Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1890 — WHAT THE REPUBLICAN HOUSE HAS DONE. [ARTICLE]

WHAT THE REPUBLICAN HOUSE HAS DONE.

The Republican House has intelligently revised the tariff. It has done it on protection lines. There has been no war of extermination against protected home labor and protected home products of labor. The McKinley bill, no matter what the Englishmen say about it, is an open and Mir and wise measure. Its results will be beneficial. The farmers of the country, always found fighting for the Republican standard, needed more protection. The Republican { majority, aware as always of its duty, gave them this protection. The party pledge to restore silver to its uses has been redeemed, and gen*, eral prosperity and the appreciation in particular of farm values have followed the enactment of the silver law. Silver was worth 91 cents on a dollar under Mr, Cleveland; under General Harrison it is worth 119 cents. Ninety million dollars have thus been added to the intrinsic value of the silver in the Treasury vaults. The value of wheat, corn, and oats, based on the value of the crop for last year, has been increased since December, 1889, $691,000,000 worth. Put into this grand table of values the other farm products. The increased values of farm products have been increased under Republican rule to not less than a thousand million dollar, s The Republican House has passed every bill for the relief and benefit of labor which has been presented to it. These are six. One prohibits convict labor; another makes eight hours a day in the Government service a day's work; still another provides that the just ctaiins of workingmen shall be adjudioated without delay; yet another effectively prohibits the importation of alien contract labor; the fifth makes the importation of Chinese labor impossible; the sixth restores the wages of Government printers. Who has done all this? The Democrats have not; they have opposed everything. This Congress has passed liberal pension legislation. The boys in blue are not to suffer in their old age. They are to be provided for in the faith and hojje of the martyred Lincoln.