Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1891 — Page 4

THE REPUBLICAN. , ' Thursday, July 16,189 L

CORPORATION OFFICERS : SfMjbal M 1,. Waerek. {lst Ward J. R. Vakatta, IM W*rd.....N H. Warkkb. Cou*cilmen< M W*ra J. H S Ellis. 1 4th Ward Paris Harrison. --*7—" 16th Ward..Axcil Woodworth. JASFXR COUNTY BOARD 07 EDUCATION 3. C,Gwio Trustee, Hanning Grove tp. Michael Robinson, Trustee Gtllamtp. Francis M. Hershnian, Trustee Walker tp. J.P. HUT, Tru5tee,.......... Barkley tp. . Greenfield, Trustee ... Marion tp. Jtane+tf .Carr, Trustee. Jordan tp. Nehemiah Hopkins Trustee.... Newton tp. J, 7. Bruner,Trustee Keener tp. Hans Paulson,Trustee Kankakee tp. 8. D.Clark, Trustee Wheatfle.d tp. Wn.O. Road iter, Trustee. Carpenter tp. HeMkiah Ke»ler, Trustee Mllroy tp. Was. Cooper, Trustee Union tp. W. H. Ooover .....Remington, Xzra L. Clark ..Rensselaer, J. r. Warren.,.. County Supt JUDICIAL Circnit Judge ..Edwin P. Hammond, Prosecuting Attorney.... .John T. Brown Tinas #/ Court—ftnt Monday in January'; (•**•»»» ** re *’’ Mrti Monday in Jun«; Tkiri Monday in Ottoimr. COUNTY 077ICKXB At®fcr :; . ;.: .Gioiaß M . roiS. S 2 I B. Washburn Recorder. ■ ■■■■■ . James F. Antrim. Surveyor James C. Tbrawls. Coroner . ............ B. P. Benjamin. Superintendent Publie Schools . J. K Warren CWmlasloners Jjd District ...J .F. Watson. _ <Bd District O.P.Tabor. CommUHonort ’Court—Fini Monday tin March ftmt,Stpitmhtrand Jftc&mhtr

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C The Pilot being unable to get out of the hole we put it in, in the alleged “pauper” -.pension -matter, resorts to the usual course with papers of a certain stripe, of vit-u----peration and personal abuse; but -• frawfrilly ' avoids "'teaching again upon the main point at issue: namely, its previous declaration, made in its first issue and repeated more emphatically in the second, that no man could get a pension under the disability pension bill, improperly called the dependent Lmi, without first declaring himself a pauper. Will it again assert, in so many words, that the 15 or 20 of our most respected citizens and honored ex-soldiers who have already obtained or made applications, for pensions under that law, have disgraced and perjured themselves by declaring themselves paupers?

So universally is bravery allied to modesty that their connection has long been proverbial. There may be some exceptions to this rule; but they are very, very few. When the true war history of the windy braggarts who seize every opportunity to trade upon the fact of their having been soldiers aiul to proclaim how brave they were, or how young they were, is traced out, in ninety-nine cases in a hundred it will be found that the soldierly qualities of the wind bags were held in very light esteem by their comrades who knew them best JjThe Pilot man tries to shift upon our shoulders some of the burden of he has

brought upon himself, by his course in the pension bill matter, by a string of senseless yawp, designed to impress some uninformed people with the idea that we have been ‘‘vilifying Union soldiers.” He is very careful, however, not to attempt to qupte any of our words wherein the‘vilifying process is discernible. The Pilot man and others of his ilk are entirely welcome id ijl they can make by attacking our attitude towards Union soldiers, although we would prefer that they would stick to the truth, and quote our language when they charge us with “vilifying.” If, however, like the editor of the Pilot, for the sake of hoped for political advantage, we had charged, in effect and knowing the facts, re-iterated the charge, that 15 or 20 of the most respected Union soldiers of Jasper county had “declared themselves paupers,” we should then feel ourselves amenable to the charge of “vilifying Union soldiers” and of vilifying them in a most wanton, shameless and unjustifiable manner. .. -5 —2—- -

