Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1892 — Page 4

THE REPUBLICAN. "T Thursday, July 28, 1892. gY THURSDAY BY V -r^~SO PKOPHIKTOn. spwbiiojin building, on r sad We#*toTi ‘•treot*. . - " i ■' " w j V ' i— - ' 1 ‘ ■ "* Vi Terms of Subscription. ■eyeu v; fi so Blxmonth*. ......... 7s Ttawmonths....so - The Official Paper of Jasper Ceunty,

DIKECTOK T CORPORATION OFFICERS Mirsbal... H.. L. Warkfn. _. CJ>rk ...... .. jj.OHAftl.Ka O. Spitlr!-. Treasurer C. C. Starr ' . M. B Alter I id Ward I. C. F<»Rtkr Cocncilmen :Sd Ward........ J, H. S Ellis j ithWitrd.... ;...J. M. Wasson I Stfc Ward.. ANCIL WOODVOHTH JASPER COUNTY BOAR D OF EDUCATION. « j. C, Gwin Trustee Hanging Grove tp. MJchae'. Robinson, Gillam tp itancts M. Hershman , Trustee Walker tp: J. F. ttlff. Trustee Barkley tp. W*n. Greentield, Trustee ...Marion tp. James ft. Carr. Trustee '..... .... Jordan tp. Nehemlah Hopkins Trustee Newton tp. JT.JF. Bruner,! rustec ! Keener tp. * : P«lUso».Trustee-,. .... .Kankakee tp - X. D. Clark , Trustee. Wheatfie.rt tp. Wm. O.RoadifotjTrnstee........Carpentertp. ZIKB Me('ashen, Tfustee, Milroy tp. Wm (XSper. Trustee,.... Union tp. W. It. GooVer ......" Reminir'on. K*r» L. (Tarlt Ttenes. laer. J. F.. Warren County Supt JIDI C I A L -■•' ■ s ' ■Circuit judge” Edwin P. llAMMoyn. Urpeentinc Attorney John T. Brown Twns of Court— First Monday in January; Tbiid Mo>-dny In March; First Mondav in -June; Third Monday In October. COUNTY OFFICERS Clerk William H. (VoterSheriff Phil tt BlpkAuditor Henry B. Murr itRecorder . ..." James F; Antbxm— Surveyor ' .iMM-.|tr- j rffKAWLH Coroner... it. P. Benjamin. SophrinteDden l Pnbl; r School s J. F Warren JIM District. P, M.OrKRRT,, 2d District ... J .F. Watsonct 8d Distrlct .. .. .O .P. TA bor Otonmlesiontr * ’ Omiri— Fir*t Monday! in Jf'trrh ‘ .June, September >md iftcnnbfr

Principal Points of the Platform.

1 ' 'We believe in the American doctrine of protection. -- - - - ■' • We believe (hat articles, except luxuries, Which can eot 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 betwoen Wages at home andabroai. We ask the people to pronounce a verdict upon the cowardly course of the Democrats in attacking the tariff piecemeal. , We believe in ro iproclty, which has opened new markets for the products of the workshop and the farm. I We believe in the use of both pM and silver money. *" We demand that every dollar, whether of gold, silver or paper, Shull be other dollar. " We. be-lieve in an international conference to secure a party of,gold and silv»r throughout the w. rld. -*= Y We demand that every citizen, rich or podr native or foreign l>orn, white or black, shall be permitted to cast one ballot and 1 ave it oounted as he cast it. We pro’,iose to keep on fighting till we have honest elections in every State. We favor the revival of our foreign commerce in Vmerican ships. We demand a navy to protect our interests and maintain the honor of our flag. We demand tl at arbitr. ry combinations o capital to control trade congrtipns shall be rigidly n gulated. .. . We believe in wise and consistent civil service reform. -* « We believe in a-lmittinc all the Territories into the Union as soon a- they are qualified for entrance.

We reaffirm the. Monroe doctrine. We demand' 1 the restriction of criminal pauper, and contract immigration. We demand that the employees of railroads, mines and factories shall be protected against all needless dangers. We sympathize with the oppressed in every land. We demanii freedom of speech and of the press. We believe id oopulareducation. We favor the construction and control of the Kicaragua canal by Americans. We believe io self goverrment for territory 8. We believe that the Columbian Exposition should I e made a success worthy of the dignity and progress of the nation, and that the goTefnmetrt should aid in this W nects9ary. We sympathize with all legitimate efforts to promote teitper&nce and morality - v We pledge to the loyal veterans of the war for the Union the recognition that is theits fay right. We are proud of President Harrison's mag nifloent administration. And we propose to give the country an Other administration just as good for the next four years

A BRITISH VIEW OF OUR TARIFF.

