Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1890 — Page 6

A CONSPIRACY.

SLANOTRS rPON THE AMERICAN mamjf*ctl’rkr of fakm irFLEMLMS >HuWa UP. By Quoting the detail Amer tad Wholesale Prices toJFpreigners tho Maker is Made to Appear as a Rascal. W.. .- • 1 ndl'nopoUs Jnurnst The reek lest nd unscrupulous hoe uidk.. organsand orato rs to American 'tow fact res ta il u» trailed in thee>hameles conepiricy to make the America! farmer believe that the American man ufacturer of agricultural implement sells them cheaper to the fo.eigi farmer tha nto h tn. This conspiracj was beg; n In 1886. and Demooratii consuls in Canada wore directed to in-vc'-t'gHte the charge and report Several of them reported implicating several American manufacturers it such a .practice. and their reports wen printed as official p pens. S neo'that time the njanu'a t.rers and others have proved that tho statements o' these federal officials, who should m intain rather than defame the reputation of American manufacturers, «vere utterly false.

The latest e ort to discredit the great agricultural implement industry of tin- co en try, which has done sc much io cheapen production and to ullevi te the hardship of the farmers' yotretipn. appears to have been a consplraey, in which the sensational and “WSBilyunscrupulous New York 'World took the loading par*, and cc:ta n pa pens which publ sh for ign trade editions seems to h .ve j layed subordinate roles. One of these publishers sent to. an extensive ni'itrufneturer and dealer, who was paying for an advortisement in his puper. for the smallest costs of p’ows. etc., together with the list of who e ale prices, to publish for the bcmetit of importing houses abroad. Tiiis the house. S. L. Allen & Co., did. Imagine the surprise of the firm when ft discovered these wholesale prices to dealers, domestic as well as foreign, paraded in the New York World at the retail prices in South America anj Canada, and the retail price, taken from the price current set againsl them as the price paid by the Ameri. can farmer. The firm final Uy wrote to the New York World calling atten tion to its mistake ( ? ) and requesting the publication of their refutation, ir which attention was called to the fact that *-instead of quoting the domestic wholesale price you quote the domestic retail prices and compare them, not with the foreign retail prices, but with foreign trade pricesthat it whole sale prices. In that letter Messrs. Alien & Co. complain to the World that it has done them an irreparable injury, and, among other denials, in. elude the following: “We deny in toto that our prices tc the domestic trade for the same quantity of goods are higher than to the -export trade. *-We deny that we sell a single machine at retail to a foreign purchaser as low as we sell at wholesale to the domestic buyer, or any lower than we do the domestic customer under similar circumstances. ‘ We pronounce as absolutely false the statements that the discounts which jc|u quote on our goods are quoted to the retail buyer abroad. They are the trade prices, and we never knowingly quote them to anybody not in the trade.” Did the World publish this states went of an injured party? Not a bit ■of it. Publication was not only refused. but the managers of the World had the audacity to threaten to sue Allen & Co. if they published it in any other paper. The letter has been published in several papers, but nothing has been heard of the suit. STILL ANOTHER CASE. For several weeks Democratic and free-trade papers have been publishing the wholesale price list of the Ann Arbor Agricultural Company, of Michigan. Tbe cut of tho implement is given with the wholesale price, and the. retail price of the article, taken from the price current is given as the price which the American retail buyer pays, while tha wholesale or trade -price is given as the price which the' foreign farmer pays. These pap.rs make this false assumption because this wholesale price list is published in the American Mail and Export Journal, which is sent to the trade it other countrips. The last of the pa pens to print this falsehood in pictoria form was the Sentinel. In spite o!. the fact that the nature and meanness of the misrepresentation was showiV' up so the United States Senate, Sena. . tor Voorhees makes this damaginslander upon American manufacturer of agricultural implements a prom nent feature in every one of his speec ee. He knows that it is false, becau the Ann Arbor house has denied it a: caused it to be explained time at time again. Aug. 22, 1890, the An Arbor company telegraphed Senato. Stockbridge as follows: ’ “Prices to w holesale dealers in thi country are the ’ same as to forelg ■ wholesale dealers, 'with boxing ar New York delivery added,” Ir. answer to inquiries of nearly a -the important manufacturers of agri cultural implements and ma.hinery ir the country, replies have, been mad* that goods are not sold lower too- so - eign than to home wholesale dealer? Tho following interesting letter i» froretbe well-known firm of Gaw Scott & Co., of Richmond, in V jjjito Ic-' ’ ■ ■—— ■ __4- xWJHMWNto * • Dear Sir—ln reply to y6ur fa ■of Aug. 20, we have to say that \ mske precisely the sd,n:e figures to tL foreign trade in our line of go >ds th we ijo ta lhe dompitlc trade. V hare never'quoted any different d «ouats'for cash to an inquirer f o

