Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1890 — Page 2

CONSIDER THE FIGURES.

*THIXKOF WHAT THEY MEAN TO THE LABORING PEOPLE OF AMERICA! Yo» R**dy for aChAßsre?—Do Yon Want Yoor Wages Scaled Down Fifty Per Cent.! The following table gives the weekly wages in England and the United States of laborers and mechanics in different branches of industry:

Implores. Finland. United States. Bookbinders A® 00 ij® • J 0 "■ Brush-makers - , *9? 15 ...to2o ... Boiler-makers .i.'..... > ‘ Jf *? Brick-makers 3 M JJ 80 Brick layers 8 10 21 Black-milhg. 6 08 13 30 Butchers 6 00 ]f“_ Bakers... .6 2.3, - v 12T7S Blast rj-n'cekcen'rsl JO (» 18... Blast fur ade fillers! 5 SO 14 ... bolt-makers .......... ] 6 SO) 16 50 Bolt cutters. .. -■ * 00, 10 ... Coal-miners— : « B ®j 18 Cottontail hands;-j 4 60| -6 <;. Carpenters.. ! ZiSfr. Js»b Coopers..... ......i _ 60Q 13 25. Carnage-makers..... 6 18 t 025 .. Cutlery 603 12 ...to3o ... Chemicals 400 to 600 13 ... to 16 ... Ciock-awkers 7 00; 18 .- Cabinet-makers .. .. 7 00, 18 ... Karm bards - 8 00] 7 60to-9 .. Clast-blowers 600 to 9 00; 25 ... to 30 ... - partlr skilled 1 *-08 tar? cOj ir-.tats ... *• unskilled 200 to 400 7 ... to 10 ... Glove-makers, girls 250 6 ... to 0 ... Glove-makers, men *4 50,-10 ...tp3o ... Hatter* 600 12 ... to 24 ... itonoe miners 5 50 12... Iron molders . 7 50 15 ... lrott.p. ton.finished 200 to 3 00] 5 31. to B<l Healemaßft rollers 10 OOto 12 00] 20....|U>50 .. Insirunit ut-makt rsLatorers .L. 4 10- .8 ■■ Longshoremen. ... 8 00 15 ••• Linen thread, nien 5 00 7 50 Linen thr d,women 2 35; o 22 Machinists 8 50[ 18 ... M sons- s 00i 21 ... Fruiters, 1000 ems... 20] . 40 Printer*, weekly .... 66j Pattern-makers’..;.... - 7 50 1" • • Paimers 7 50 16 Plumbers 8 00 W - P.asterers .... -— ——• 7 50j —. — 21 ... Potters... 8 67 18 30 Poli-hers 1 On 18 ... I‘aper-tnakers...; 520 12 tcr24 ... Puddlers. per week Sooto 10 00, 18 ... to .0 tjuarrymen ........... 0 00, 12 ... to M Kopein-kers 525 9 ... to 12 Railway engineers. 1 OO 21 Railway firemen ~: 5 00. 12 Shipbuilding-Boiler-makers ... 7 0° 16 lit hints s 7 00 14 15 Coppersmith .;.. 6 50 16 to Platers 8 00 18 Drii'ers S 00 12 •riveters ......... ! 800 1< 40 Riggers 5 uO) 11 Pa tern-makers. 8 00 Salt-makers 600 9 ...to 10 r 0 Silk, men 5 00 10 Bi;k. w0men....... 2 50 6 Scarf-makers 150 to 225 6 ... to 9 Servants,per month 600 15 Shoemakers 6 00 12 Stationar.f engin’rs 760 15 ...to 18 Soap-makers * 600 - 1 1 60 Tonne s 525 8 ...to 10 Teamsters.... 500 12 —to 16 Upholsterers.......... 8 00 18 Watchmakers 8 00 18 Wire-drawers 1100; 22

SHALL WE?

