Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1891 — Page 4

THE EPUBLICAN. Thursday, October 15, 1891.

DIEECTOBT CORPORATION OFFICERS : Mu-sbn' ML. Wabrin. .....Charles G. Sfitlbr. Treasurer C.C. Stahr I {lst Ward... ...J. R. Vanatta, I 2d Ward N. H. Waknkk. War-f 1..... J. H S Ei.lis. I 4th Ward...... Paris Harrison. I ssh Ward.. Ancll Woodworth. JASPER COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATOR J. C. Gwin Trustee, Hanning Grove tp. Michael Robinson. TrusteeGillam tp. Francis M . Hershman , Trustee .... Walker ip J. F. Iliff, Trustee Barkley tp. - v n>. Greenfield . Trustee ;.Marlon tp. Janie- II Carr. Trustee.. Jordan tp. Neheiniab Hopkins Trustee .Newton tp. J. F . Bruner.3 rusteccKeener tp; Hans Paulson. Trustee Kankakee tp. S. D Clark, Trustee.. ./Wheatde.d tp. Win U. Road Her. Trusteetiarpentei tp. Hezekiah-Kesler, Trustee— ... ....Milroy tp, Wm. Cooper, Trustee,.;.. Union tp. W. H. Cooverßemington, Ezra L. Clark. Rensselaer, J. F. Warren...... County Supt. J U I* I C I AL ' “Circuit’-Judjrettt-z ~.-TTrEmrfk Fr HAUfifdS’n, Tww of Court—First Monday in January; TkirdMonday in March; First Monday in June; Third Monday in October. Clerk ,:.)msF.lrwin Sheriff ?, Phillip Blur. Auditor .—VTTTTtsFOROK M. ROBINSON Treasurer Make r. HbmpiiieL. Recorder .1 arks F. Antrim. Surveyor James C. Thrawlb. Coroner . ; .—ttttE. P Benjamin. Superintendent PublisSchools ..J.F Warren (Ist District, ..P. MvQverry. Oetnmissioners <2d District ...J F. Watson. <3d District ...O.P.Tabor. Commissioners 'Court—First Monday sin March Tune .September and JOecembor .

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During a certain period of the war a bushel of wheat was worth $2.90, but would buy only 5 yards of muslw iyiDt worth so much money butit wftl buy 10 yards of muslin; and in fact, fully twice as much, on the average,.of everything else a farmer has to buy as it would in war times. And still these aro the times of the terrible McKinley law.

The Democratic Sentinel claims to quote the words of a local dealer in saying that the reason why tin fruit cans are not higher this year than last year “may be attributed to the throat-cutting process, so easily resorted to by some dealera.

It is certainly an extraordinary circumstance if the habits in business of a few Rensselaer merchants has the effect to keep down the price of articles of tin manufacture, all over this broad country. Take the neighboring town of Delphi, for instance. There, several weeks ago, the Journal published the statements of about a dozen dealevery one of whom said that tin cans weie selling at the same price as last year, and no one has been found todeny the truthof their statements.

Deacon John Wanamaker is just about the best Post-master General this or any country ever had, but while he is doing so much to improve the mail service, and suggesting so much more in that line, which can’t be done without the approval of Congress, he ought to take time to bestow a little fatherly admonition to some of

his Smart Aleck.subordinates, especially in the Fifth Division, with headquarters at -Cincinnati. Some of these fellows take a good deal more pains to find out and report trifling errors on the part of post-masters and mail clerks than they do in delivering the mails safely and promptly. Nothing is more common, for instance, than for these fellows to return letters

and papers to their originating post-office for the most trifling errors in spelling, and when it was perfectly evident where they were intended for. As an illustration of what we mean, we instance, an important letter mailed a few days ago at Rensselaer. It was intended for Carmel, Indiana, but the nam eof th e tow 11 was spelled Carmell, the final letter being doubled.

Of course there was no question whatever as to where the letter wasmeant to go, but all the same it came back after a few days, stamped, “No such office in state named.” The only fault with the address was a redundant 1. Another case in our own experience, and we have had several very m uch like i t, was the return" for better address, of a paper sent to Elroy, 111. We made a little kick about the matter through our P. M.,and learned that the name was Eleroy, instead of Elroy; and if anyone would believe it, the hairsplitting officials who sent back the Carmel letter because or a redundant J, and the Eleroy paper because of a lacking e, actually addressed their official letter in regard to the Elroy matter, to “Renssellaer,” instead of Rensselaer, thus committing as great an error in spelling the name of the town addressed as were either of the others mentioned.' The post-office department ought to do”everything in reason to instruct the public into more careful habits in addressing mail matter, but it should also be careful to see that its well-meant instructions in this respect, are not carried to such ridiculous and injurious extremes as is often the case in the office and mail-routes of the Fifth Division.

WHY I AM A PROTECTIONIST.

