nine, flax, and vegetables nothing at all. —Ohio. State Journal; The.Fanner and the His [the farmer's] industry in this era of wonderful development has got well abreast of that of tile mine, the workshop, and the lfiamifactory, and he is today among the most independent of men. He is not only prosperous himself, hut takes an Americrfu pride in the prosperity of his countrymen engaged in other employments. Not withstanding this growth, this content, this prosperity, the free trade revenue reformer insists that he is getting systematically and remorselessly roblied" by our protective, system. • It is recklessly assorted that this system has sonichow or other so. impoverished the farmers, especially of the great west, that a mortgage is. with. Its usurious intere t, devouring almost every farm in that growing section. This is bald assertion, unsupiiorted by foot.—Speech of Hon. Thomas M. Browne, of Indiana, in house of representatives, April 20, 1888.

A given amount of the farm products of this country in 188? was worth less in the market than the same amount, was worth in 1884, as appears from (lie reports of the bureau of statistics, by the enormous extent of $238,000,000; showing that under a Democratic administration.with the constant threat of free trade, the. constant menace hero of the “Morrison bill” and the we reached a point in 1887 where the same quantity of surplus farm products had fallen iit value m the short space of three years to the amount of $238,000,000. Why was that? Simply because the market had decreased in certain localities.—Speech of lion. Charles 11. Grosvenor, in house of representatives, May 19, 1838.