Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1890 — Before and After. [ARTICLE]

Before and After.

Lafayette Courier. There is not an article in builders hardware which enters into the construction of a house that is not cheaper thjtn it was before we had a protective tariff, when we depended upon the manufacturers of Europe for these things. Let us submit a few items by way of comparison: Price before Price now. the farlifi Shingle nails 10 to i2e per lb. .05 Other nails Bto 12c. per lb. .03 to .04 Door locks, extra..- $1.40 each. .50 Common.... 7i V .v>s Window class, 10x12 10 *• .07 Sash weights leper lb. .0.,% Bash cord 60 Door bolts 85 each. .15 Wood screws ~sl'so per gToss .4Yet, in the face of these facts, the demagogue continues to howl about the tariff being a burden upon everybody, but the manufacturer, and appeals to the farmer aS the object of his greatest sympathy, and tells him that he is being ruined by the tariff. But the farmer knows bettor. He knows that every mechanio and laborer engaged in manufactures in this country is his customer for the products of his farm. He knows that every man, woman and child who is engaged in any kind of productive employment in this country is a consumer of his wheat, corn, beef and pork. He knows that the prosperity of his millions of persons thus employed is the prosperity, and that any calamity which may overcome them means his own distress. The intelligent farmer knows that the 66,000,000 people of the United States are better buyers of all the necessaries of life than any 160,000,000 of people anywhere else on the globe. He knows that the best market for him in the world is a home market. He knows that every implement of machinery which he uses on his farm, every article of furniture in his house, every item of clothing he wears, every utensil in his kitchen, pvery piece of queensware, every plate, cup, dish, spoon, knife, fork,,,and all plated ware, costs him less now than it did under a tariff for revenue only. And he knows another thing quite as important to him, that everything he has to sell brings a better price on the average than he used to get under. Democratic free trade. <>t Hr. Whitney’s Creation at ill. .<>w York Pre«. A Democratic contemporary which much given to imagining things ) -true and' then asserting them

facte, commenting on the return of the squadron of evolution and the demonstrated excellence of the vessels that cbm pose it. declares that, “the new cruisers constitute a fitting memorial’' to ex-Secretary Whitney’s “efficient and unselfish labors. ” The only part Mr. Whitney has in the construction of these vessels was to carry out plans made by a Republican Congress, a Republican Secretary of the Navy and a Republican President. It was under Republican auspices that the new navy was inaugurated, and Mr. Whitney was an accidental incident in their construction. He sought to make the country believe that contractor John Roach was swindling the government ip their construction and delayed their on that pretext, but all the world knows now that it was only a pretext. There is no credit for Mr, Whitney in the squadron of evolution.