seaboard cities forexport than we do to o ber dealeia all over the country for the supply of the domestic trade. There As, therefore, absolutely no foundation.as far as wc are concerned, in the repre-entition made by some that manufacturer! made a different p be for the expert trade from that ■which is givenths dome-tic trade. “Uur Mr. Scott; whi'e in England a few years ago, found the. price-..0f a complete steam outfit, without sel'Stacker, at an Engli-h manufactory., to be £4UO, or about $2,00J, end tha price was actually paid by the owner of onw visited by him. The t.ama outfit could be sold in America for sl, 600. The capacity of the English outfit was found to be about three hundred bushels per day, on an average. The American outfit, sold at tho price above named, could thresh one thousand or twelve hundred bushels per day. and would easily average nine hundred bushels per day. This com-part-oa very clearly indicates that the American farmer buys his threshing machinery cheaper than the English, farmer, or the farmer on the continent iwho buys the English machine, while the American machine will average th ee times as much as tho English machine. Yours truly.

Gaae Scott & Co.” To a telegram from Senator Stockbridge, Studebaker Brothers of South /Bend, Ind., reply: i “We have never made a distinction in price in favor of a foreign market; all reports to the contrary are absolutely untrue.” To the Same Senator, the Oliver Chilled Plow Works reply by telegraph: ••We do not make lower prices to ,'orei/n than to American wholesale uealers. Are prepared to prove- that tul such reports are false.” The A. B. Cohn Company, manufacturers of agricultural implements in New York, say: “Domestic dealers at all times can obtain as good terms in the agricultural implement trade as can be obtained by buyers (or export. There is no such thing as retail trade in foreign countries which we know anything about.” The Chattanooga Plow Company: “Our foreign trade is with xUexico;. our prices to home trace is the same as to foreign, but the Mexican consumer pays twice as much lor plows as the American." The J. L. Chase Threshing-machine Company, Racine, Wis., wr.les: “Gur foreign trade is confined to Manitoba and the Argentine Republic, and from both these countries we obtain higher prices than we do Irom home customers.” The Waiter A. Wood? Mower and Reaping-machine Company writes; “tie receive from lu to 20 per cent, larger p.ices lor machines we send out of the country than we receive for tnoso we sell here, but our machines for the foreign market are somewhat heavier." Ex-Governor Oliver Ames, of the Ames Corporation, of Massachusetts, writes: “We have but one set of prices for the trade, domestic or foreign.” The McCormick Harvesting-machine Company writes: “As to selling our goods to the foreigntrade for less price than to the domestic, the reverse is true. We get the cash for export machines, and a very much better price than the same machines net us in the United States, where many are sold on long time!” Such are samples of the replies of the representatives of manufacturing companies to the questions which have been asked them relative to domestic and foreign prices. In this connection the following, from the Farm Implement News, of Chicago, on this subject is of interest: “It is surprising that a prominent American newspaper should betray such dense ignorance, for it is well known that American Implements are sold to foreign farmers atmuch higher prices than to American farmers. We have frequent’y called the attention of our readers to this fact, but ih order to show more clearly the difference we will quote the retail prices on the following machinery and Implements, giving highest figures for all sections east of tbe Missouri river: “Twine-binders, standard size, retail. United States, about $145; England. $225; France, $240; in Italy and other countries at still higher prices. "Mowers, standard size, retail. United States, about SSO; in England. 570 to $80; in France SBO to S9O. • Sulky hay-rakes, retail. United States, $lB to $25, according to size ’anti quality; same rakes in France, S4O o SSO; nearly as high in England. “Hay presses, steam power, retail, 'nited States. $450; in England, $750; France SBOO.,

