Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1891 — Page 4

THE EPUBLICAN. ■" ' ■' —■—-r ; Thursday,

DZZBECT’OZBTST -CORPORATION OFFICERS: Mmhal..: M. L. Warren Clsrk.... .Chaki-ks G. Sfitlkr Treasurer .. C.C. Starr , llitWirt..... J. K. Vanatta, ' 1 M Ward..... N;U. Warnkr. CMmcilmeu< B<i Warn J. H S Ei.i.ts. I 4th Ward Rams Harrison. I sth Ward.. Ancii. Woodworth. jasper county board of education ' J. c.Gwin Trustee, ;Hanging Grove tp. Michael Robinson. TrusteeGillam tp. Francis M. Hershman. Trustee Walker tp. J. F. Iliff. Trustee.. Barkley tp. **r«a. Green field . Trustee .... Marion tp. j ames 11, Carr, Trustee...-.... Jordan tp. Nehemiah Hopkins Trustee Newton tp. J. F. Bruner, 1 rustee Keener tp. Hans Pan Ison, Trustee Kankakee tp. 9. D <"!ark. Tru5tee.......... . ... Wheatfie.d tp. Wm O. Roadifer,Trustee..Carpenter tp. Hezekiah Wm. Cooper. Trustee,..Union tp. W. 11. Convex..... Remington, Ezra L. Clarkßensselaer, J . F. Warren. County Supt. JUDICIAL Circuit Judge Edwin P. Hammond, Prosecuting Attorney John T. Brown. Termg of Court—Firet Monday in January; Third Monday tn March; Fira Monday in June; Third Monday in October. - COUNTY OFFICERS Clerk JamesF.lrwin Sheriff . ..... ■ . . PnfKXir BlTb. Auditor ..... .Groror M. Robinson Treasurer.... .... . .Mark-h. HemphisL. Recorder........ . . . James F. Antrim. Surveyor .... James C. Tbrawls. Coroner ... R.T Benjamin. Superintendent Publie Schools . J. F Warren (Ist District.. T. M .Qi ekry. Commissioners <2d District ...J .F. Watson. <Bd DistrictO.P. Tabor. OotnmiMionere 'Court—Firet Monday ein March Tyne. September and December

Under the new tariff law iron goods of all kinds not requiring much labor sell/or two-thirds the price paid two years ago. Tinware is down 20 per cent. Fruit jars, glass, the first quality, have been selling at two-thirds the price of two years ago. Only the luxuries have increased in price by the new law, is the result of statistical information at the Treasury Department. It is found that there has « been a great deal of lying about the new tariff law. Prices as a whole are greatly reduced by its operation. It is a singular fact that wheat was never less than a dollar a bushel in New York city during the existence of the Republican party up to advent of the Cleveland administration, when the price declined below one dollar, and remained below all of Cleveland’s term and the first year of Harrison’s administration. During the second year of Harrison it rose again to a dollar, and bids fair to stay there, if it does not go higher. “Dollar wheat” is a good cry for the Republican party this year and next year. S. E .Mulholland returned yesterday from a trip to the seats of adjoining counties on business connected with the county treasurer’s office. He was collecting costs due to Cass county on cases brought to this Court on a change of venue from the adjoining counties and came back with a big wad. In White county he collected $1,317.05; in Jasper, $840.50 and in Carrol $1,030.50. —Logansport JourA “big wad” sure enough! And by that same token, would it not be well tor judges in the aforesaid much mulcted adjoininng counties, to make a note of the fact that Cass county justice is an expensive article, and learn to send their venue cases to counties where more -care is taken to prevent unnecessary expense? It is now estimated that the State •of Kansas will receive $100,000,000 for its farn products this year, a t statement that will be quite disagreeable to Senator Whiskers, Sockless Simpson, and Calamity Janes generally who rejoice in hard times for political eSect-Lafayette Courier. The little tracts of land opened for settlement in the Indian Territory, Tuesday, and so quickly gobbled up, was about the “last run of shad” so far as government land is concerned. It is all gone—and the prices of farms and farm products, so long kept down by the vast movement of population, and the opening up of new farming regions in the west, have now taken an upward turn, and a turn which is as surely destined to be permanent as the seasons are to follow one another. “The good time coming” is not only coming, but has already got here, for the farmers of thia country; audit will stay with them right along, unless forsooth they are beguiled into adopting ruinous democratic free trade or still more ruinous People’s Party fiat money and other financial folly.

