Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1892 — Page 4
THE REPUBLICAN. Thursday; July 14, 1892. ” '————————~ ■* ...... IMUBDIRVRHV THURSDAY RY/ >EO. ZE. MARSHALL, ’•CHLINHsiI AND FBOFHIETOB. OFutcrj—RepaMican building, on to-oer of WaaKiacton and Wettonstroeta. Terms of Subscription. neyw L. UW Six aonthv Taree months... M The Official Paper of Jasper Ceunty.
DIZEeEC’TOK’Sr ■i—. . ...... - corporation omens Mtnhnl M. L. Warren? Cl*rk Charles G. Spitlru. Treasurer C.C. Starr rlttWard M. B. Alter I M Ward J. C. Fobter. L lithWard ....J. M.WaiSok. I sth Ward.. Ancil Woodworth. JARPKR COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. j. C, Gwin Trustee, Hanging Grove tp. Michael Robinson, Trustee.....Gillam tp. Francis M. Hershman, Trustee..... Walker tp. J. F. Iliff, Trustee Barkley tp. Wm. Greenfield, Trustee Marlon tp. Xante* H .Carr, Trustee Jordan tp. Nehemiah Hopkins Trustee Newton tp. J. F. Bruner,TrusteeKeener tp. Hans Paulson .Trustee Kankakee tp. 8. D.Clark,TrusteeWheatfle.d tp. Wm. O. Road iter.Trustee. Carpentertp. Zibe MeCashen, Trustee ... Milroy tp. W. H. Coover Remington. Bera L. Clark. ..Rensselaer. J. F. Warren County Supt JUDICIAL Circuit Judge Edwin P. Hammond. Presenting Attorney John T«Bbow». Terms of Court—First Monday in January; Third Monday In March; First" Monday -~m June; Third Monday in October. COUNTY OFFICERS Clerk Willi am 11, Coovu* Auditor .7 .....Henry B. Murray" Treasurer Mark h. HbmphiLlRecorder James F. Antrim Surveyor James C. Thrawls. •Coroner R. P. Benjamin. Superintendent Public Schools .. J. F Warren <lstDistrict.. P. M.Overby. Osmmiuioners <id District rtd District O.P.Tabob. -CuwsisstowArs’Catrf—First JftwsAtffs <a AWO* Juns, SspUmAsrana Z>sc«»no*r
Principal Points of the Platform.
We believe in the American doctrine of ■protection. We believe that articles, except luxuries, which can not be produced in the United States should be admitted free of duty. We demand that on all imports competing with the products of American labor duties should be levied equal to the difference between wages at home and abroad. We ask the people to pronounce a verdict upon the cowardly course of the Democrats in attacking the tariff piecemeal. We believe in rtriproclty, which has opened new markets for the products of the workshop and the farm. We believe in the use of both gold and silver money. We demand that every dollar, whether of gold, silver or paper, shall be equal to every other dollar. We believe in an international conference to secure a party of gold and silver throughout the world. - We demand that every citizen,' rich or poor, native or foreign born, white dr black, shall be permitted to cast one ballot and have it counted as he cast it- a We propose to keep on fighting till we have honest elections in every State. We favor the revival of our foreign commerce in American ships. We demand a navy to protect our interests and maintain the honor of our flag. We demand that arbitrary combinations o capital to control trade conditions - shall be rigidly regulated. We believe in wise and consistent ch 11 service reform. We believe in admitting all the rerrltories into the Union as soon as they are qualified for entrance. We reaffirm the Monroe doctrine. We demand the restriettod of criminal pan per, and contract imm igrat ion. We demand that the employees of railroads, mines and factories shall be protected against allneedless dangers. We sympathize with the oppressed in every land. We demand freedom of speech and of the press. We believe in ~>opular education. We favor the construction and control of the Nicaragua canal by Americans. We bebeve in self government for territories. .2 , _L : We believe that the Columbian Exposition Should be made a success worthy of the dignity and progress of the nation, and that the government should aidinhhis if-neccssary. We sympathize with all legitimate efforts to promote temperance and morality. We pledge to the loyal veterans of the war for the Union the recognition that is theirs by right. We are proud of President Harrison's mag nificent administration. *> And we propose to give the country another administration just as good-for the next four years.
Fulton County will present the name of Valentine Zimmerman before the Democratic congressional covention. Pulaski county will name Judge George Burson and Cass will fight for the nomination of Judge John C. Nelson. Senator Hill has lost none of his political shrewdness, as his remarks about the tariff plank of the Democratic platform shows. He said: “The Tariff plank of the platform adopted at Chicago has made every worshop and factory in the United States a Republican campaign head-quarters.”