“Hay presses, horse power, standard reversible style, retail, ' United >tates, $"285; in France, $500; in Ar;entine Republic, about $560. ••No. 40 Oliver plow, with wheel and jointer, retail, United States, sl4, n England, sl6 to $18; in other foreign countries still higher. Other plows and other makes of plows hfc sold abroad at proportionate advances jver home prices. . “Grain drills, nine-hoe. retail, United States, about S6O; in France ind Italy, $l4O. “In this way we might go through the 1 whole list of agricultural implements exported to foreign countries, in avery case the exported implement ■ rings higher prices abroad.” It is not ignorance, as the Implement News assumes, that leads the nake such false statements, but fna<gnant hostility to American in&nu:actures, and an unscrupulous purpose :» injure them by a system of lying hich, if they were, under oath, would lake them liable to the pains and penides attached to ths crime of perjury -

INDIANAPOLIS LETTER.

JXDIANAPOT.TS. Oct. 27—The work of education, so far as this campa gn is concerned, is about over except as to how to vote, and now the final work of each individual Republican doing his remains It is one of the singularities of American nature to %oast to. foreigners of the glorious privileges enjoyed in this country, and. that here the people are sovereign, choosing their officials for Themselves, and yet when election day comes "around to value tnese priviliges so lightly as to let a little rain or a little busjness keep them away from the polls. Charge a man with neglecting hie duty to his family’, his church, his neighbors, his country, and he will get angry and deny it with vehemence, yet every Republican who remains wilfully away from the polls this year will be neglecting all those duties. It !■ his duty tp his family, his church, bis neighbors and his country to do all in his poKerttPrescue the Slate from the inefficient and criminal mismanagement under wEI ch it has been laboring. It is always his duty to do what hecan to select the best pf officials in ev.ery official capa ity. Let him not remain away from the polls, then, on next Tuesday.

What can tho Republicans accomi plish oy going to the polls? Muchvery much!' The victory is in their hands if they will but do tbelrduty on that day. —’1 here is a revolt among the people against Democratic misrule, and with a full vote next Tuesday the victory can be won. The vote of every Republican is needed. • • • No Republican in Indiana need be ashamed to vote this year. In National matters he votes to sustain and endorse the purest, wisest and busiest administration the country has known tor a long time. He votes to endorse a Congress that has settled the Vexed and long agitation of the tariff and thereby given the country new prosperity; a Congress thaThas passed the" most liberal pension measures ever given by any government on the face of the globe; a Congress that has done more for the benefit of the people than any Congress since the beginning of the Government; more for labor, more for the agriculturists, more to revive our merchant marine, more to widen and extend our trade with foreign countries, mpre to build up our own home markets. He need not be ashamed to vote for tbe State ticket. It is made up of old soldiers, farmers and business men, all men of intelligence. purity of life and spotless integrity. He need not be ashamed of the State platform. There is not a plank in it that does not declare in favor of some wise and prudent measure. A vote for the Republican ticket this yearwill be a vote in favor of rig.d economy, an end to the increase of the State debt, a fair and honest listing of personal property for taxation, taxing corporations so as to require them to pay for the valued favors and privileges they seek. • • Why should any citizen complain of the burden of taxation, tbe annual,increase of the State debt, the freedom of corporations from paying for their franchises, and then remain away from the polls, or going to the polls vote anything but the Republican ticket? If he is a Republic an and remains away frojn the polls he has no right to complain. If he belongs to any other Darty. and if he really desires these reform he will vote the Republican ticket. The Democrats will.not bring them about, and no other ticket stands a ghost of a chance of ever having the opportunity to do so, but the Republican. Why then should a vote at this time be wasted on any other ticket? The State Government must be in the hands either of the Democrats or Republicans, and if any voter desires to see these reforms brought about, if he desires to see the benevolent institutions put under honest and non-partisan control, if he desires to see economyin the administration of affairs and a reduction of the burden of taxation, be must choose between the Republican and the Democratic ticket, for one of those two will be elected, history proves that no reforms have ever been accomplished when the Democrats have had power. What reason has anyone then to believe reforms*will ever be brought about by that party? If you want reform, the only thing left to do is to vote the Republican ticket. • • • The new system of voting is likely to result in the throwing out of a large number of ballots because of informality. No Republican ought to neglect thorough 1 y posting himself on how to prepare his ballot To vote a straight ticket he must be careful to stamp the square to the left of the words, “R?1 publican ticket ” and ho must be care- ; ful to see that the stamp is plain and distinct and on the square, not above ar below it or on either side. He should be careful to see that his ballot conta ns the initials of the poll clerks on the lower left hand corner of the' ! back of the ticket He Joust be care- | ful in folding his ballot to hand to the ; inspector, that it is so folded as to expose to view the initials of the clerks, and not expose any part of the face of the ticket. this yeas and the State will be rescued from Democratic misrule. Let him gc to the polls himself and see,that his neighbor goes. Let him stay there until his vote l» oast. Let us have a toll vote and an honest count.