Shall Congress|be a deliberative assembly wherein public measures may be properly considered duly debated, and then, without waste of time, actually voted upon; and wherein the American principle of “majority rule” shall be respected, or shall it be a mob, incompetent to act, powerless to carry out the public will, with a majority so overcome by its own rules that it is dependent upon the minority for its authority and power? Shall we allow the Capitol to be filled up with men who obtain seats in Cpngress not as the result of a free ballot and a fair count, but by the forcible suppression of franchise rights, by wholesale frauds, by murder, arson, brutality and other crimes? Shall We abandon the policy of Protection. after all it has done for us, to enter policy which we have tested many times to our immediate, unfailing and tremendous loss? Shall we again rob ourselves of the rewards which, have so richly come from the restoration of silver, and once more play into the hands of foreigners who have been for years buy ing our silver at low prices and using it against us in the grain markets of the world? Shall we pay our money, $150,000,000 a year, to build up the merchant marine of England, to increase her strength upon tbfe sea and her hold upon the foreign markets of tho world when we might as well as not be paying it for our own advantage in all of of these respects? Shall we keep our plighted faith to the loyal men who offered their lives in defense of freedom and union and to the protection of whose families from want and misery we gave our word as a nation? These are the chief and the most -sharply defined issues upon which the country is asked to cast st deciding ballot this fall. Every effort is being made to side-track them, to envelope them in clouds and to carry the people away from them here and there on false pretenses. Tne Democrats start off in the next Congress, as usual, with thirty-one stolen seats. They have that number of seats to their credit without a campaign. By infamous gerrymanders, especially in Ohio, Maryland. Kentucky and Indiana, they expect to steal twenty-one other seats. This gives them an immense advantage. To the Republicans it is an awful handicap. But if the intelligent, thoughtful and patriotic people of the land will do their duty as citizens, if they will stand sturdily by their guns, if they will vote as they wish and th nk, the result will be a glorious Republican victory and a prompt and happ, completion of the work which President Harrison and this Congress have carried forward so wisely and so well. ISSUE NO. 1. Do you wish your Congress to be an orderly deliberative assembly, or do you wish it to be a lawless mob? ISSUE NO. 2. Shall there be a free ballot and an honest count throughout the length .and breadth of the land? ISSUE NO S. This bill preserves in operation ; • .... . u •

adapting it to the present state of trade, that revenue system which the greatest statesman of Europe declares himself constrained to imitate; a system which has given uS it material development “the most illustrious of modern time;" a system which first creates the finest market in the world and then controls it for our own principal enjoyment; a system which ha-; raised the American farmer’ to a digsity enjoyed by no other tiller of the soil, and the American mechanic to a place 'in society and affairs whfrh In the envy of his brethren in every land. Are you ready to pbandonthis Bystem? Do you want to open your doors to the cheap, serf-wrought goods of other countries? Do you want to create hero the very conditions that all our millions of foreign-borp citizens have fled from? If not, you must return a Republican Congress. p 1 , ISStE NO- 4. Do you want good money and plenty of it, or bad money and hot even enough of that to go around? ISSUE no. 5. i Will the workingmen and their organizations stand by the party which keeps its promises and performs its duties to them, or will they prefer the party which violates its promises and doesn't see its duties? ISSUE NO. G. Are yon in favor of a merchant marine, do you wish to see the Stars and Stripes restored to their old place on the high seas, or are you willing to Jbave America remain On foreign ships for a foreign trade? issue no. 7. IDo you wish the nation to keep its promises to the men who kept its flag aloft, or would you leave them to the tender mercies of poor houses and private charity? If the Republicans turn putlind vote in November, the victory will be theirs.

THE REPUBLICAN RECORD.

