Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1890 — DIVES NOT A DEMOCRAT. [ARTICLE]

DIVES NOT A DEMOCRAT.

Ron* and Springer talked at Monti* ” cellb. N. Y., for one place. Springer indulged in his usual tirade against the meu who had made fortunes under the, vlH&xnous tariff legislation of the Republican party. He singled out Mr. Oarnegie for the burden of his vitu- j perations. He said that in his study | of the New Testament he had found but one parallel to this wealthy Scotch- ; man; that his name was Dives; and ! that he was in hell, where he ought to ; lobi Horr replied: • I havb heard of Dives before. I • stave learned for the first time, however, to-day, that he made his money undbr the Morrill tariff bill passed by the United States Congress iu 1861. ; Springer intitnates that he did; and I ' am ready to admit that he can corne as hear proving that as any other prop- j ositiOn he has made here today. But s on one proposition I agree with Bro. ; Springer. Dives, though he may have been surrounded by Democrats, was certainly no Democrat himself; for you ' recollect', according to the record, hej Called for water, and that.is something ' no Democrat was ever known to do.” Whereat the spectators rolled upon the ground with laughter.

’■•We are confronted,” said General ; Clarkson the other day, speaking of the Congressional campaign, *-by | thirty-one districts gerrymandered , away from us. Tnese are in the States of Ohio, Maryland’ and Kentucky. With a bare majority now. we must I carry at least twenty-five districts ' somewhere to make up for those lost ■ to us by the methods of Democratic ; Legislatures. But if I thought we I could not win, I should not be willing to give two months of my time to this campaign. But if our people propose to lie down and let the Democrats walk over them, then I am not to be counted in; but if they will stand up and fight, I : am confident we shall win. The President is willing to turn his attention to the strengthening of the party lines where they are weak or wavering, and I know he is in earnest about it.” In one week of this session of Congress the Republican majority, of course against Democratic objection ami obstruction, has passed no les than five labor bills, pure and simple—measures asked for by the labor societies of the land. Look at the list: 1. An effective prohibition of alien contract labor. 2. An effective eight-hour law, constituting eight hours a full day’s work for all government employes. 3. An adjustment law, enabling claimants under the old eight-hour law to submit their cases to judicial arbitrament. 4. A law prohibiting the employment of convict labor on government ■vorks. 5. A law prohibiting the use of the product of convict labor by the govjnament in any of its departments. The business failures of the country jtill keep below last year’s figures, .vhile the bank clearances and railroad warnings are ahead of those of last year. And. yet 1889 showed a good leal of prosperity throughout the ■ountry. It is such comparisons as ;his. which show the fallacy of the cry jf the demagogue and the agitator that general trade is going to the dogs. The way in which the Treasury has jorno to the relief of the market in the past week or two justifies the high opinion which the country has held of Vlr. Windom as a financier and statesnau. No man could have shown more act and better judgment in the recent monetary crisis than have been displayed by the present fiead~6r”tfie' Treasury Department. The squeeze in the money market was severe for a few days in the past week or two, but there were no business failures as a consequence. A few years ago such a storm would have lined the commercial shore with wrecks. The fact is, the general business of the country was never on a solider or safer basis than it is now. The Republicans are united in favor, of the extension of foreign trade by reciprocity just as they used to be united against the extension of domestic slavery by political feickery; and they will wih in the present instance as they did in the former one, notwithstanding the opposition of the Democratic party. In tjie Eastern States many of the 1 Democratic conventions this year did not Cleveland. Is the ex-President actually losing his grip on his party? Even iu the West, where he was especially strong, his flame is seldom heard of now in Democratic circles. «'» The Democrats still explaining the sweeping Republican victory in Maine, but they are not denying 1 that it is far greater than they looked f®r, and that it has dampened the arAnr the Democracy throughout the aoentr y. It should never oe possible so? the Wajl street speculators/o use the Secretary of the Treasury for tie promotion ot their schemes, and it will never be possible for them to do so while Mr. Windom remains in that office. Speaker Reed is going to make » series qf speeches in lowa, and the people df lowa are going to be moved thereby to give a majority that wih restore the State to its old and proper relation to the Republican . The Republican number, ;of the present Congress can point witlvpriui to the Mot that havte xwlicte:! a sturming’hlaw upon the wprst tofriwpQtn '.bl*United SthtCtf Ly arti-b ■‘ter" *£ll.’