Booms of the Repubbcax 1 State Committee > Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 27,1890. 1 ■s To the Republicans of lad ana - Victory is within our reach, but much work must be done to secure it Our advices from fill parts of theSUte are of such a character as to satify us that efficient work from this time on will give us the Si ate as well aS an in* creased representation in the Legislature and in Congress. Absent voters should be induced to return and vote. The voters should be instructed how to vote. A full vote should be secured. If these things are done, we are certain to carry the State. Let every Republican do his duty, and thus earn the right to rejoice over a glorious victory. L. T. Michener, Chairman. Frank M. Millikan, Secretary.

Krom a Speech In the Reichstag by Prince Bl» hih rck Mn y 11882. The success of the United States in materia! development is the most illustrious of moderiTtime. The American nation has not only successfully bo,ne and suppressed the most gigantic and expensive war of Ell history, but immediately afterward disbanded its army, found work for all its soldiers ' and marines, paid off most of its debt, given labor and homes to al 1 the unemployed of Europe as fast as they could arrive within the territory, and still by a system of taxation so indirect as not io be perceived , much less felt. Because it is my deliberate judgment that the prosperity of America is mainly due to its system of protective laws. I urge that Germany has now reached that point where it is necessary to imitate the the tariff system ol the United States. In no event can the growth of large fortunes be laid to the charge of the protective policy. Protection has proved a distributor of great suras of money; not an agency for amassing it in the hands of The records of our savings banks and building associations can be appealed to in support of this statement. The benefit of protection goes first and last to the men who earn their bread in the sweat of their faces. The auspicious and momentous result is that never before in the history of the wor d has comfort been enjoyed, education acquired and independence secured by so large a proportion of the total population as in the United States of America.— [Blaine’s reply to-Gladstone, January. 1890. e> ' “We must not destroy our protective system. It has accomplished wonders. It has pleasant surprises still in store fpr us. It has enabled us to perfect our grand system of finance, the marvel of the world, agid has caused our credit to shine with the sun of civilization. It has fostered our industries, built up our manufactories and opened our wilderness. It has elevated our manhood, dignified our labor and educated our people. It has madeour valleys to laugh in their gladness and. touching our barren mountain sides, has caused ‘the waters of commercial prosperity to flow o’er tbe land.' It has made the flag of our Nation typify all that is great of human action, all that is grand of human thought God only knows what it would not do for us if the Democratic party would only let it alone.—[Nathan Goff.