In its national platform for 1888, the Republican party promised that it would enact laws to secure certain objects, if the people would return it to power in the ensuing election. The people took the party at its word and placed its candidate in the White House apd a Republican majority in the House of Representa. tives. Eighteen months have passed and the time has recurred another Congressional election. The questions before the people, then, are thtse: Has the Republican party kept its promises? In what respects, if any. has it failed? HEBE ARE THE FACTS. 1‘ The Republican party promised a Federal Elections Law. That law has passed the House and is pending in the Senate, through which it will pass in December. 2. The Republican party promised to Revise, the Tariff in conformity with the policy of protection. It has done so through the McKinley bill, which the New York Tribune pronounces “the wisest, bravest and best tariff measure that has ever been framed.” 3. The Republican party promised to restore silver to its money uses. It has done so in a law which has had the effect of raising the value of silver 26 cents, and of wheat 22J cents. 4. The Republican party promised to pass a just pension law. It has done so in a measure which increases the pension appropriations to $2 out of every $5 collected by the Government. 5. The Republican party promised to do all it could towards the revival of the American merchant marine. It has done so in the two shipping bills which have passed the Senate and are now pending in the House, through which they will soon be carried. 6. The Republican party promised to exclude cheap labor and alien contract labor from our shores. It has done so, and has also passed a dozen other measures asked for by the labor organizations of the land. 7. The Republican party promised taadmit such Territories as are fitted fornStatehodd. It has done so by pushing North Dakota. South Dakota, Montana and Washington through a Democratic House, and by admitting Idaho and Wyoming. 8. The Republican party promised to rebuild the navy and construct harbor defenses. It has done so by authorizing six new vessels of w r ar and numerous fortifications. 9i The Republican party promised cheap letter postage. A bill reducing letter postage to one Cent per ounce has been favorably reported to the House, and is now on its passage. This is the record of eighteen months, and the Fifty-first Cpngress still has another year in which to complete its work. What more can the people ask? Is not a party that redeems all its pledges in the first term of its Congress and the first years of its administration clearly ontitled to a lenewal of public confidence? If the Republicans turn out and vote in November, the victory will be theirs.

AMERICAN WORKINGMEN.

This is What They Would Bring Yon to. From « Pamphlet by the late Thomas Carlyle. British industrial existence seems fast becoming one huge poison-swamp of reckless pestilence—physical and normal—a hideous living Golgotha of souls and bodies buried alive. Thirty thousand out-cast needle-women working themselves to death. Three million paupers rotting in forced idleness; and these are but items in the sad ledger of despair. If the Republicans turn out and vote in November, the viotory will be theirs.

INDIANAPOLIS LETTER.

Indianapolis, Opt. 13. “If I could reach every Republican in Indiana with my voicej,” said Chairman Michener, the other day, “I would say to them that there was but one thing between the party and victory next month, and that was the Jack of interest on their part. If they will go put and vote the victory will be ours. The drift is all in our favor, and we will get enough new strength from various sources to win the most complete victory we have ever had, if the Republicans themselves will only go to the polls.” This view of the case is coincided in by all those who have studied the situation. One thing is certain, the Republicans have never had a brighter opportunity to win than just now. Never before has a Congress so vindicated the wisdom of giving that body to the control of the Republicans; never has apartysocompletely kept the pledges it has made to the people as the Republicans under this administration. I met atone of the,hotels, the other day, a prominent Republican who had visited many parts of the State. On asking him what he thought of the situation, he said he had found a good deal of kicking here and there. I asked him kicking against what, against whom, and he said against the administration I asked him what particular thing done by the administration was kicked about. After a considerable pause hesaidr, the truth is he had not heard a single thing done'unfavorably criticised, but that everywhere the party endorsed every act of Congress. Pushed a little further he said that in fact he had not heajd of any kicking, but only that kicking was being done. He further said that the State ticket and platform was universally approved, and that if there was any discontent.anywhere it was only against the President personally because he had not given some one an office, but it was not against the party. This tells the whole story. The Republicans have never had so complete an arsenal of good deeds done with which to go before the people than just now, and since the days of the war the Democrats have never been in as bad a shape to appeal tocl the- as at the present time. They have nothing good to show, but their whole administration has been bad, and nothing in it to recommend them to the honest part of the community. In State affairs they have been incompetent, wasteful, reckless of every interest except that of making places for party henchmen. In Congress they have only been obstructionists, offering nothing good themselves, but only trying to prevent the Republicans from accomplishing what the people have demanded at their hands. In counties and municipalities, where they have had control, they have always taxed the people to the very utmost, and honesty and good government lias not been found among them anywhere. They have been for the party always—for the people never. They have been loud in their professions in their platforms and on the 6tump, but their actions have not been in harmony with their promises. Thus the Republicans have much the advantage of them in a discussion before the people. They enacted laws under the pretense of shutting out bribery of voters, and yet in this county their local candidates have poured out money like water with the intent of corrupting the voters. They passed laws they claimed would insure an honest ballot, yet their leaders have been industriously schooling their henchmen in the way 3 of corrupting the ballot in despite of the law.. In their boastings before the people they are now reduced down to two -things done by the last General Assembly—letting a contract for school books and the election laws. In the first they did not go far enough, for Indiana is great enough and rich enough to supply books to the children free. In the last they made the law so cumbersome in some of its provisions and so vague in others that it will cost the people an enormous sum of money and fail in accomplishing what the people have desired. They say they have erected great benevolent institutions. If they have, they have been so extravagant in the administration of affairs as to increase the ourrent expenses far above the revenues. In times of profound peace and great prosperity no excuse can be given for increasing the public debt, much less for creating an annual deficit in the current expenses.

