Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1889 — Value of the Home Market. [ARTICLE]

Value of the Home Market.

Two of the American steamship lines between San Fransisco ;iud China have been withdrawn. They could not compete in freight rates with the subsidized Canadian line, from Victoria, British Columbia, afiflKesi Jes.tin' Ant i-Chiuese laws caused the Americans to be discriminated against, in the matter of Chinese trade. The Fowler Review is trying to bulldoze the school officials and teachers of Benton county into putting the new books of the socalled Indiana School Book Company into the schools of that county, but, as the Review itself admits, the books were not received by the time most of the schools began their yearly session, and that fact alone, it seems to us, would constitute a sufficient reason why they should not be put into the schools during the present school year, at least. Tippecanoe County is having a Farmers’ Institute, under the provisions of the law for their encouragement,’ heretofore referred to. The institute is held at Lafayette and begins to-day and lasts for two days. A copy of the program has been handed us, from the contents of which we are convinced the Institute will be a good thing for the farmers who attend. We are satisfied that a successful Institute could be organized in Jasper county, if only anyone will take the initiative and devote a little time and energy in working it up. Three train men lost their lives at Kokomo, one day last week, through the demoniacal wickedness of train wreckers. The Republican repeats a suggestion, heretofore made, that the crime of train-wrecking is always either actual or attempted wholesale murder, and its perpetration proves the guilty parties to be possessed of hearts so utterly and cruelly wicked that they ought to be shut off from every consideration of mercy. The wrecking of a train, whether it results in the loss of human life or not, and even the Attempted wrecking of a train, ought to be made capital offenses, punishable only by death. , Let it never be forgotten, says the Helena Journal, that the socalled majority.upon whose shoulders Joseph K. Toole expects to mount into the Governor’s chair were 350 Dagoes, who were naturalized after Marcus Daley had sent them to be registered, and who voted in the American State

of Montana by handing to the judges a placard bearing these words: “I can neither speak nor write the English language. I desire to vote the Democratic ticket” What a commentary on free government! The votes of those 350 Dagoes, not one of whom had the slightest interest or concern for Montana, not one of whom had the faintest conception of the significance of their vote—the votes by which Mr. Toole.claims to be Governor. If this is a victory, how proud he must feel of its achievement. In view of the fact that enormous private fortunes are considered inimical to the public welfare, an amendment to the constitution of

the United States has been suggested, ;to remedy the evil. The provisions of the proposedamendment are about as follows: No citizen or resident or investor in any of the States, Territories or District, comprising the United States, shall be permitted to possess, in all kinds of property, an aggregate value of more than ten millions of dollars; which sum shall be the limit of private property in any individual, joint-indi-vidual, guardian, trustee, or other form or device of private estate ownership. And whenever and wherever such private ownership or bolding, shall be found to exceed the limit above named, the surplus shall be condemned as a public nuisance and a public {>efil, and be accordingly confiscated into the United States Treasury; from which it shall be from time to time, apportioned amongall the State Treasuries. And the States, etc., shall, each arid all, enforce ILIs Amendment by necessary or |>enal legislation; failing which, Congress shall enforce it.

The Democratic desperadoes who are howling about the Republicans stealing the Legislature of Montana would better wait a little until they find out what hurts them, and this advice is especially pertinent to the infamous Indianapolis Sentinel, that condoned and defended tLe tally sheet forgeries of Sim Coy and his villainous coconspirators. The Republicans of Montana are not attacking any man’s legal right to vote, even though the man be unable to read his ticket and don’t know any more than a mule would about who or whftt he is voting for. They can show that hundreds of such men were voted like cattle by their democratic bosses in the Montana election, but they are not going behind the face of the returns on that ground. It is the infamous fraud and forgery of false election returns that they purpose to subject to the ordeal of the courts. At a precinct where there should have been five judges, but three, all democrats, were allowed to serve. When the polls were closed the clerks were excluded from the room and these three judges did the counting, made out the returns by themselves, and then induced the clerks to sign them. These returns show fraud and forgery in their face, and were thrown out for that reason by the canvassing boards. That’s the kind of a ease that will be tried in the courts to determine the political complexion of the Montana “Legislatures. The yawping of such a paper as the Indianapolis Sentinel about the election iniquities of the Republican party will not deceive even its own readers, the decent portion of whom blush in secret for the election crimes of the South: The bold bald theft of the Governorship of West Virgina; the Joey Mackin purjuries in Chicao: the coal oil conspiracy in .Qllio, ond the tally sheet forgeries in this State, all of which have been defended and upheld by the Sentinel and its Democratic associates and echoes. When an election thief so well known as the Sentinel and its confreres cries “stop thief” nobody looks any further to find the thief. —Logansport Journal.

Workingmen who are so persistently urged to vote for free foreign trade under promise that all the nations (f the earth will in return become consumers of American products, may very profitably consider the possibilities of that promise being made good. The fact is, the markets so lavishly promised are now quite fully occupied by the very European manufacturers and tradesmen who are behind this free trade movement, and every man with a knowledge of business knows that they can be supplanted in but one way, i. e., by offering our products at lower prices than are now charged or our rivals will accept. under the pressure of competition. And here is where the interest of the workingman becomes especially prominent As more than nine-tenths of the value of manufactures consists of the labor bestowed upon their production, it necessarily follows that about an equal proportion of any reduction in price must come off those who perform the labor. With this fact in his mind, the glittering promise of foreign markets will have a hollow sound for the American workingman. Unable to controvert the serious fact that their policy means lower wages for American labor, the free trade preachers begin to talk of decreased cost of living which will

come with the xnilleinnum they picture, but succeed in proving nothing byond the faet that cheaper living must come, if it comes at all, by reducing the price of all other articles as well at those to be sent abroad. And this means that laborers in every department of industry must be compelled to work for lower wages than they now get. The United States is the best market in the world. It is the only one we can ever be certain of holding, and to give it over to foreign rivals for the privilege of underbidding them for custom with which they are not now con ten t, would be a folly into which the intelligent workingmen of the country are not likely to be inveigled.