It requires a most astonishing amount of gall on the part of the Democratic Sentinel to continue to quote the Indianapolis News as a Republican paper. It is nowhere recognized nor counted as Republican in politics. Not a single Republican paper and not a single Republican organization in the stste recognizes the News as a Republican sheet. The newspaper directories, like Kellogg’s and Ayer’s, list it as simply independent in politics; but in point of fact the paper is, in all essential respects, a Democratic organ, and our neighbor of the Democratic Sentinel well knows that it is so. » 11 ■ D_ '"X The Indianapolis Afews, which our neighbor of the Democratic Sentinel has the gall to quote as a Republican paper, in defense of the new tax law, itself claims to be independent, or to use its own w ords “Being the organ of neither individual, sect nor party.” All the same, we notice that it indorsed the whole democratic ticket, in the city election now pending in Indianapolis, before the Republicans had nominated a single candidate. It is a democratic paper, and the most dishonest and hypocritical sheet published in America in the bargain.

Major McKinley: Now, if protection is a burden upon the people, we should find some manifestation of it elsewhere. We have been living under it for thirty years. Where does the burden rest? The great mass of the people of our countiy were never so well off as they are to-day. They are better off than the rest of mankind. There never were so many men in thi s country who owned their own homes as there are to-day. There never were so many workmen who had accumulations in the saving banks of the country as there are to-day. There never were so many comforts, refinements, and educated homes as there are in this country to-day. No nation of the world can present such a picture of progress, prosperity and plenty. All that the Democratic press and orators can say in defense of the new tax law will not make the paying of three times the usual amount of state • taxes any more pleasant next year, to the farmers. Neither will it reconcile them to the idea of having to pay a much larger proportion of all kinds of taxes, state and local, hereafter, than they have been paying, as compared with what capitalists have paid. The assessment on and is nearly everywhere abou doubled, while money on hand, deposited or loaned, stocks, bonds, merchandise, &c.,are not assessed any higher at all , as they were already assessed at full cash value.

An Erronious Item Corrected.

An item in the Wheatfield correspondence in the Republican of the 11th may convey a wrong impression as to an assault said to have been committed by Elder Davis. He simply told the old lady she was mistaken and she with two others a complaint of provoke against him. Upon consultation with his friends they concluded the best way was to pay whatever fine the Justice might assess which was doue. There was no assault committed nor even charged and there should be no reflecti&n upon his character or standing in any way. Thirty or more ©f the Congregatibne for which he preaches have signed a paper expressing the fullest confidence in him as a man and a Christian. Justice [We are satisfiedtheabove statemen is true in every particular. Ed. Rbfublican.]

Major McKinley wh© will be elected governor of Ohio by a majority of 20,000 to 30,000 next November, states the general principles of the < f the tariff as affecting the farmer in a nui-fchel),in at a speech a faraaers’p icuic in Ohio last week, aa follows: Agriculture pays under our tariff system. Cardinal Manning said lastDecemder that revenue tariff destroyed agricultural interests in England. I am talking' to the farmers to-day. When your crops are garnered you want buyers for your surplus. What you need are Surchasers for your wheat Where o you find them but in the work-

shops and factories which . have been built up by the sysem of protection ? W hat builds the factory ? It is the taxation which supports the home against the foreign workers. And Ben Miso said, “Stay by the factory and it will stay by thee.” The farmer is getting a little more for his products to-day than he did two seasons ago, and he never bought his manufactured goods so cheap, for the last thirty years, as at —We hear much these days about mortgages. Don’t it ever occur to you that a mortgage is not always an evidence of property? It is when a m;ui gives it for his grocery bill; but when a farmer buys an adjoining frrm and pays half of the price and offers a mortgage for the balance that is an evidence of prosperity Suppose you break down the factory, what would become of the people? They would at once turn their attention to farming, for they must live, they would be your competitors instead of your buyers. They would produce their bread instead of purchasing it. [Applause.] The tariff system was established by Washington and the people who lived at that time. They said we are all farmers, and we want somebody to buy our products. The foieign workman buys $4.20 per year from you; the American buys S9O. Now which one will you support —the home workers or the foreign? [Applause.] Ben Franklin sa’d, “He who' by the plow would thrive, himself must either hold or drive.” [Laughter]

WHY I AMA PROTECTIONIST.

By James M. Swank.

Geneilal Manager of the American Iron and Steel Association. [Brzttm for American Economist.'] I am a Protectionist because I am an American. The free admission of foreign commodities, or their admission at Yates of duty which are levied for purely revenue purposes, may suit the economic conditions and meet the financial needs of other countries, but history teaches that the prosperity of our own country is best promoted by a Tariff which is levied for Protection as well as for revenue. Many of our great industries, including the silk industry, the tery industry, the carpet industry and the steel-rail industry, had only a nominal existence until adequately Protective duties were imposed on competing foreign products. All other considerations aside, older manufacturing countries could command lower wages for labor "than- this country, and Protective duties were therefore needed to equalize the labor cost of’ production. Our tin-plate industry is to-day an infant industry because we have not had a Protective duty on foreign tin plates. We shall always need Protective duties as long as our people insist upon a higher standard of wages and scale of living than prevail abroad. If they were notf willing to accept the same wages and the same social conditions which the people of other countries are compelled to accept, our Protectivepolicy conld be greatly modified,, if not wholly dispensed with. Whatever it may have been in the past, this policy is therefore today chiefly a question of wages.