Canada is solid for the Democratic ticket Of course ,it is; the pinching of her toes which the protection given by the McKinley tariff law to American agricultural products is responsible for, is far from pleasant to Canada, which wants what the Democratic ticket and platform stands for—free trade. r ~~r-
“General the Prohibition candidate for president, destroyed $250,000 worth of vineyards,” we are told, but what did Cranfil of Texas destroy? Did he cut down his apple orchard because the fruit could be made into cider, deaden his peach trees because they would make brandy, burn his corn shocks because corn makes whiskey, or plow up his barley because it could be made into malt? So only the front end of the ticket is notably good? Let us hear of something the Texan has done.
To vote a straight Republican ticket staanip within the closing the eagle at the top*of the ballot, and nowhere else. If any other square is stamped in addition to the large square the ballot will be thrown out After stamping fold the ballot so as to* leave the initials of the poll clerk, on theoutside and hand to the electieo officers.
The followingquatrain is going the rounds of the democratic press. Poor souls,talent is so scarce among them that they call it a campaign song; they fairly howled themselves sick over it at the Chicago convention where it wae sung, by its great and gifted author Samuel Josephs, whoever he may be. Here it is:
Gro—ver, Gro— ver Four years more of In we go—out they go Then we’ll be in clo—ver. i.. This is the entire song including the chorus. Not much you’D say to make people wild with enthusiasm; but land !—when they found that nne of their number could write anything at- all that would do to sing their delight was boundless. The other side can sing back at them something probably like this: Gro—ver. Gro—vtr No more years of Gro—ver In we stay,—you can’t play Your game of “pigs in clo—ver.”
The free traders, anarchists and demagogues have long “had it in” for Andrew Carnegie, the principal owner of the Homestead iron works of Pittsburg, because through his gehius and application he has built up several great manufacturing establishments and thereby amassed a rather large fortune. To become possessed of a fortune through manufacturing enterprise and to be a Republican at the same time, is a mortal sin and as Senator Voorhees expresses it, if he could have his w£y he would hang them. If Carnegie had made his money like the Rockefellers and Whitney by building up a great monopoly, and freezing out all cnmphtition J or like Gould and Brice by wrecking railroad companies, and with it all been a democrat, as they are, he would have been a great and a good man.
False and misleading words and phrases may deceive the people at first, but the fraud cannot last long. The people have been thinking the matter over, and know that a “tariff for revenue only” means practically the same thing as free trade. A duty on coffee, for instance, would not protect American labor or. industry since we cannot grow that product. In all such cases the duties imposed is one for revenue only, and not in any sense for projection. Even where duties are levied on imports that ccme in competition with
home products, the tariff, if so. lbw that it does not check or abate importation, will be one for revenue alone, and not for protection. A revenue tariff is one adjusted so as to avoid any protection or discrimination in favor of home industry or labor. That acute old Democratic free trader, John C. Calhoun, aptly summoned up the whole question in this way: “No two things, Senators, are more different than duties for revenue and protection*. They are as opposite as light and darknessi The one is friendly and the other hostile to the importation of the article on which they may be imposedL”' '■ - - - ~" r Protection handicaps the foreign manufocturer, so he must compete with the home-producer on terms of equality. The revenue-only doctrine puts on only such light duties a» make it certain that the foreigner must win and hold the market.
In spite of the tremendous lying of the free traders and communists, the strike and> bloody battle at the Homestead- iron works, is nob a question of politics atTall nor even of wagest It is simply a question as to whether the mill should be controlled: by the owners orrby the labor unions The so-called cwt on wages which was the immediate pretexts for the strike affects only 325 out of the 3800 men employed irr the works, and reduces their earnings only 12 per cent on the averages What is mere,, the. 325 men, even at the reduced wages offered by comnanywould still ointlie average, earn at least double the daily - wages-, in days of eight hours length, thafcttie best mechanma in Rensselaer make in days of labours length. These workmen are paid by the ton.' for the iron and with thenew and improved machinery lately added to the works, it is a common figure for the men> toearn from $6 to $8 and evemsLoi per day.
Dr. Paitott Declines.
