Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1892 — Page 5

*- State Chairman Gowdy 6ays: “The state committee has decider to open the Republican campaign by folding public meetings in al county seats in the state Saturday, Sep. 3. Competent speaker® have been engaged to address these meetings, which will be closely followed by many others throughout the state. A big Ratification will be held in the latter part of August, at the opening of the Elwood tin-plate works. Gov. McKinley, of Ohio; Gov. Fifer, of Illinois; Gen. Alger, of Michigan, * and Gov. Chase will be present. Our organization is, well under way in all parts of the state.

To vote a straight Republican ticket stamp within the square enclosing the eagle at the top of the ballot, else. If any other square jis stamped in addition to the large square the ballot will be thrown cut. After stamping fold the ballot so as to leave the initials of the poll clerk on the outside and hand to the election officers.

WAGES AT HOMESTEAD.

( Facts that Democratic Investigators Did Not Look For. % The Democratic House sent a committee to Homestead with the hope of making 1a shewing of distress and poverty among the laborers in protected imdustries. They hoped to show that workmen in protected industries get no benefit from a protective tariff. But they will not show that. What they found was workmen getting $1.40 a day (the lowest rate, and that only to a few) up to as high as sl6 per day. There were men offered' SI,OOO, $2,500, $3,600 and even $5,000 per annum, and working apout 270 days in the year —and yet they had learned to feel and believe, under the experience of a protective tariff, that they ought to have more. No wonder Congressman Bynum, Democrat, of Indiana, and a member of' the committee, inquired with some show of eagerness, whether there was a chance for him to secure a position in the works. v When Hugh O’Donnell,'* the leader of the strikers, was on the stand, Mr. Boatner, (democrat, of Louisiana,) asked him: “You. are one of the skilled workmen, are you not?” “Yes sir.” • • >» * “About what were your wages?” “About $144 per month.” John McLucaie, a member of theJAmalgamated Association and a burgess of Homestead, complained to the committee that the McKinley law reduced the tariff on steel billets, and that wages, therefore, began to go down with the price of steel billets after its passage. He advanced the somewhat extraordinary opinion that the securing of the reduction of tariff on steel billets was part of a conspir-

acy to reduce the wages of workingmen. He also charged that the company “shortly converted the Duquesne works into a billet plant, increased the production, flooded the country so that prices maybe reduced, and thus affect our wages, Duqnesne produces large atbount of Billets.” Representative Oates, of Alabama, the Democratic chairman of the Democratic committee of investigation, was interviewed after he returned from Homestead, and said: “That the workmen at Homestead wore far above the average in intelligence and seemed to be fairly prosperous, living in good, comfortable houses. He saw none of the poverty common in great manufacturing centres. Many of the men, particularly the skilled workmea, made goM some of them fus high as 9275 per month. Othen made only 960 pei

month. The common laborers earned from $1 to §1.50 per day. “As Mr. Frick bad positively declined to disclose to the committee the cost per ton of producing steel " billets at the Homestead mills, Mr. Oates could not- say whether the contention of the men that the company was making a great deal of money at the present prices Was true or not. He was satisfied, however, that the allegalion of the men that the company had purposely produced an overstock of steel billets in order to reduce the scale of wages of the workmen was untrue. AH the above wages were paid for days of only eight hours each.

STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS.

There was a time when strikes were very rare, indeed. It was, when capital owned labor and kept it in subjection and on the verge of starvation. Slaves can’t strike. Education and enlightenment taught labor its own power, then it struck for greater'liberty. Greater liberty caused it to strike for greater pay. With greater pay came increased opportunities for intellectual improvement, and organization folowed. Now with united front workingmen pressed on for greater and ever greater concessions from their employers, which granted, feed heir desire for more.

From the defensive they now ;ake the offensive, demanding instead of entreating. That is the way they do in this country, because here the laborer has been elevated to the plane of the capitalist, enjoying greater liberty and receiving higher wages than anywhere else on earth. -It is not so in other countries In India and China and Russia strikes are even now as seldom heard of as they were stoning the ancestors of our American workingmen five hundred years ago, when they wore the collars of their Lords. Labor is too weak and servile to /trike in those countries./ ]

As we asdend tho® scale of enlightenment and liberty, we fjmd labor organizations and labor disturbances becoming ever more and more frequent. In Spain labor strikes sometimes. In Germany it strikes more frequently. InJJFranee still more frequently. If to bette* condition of the working people, to point the way tp education, to greater liberty and independence, to foster and develop the genius for intelligent organization among them, and thus to lift them from a position of servile dependence on their m asters to a plane of equality and equal advantage with their employers—if to do these things is to cause strikes and lockouts, then does Protection cause strikes and lockouts. But on no other possibly assumption.

The State Debt.