“The promoters*# the McKinley tariff meant it to push forward the policy of America for Americans. One method ofYValizthg it was to keep all work within their awn dominions. The country teas lobe made self -supplying-, what could be produced at home was not to be bought abroad. That was the key-noie of the McKinley scheme, and it is working out the idea of its designers with the precision and effectiveness of a machine.—Sheffield Daily Telegraph.

Governor McKinley Jemarked recently that all the princrples of the first Republican national platform are now incorporated in* the 1 aws of the land.. And- nn party dares come foward and demand the repeal of any one of them. /The Socialists are talking of nominating candidates for President and Vice-President. That is their privilege, but what’s the matter with G. Cleveland? Hefiry George says h$ thinks he is just a lovely candidate, And Henry is a rank enough Socialist for any of them.

Jerry Simpson says: “If I had a rnillion dollars I would use every cent of it in helping to elect third party men, to Congress.” May be vte„F°uld, and yet there are reasons for believing that Jerry, who is by no means a panper, will net use one cent to help anybody to be, elected, except himself.

The democrats on the House went to Homestead to investigate learned a great deal more about the- actual and dirpet benefit, to wage-earners of the protective tariff than they will ever dare to officially tell, it was directly contrary to what they wanted to learn.

“Stand up for Kansasl’the Republican battle-fry in that Siate r furnishes a battle-cry for Republicans every where-by substituting “America” for “Kansas.” It is fitting that the party which has made this country the foremost nation of the world, should adopt' a* its fighting motto, “Stand up for America.”

' {speaking of the effects of Lthe McKinley tariff on Canadian agriculture, a Canadian contemporary says: “In Ontario) thehorse- and : barley trade have been till hut destroyed,” which simply means-tbat : American farmers and horse raisers are now supplying portions o£ our markets formerly supplied by Canadian farmers.

The present Congress is- goingto appropriate just as much money as the “billion dollar” Congressdid. The only difference is • that they have worked with no regard to the needs of the public business but simply with a regard to inane a record of economy before the -KfiflPfc- The result is that the public busiuess is crippled with injudicious cuts where money is really needed, and still the record is one of more money spent than in the previous Congress. In 1891,. during the six months ending June 30, of that year, the failures in the United States showed liabilities aggregating $92,416,267.

In 1892, after the benefits of Republican protection had begun to be felt’, during the corresponding period the failures in this country showed liabilities amounting in all to $62^73,680. This decrease of $30,142,587 Teas caused by Republican protect' iion. . '

The Democratic cry of “Retrenchment and Reform” is disclosed to the people as a humbug. It was known as a humbug when the Democratic leaders took it up. They knew that the only place where retrenchment was possible was in the pension appropriations and they also knew* that no reduction there was possible while there was a Republican President and Senate. The measure for reducing pensions has not been framed and will not be until all departments of the government are in the hands of the Democrats. Then It will come alpng with free silver coinage and free trade.

How Wages Go Up.

New York Press: ‘ln 1860 the day wages of the Mason Machine Works, at Taunton, Mass., one of the largest iron mills in New England, averaged $1.05 per day of eleven hours’ work, or 9.24 cents. an hour. Now they average $1.71 per day of ten hours’ work, or per hour. "

To Yote a straight Republican ticket stamp within the square enclosing the eagle at the top of the ballot, and nowhere else. hf any other sqnase is stamped in addition to the large square the ballot w ill be thrown owL After stamping foM the ballot so as to leave ■the initials of the poll clerk on the outside and.band to the election, officers.

THE BILL FOR FREE TIN PLATE.

The Democratic Moose last week passed by more than a twothirds majority the bill reducing the duty on tin plate tty ono cent a pound for two years and thereafter making'it free. As-this bill woukh-leave unchanged all the existing duties on bituminous coal a;.d iron ore —both maintained in the Mills tariff'—on pig iron and sheet iron; in fact, bnjall the successive processes and’productions out of which tin-plate is made and of which, it is the complete product, the bill is equivalent to a m ensure to prohibit the manufacture of tin- plate in the United States, . This is, of course, done on the aa&m option that tin-plate can hot bq-naa de profitably in this country. 1 The facts tare that tin-plate is being in ado successfully in this country, that several millions of dollars are in>vested, in plants for '•its manufeeti ire, and over six thousand people are employed Tn the various tin-plate factories. The Democi rats would destroy •the new indusitry and throw all ! these people- oc it of employment.

BALANCE OF TRADE.

’t A balance-of trade in ou-r favor naeans a balance of profits in the pockets of lour- people. It meaE» tha:t we- are creditors instead of debtors, that foreign nations owe us money or goods instead of our country hieing- in debt Free-Trade to sneer at a balance of trade and say it ‘representg^no-wealth. Yet these very Fieo-Trade “professors” would far rather sell their text books4o English students-and get back good British goldi in return than use up their salaries in * buying English books without selling anything of thieir own. A balance of trade, is- ant index of a country’s business, of its purchases Itnd sales, erf-its profits or losses.