No party was ever before so closely in sympathy with the industrial classes as the Republican party of to-day. That it is honest in its professions in this regard is shown by its acts. The present Congress has done more for labor than all other congresses combined. It has done more for agriculture. It has done more to build up for the country a trade with foreign lands that the people might have a market for all their surplus. It has done more for the old veterans. And any measure looking toward any of those ends was either opposed by the votes of the Democrats or by their obstruction policy. President Harrison was the first public man to take the ground that trusts and combines ought to be throttled by the law. A Republican Congress was the first to attempt to throttle them. The Republicans have been iu the advance of every good word and work while the Democrats have always been arrayed in opposition especially when it came to the works. They declared in favor of liberal pensions, but voted against and tried to defea4 the most liberal pension measure ever proposed by any government They pretended to be opposed to trusts, yet tried in every way to prevent the Republicans passing a law against such combines. They pretended to be in favor of the demaads o the agriculturists but in

Congress sought to defeAt all. legislation in their interest. So it was with everything that tfas proposed for thft benefit of the people. The Republicans were found working earnestly and honestly in their favor, the Democrats vehemently opposing them. No Republican can afford to remain away from the polls this year, Nicodemus. If the Republicans turn out and vote in November, the victory will be theirs.

“SOMETHING TO SHOW FOR IT.”

Indianapolis Journal. That remarkable production which the Democratic State convention adopted as its platform, While admitting the great increase of the State debt, added in extenuation, that “the State has something to show for it.” The taxpayers, if they could see all the bills_ that have been paid in connection with the construction of the additional hospitals for the insane, would come to the conclusion that many of the things which the Democratic management has to show for the people’s money are not the things for which they wiAhtO pay. Some of the thing for which they are paying, and which the Democratic management has to sh .w for the increasing debt, are as follows: l ; Twenty-four cherry andfleather dining chairs, S7B; 4 cherry easy chairs, SSO; canopy top surrey, $125; extention to phaeton, $275; 1 surrey harness, S2B; 4 Cairo squares, S9O; 4 reception tables. $76; 9 chamber sets, $585; 6 oak massive leather settees, $114; 2 no back lounges, $36; \ plush lounges, S7B; 6 leather easy chairs, $79; parlor set, $149.50. On one bill the good people will find these three charges on the same day : 4 Smyrna rugs, $175; 2 Smyrna rugs, $119.12. In one place can be found ten mattresses at $45 each; and a largo number at $6.75 each. These are samples, of the “somethings” which the Democratic managers have to show for the annual increase of the debt at the rate of $500,000. But they are only samples. There are lots and lots more of the same sort of lavish expenditures to prepare sumptuous and regal accommodations for the officials. Looking over the expenditures for the maintenance of the insane hospitals, one finds frequent charges such as “4 pairs curtains, $75;” “one ‘only’ mustache cup and saucer; one ‘only’ jug; 85 yards of fancy silks for upholstering and ornamentation,” and yards and yards of carpeting. These things are all very nice for those who have the positions where they can enjoy them, but the plain people who are being run in debt for them may conclude that they want no more of this kind of Jeffersonian Democracy. If the Republicans tyrn out and vote in November, the victory will be theirs.