BY JUDGE WILLIAM LAWRENCE, OF OHIO. I favor Protection because: It is essential to national power, wealth and independence; it makes a demand for skilled labor, including that for infirm men, for women, and children, who would otherwise be idle, secures fair wages and adds to general intelligence; it makes a home market, always reliable and the best for farm products, and for vegetables and fruits which cannot be exported, and for which there would otheiwise be no market; it improves the productive capacity, especially by stock raising and the value of lands; it saves to the world the useless expense and labor of shipping products from one country to another and turns these into productive sources of wealth; it se* cures national revenues paid largely by foreigners, and multiplies the sources which share the burdens of local taxation; its ultimate effect is to furnish more abundant and cheaper products by home competition, by preventing foreign monopoly and extortion, and by the invention of labor-saving machinery; it adds to the sources of individual wealth, educational comfort and happiness. Every period of adequate Protection has been prosperous; every period of ‘‘Tariff for revenue only,” unaided by abnormal conditions, has been attended with depression in business and consequent idleness and crime, verifying the truth that “he that provideth not for his, own household is worse than” a Protectionist—he is a free-trader or freeTRAITOR.

Tariff Pictures

Poor free trade prophets! The facts just won’t turn out to suit them. For whereas for the past i <> uionrbs of the fiscal year, July io <1 August, our imports deci eased from $138,759,744 in 1890 to $132,936,789 in 1891, our exports increased from $110,634,177 in 1890 to" $135, 417,805 in 189 L And yet the free traders are always telling us that “if we do not buy we dan not sell.”

THE CAMP BELL-M KINLEY DEBATE.

Governor Campbell was under four separate and—distinct- disadvantages in his debate with Major McKinley. He did not approve, and therefore could not defend, the silver plank of the Democratic platform. This left the Major in undisputed mastery of that branch of the discussion. He had the defensive position on the tariff question. He was exposed to the attacks of a master of the science of political economy. He was himself unversed not only in the great principles of that science, but also in those petty minutiea that sometimes can be deployed by a skillful dialectician to the annoyance of his opponent. Under these circumstances the resistancO of the Governor necessarilywas feeble. ButtheGovernor made it needlessly ridiculous. Au attempt at demonstration by double entry of bookkeeping that “the tariff is a tax” is the very quintessence of ridiculousness.

It hardly is to de supposed that the Governor essayed it of his own vbEtioa; itis charitable and; perhaps, ease to suppose that some ingenious young man devised the silly plan, and perfected it during the Governor’s illness. The speech, plainly, was not of the Governor’s own preparation; it had been made for him, and he had learned it imperfectly; besides which he was shrewd enough to discern its worthlessness. Rehearsing his piece, the Governor turned to his double entry diagram, and said, Here is the price in England, here j is freight and ipsurance, here is I tariff duty, and here is what must be the selling price in America. The price in England being 3, freight, insurance, etc , being 1, tariff duty being 2, the price in America must be 6. Such without any effort on our part to burlesque its inherent absurdity, was the Governor’s mode of argument. He overlooked what everybody else saw, that the interest of protection is either or both of two things; to supplant foreign manufactures by cheaper and better American goods, or so to stimulate American in anus actures a s to force foreign makers to pay the tariff as toll, and then to sell at the same price as the Americans who do not pay toll. A fine illustration of the latter result was instanced by Major McKinley in the article of wheat, which when brought from Canada pays a duty of 25 cents per bushel, but yet sells inCleveland at the same price as Ohio wheat, which pays no duty. In cases like to this the tariff justly makes the foreigner contribute to the revenues of the country whose privilege of market he seeks to enjoy.' An equally fine illustration of the first result was taken from wire nails; the duty on them is 2| cents per pound, the selling price is 2| cents at the American mills. By Governor Campbell’s double entry folly the argument would run thus: price of nails in England 2J cents,freight J cent, tariff duty 2| cents, therefore the selling price in America must be cents. It would be so had not the tariff so stimulated the production of nails in America as to m&ke their price justaslowas English-made nails can be imported for. But the best answer to Governor Campbell’s rash assertion that the McKinley bill had “placed increased duties on almost every thing,” and his fatuous attempt to prove by double entry that therefore all most everything must be dearethan formerly, came from the absolute personal knowledge of every man and woman who heard him that almost everything worn by them, used by them as furniture of their houses or as implements of their trade, was not dearer, but cheaper, than formerly. You can not prove by double entry that a man who has just eaten a full meal is hungry, or that he who has money in his pocket is penniless, or that he who is well clothed is ragged. Neither could Governor Campbell prove by double entry to the farmers, merchants, and artisans who heard him that they wer6 suffering from woes that made them feel joyous, or from poverty that enabled them to pay their debts and i to have a surplus to spend on pleasures. You can prove almost anything, with or without double entry, to a dissatisfied or wretched i man, but when good times cause the existence of soupd minds in sound bodies you can not prove anything to be which is not. Governor Campbell forgot this.—lnterOcean.