UNCLE SAM AFTER THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR.

F or The Republican. (Continued from last week.) God bless our dear, good, innocent Uncle Sam. Only his enemies will counsel that he turn business man, by running a bank; engags in transportation by building and operating railways or ware-houses; Sam is not made that way. “Brother farmers”!. We are taking a look over the field of common Industries. We can see signs of great wealth: some men have obtained large fortunes, there are many millionaires and money kings; very many more than there used to be when we were boys. We know that in our humble calling, there are no millionaires, or if there are they did not become so from tilling the soil We may live many years, toil all our lives, and have the best of crops, and there is not a possibility that we can become millionaire . But suppose we don’t, are we not getting from this life as much of good, as much of content, and enjoyment that comes from the satisfaction of leading an honest, industrious life, as does the millionaire with the excitement and restless activity which his possessions entails? Let us remember that those gieat fortunes are often the result of unholy gains, gambling in stocks. As lessors, playing fast and loose with for the time being the property leased in order to buy cheap: obtaining a majority of stock in roads and practice the same plan to squeeze

out the minority of stock owners, and thereby procuring property for less than fair value. . All this is stealing, and the majority of great fortunes in railways were made in this way. And when the original stockholders have been plundered, then the stock is watered and the farmer is taxed in freights to pay dividends on it This is one thing that we look to law for relief, and we should put our vote where it will do the most good, as the rail--ruad thieves did with their money when they wanted legislation. We do not want their illgotten wealth; we do want? justice, and that quickly. We as farmers are willing to live, and let live; we are willing the merchant and trader shall have a fair profit on their capital invested, and to pay a fair interest for the use of money when we have to borrow; lo pay a reasonable fee to an att< rney or doctor when we employ them; we are glad to pay our fair share of tax to support Church, School and State; but we are not willing to be robbed by corporations for the benefit of a few men; and we respectfully maintain that it is the duty of the State to hold in reasonable check the corporate children she has turned loose among us. —The individual is amenable to the law, Corporations mustalsobe required to observe the laws of honesty and justice, and the State and “Uncle Sam” will for the present find their hands full to break in some of these corporation children so long running loose.

We want the watered stock evaporated, and all corporations held to the honest fulfillment of their obligations to the public, whether- they be public curriers., bankers, warehousemen or whatI'ever their business is, that they be I not allowed to practice extortion, j nor to have an undue influence . over the legislation ofthjs country, i ( . “Uncle Sam has a duty to per- | form in the industrial affairs of this country. I have said that he is a poor business man, and that is true from every stand point, but he is well qualified for the place and duty where we need him most; while he ’can’t make money, he would with the proper law behind him make a grand overseer. A watch hasDumerous wheels, each in its place has a work to perform, but over all, and without which it will not keep good time is a regulator; this regulator could not successfully fill the place of any one of the little wheels in the watch, but it, controling the whole, results in what is wanted —good time. So Uncle Sam should be the regulator over the incorporated industrial affairs of the nation. Someof the large industrial wheels, like the railway, is expected to go fast it needs water in the boiler for purposes of steam, but no water in the stock to float the freights to excessive rates. Uncle Sam has shirked his duty, and the farmers are getting re«dy to punch him up with a sharp stick. “Brother farmers!” Let .us take a lesson from the old soldiers, who settle in their cocunils what they want of Congress, and then make their demands, and Congress hears them. Congress has ears like a Jackass and can hear a long way, and when the farmers of this land formulate a proper demand, Congress will respond. The several states in there individual capacity have been more to blame than the general government for the overeaching conduct of railway corporations. The people being anxious for roads, the states to procure- them, have allowed corporations to make their own contract, and given everything they asked for, and hired them to take it. Nearly every charter of corporations comes from State instead of National authority, which has been occupied with Territorial and National subsidized lines of transportation, And much relief should be had from state legislation. Let us then hold fast to our demand for State and National control of transportation within reasonable bounds. And while Uncle Sam may not be a loaner of money, he can be safely trusted as a repository or custodian of the peoples funds, giving theiefor certificates of deposit for both silver and gold, and occasionally throwing in a green-back or two as a kind of spice for the circulation. Asking pardon of the editor of the Republican and its readers for the large room I have occupied in its columns. I am Respectfully Wm W. Gilman.

SENATOR PEFFER AND MONET.