CLAUDE MATTHEWS AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Indianapolis Journal. The Newport Hoosier State contains the following: ‘ *Hon. Claude Matthews, the Democratic candidate for Secretary of State, is one of those fine-haired, aristocratic farmers who has no love for bur common schools. He has been a resident of this county about twenty-five years, and during that time he has lived within two hundred yards of a country school, but the shadow of none of his children ever darkened the room. He was too tony to permit his offspring to mix with the common children of the neighborhood. He preferred to hire a governess to instruct his children. Do the people of the State of Indiana want to electa man to such an important office who is too lofty to patronize the common schools of our county? It is said oil and water will not mix, and we guess Kentucky blood will not mix with Hoosier blood.” The Hoosier State is published in the county of Mr. Matthew’s residence, an& dOubtless knows whereof it speaks. No man is obliged by law to patronize the public schools, and it is no disgrace to a man to be able to employ a private tutor or governess for his children if he thinks the public school is not good enough for him. But no man who feels and acts that way has a right to pose as the special friend of the people and representative of the farming class. Mr. Matthews is a Southerner, and probably his exclusive ideas in regard to education are inherited. In the South the public schools never did amount to anything, and it was the custom of wealthy whites to employ private instructors, but in the North the social and educational conditions are very' different. The public schools are the people’s college, and a man who is too aristocratic to patronize them ought not to be eleeted Secretary of the State that supports them. __ If the Republicans turn out and vote in November, the victory will be theirs.

A COMMON DEMOCRATIC LIE.

Toledo BladeSenator Test, of Missouri, is repeating. in every speech he makes in the West, the charge tkat the Republicans “have created a deficit in the Treasury,” wherein there was “a surplus of $100,000,000 when Cleveland went out of office.” There is no deficit; the debt statement of October 1 shows a surplus of over $69,000,000, and during Harrison’s administration the Treasury has bought and canceled $205,714,410 in bonds, that is, it has paid that much of the debt, and stopped the interest thereon. If the Republicans turn out and vote ; in November, the victory will be theirs. The McKinley bill Is tho declaration of -our industrial Independence. Great Britain likes it as little as she did our declaration of political independence. But we are not legislating for Great Britain.—Mail aad Express.

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND PENSIONS.