Comparisons are odious and at home and “abroad” in this case must be particularly so to advocates of free trade. No American can read the following extracts without being forcibly struck with the advantageous workings of a protectiva-tariff; • Ottn Takif v abroad. | O i R Tariff At Home Chkmnite, Germany. Newbuko.N.V. June June 18. —One yearl‘2o.—Whatavastilifferngo every stocking ence there is in the apfactory in Chemnitz pearaneßof things^ at <lay air A night* Today iUiiVstato compared to the - cbndition of the what it was ayearago! Chemltz hosiery trade; Manufacturers of knit is demoralized. The goods are steadily em CnitedStatesisreally:ployed, and the only the only country the drawback to their busmanufacturers can iness at present is the look to for the ex- low prices for-whieli change of an old dol-lgoods must be sold. A lar. for a new one, but great many knitting even this they are tin Infills are running .able to. secure, jhencejnight and day and they have reduced thelmany more are runprlceofallcut and cir-|ning over time The eular hosiery to a new two story addi•starvation point in tion to Dunn, Smith & orderto compete with Co.’s knitting mill at American goods and Fort Plain N. Y., will continue their hold bereadyforoccupation upon the American by August 1 next. The market.—Trade Cor-: productive capacity the of these mills will DryGoodsr Chronicle, then be double what it is at present.—Trade Correspon deuce of Wade’s Fiber and Fajbric.

Not only has the whole/ tone of he new alleged People’s Party paper shown that it is really a democratic sheet in disguise, as witness the articles by James Welsh and L. E. Glazebrook, the railings at the pension laws, the hard hits at the Republican party, the very mild ones at the Democratic party, <fcc. <fce. but the editor himself makes no secret of having formerly been a Democrat. He even quotes from the New Castle Courier, in the printing department of which he was employed before coming to Rensselaer, an item noticing the receipt of his first number, ifi Which occurs this sentence: “We knew Mr. Butler as an earnest Democrat, and connot understand the cause of the change in his political belief.” To this the only answer the Pilot editor can give is the paltry, trifling and boyish plea, that he had also worked for a while in the office of the New Castle Democrat, and the contact there with the “high-o-muek-a-muck of the Democratic party of Henry county” had driven him out of the Democratic party!! The true meaning and of all this is, that the Pilot man left New Castle a few weeks ago, a strong Democrat and a few hours later turned up in Rensselaer as a (professedly) strong People’s Party man. His conversion is as sudden as that of §aul of Tarsus, but is it genuine? If his heart is really converted as he claims, his tongue and pen are rebellious members and still cleave to the old party, to very noticeable degree.

WHY I AM A PROTECTIONIST.

By Hon. B. F. Jones, of Pittsburg. Written for the American Economist. I am a protectionist because our country has prospered with protection and languished without it Because revenue can more easily, more surely and witlj less objection be raised by judicious protec-, tive tariff laws than otherwise. Because protection diversifies employment aild largely relieves wage earners from foreign competition, thereby ynabling them to be liberal, consumers as well as producers. ■ - v "

Because, as has been demonstrated, the effect of protection is the cheapening of products. Because defense against injurious importations is as necessary and justifiable as is in an army and Because the theory of free trade between nations is as fallacious, impracticable and utterly absurd as is that of free love between families.

That the editor of the esteemed Pilot has a realizing sense of the interesting character of his own personality he has furnished ample evidence. And therefore in view of this evident willingness to discuss himself, we are emboldened to ask him to graciously favor the people with a few particulars in regard to certain subjects he has already touched upon—the matters of his age and his army career, for instance. As a gay widower, it might have been thought that the

subject of his years on earth was oneiie wouldprefer to leave modestly in the background; but the freedom with which he alludes to the matter himself, is conclusive evidence of his willingness to discuss it at length. He states in his paper that he was a Union Soldier, and is a “past” Grand Army man; and it must not be assumed that he is merely one of those “Ninety day heroes” his admired co-worker the Nashville American speaks, of, for he has stated that he was “all through the war.” Inasmuch as he declares himself to be younger than another individual He mentions, and of whose age he

SpcaK cIS Ollt) pUSltlVc KLIUYYledge, and whom he therefore knows to have been considerably less than fifteen years old when the war closed, it follows that to have “been all through the war” he must have “shouldered the musket” anc begun his wild career of destruction among the enemies of our country at about the age of 10 years or less. Let him descend from the hights of vague and glittering generalities and tell us just how old he was when he became a soldier; how long he was in the service and in what, companies and what regiments. If he can establish the truth of all he has claimed in these matters, the question of who was the champion boy hero of the late war will be soon set at ; rest, and the decision be in favor of none other than the accomplished editor of the People's Pilot.

