Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1891 — An Erronious Item Corrected. [ARTICLE]

An Erronious Item Corrected.

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 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]