Editor Republican Senator Peffer said, in his last speech here, what is needed is “mobe money.” He said there was but 500-million dollars in circulation in the United States. Afterward he said the following kinds and amounts of money were in circulation: Greenbacks...... .$348,000,000.00

Second Annual Public Sale! • - n. . , . ■ - — J . '*■— • - ' , - 40- Head ofJStandard Bred Trotters -40 WILL BE SOLD AT THE RENSSELAER STOCK FARM, RENSSELAER, INDIANA, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 22, 1891i kSTSend Fob Catalogue. Young Sta’ili*u s. Fiihes and- Brood Mares of the choicest broodin au I rßi f» ii divii.i niity willq i siti-vt-ly be soid, without reserve, to th highest bidder, -Gn Nine Month’s Time Without InterestThe hor-.'s (>ff< red will be the cream of the Farm, and being yoatfg ami undeveloped, buyers will get the benefit of the largely increased value that age and development will bring. THE BEST LOT EVER OFFERED FOR SALE IN INDIAN ASJe locomtuvrce ftt 11 o’clm-k A. M. Fo> Catalog ms andi i'o> nmtiou. Addn ssTRENS>rELAER STOCK FARM,"L. H. Bean, Auct onegr. - IVeisselaer, Indianai bBJe J'l ft, ~ W nd jJ 8 ’ M e have sold this Shoe for 15 y ears, &nd hMve at ever had a word of Complaints What belter recommendation do you Want-

National banknotes $242,000,000.00 Silver or Silver Certificates ..$400,000,000.00Total/....5988,000,000.00 The amount of gold in circulation is not mentioned iii the above. The amount of money in circulation, not government bonds but paper money,gold and silver was in 1860$ 435,000,000.00 1865.. .......... $ 723,000,000.00 1885 $1292 000,000.00 18911... $1329,000,000.00 The amount of money per capita or for each man, woman and child for »'ach of those years was in 1860.513.85 1865520.82 1885.. $23.02 1891.524.10 According to the above, this year we have more money per capita than at any time in the history of our government. It is all good. Worth one hundred cents on the dollar anywhere in the United States..

Ex-President Cleveland, in his letter opposing the free coinage of silver, said therg was, S2B million dollars of silver being added to that already coined, each year. I would rather trust Johu Sherman to do my financiering than Senator Peffer. The Republican party has given the people the best money they ever had. Seventy-five per cent, or more of the business is done by checks and drafts and not a dollar of money changing bands. One man has, say one hundred dollars in the bank. He writes his check for that amount and it passes troin one to another and pays hundreds of dollars of debts before it finally goes to the bank for redemption. The scheme of the Pefferites will not win among intelligent peo-

ple.

Only An Act Of Justice.

Editob Republican: The individual. a resident of Wheatfield township, who is trying to. injure the record of the Board of Review by saying it had discriminated in favor of Nelson Morris, the Chicago millionaire, should remember that some of the lands were apraised at more than twice what Mr. Morris paid for them. The Board of Review did only au act of justice when it split a part of those appraisements in the middle.

Henry Platt, an old and universally respected citizen of Rensselaer, died suddenly about three o ’ dock, last Thursday morning, at his residence, on Division street. He had gone to bed in apparent usual health, the evening before, although complaining of being tired. About 2 o’clock he was awakened by a sharp pain over the heart, and prose and walked about a while for relief. Returning to bed, about 2:30 and shortly thereafter cried out loudly, with pain. This was twice repeated, at intervals of 5 or 10 minutes, and after the third time his wife arose and lighted a lamp, and upon turning to the bed she found him dead. She immediately called several of the nearest neighbors, one of whom summoned Dr. V. E, Loughndge, and he pronounced the disease neuralgia of the heart.

Henry Platt was born in Meeklen-burg-Schewerin, Germany, Nov. 2, 1825, and his age at ,leatb wa3 $5 years, 9 months and 15 days. In company witn his younger brother, Charles, now also a resident of Rensselaer, he entered the German army in 1848 and took part in the war between Denmark and Holstein, in that year. In' June 1851 the brothers landed in New York. Henry soon went to Michigan where he married his first wife; who, with Tier infant son, met a tragic death in the burning of their house. In 1863 he married the lady who is now his widow. They had 7 children, but three only survive him.

A VOICE.

He was raued in the Lutheran church, but has been a member of the Rensselaer M. E. church, for several years, and was janitor of the same, when he died. He was a thoroughly honest and inoffensive man, in every respect, and probably bad not an enemy on earth. The iuneral was held Friday afternoon, at the M. E. Cburrb, i Rev. T. F. Drake conducting the religious services. The following old residents weie the stall-bearers: Simon Fbillips, A. Leopold, Michael Eger, Henry Harris. Peter M nnicus, H. M. Babb. Interment was made in Weston cemetery.

FAIR PLAY.

Sudden Death of Henry Platt.