Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1891 — It Costs You Nothing. [ARTICLE]

It Costs You Nothing.

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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.