If it be profitable for am individual to sell more than he bujs and thus have a balance of money—virtually a private balance of trade —in his favor, whyis it not just as profitable for & nation? A balance of trade may be paid! in money, or in goods and services. Either mode of payment insurasto the profit of the country in, whose favor the-balance exists. If the payment be in goods or services, then the debtor nation must bestir itself to send these goods, whether of its own or of foreign production, or perform those services. As a consequence, we get more goods for less money then we would get were there no favorable balance. The beneficial effect of a payment in cash need not be explained. Money, it is true, is not consumable, it cannot be eaten or worn, but it has, a far more important function. Mqney is the life of trade. Where money is plenty business is active and enterprise aWake. Where money is “tight” industry stagnates. So our countryishould welcome a favorable balance of trade, and it> should welcome the American policy of Protection, the only policy that has given us a favorable balance in the past or will give it in the future. t:

HOW PROTECTION BOULT UP GLASS INDUSTRIES.

On November 13,18735,the Iron Age quotes French window glass, size 10x14, M R ? ’ grade, double strength, at $5:40 per box. Since then protection tariff has built up 'scores of factories-in America, giving employment to- thousand of men, and American push and energy has so cheapened the pro-cess-of making that the-same grade of glass can be bought to-day at $2.52 a box, less than hel-f. Query ; jlf it can be- made so cheap, whst is the use of continuing the protection ? It is right here;. Other countries following America have also cheapened their process of making, andj having cheaper labor to work on, they can undersell the Americans by the difference in American and : foreign wages.- Re move the tariff and onr labor- will have to be reduced to their level or they will come in here, and!.* by underselling, close onr factories, gain control of markets, and, as in the past, again raise priees. Is it not better to continue the protection and insure employment at advanced wages to the laborer in America who consumes and makes a market for the beef, pork and flour of the American farmer?

Calamity Platforms.

Calamity politics, like the fear of the cholera, excites the country for a little while, but it cornea face to face with the intelligent judgment of the people and the panic subsides. The" calamity platform erected at Omaha would have collapsed before this had not the strike at Homestead given it something to feed upon. But that, too, 1b ceasing to be- a cause for excitement. The rabid anarchists who fook up the cause of the strikers have hurt that cause more •than all else because of their indictment of society, in general, which, if true, would demonstrate that the highest civilization ever developed is a miserable failure. In reviewing the calamity platform of the People’s party, H. B. Blackwell, editor of the Woman’s Journal , of Boston, aeks.

“Are these indictments true?-Are-the great body of American people In bondage to capitalists? 4-re they the victims of a financial conspiracy ? Is the property of the country becoming; concentrated in the hands of: the plutofrauded and degraded?:’ Is poverty becoming the ride?.. And are ruin and starvation .staring.men in the face?’?.

The sober sense of the men who adopted this platform.will contradict every one of these assertions and answer no to every question They know better,, and only drew up such, an indictment because they thought it might.delude some of .the. unthinking. Mr. Blackwell’s experience is the experience of every man of observation and intelligence. He says he does not ffodi around him> any evidence of such a state of. ja£Eairs». “On the contrary,” say» Mr, Blackwell, “notwithstanding all real or alleged grievances, I know by my own observation and expeuience, during. & lifetime- of nearly seventy yeans spent in active business, that labor in this country has never during that period been so well paid as it is now and here.” Mr. Blackwell gives his own, experience as a young man glad! to get work for $2 a we%k; as an employer before the war paying 75 cents a day for work which now, command* $2.50 a day; and as a consumer paying more for Everything he bought than he has to pay now. His experience is but the experience of history. There never has been, a time whew labor was better paid and whom a dollar had a greater purchasing power than now. What is true of the laborer is true of the farmer. The men who complain of hard times on the farm now would have grounds for complaint if their condition was that of the farmers forty years ago. In spite of the calamity howlers the country is steadily advancing in prosperity and all the people are sharers in that prosperity to a greater degree than they have ever been before in this country or in any other country.—lnter Ocean,

G.W. GAGISHIER, ■ I lII—IIMM—MM—, i To fill the wide gaps made in oar ranks of Furniture, we have . placed a NEW ARRAY OF THIS SEASON’S BEST PRODUCTS Secured from the leading factories, at prices which are bound to be * “IN IT." / * i = SPIiEpiD a«d BXiSBPBIOipif VALUES i __ y IS oma MOTTO,-. - -■ ■ ' - . . . . V, , * NEW STORE. NEW GOODS- NEW PRICES, l H Trial WEI Mace Ton Come la.:

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