Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1891 — CURRENT COMMENT. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT COMMENT.

The New York Sun is greatly dis* gusted with the free trade and calamity seeches of Mills, of Texas> and Springer, of Illinois. It thus lashes Mr. Mills; . Mr. Mills is in the immovable gloom of a crank on calamity. In tte United States, to which every civilized nation is looking with hourly greater intentness as the most prosperous and blessed country on the globe. Mr. Mills hears only the sounds of wretchedness and complaint. and the “scourge that is driving contentment from so many homes.” This is a sort of mania that will not elect a Democratic President in 1892, if that is what Mr. Mills is Interested in. He. may invite the country to go crazy with him. but the country won't go. Mr. Mills and companions in pessimistic philosophy’ had better go back to Texas. In another issue it quotes the Springer nonsense about agricultural depression and imagines “some bard hended farmer” putting the following questions to the Illinois statesman and aspirant for Speaker: 1. Why has the depression in agricu 1 lure been so severe, and why does it promise to be lasting in Great Britain, a free trade country? 2. Is it tho Morrill tariff or the McKinley tarilT that, is the cause of the short crops in Europe this year? 3. Why do trusts and monopolies exist and flourish under the regime off rec trade, as in Great Britain? 4. Why have the greatest fortunes made in the United States been made . outside of the great protected industries? The fact is, sagacious Democrats see thatthisis not a good season for preachings calamity and denouncing protection as the sum of all villaiu- ' ks. ,