Houses to Rent.' For a term of years, m the town of Rensselaer, at a reasonable monthly rental, and at the expiration of the time, the tenants will be given warranty deeds for the property, without further payments. Inquire of Fletchek Monnett, ts Agent

MEL MAKEEVER ISSUES A CHALLENGE

As it is impossible to see all the parties concerned in the race which takes place place this afternoon between Messrs, Robinson and Oshkosh, I take this means of communicating to them my willingness to run either or both of the above parties. I will put $l5O in, making a purse of $450, and the winner take all. Or I will run Mr. Robinson for any reasonable sum 100 yards or Mr. Oshkosh 175 yards, on same terms as Mr. Robinson. Neither of the above men can say they are not in practice and I want them to run me or forever hold their peace. Now the friends of Mr. Robinson and Oshkosh, you have the opportunity of demonstrating what you have so long asserted, is my inability to defeatyour pet runners. I leave a forfeit of $25, with the editor of this paper to Ue delivered to Mr. Robinson or Mr. Oshkosh, providing I will not makegood this challenge. Race must be run before Saturday morning. ~~ " Yours in earnest, Mel M. MAKEEVER.

To the School Maam’s of Jasper Co We have purchased a few cases of Ladies Rubber Boots, the kind so many of you bought last fall, if in need of another pair call on us, we’ve got ’em. Hemphill & Honan. Sfili eortig WaTcli I<« pairing. At the Citizens State Bank. All work warranted. Hardman The Jeweler, THE SOW OF THE “No. 9.” My dress is of fine polished oak, As rieh-as the finest fur eloak, And for handsome design I You just should see mine—- . No. 9, No. 9.I’m beloved by the poor and the rich, For both I impartially stitch; In the mansion I'm fine— No. 9, No. 9. I never get surly nor tired, With zeal I always am- fired; To hard work I incline, FQr.Xest I ne’er Fine— No. 9, No. 9. I am easily purefiattd by all, With instalments that monthly do fall: And when I am thine, Then life is benign— No. 9, No. 9. To the Paris Exposition I went. Upon getting the Grand Prize intent; I left all behind, The Grand Prize was mine— No. 9, No. 9. I At the Universal Exposition of 1889, at Faris France, the best sewing machines of the world, including those of America, were in competition. They were passed upon by a jury composed of the best foreign mechanical experts, two of whom were the leading sewing machine manufacturers of France. This jury, after exhaustive examination and tests, adjudged that the Wheeler & Wilson machines were the best of all, and awarded that company the highest prize offered—the GRAND PRlZE—giving other companies only gold, silver and bronze medals. . The French government, as a further recogni tlon of superiority, decorated Mr. Nathaniel Wheeler, president of the company,. with the Cross of the Legion of Honor—the most prized honor of France. The No. 9, for family use, and the No, T 2, for manufacturing uses, are the best in the world to-day. And now, when you want a sewing machine, if you do not get the best it will be your own fault. Ask your sewing machine dealer for the No. 9 Wheeler & Wilson machine. If he doesn’t keep them, write to us for descriptive catalogue find ftrms, Agents wanted in all unoccupied ten! torr. WHEELER & WILSON MFG. CO. = - : T— —: —; .ChiCTgU, Hl, ““ C. B. Steward, Agent.

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TRADE PALACE! Rensselaer’s Greatest and Safest Trading Place. We offer none but Standard, Reliable Merchandise and at the Lowest Possible Prices. We shall offer for one week, ■■Bargains in mirn,«' Dress Flannels in all shades and plaids. Canton Flannels at 64, 74, 84, 94, 104, 11 and 124 cts; are worth two cents a yard more. Boys suits 5t013, e>i s old, at 95, worth §3. Men’s over coats wide ct-lbiis at $4 50 wr>rth $6. Women’s ard Misses’ Grain shoes, worked button holes at $!, worth twice that price. ■»» ■, Call and see for Yourselves. We shall place on sale in a few days 100 pieces Dress Goods in fall and winter novelties bought Girot from factory at prices that our competitors can not touch. Thanking you for past favors, Bet-pet. Yours, CHANGNON & SOUCIL (Successors to JOSEPH H. WILLEY & SON.) GEORGE SOUCIE, Manager.

Second Annual Public Sale! 40- Head of Standard Bred Trotters -40 . , L . __________ _ ; . —WILL BE SOLD AT—THE RENSSELAER STOCK FAR,|g RENSSELAER, INDIANA, - B@“Send For Catalogue. „ Young Stallions, Fillies and Brood Mares of the choicest breedin and rare individuality will positively be sold, without reserve," io th highest bidder, On Nine Month’s Time Without InterestThe horses offered will be the cream of the Farm, and being young and 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 INDIANA Sale to commence at 11 o’clock A. M. For Catalogues and information. Address, RENSSELAER STOCK FARM, L. H. Bean, Auctioneer. Rensselaer, Indiana

BoYfrM- Hen person aqo\ ■; /I w hMMMI V e have Sold this Shoe for 15 M ars, &nd have never had a word of Complaints What better recommendation do you want- L. HOPKINS.