Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1892 — Republican Town Ticket. [ARTICLE]

Republican Town Ticket.

* For Trustee, First, District, Moses B. Alter. - v . For Trustee, Second District, John C. Porter. For Trustee, Fourth District, John M. Wasson. For Town Treasurer, Charles C. Starr. For Town Clerk, <> Charles G. Spitler. For Town Marshal, _ Marshall L. Warren.

Taking a broad view of the. work of protection since 1816, it appears that the principal products the farmers sell have advanced iiyprice an average of 144 per cent, whijg' on the other hand, the principal articles they have to buy have fallen an average of 75 per bpnt Yet Demvvz&Lo eaeuk of trippieplated brass declare that the tariff a tax and a particularly heavy burden on the farmers. John T. Brbwn, the present incumbent of the office of Prosecuting Attorney for the thirtieth judicial circuit, will be a candidate for re-election, subject to the decision of the Republican convention. Mr. Brown has made a very | enviable record as a faithful and ( successful public prosecutor, so muck so, in fact, 'hat it is tl;e literal truth to say that his name has become a terror to evil-doers all over the circuit

The vote in the House on the Bland silver bill means that the Democrats are, afraid to do anything iu face of a Presidental eletion. They have decided to fallback on the time-honored custom 1 of doing nothing and having no platform. They can how promise the people this fall silver that the bill williW passed next winter and those who do not want it that the bill is dead. Then they can come back next winter .and pass the bill.A lai’ge edition of the speech of General Bankhead (ex-Confede-rate) in the' House in denunciation of Union pensions is being printed ■for circulation in the South. This is the sjpeech in which Bankhead threatened a disruption of the Union if the South is not relieved of the pension fax. According to Bankhead the North must pay the entire amount of the pensions itself or prepare to face another rebellion. The South will not submit much longer, he says, to paying a part of the pensions.

In the little work on “The Tariff Riddle,” just from the press, it is claimed that the ablest freetrade speech ever made in Congress was delivered by George McDuffie, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and leader of the Democratic side in 1832. That speech was indeed an able one, and covered every argument used by the free-traders of the present day. But while elegant and powerful in debate, McDuffie was still more distinguished for outspoken courage and candor. He did not evade and dodge like the modern freetraders, who steal and copy his arguments without permitting themselves to acquire any of his honesty of speech. Explaining his bill to reduce the tariff to the basis of revenue only, he said: “I admit that this bill, should it pass, will do very great damage to the manufacturing States.” Being a Southerner, that consideration did not weigh with McDuffie. Turning to the Northern members, he said: “I am not considering your interests but your rights.” General McDuffie frankly declared that he wanted a tariff for revenue only to cheapen wages. Privileged to get goods as low in price as he could, he claimed also the right to cheapen labor to the utmost. Advocating free trade in its entirety and with complete honesty, McDuffie deserves to rank as the greatest expounder of that doctrine in, this country. '