.IntJUnapoUijfenrnoi. Whatever'’ m erit or demerit there is in the present pension laws belongs to the Republican party. They have all been passed mainly by Republican votes, and a large number of Demo-, cratio votes are recorded against each and every one of them. Of the bills passed during the last few years fortyeight Democrats voted against the arrears of pension bill passed in 1879. sixty-six voted against the widows’ pension hill passed in 1886, fifty-one voted against the amputation bill passed in 1866, fifty-six voted against the new disability bill passed at the recent session, and seventy-eight voted against the bill to pension prisoners of war. All of these measures were passed by Republican votes, and not a single Republican vote was cast against either of them. The vote in the House on the disability bill stood 145 yeas to 56 nays. Of those voting yea, 118 were Republicans and 27 were Democrats, while every vote in the negative was Democratic. In the Senate the vote was 34 yeas to 18 nays. Of those voting yea thirty-one were Republicans and three were Demol- - while every vote in the negative was Democratic. Therefore, wo repeat that whatever of merit or demerit there is in the pension laws the responsibility belongs to the-Republican party. The idea of pensioning Union soldiers originated with Republicans, the obligation was first recognized by the Republican party, and every law on the subject is due to Republican votes, To show how largely Indiana bar been benefitted by the pension laws, we present herewith a statement showing the amount received by pensioners in this State each year since 1860; Fiscal year ending June 30. Amount 1860 $100,432.17 1861, 90,921.87 1862 80,081.99 1863 '. ...... 104,436.44 .1864 452,162.21 1865 854,288.52 1866 1,325,098.01 1867 1,868,171.17 _ 1868-,-. ~~. 2,407,940.31 — 1869 2,252,025.80 1870 2,118,375.25 1871 1,726,745.00 1872 . 2,283,000.81 1873.. .1 . 2,085,437.47 1874 ... 2,110,208.28 1875 2,188,105.02 1876 2,225,024.12 1877.. 1,108,752.26 1878 1,844,136.48 1879 1,899,715.99 1880.. 2,113,566.46 1881.. 3.416,520.15 1882 4,646,294.00 1883.. 5,117,987.48 1884 .. 4,573,591.60 1885 5,465,168.12 1886.. ........... 5.632,824.36 1887 6,402,489.35 1888.. .. 7,016,525.19 1889 8,428,383.28 1890 9,984.475.00 Total $92,922,884.16 Up to 1862 the payments were chiefly to pensioners of the Mexican’ war. The payment to Union soldiers began in 1863, and since then they have increased from $104,436.44 to $9,984,475 a year. The total amount paid in this State since 1860 is $92,922,884.16. The amount paid out next year will exceed $10,000,000, and is likely to grow for some years to come. These payments, made quarterly at the rate of nearly $2,500,000 a quarter, go to all parts of the State, and their influence is felt in all the channels of trade. No matter what else may fail, the pension payments come, with promptness and regtitarTty; as certain as the rising and setting of the sun. If the Republicans turn out and vote in November, the victory will be theirs;

TWO SPECIMEN SPEECHES.

They Clearly Reflect the Judgment and the Motives of the Parties for Whom They are Spoken. Already, in various parts of the country, the Democrats are maliciously at work endeavoring to make capital for themselves oiit of this Disability Act. They are proceeding in different sections by widely different methods. In some places they are attacking the law as wasteful and extravagant, and are denouncing the veterans as so many mendicants and wolves. In other places they are attempting quietly to reach the ears of these very veterans, these grand ‘ old Kefbfce whom they call “beggars,” and are whispering slanders against the Republican party, alleging that the new law is not generous enough by half, and that they, they, forsooth, were in favor of a service pension, and would have enacted one had they been in power! Any Union soldier to whom this lying statement is made should confront its maker with the Democratic record, and with the following remarks taken from the speech of Mr. Stone, Democrat, of Missouri, delivered in the present Congress on April 5, 1890, in opposition to the new law: • ‘How far the Government should go in this direction; how far it should extend these voluntary gifts beyond the obligations of its contract, is a question of public policy to be determined by the disposition and the will of the people. For one, I think, we have gone far enough. That there are minor inequalities and iniquities in the existing laws which should he adjusted, I nave no doubt; that there are administrative defects in the existing system which should be removed, I am certain; but I am equally without doubt and equally certain that we should call a sharp and peremptory halt on the galloping gait at which we have been

riding this pension horse in reeenl years. I think the time has come whei the visionaly theories of impraotieal sentimentalists, when the artful dogmatism of demagogues, and the pathetic appeals of political trimmers, when the insatiable greed of selfish monopoly, and the aggressive arrogance of the Treasury looter should cease to dominate the Congress of the United States, or longer to suppress the independent and self-respecting members of this body. %] “I give it as my deliberate judgment, I state it as a fact, that no people on earth, since governments were instituted among men, have* been so despoiled and plundered in the name of patriotism and under the guise of pension laws as have been the people of the United States.” Contrast this brutal and malignant tirade, which was applauded to the echo by the Democratic members, with the warm-hearted eloquence of Mr. Dolliver, of lowa, who spoke in reply: -“I could not repress a feeling of indignation as I listened to these odious charges and heard the necessities of the veterans sneered at by Democratic members on the floor of this Congress. And I say to the gentleman from Missouri, and to you, gentlemen, that the need which stands in’ pathetic eloquence behind the pressing urgency of the demands of the old soldiers of the United States is no badge of dishonor. “It is rather a mournful witness, like the homeless lot of the Workingman of Nazareth, that they who were rich in the exultant wealth of youth and strength for our sake 3 have become poo|. [Applause.] And so when' I hear men talking of the extravagance of pension appropriations and read in newspapers the idle babble that the old soldiers of the country are seeking to loot the treasury, T reply, that every dollar of the national wealth' in the treasury and out of it, is ens cumbered first of all by the inviolable lien of our duty to the men and women who thought not of their blood and their tears in the hour of the national trial.” [Great applause.] If the Republicans turn out and vote in November, the victory will be theirs.