If you want to vote a straight ticket, stamp the square to the left of the name of the party for whose candidates you wish to vote; that is, you should stamp the square to the left of the woids “Republican Ticket.” Be careful about this, some think that they should stamp the square to the left of the name of the Secretary of State in order to vote the straight ticket; but a ticket stamped that way would be counted for the Secretary of State only. Don't forget that the way to vote a straight ticket? 4 is to stamp the square at the left of the words ••Republican Ticket.” Again—You can vote a mixed ticket in ei her of two ways: 1. You can do it by stamping the squai • to the left of the name of each candidate for whom you want to vote on whatever list of candidates it may be. 2. >r you can stamp the square to the Imt of the name of your party, and also to the left of the person on another ticket for whom you wish to vote. " The Farmland Enterprise of Oct. 17, published at Farmland, Randolph county, Indiana, contains the following advertisement. Mr. J. W. Erther ie a member of the Democratic county central committee: DO NOT Bfe GULLED ! • 'While other merchants may claim to have received letters from whole sale houses in the East that the Me Kinley bill has affected the prices ol many lines of dry goods and that they have advanced from 10 to4o per cent., I have received no such notices fron wholesale merchants with whom 1 deal, but to the contrary I have beer assured that I Can duplicate my stool of goods at former prices. “The McKinley bill will cut no figure in the price of goods with honest mer chants, and the undersigned will con tiuup to .foll goods as heretofore. a the smallest living margin. J. W. Erther Farmland.” We are glad to knbw that there it at least one Democratic merchant wh' is not afraid to t£ll the truth. In th langi age of Mr. Erther, we say to tl people, “Do not be gulled.”—lndi anapbils Journal.

NICODEMUS.

ATTENTION, REPUBLICANS.

BISMARCK’S TRIBUTE.

HOW TO VOTE.

A JUKE DEMOCRATS CAN’T SEE.

i What the “Deadly Parallel” Proves From Their Own Columns -tacts vs. fiction. Roj?h cb er Democrat (Rep.). We have glanced th rough the editorial and advertising columns of a few Democratic newspapers published in .other cities, and find curiously contradictory stories. Calamity in the shape of rising prices is heralded in ihe edilori'il columns, while the advertise, meats tell of good bargains and prises ■an lo<« nr tower 1 han those which have prevailed In Here are a few samples, all taken from Democratic papers: From the LculsviUe Conrler fournaL XDITORIit, ADVESTL'.EMKirr. If oomeof those obllg- tlur carpel department in< fore gnera would contain- a line of the co co in now and p y n west colorings and th >dv4pee on good nUn* in Moqueite, -tfectel by' thq ta Iff Wi ton Velvet*. B dy how very grateful'wesnd tapestry Bru-se « should all feel. Carpets .nd ingrains at the OI.D PR.CES. The rise la not natur- Notwithst nding the al. but artificial and recent heavy advames was caused by the bill on many lines • f merjust past-ed to ena uechan is• ca sed by tile tr» ts to collect h new tariff, we have uot I tribute from the Amer- -hanged our prices. {<ri<.au consumer, tides named are piusb - . jackets, -■ plush coats, e io th. Jackets, Paris wraps, coinfuria, dr.ss goods blankets ana por- . .. , tieres.l

From the Utica Observer, EPITfKIAL ADVEBTISEMENT. .What hard - worklne N tw:-hstaudii>g the cit z u < an help feelti g tariff qties io » which is lhe b.ti rest fn liana-now agi. tiug the peotion when fe reflects . leof til's country. Wr tbl- added burden -ontinue to sell our Uas been itnbißed Up<su gnods at old price s him by hepttbdcan leg Gloves, hosiery and uuis ati”H, ea- twi n>r tto- derwear.j —■ —— ben- tit of the ri hl But the d y of reckoning it rapidly drawing neai. From the Manchester (N. H.) Union. EDITOBIAL. ADVERTISEMENT. . There are > till three We are sei' at the weeks in which to stu4y did p ices. iTbis i» f om me effect of the Me- a full-p ge adv rtiseKinley tariff befor-the nene which wakes it, voters <>t New Hamp-assertion good by l iving shire wi l be called up- price-li is of nearly evil to pass their judg- e ry t h I n g iu lhe dry mt nt upon it at t' O goods il. e.J po Is. Witno ject lessons on every hand, in the shape of lucre sed prices upon nt a ly everything they have to buy, th y ought to have nodlftieulty in reaching a positive decision. From the Boston Globe. EDITORIAL. ADVERTISEMENT. A pronounced rise of We agree to sell any prices all along the line article in our stock discour, ges trade, and [clothing] at leas than the ten ency must be lastseasou'sprices.tariff toward less liberal pur- or no tariff. chases. From the Brooklyn Esgle. EDITORIAL. ADVERTISEMENT. When he peruses tbe The McKimlsy Bill advei tise me ms of dry Bugaboo a N ked less goods houses,announce fright Merchant Ing ma, prices have larmlsis are sett! n g been raised in conse- prucent, money-saving queues <>l the McKinley Housekeepers by the bill, and theu soo hes ears with their sen e e*s himself with the assur Hindu tom-toms, wbh such that ihe dry goods a vin w to hurriedly men are swapping lies, swap their goods f >r tue he becomes a fre/k. iipp.ehemdve housekeepers’ money. [Dry goods]