Rochester RepvblicaiL. Congressman D. H. Patton, in a letter to Mn H. A. Barnhart,, the committeeman for this congressional district, decanes to accept the nomination for congressiDnal honors, and says: I am well satisfied that there are others in this Congressional District who are much better quedifiedto represent our deserving people in Congress than. I, and L trust and believe that such a man will be selected; This ie the best evidence that the doctor knows more than the people gave him credit for—he knows when he has enoughs And then, too, he knows that he does not possess the requisite ability for the position he occupies, and therefore he says “there are others in the Congressional District who are much better qualified to represent our deserving people.” HjsJetter is full of l’s but the Ps have it, and he will not consent to playing the part of a back number in the Nationrl legislature for a second term, and he realizes furthermore that this year the Democrats are not in it. The Sentinel also informs its readers that tbe Hon. Valentine Zimmerman, who was slaughtered in the house of his friends when the election of a Democrat in this congressional district was possible, “will make an active canvass for the nomination.”
Our Candidate for Congress.
The Republicans of this end of the district who have never met Judge Win. Johnson will be most favorably impressed when .they do meet him. He looks much like a congressman and he will make a good congressman. z He was reared on a farm and there learned what work meant. He fought his way thro’ school, .for he was not the pampered son of an indulgent father. He fought his way to the front in the law and the distinguished place he holds in the legal profession and as a jurist he owes no man but himself. He is a self-made man, and such men have been the ablest And best Readers of the party.—Delphi Journal. . ti
Slanderers of Their Country.
“It isafoule bird,” saysan ancient proverb, “that fyleth his ®wn nest.” By the same token it is a poor patriot that abuses his own ffountry, government and; people. There have been some severe criticisms of .American society and some savage attacks upon our form of government Charles Dickens, when- he was quite a> young nan, made seme caustic strictures on American society, morals and msn- ■ nets, which it tooK our people *a ilong time to forget Macaulay <made many enemies among Ame.i icans by predicting the downfall! of our government Otfaerforeigners moie or less distinguished have incurred tile hostility of patriotic Americans By their severe-and unjust attacks on our morals, our methods andfour form of government But among all these attacks there teas never been anything half as abusive, half as vituperative, liaif as malignant or half as untruthlftil as the preamble to the platforrm adopted by the socalled People’s .party in their r convention at Omaha. These men, calling themselnes Americans;, enjoying theblessingsof the freestand best government on earth, celebrate ed the anniversary of the Nation’s birthday, by issuing: the most rile, the most vicious* and the most untruthful attack non. free inststu-
tions and popular/government that has ever appeared’in any quarter. 1 Let us examine a. little closely this i libelous diatribe.. ; Appealing to Almighty God %>r the truth of their assertions these calumniators of their country dte- ; dared the-Nation ie*“on the verge of moral, and material i ruin,” that “corruption dominate the ballot-box, the legislatures, : Congress, and touches even the i ermine of the benohj.” that “the ■ people are -demoralized C that inItimidation and bribery in elections ■ are universal; thaL tihe press is “largely subsidized or muzzled;” that “public opinion, is silenced and business prostrated;” that “labor is that workmen in the cities “aae- denied theright of organization for, self-pro-tection;” that “a hireling standing army is established to* shoot them down;” that the population of the country is mainly divided between “two great classes,, tramps and.
millionaires-;” and so on. These are only a few of the monstrous ; statements- oentained'iin this whole- - Baleattack mAmt'rrieam institutions’ and society. It represents the eitI tire social fabric as honeycombed with corruption and immorality, and the experiment:©! self-govern-ment as a- hopeless failure. No foreigner ever printed anything a; tenth part as bad about this country and people. An Englishman who should send home such an account of .us for publication would be tarred and feathered if it got back here before he left The American.who would assist in giving publicity to such an attack, upon the country and people deserves no better fate than to, be kicked acress th© continent and, intothesea.-. This malicious manifesto is- not « merely an attack on the Am erift an people,, but on free government and popular suffrage. It is,, in effect, an assertion that popular government is a failure. These vilhfiers of their country who mat on the Fourth of July to advertise to the world, as far as they could, that the condition of the American people is worse than that of any other people on earth, forgot that this is a government of majorities, and when they attack the government they attack the people, and when they attack the people they attack themselves. If their wholesale charges of corruption and demoralization were all true instead of all false, it would only prove that government, by majority is the worst form of government in the world and that the people, dC whom they form a part, are utterly and hopelessly incapable W self-government Or course, intelligent Amemaqs know that' these attacks o® th© government and on the masses of the people are not true, but It ia none the less exasperating to see an assemblage of American citizens engaged in the dirty budneM of defaming their own country spa people.—lndianapolis Journal. r
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