Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1890 — OLLA PODRIDA. [ARTICLE]

OLLA PODRIDA.

The Democratic Sentinel copies this from the Lafayette Journal, which purports to come from a Republican. ‘‘l can get but 671. cents for wheat, 21 cents for corn and 2 cents for beef. What must j I do?’ The answer is, just hang to Harrison, high protection and a I ‘home market’ and you will make i it, in the poor house.” Yes, ves! I can recollect when ] my father got 37| cents per bushel for wheat, 12 cents for corn, 1| cents for dressed pork and less than 1 cent for beef. Those were, in the good old Democratic days, “befo’de wah.” *** Not long since the Sentinel copied from a St. Louis paper that it • I took a cow to buy l a coat. Ln the same issue one of the town stores advertized that they, told whole suits for $3.50/ - - The Sentinel copied from the Chicago Herald last week. Said J rht- th’partmeut pcnsion bih introduced by Senator Davis, of Maine, should be “A bill to put a premium b -eu-fraud —amt"■ pau perron Y~WHrT ‘ how those democrats do love the old soldiers!! *** > Each two dollars worth of foreign goods imported into this

country is equivalent to one day’s idleness for one man. not the Democratic papers yawping about the price of steel rails, as they are again about as cheap in America sis in England. Notwithstanding the tariff is so much added to the price of the article. “The tariff is a tax.” . yyhen—Senator Sherman’s antitrust bill is passed and becomes a law, by Republican votes, then hear the Democratic dry-bones rattle, because the Democratic Standard Oil, coffee, sugar and other trusts and combines will have to go. * * - * Congress should put a tariff on tin plates and keep the $20,000,000 in this country, because theie are no tin plates manufactured in the United States. *♦* The San Francisco Bulletin says that the California beet-sugar experiment is a success. Last year 2,000 acres were planted and yielded 13,000 tons of sugar beets, from which were extracted 1,635 tons of sugar. This wasdone at Matsonvill factory which ran 47 days. The beets brought an average of $5 a ton, and the farmers feel satisfied that they can raise them at & profit. They have- guaranteed to greatly increase the acreage this year, and the out put will probably be more than doubled.

JASPER.