Here is a price-list published in the news columns of the New York World: Old New Price Price. Outside garment of wool for Women f 15 00 $ 19 30 Boy’s overcoat... Neu’s a .spenders ‘ls <0 Underwer # 00 7 00 c tton uress (material) ......... 100 Izu Waterproof • *0 8 Ou Woo eu dress at 20c per yard . 200 2 .M) Same *1 JI per yard - 10 0J 12 00 suit of clothes lor m»u Suit of clothes for man «... 10 00 12 00 Su t of domes for b y » 00 » W Suit of c othes for ooy 10 00 12 60 overcoat for man 15 00 19 s>.’ Totals - » »13' 00 Here is a price-list taken from the advertisement of a clothing house in same issue of the World: Old New Price. Price Heavy winter overcolts. Jfl 00 f 2 so Cheviot overcoats 10 00 8 9u Al. wool ch uchtl a overcoats IZ 00 600 Blaca and blue beaver overcoats 15 0J 9 85 Fine Melton and kersey overcoai s r..; 18 00 11 85 Fine kersey and chinchilla overcoats .■ ■ 28 00 II 85 Boys’ winter overcoats . ...™. 400 140 Boys’ b aver cape overcoats™ 650 225 Boys’ suits — —SriXJ —l-14-B..ys’ BU 4 00 1 40 Boys' suits.. - - 500 190 Boys’ suits ." 6 00 2 2-> boys’ suits - 7 0S 8 00 8,.y s ’suits 9 00 * ‘5 Men’s black ch'-viot suits 15 00 5 9" Men’s eleg mt dress suits 25 0U 12 50 Men’s elegant dress sui.s 80 00 14 15 Totals - 1203 50 two 55 The New York Post and the Philadelphia Times assert editorially that sverybody is oppressed by the “McKinley prices,” "but advertisers in both papers call attention to the great bargains they are offering in all lines of clothing, dress goods, carpets and housekeeping articles, taking special pains to declare that prices have not advanced, tfrhile in some cases they hare declined.

The Pearl Button Industry Revived.

The new tariff bill has resurrected the pearl button industry In the United States, and the entire supply of pearl buttons for this country Will hereafter come from hom e factories. The decline of this industry in America after the reduction of the tariff in 1883 was sudden and sweeping. Its revival under the new bill promises to be just as sudden, and in a very few months it is predicted that it will be on a firmer .basis than It ever was before. The factories that are now in operation can not begin to get as many workmen as they want, notwithstanding the fact that the firms have been advertising for men for weeks. Several manufacturers have already advanced the wages of their men. One of the first firms in Philadelphia to increase wages was that of Lazarus, Swartz & Lipper, proprietors of the Biddle Button Works. They made a new schedule of wages last Saturday, allowing an increase of from ifteen to twenty per cent., which went nto effect last Monday. Isaac A. nf this firm, inspcakir-g of the iast and future of the industry, said: “The new tariff bill has increased le duty on pearl buttons about 100 r cent., which is practically prohib- 1 <»ry. but places the manufacturers of is* counti y in a better position tha ey have ever been. We have bee obled by the increase of duty to