LEGISLATION FOR FARMERS.

The charge that American farmers pay more for their implements than foreign farmers do has been shown to be false. Precisely the reverse is the truth. They pay less; and this is the result of protection, which has encouraged and developed the production of such articles on a large scale at low prices in the United States. But protective legislation has gone still further, and now by the tariff bill of 1890 has completely defended American farm products against competition from tho cheap lands and labor of foreign nations. The following comparisons will be found interesting and conclusive: RATES OF DUTY ON FARM PRODUCTS. Article. Democratic Rep. Tariff Mills Dill, of 1890. Barley ~loc per bu...30c per bu Buckwheat..... ... ,10per cent,. .16c per bu Corn. .. ..lQc per bu.. 15c per bu Oats .10c per bu....1.5c per bu Wheat i. ,20c per bu....25c per bu Butter..... 4c per lb 6cper lb. Cheese.. 7. 7177..... 74c per 1b.... 6c per lb • Beans .free ....40c per bu Eggs 7 .free .... Scperdoz Hay.... .. $2 per t0n....54 per ton -H0p5............ 8c per lb ....15c per lb Potatoes . 15c per bu....25c per bu Flaxseed, ico. * . .10c per bu....30c per bu Garden seeds. ..'...free ~..2opercent Bacon and hams ... 2c per 1b.... 5c per lb Beef, mutton. &c. .. lc per 1b.... 2c per lb Wool, Ist class . . . .free ....lie per lb Wool, 2d class free ....12c per lb Wool, 3d class free ....32percent Wool, 3d class free ~..soperceut Leaf tobacco, stemmed $1 per lb ....12.75 per lb Not stemmed . . . 775 c per lb $2 per lb All other stemmed..4oc per1b...50 per cent Flax . t . . . . , L rfree- — .... lo ner lh. Plums and prunes.. free 7.77 2c per lb This direct legislation in behalf of farmers has been supplemented by the silver bill, the protective effect of which is already seen in the advance of the prices of the great American staples—nearly 20 cents per bushol on wheat and 15 cents per bushel on corn, amounting in the aggregate to more than $250,000,000 on these two articles alone. In conclusion, the American farmers, constituting nearly one-half of our population, have at last received the consideration they deserve. Under protective laws they are guaranteed against foreign competition, and they are enabled to sell their drops at fair prices and to buy their implements and tools cheaper than they can be bought in any other country in the world.

HOW DEMOCRATS CARE FOR THE FARMER.

Philadelphia Record (Dem.) Senator Mitchell offers a resolution for so-called reciprocity with Latin America, barring the items of wool and hides. Reciprocity with the wool pulled out and the hide skinned off its weltering form would be but a quivering and ghastly mockery.

HOW PROTECTION WORKS.

Detroit Tribune. In the tariff revision of 1883 the duty on wire nails was doubled. We were then buying all our wire nails abroad at $6 a keg. Now, under the increased duty, whioh is a protective duty, we are making wire nailß in this country aDd selling them at less than $3 a keg. * There has been an increase in the circulation to the extent of $93,000,000 since October 1, 1889. This fact is obtained from a comparison of official figures at that date with those of the same month this year. The man who says the 'volume of the ourrenoy is being contracted is either needlessly and inexousably ignorant of the situation or is a mischief-maker who ought to he exposed.