Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1891 — It Costs You Nothing. [ARTICLE]

It Costs You Nothing.

It is with pleasure we announce that we have made arrangements with that popular, illustrated magazine, the American Farmer,publlshed at Cleveland, Ohio, and read by farmers in all parts of this country and (panada, by which that excellent publication will be mailed direct, free, to the address of any of our subscribers who will • pay up all arrearages on subscriptions and one year in advance, from date, and to any new subscribers who will pay one year in advance, or to any subscribers in arrears who will pay us not less, than $3.00 on his back subscription. This is a grand opportunity to obtain a firstclass farm journal free. The American Farmer is a large 16-page illustrated journal, of national circulation, which ranks among the leading agricultural papers. Its highest purpose is the elevation and ennobling of Agriculture si through the higher and broader education of men and women engaged in pursuits. The regular subscription price of the American Farmer is SI.OO per year. IT COSTS YOU NOTHING. From auj one number, ideas can be obtained that will be worth thrice the subscription price to you or members of your household, yet you get it free. Call and see sample copy.

The daily Inter Ocean, the only square-toed and thoroughly reliable, or even half-way reliable, Republican morning paper published in Chicago, has reduced its price to two cents a copy, or s6per year by the year. The Inter Ocean is one of the very best papers published in this country, in every respect. Enterprising snd thorough but clean and pure as a newspaper, bold, uncompromising and always reliable, but honorable and truthful as a political organ, an ideal Republican paper, in fact, and the one Jasper County Republicans ought to patronize, when they want a Chicago paper.

The following is an extract from an address by Hon. John B. Stoll of South Bend, before the St Joseph county Farmers’ Institute. It is iound wisdom, well expressed. If you would have relief from unjust and unequal laws, elect to legislative positions men of diss cerning'., judgment of unflinching courage, and of ripe experience in the affairs of the world —men whose lives bear eloquent testimony to their fitness and honesty of purpose. Disdaining to pose as a political quack, I do oot presume to have discovered a panacea for all the ills of mankind, but am fully convinced that a graduated income and inheritance tax j >**■ would subserve a good purpose in more ways than one; that U. S. senators should be elected by a direct vote of the people; that corporations should bear a just proportion of the public burden, and that, in short, the legislative power < should always be in touch with enlightened public sentiment eager i—i,) —:—„

to promote the welfare of the great bulk of the population. Yes, my friends, it {is judgment, knowledge, perseverance, industry, pluck, frugality and sobriety that ■ wins the battle of life. Don’t allow cheap demagogues to mislead and deceive you by their hollow professions, their captivating decla m ations, their seductive promises. Legislation that is to give everybody plenty of money is a snare and a delusion. Such experiments have been tried over and over; they are new only to those who never study, and therefore never profit by history. Suoh schemes never worked and never will work. They are periodically revamped by designing politicians, trusting in a gullibility of the American people and depending on the absence of genuine, practical issues to exhibit and thrust upon an indulgent public their worthless stock in trade. Shun them as you would shun S atan. Don’t mistake demagoguery for statesmanship, and don’t allow common brass to pass for precious gold.

The Democratic tax law is pure and intentional cussedness, the same as the gerrymander bills are and no stock need be taken in the plea that its objectionable provisions are owing to "mistakes.” The law is just what the Democratic bosses wanted it to be. Had it been otherwise Green Smith would have changed it after the Legislature adjourned, just as he did the legislative apportionment bill. They wanted the law to bear down heavy on the land owners, in pursurance of the plainly expressed single-tax doctrine of the Indianapolis Sentinel,during the last campaign, and only less plainly expressed in the last Democratic state platform. JEven those,, features of the law which more than double the state tax for school puposes, by more than doubling the assessment and leaving the levy unreduced, was, no doubt deliberately planned. It will result in a revenue next year twice as large as needed; and the surplus will be a nice thing for the Democratic state treasurer to loan out, and raise a big campaign fond with, —and perchance fill his own and some other interested parties pockets at the same time. There is method in all this Democratic tax-law madness, and don’t you forget it.

The following is from the Mulberry, (Clinton county ) Reporter, of August 28th. Last week we reproduced an article from the Sentinel stating that one George Butler had been playing a very deceptive game with the Farmers’ Alliance people at Rensselaer. We had an idea at the time that this was the Geo. Butler that worked in this office last summer. A caid from a Rensselaer man verifies our -prediction. It will be remembered that Butler left the first of August a year ago, and went to Clark’s Hill, taking the old News outfit with him, having bought it of Mr. Hunt on “long time and easy payments.” At Clark’s Hill he collected some S3O on advance subscriptions, but before the first edition of the“C7ipper” was ready for the mail Butler went to Frankfort to get some ink, and failed to return, leaving his landlady in the lurch for two week’s board, and the subscribers who had with lamb-like confidence paid a year in advance, had the privilege of taking some other paper, by paying for it. Butler was a kind-hearted man, a good mechanic and a'clever writer, but a passion for “red eye” predominated over his better qualities to such an extent as to render him unworthy of the confidence of his fe low men. • When it is remembered that Clark’s Hill,the geene of this former Butlerian episode, is in the neighboring county of Tippecanoe and not not more than 60 miles from Rensselaer by rail,it will be understood how utterly lacking in ordinary business prudence were the men who were chiefly instrumental in biinging him here in not inquiring a little into his past record before so doing. It step illustrates the rank and slanderous dishonesty and untruthfulness of those of their number who are try-

ing to Bhift upon others the blame that belongs only to themselves, by pretending to believe that Butler was hired to leave here by Republicans.'

Senator Oilman’s article this week is a lucid and concisuive exposition of the duty of the government to supervise .regulate and control the ware-housing and inspection of grain, and to mash the trusts and combines that operate therein; and it is also an unanswerable refutation of the subtreasury and farm-product loas schemes of the Peoples’ Party. We commend Mr. Gilman’s courteous, but conclusive arguments to the careful attention of all who are honestly seeking light on these interesting problems.

The story is told, and vouched | for as true, of an honest old Democratic farmer who went into a a store in one of'the towns of this state, a month or two ago, and inquired of the store-keeper, also a Democrat, the price ot good binding twine. ‘‘Ten cents a pound, for a right i good article,” answered the mer- ' chant. ‘‘Why, how is that”, says the farmer, “didn’t you fellowsall telL j us last fall that the McKinley Bill would make twine cost 20 or 25 “Oh, yes, we did, but then you know, the campaign was on then, j and something had to be done to i save the party. Anyhow I can sell you all the best twine you want at | 10 cents a pound.”^r—- ; The oldfarmer gave a reflective upward cast to his eyes, and after studying a moment broke out: “Well with twine 10 cents a pound, the best sugar 20 pounds for a dollar, three big tin cups for 10 cents and every thing else you have to buy in proportion; and wheat a dollar a bushel, corn 60 cents, hay nine dollars a ton, live cattle five dollars a hundred and hogs the same, and everything else a farmer has to sell bringing big prices, why if Cleveland was only president, wouldn’t we think this was a h—l of a good time, though.”