In answer to inquiries, ill regard to the origin and growth of the State debt,the Indianapolis Journal has collected aqd printed from official sources the facts, which prove that the Democratic party is alone responsible for the bad financial condition in which the state finds itself. %he worst of it is, that even with the heavy increase in taxation by the last Democratic Legislature to make extrava-

gant and unnecessary appropriations. As is shown by the official reports the Republicans when in power have reduced the debt every time, wfyile under Democratic admistration&the debt has been constantly growing. At the close of Governor JosephA. Wright’s administration, in 1867, the State debt, as reported by the Awdsiw of State, was 97,782,311. Three years later, in October, 1860 just before the close of Governor Willard’s administration, Mr. John W. Dodd, Democratic Auditor of State, reported the’debt as $10,179,267.09. The report of Dodd, in lpW, as compared with that of TqJbott, in 1867, both Democratic officials, showed

i an increase of the debt during three years of Democrtic admin- ■ i®tration of $2,396,956.09. In 1860 the Republicans untried : I the State and the Lane-Morion administration began January 1861. There had been no ion of the debt since Auditor Dodd’s last report The Republicans, therefore, inherited from the last Democratic administration a debt of §10,179,267.09, as reported by Audtor Dodd in 1860. The war of the rebellion, which began about this time, added $2,904,875.33 to the debt, caused by war loan bonds issued for war pur poses, and by the State’s quota of the direct tax levied by Congress in 1861. The war loan was authorized by the Legislature in 1861 to place the State in a condition to resist invasion and enable her to do her part in the suppreßSioh the rebellion. Owing: to this increase of the State debt during the war, it reached in 1862, the high Water-mark $13,084,142. But rerm ember that §10,179,267.09 of this had been inherited* from the Democrats.

During the next ten years the Republicans reduced the debt $9,146,321.42. In pioof of this we cite Democratic authority. The last annual report of Hon. John C. Shoemaker, a democratic Auditor of State, dated October 31, 1871, showed the debt to be $3,884,430.88. It had been reduced to this sum from $13,084,142.45 by successive Republican administrations, from 1863 to 1871. From this time on the, control' of the Legislature and of the State finances has been in the hands of the Democratic party, and the debt has increased to its present dimensions, nearly §9,000,000. The record shows that during the last thirty years the Democratic party has invariably increased the debt when it had power, while the party has invariably reduced it. At last driven by* theforceof opinion to change it s policy and make some provisions for reducing the debt it had created, the Democratic party passed the present law requiring all property to be assessed at its full cash value and increasing the levy for State purposes 50 per cent. In remains to be seen whether even this will result in any reduction of the debt. > _

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Citizens Bank of Remington.

Remington Press: % Henry 'O. Harris, Joseph Harris, E. L. Hollingswo: tb and O. B. Mclntire have organized the above , bank and will be ready to commence business by Sept. Ist If suitable room can be obtained they will open before that time. Henry Harris president of the bank, is a well known capitalist and farmer of Jasper county. Joseph Harris and E. L. Hollingsworth are vice-presidents. Joseph Harris is owner with Henry Harris and also cashier of Rensselaer bank. E. L. Hollingsworth is a part owner and cashier of A. McCoy & Co’s bank of Rensselaer. G. B. Melntire, who will be cashier and general manager of the new bank, is especially well known in this section, as he has been identified with the business interests of Remington and vicinity for many years. The above gentlemen are all so well and favorably known that the bank wifi receive the support of their many friends from the start.

THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

The County Commissioners were m regular August session, Monday and Tuesday. The annual settlement with the township trustees occupied the greater, portion of the session. The resignation of Hon. Preston M. Querry as Commissioner from the Ist district was accepted and Benj. R. Faris- appointed to serve in his place until the vacancy is filled by election. The auditor was directed to draw his warrant for $875 in favor of the Barbee Iron Fence Co., towards paying for the court house fence. Fifty dollars of the full price is kept back until the fence is properly painted.

J. B. Fatout ,was contracted with to make certain repairs and alterations to the court house. A fireproof vault will be built m the place now occupied by the east front stairs, opening into the auditor’s office. The space above the vault will be fitted up as an office room, opening from the court room. An outside iron stair-way will be erected at the rear of the building, and 23 new windows, hung with Weights, be put in. The whole cost is to be S9OO. E. L. Clark, superintendent.

Republican Nominations.

NATIONAL TICKET. For President, BENJAMIN HARRISON, of Indiana. For Vice-President, WHITELAW REID, of New York. State Ticket.'^" For Governor. , IRA J. CHASE, of Hendricks County. For Lieutenant Governor, THEODORE p. SHOORNffiFf--—-of Randolph County. For Secretary of State, , AARON JONEa, of St. Joseph County. For Auditor of State, . JOHN W, COONS, of .Marion County. For Treasurer of State, FRED J. SCHOLZ, of V anderburg County. For Attorney General, J. D. FERRALL. of LaGrange County, For Reporter of Supreme Court, GEORGE P. HAYWOOD, of Tippecanoe County. For Superintendent of Public Instruction. JAMES H. HENRY, . / of- Morgan County. For State Statistician, SIMEON J. THOMPSON. ©f Shelby County. For judge of Supreme Court-Second District JOHk D. MILLER. For Judge of Supreme District, BYRON K. ELLIOTT.; For Judgeof Supreme Court—Fifth District, ROBERT W. MCBRIDE. ’ For Appellate Judge—First District, A. G. CAVINS. For AppeUate Judge—Second District.^ O. S. BAKER. For Appellate Jud«e—Third District, jAgES B. fiLACK. For Appellate Judge—Fourth District, M. S. ROBINSON. For Appellate Judge—Fifth District, * E. W. CRUMP ACKER.

District Ticket. For Congressman, WILLIAM JOHNSON, of Porter County, For Representative, JOHN B. LYONS, of Newton County. For Prosecuting Attorney, JOHN T. BROWN,, of Benton County. County Ticket. For County Treasurer, MARCUS H. HEMPHILL. For County Recorder, THOMAS THOMPSON. « For County Sheriff. CHARLES W. HANLEY. For County Coroner, f SHELBY GRANT. County Assessor, CHARLES E. MILLS. For County Surveyor, JOHN E. ALTER. for Cosuity Commissioner, Second District, JOHN C. MARTINDALK-

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