vace the wages of dur men from 111 to 20 per cent. This means that mem who have been earning from sl2 to sls per week will in the future ©arm' from sls to $25 per week. It means 1 even more than that, for all the pearl: buttons that are used in this country from now on will be trale here, anl: that means the starting of nek facto* ries and the giving of eoiploymant to 2,500 or 8,000 men.” Several thousand workmen were employed some years ago in twenty-ono, pearl button manufactories of Newark, with good wages and steady employment. Congress reduced the duty OB foreign buttons, and the result was that three-fourths of the factories were closed, while wages were redutfed’ in those that remained open. Application so: relief was made to the Milla] Committee in vain. Pearl button* made in Austrian prisons flooded that market. ’ , , - j Ths bill had scarcely been signets before tho Newark factories, that hadl been so long silent, began to st tri up again. Before Christmas a score of factories will be in full operation, with workers receiving the old time wages;, A like Improvement is expected Ao| take place in the Newark thread in-t dustry. The Clark Company alone employs 5,000 hands and pays $60,000 in wages weekly. The Protective' Tariff made a great industry of this in the United States, after it had been] brought from Scotland, and the naw Tariff will give it Protection, increasing the price to the consumer,’ who now gets thread at one-Xourth of the cost which was formerly demanded! for the imported article. - -

THE BINDING-TWINE; MATTER.

Ind'nnnpolis Journal. Democratic speakers like Senator*' Voorhees and 'Furpie, by their misrepresentations, insult the intelligence of the people. They assume that the people can not ascertain the facts, and, re-* lying upon that assumption, they in«d suit them by telling* tifem regarding simple matters. Theiij misrepresentations regarding the duty on binding twine is a 8 imple. They both declare that the present duty isi a burden, but they do not state tha fact that the duty unbinding twine has been put, in the present law, at thd very low rete of seven-tenth of 1 can! a pound. Now, all these Democratic Congressmen either voted for or advo-j rated the Mills tariff bill. What was, the duty imposed on binding twine ini that bill? Was it on the free list? Nothing of tho kind. The duty was 25 pcr cent, ad' valorem. Last yean binding twine sold by the car load front: 11 to 16 cents, according to the quality. It is fair to say that the price in Eng-, land could not have been less thaa| from Bto 13 cents per pound. A dutyj of 25 per cent, ad valorem would have been from 2 to cents per pound.] That is'whatthe Mills biil would have done—the bill for which Bynum and every Democratic member of thcl House voted in 1888. the bill Voorhees went up and down the coUn-, try advocating as a Democratic ure. And now they are condemning! the Republican party for burdening the farmers with a tax which is seventenths of 1 cent a pound on binding twine! When it was a Dexuocratia measure from 2 to 3| cents a pound, was a proper tax: but, in a Republican law, seven-tenths of - 1 cent is a burden and an outrage!

VOTE THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.

What is the principle for which the Democrats in Congress are contending? It is simply this —that in a governmentby parties, where the response bility for action and for inaction, too, rests upon the majority party, nothing shall be done unless the minority party consents to have it done; that the majority in Congress do that and only that which the minority is willing to have it do! Or, in other words, that the minority, being opposed to certain legislation, but being without the voting strength to defeat it, shall have the right to preventit by a blockade—that they may accomplish by neglecting their duty on this floor more than they could ac omplish by performing their duty! This is sheejv idiocy. The law of Belf"preservatiot| proclaims it to be the rankest folly ' Joseph E. Cannon. Vote it straight

What to Do Next.

German Telegraph. There are plenty of writers wbo are advising the farmers how to get out of trouble nowadays, but it very seldoiq fits any one particular case. We adn vise every man to look around him, take in sail, go slow, and when he hat stopped all the unnecessary expenses, then let him rearrange his business to suit his own particular condition ahd surroundings, enrich his land, take extra pains with everything on hit farm, raise the best of everything, seen a home market, sell and buy for cash, and he will get out of trouble before he knows it. As soon as he can go to bed at night with the knowledge that he don’t owe a dollar, and that no man owes him a cent, he will have happy dreatns.

As to Pensions.

New Yo-k Commercial Advertiser. The veterans need now to make up their minds to the fact that the great majority of the people of this country have reached (the conclusion that the government, with a pension list which twenty-five years aiter the war cost not less than $167,000,000 per annum has done its full duty, and ttfat it will give approval to no farther extension of a system’which is regarded with amazement by the statesmen of every foreign nation. Any agitation that ths Grand Army may be Induced by the tension sharks to set up with the.purpose of realizing the ends proposed by Governor Hovey will only have tha effect of bringing into unmerited dia, favor one of the noblest organizations f American citizens