Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1889 — OLLA PODRIDA. [ARTICLE]

OLLA PODRIDA.

The people of the United States pay 820,000,000 per year for the tin-plate we use in the manufacture of tinware, roofs, etc. Why not manufacture the tin-plates at home? There is plenty ot tin in the Black Hills. If it will pay to manufacture fin without tariff to protect the industry, why do not some of our democratic tariff reformers start tin-plate factories and compete with the foreignman--ufacturers and thus save the twenty millions for our own people? *** April 26, 1824, General Jackson wrote as follows to L. H. Coleman, of Virginia. ‘ Draw from agriculture the superabundant labor, employ it in mechanism and manufactures, thereby creating a home market for your bread-stuffs and distributing labor to a most profitable account, and benefit to the country will result. Take from agriculture ifr the United States six hundred thousand men, women and children and you at once give a home market for more breadstuffs than all Europe, now furnishes us. In short, sir, we have been too long subject to the policy of these British merchants. It is true we should become a little more Americanized, and instead of feeding the paupers and laborers of Europe, feed our own or else in a short time, by continuing our present policy, we shall all be paupers ourselves.” * * * When ex-Gov. St. John was here, as announced in the interest of the Prohibition party, he made the prohibition part of his speech for the benefit of the prohibitionists but the free-trade or demoratic part was the emphatic part, in which he was sowing the seed they hope will bring forth fruit in 1892. The Democracy are quietly organizing tariff reform clubs throughout Indiana and they hope to mislead enough to carry the state for the democratic party in 1890 and 92. Let no one be deceived. * * * Some free-trade, or as they prefer to be called, tariff reform newspapers try to make the farmers believe a foreign market is better than a home maiket. The same spirit was in a Rensselaer democrat last November just after the election when he said “it was the d—d ignorance of farmers that caused the defeat of Cleveland.” The farmers “know which side of their bread is buttered.” *♦* The English trade follows the flag. The Americans should learn a lesson from the English who pay subsidies to their ships to go to foreign ports. Congress should pay enough to have the United States mails carried by American ships, flying the American flag. If such was the case, our foreign trade would increase, there would be more work for laborers and better wages in the lines affected by the foreign demand. %• The amount of horse racing in this country is on the increase. It is the rich man’s folly. If the loss of money was all the) eis in it, it would be a small matter. It is not alone money but morality and manhood that is lost. If not so why so ’much liquor, ‘why’ so many prostitutes, so much betting, so many red faces, such loud swearing and depravity in general.

JASPER.