THEORY OVERWHELMED BY FACTS.

Attorneys for free trade persistently maintain that a tariff on imported products, whether it be high or low, is always added to the price at which all similar-products are sold, whether these be of foreign or domestic origin. This contention has become the fulcrum over which “reform” orators and writers see-saw in fulfillment of their task to depopularize the policy of Protection with American voters. The one and only “reform” President went to the, §£treme of side-tracking the required report to Congress on the condition and affairs of the country togive prominence and emphasis to this chers lied tenet in the creed of free trade orthodoxy, and emblazoning it upon his party’s escutcheon. But among American voters the majority is made up of men who do not make politics a profession, and these are disposed to place more reliance upon historical facts than upon fine-spun theories. They are the men who see more significance in a phenomenal national prosperity than in all the essays ever written by students without experience in practical affairs. And fortunately they are not slow in discovering the fact that there is no concurrence between the free trade contention that all tariffs are paid by the consumer and the antics of those foreigners who are trying to get their wares into our markets. When the last Congress advanced thfe tariff on wheat, .barley, potatoes, and other agricultural products, the squirming among farmers was confined to the north side of the Canadian line, and every man who was hunting for facts could see it.

When the decree went forth that certain lines of manufactures should hereafter pay a higher duty than formerly, it was from Sheffield and Birmingham and Cornwall and other foreign manufacturing centres that the earliest and loudest notes of protest were wafted. Whereupon common-sense voters very properly asked themselves why these outsiders were so solicitous over the question of increase in oar tariff if all difference was to be paid by the purchasers who decreed it. And the inevitable conclusion reached was that the sellers of foreign goods do not believe the theory preached by their attorneys, however sincere they may be in proclaiming it*.

Not only do such facts as these speak louder to the practical man than any mere dictum of theoretic philosophy, however vociferously reiterated;they also more truly betray the inspiration of that zeal with which the policy of free foreign trade is urged upon voters of this country. While the free trade attorney draws near to the ear of American consumers with his promise o? cheapness andincreaesd prosperity under the proposed new economic dispensation, it is evident that his heart is with foreign producers and those who seek gain from the expense involved in transfers and commissions. It will prove no easy task to induce practical men to contemplate these plain facts of the situation in other than their most significant aspect.

Our Brother McEwen is the true-and only prophet of Democracy in Jasper County, the original and undefiled fount of its insperation, and we are therefore t ruly glad that Bro. Butler, of the junior Democratic organ, recognizes this fact and humbly seeks f or “pointers” in the sanctum of the sage. How blessed it is for those who serve the same cause to work together in harmony! Par nobile fratruml

We plead guilty to having devoted an inordinate amount of attention to the new People’s Party paper this week, and promise not to trespass so much upon our readers’ indulgence in the same way again. We consider the new paper to be principally a democratic scheme with a Democrat for its editor, and a coterie of Demo crats as its counselors and backers, and have thought it worth w hile to present the facts of its true character before the people, that they might not be led into deception in that regard.

" Never did a red-hot Bourbon Democrat posing as a People’s party convert, give himself away more oompletoly, ihan dixl the_editorof pur esteemed Domo-Peopo contemporary, the PfZed, when he r epublished the item from the New Castle Courier and his reply thereto. Where was his mentor Jas. W elsh, when that terrible giveaway was perpetrated. Imagine that past-grand master of the political art of carrying water on both shoulders making such a break as that. Welsh must “watch the corners” closer hereafter, for a bred-in-the-bone Bourbon Democrat in the editorial chair of an alleged People’s Party organ, is about as dangerous an element as a bull in a china shop.

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