Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1888 — A Fable—The Free Trade Ass. [ARTICLE]

A Fable —The Free Trade Ass.

It was a. careworn beast of burden, who had a long bitt narrow pasture on the highway, anil he looked over the fence and addressed a well-bed horse in a rich meadow: "My equine friend, open the bars-and let me in and I will assist you in lowering the surplus.” “A surplus does not y.-orry me as much as a deficit would,” remarked the horse, as he stowed away some more clover, "But look at the blessed law of competition, and Inrw it would equalize the burden of mastication,” said the stranger. "Thwe is no competition about it.” remarked the, horse. “I ain in the meadow and you are in tlje read.” “But,” remarked the strartger, “don't youthink a'few more feeders would ■ stimulate business?” —-> -r—- ---" Without doubt, when the feed got .short.” sjyly remarked the horse. • e Well, But this fence was -only a war measure, and now we ait? at fence. -why not take it down?” the stranger sighed. "The fyiiee works tip top and the feed gets longer, every. year; jog along, my friend-.” And the stranger picked another thistle in the road and moved along. Me was a free trade ass,’ with ears like a pair of cavalry boot legs.—Goshen Democrat. . * The Democratic -papers have a good deal to say about "trusts.” Here, for example, is The,,,Philadelphia Times (Dem,), which says: ’ “We hrive a sugar trust. It has lately advanced the price of sugar Wcoftsumers from 1 to 2 ctints per pound, arid 1 cent per pound on the sugar consumed ill the United States gives s3l.ooo,oooadditional profits to the monopoly trust. This trust is made possible Only by the high tariff tax on sugar.” Why does not The Times go on to say that Havemeyer, the head of. the sugar 'trust;' was heard 'by''tireMills committee; and the sugar schedule fixed over to suit him; also that every-Deinocratic vote in the house was cast against the proposition to but sugar on the free list? It takes boundless assurance for a. Democratic paper to denounce tire sugar trust, when the record shows that the trust owes its continued existence to Democratic votes, —Boston Journal. •- * ——J The New York World (Democratic; says editorially: "Mr. Harrison has written a letter to brand as a lie the assertion that he once said §1 a day was good enough a w aking than. Nobody qf common senseever sfipjxised that lie said so. There are some campaign lies which are transjiarent, and this is one of them." The Philadelphia Ledger adds this comment: "Even in politics it pays to tell the truth and be just to an antagonist. The p.-ople liken fair fighter, and no newspaper will lose in their respect by refusing to help a lie, even by keeping silent alsait it." Col. Gaynor, of Gov. Hill’s staff, on witnessing the-demonstration of liquor men in the governor’s honor at Syracuse last Thursday-niglife will: "I tell you what. I would rather have saloons behind, me in politics any timejthan churches.” It is true that saloSts take to politics more naturally and vigorously than churches, but if Gov. Hill is renominated it is likely that the churches will be heard from. too. Ig.