Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1892 — TOPICS OF THESE TIMES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TOPICS OF THESE TIMES.

— % What the Alabama Election MeansMcKlaley’e Uni Lkki for Protection— A Democratic Sfcret Circular—Other In tore* tlag Themo*. ■■'r* T' Mt. JBynum pines to give his contin plates, of which th£ytray possibly consume two pounds each a year, but he voted against free raw and lower refined sugars’, of which each one cbnsumesabout forty pounds a year. The tinplate is lower now under the double duty than it was two years agq, because of the threatened competition in this country, but the sugar is about a third lower. If they paid the additional duty on the plate it would amount to 5 cents each, while on the sugar the lower price oh tert v poundsis $1. —Indianapolis Jouruai. IMMIGRATION FROM GERMANY AND GREAT BRITAIN COMPARED. IQias been estimated by the freetrade advocates that Germany, with her protective tariff, is furnishing more immigrants to America, a protective country, than is free-trade England, and the question is asked, why? The' proposition- is not stated. Tne figures show exactly the contrary. During the year ending June 20, 1890. Germany/sent to America alone 92,457 immigrants, while Great Britain, not including "Wales, sent 128.340. This question was propounded by a leading advocate of “tariff reform" to a protectionist Republican during the debate m Congress., to which no reply was given. The reply might have easily ,be£n found in the following statement: A eomparfson of the= arriving in America from the two countries named above from 18If»4a * June 30, 1890, is as follows: Greab 8ritain,6,235,277 out of a population of 35,000,000; while from Germany there came 4,504.128 out of a population of 40,000,000. These figures speak for themselves.

M’KINLEY’S HOTSHOT.

Cleveland and His Party and the Playful Dodge of “Tariff tie form." Wm. McKinley. Jr. It requires $100,000,000 annually to pay the expenses of federal government —more than $1,000.000 every twenty-four hours. How is this to be raised ? That, rests upon you, and you can do it in . two ways. First, by taxing yourselves, anjfc second, by taxing the products ot other people of the world Seeking market in the United States. The Democrats look to a direct tax. We .rect taxation during the war.' Everything was taxed by the government en the face ,of the earth. In Cases emergency we have tried it "three time’s, and as soon as the necessity passed we repealed it. It is odious to a free people in time of peace. The Republican party has wiped out every direct tax on American products, except these on whisky and tobacco. If any one desires to wipe it out on 'these articles, do not permit him to vote the Republican ticket. Do you know what tariff reform is? Has Mr. Cleveland told us ?Has Nr. Warner told us ? Has Mr. Mills told us? No! Do you know why they don't tell us ? It is because they don't know. Read Grover Cleveland from bis Urst words on . tariff, in Albany, to hrs last public ■ utteratice,in Madison square Garden, j and you look in vain for au explanation. ■ ■ I And the 150 majority in Congress! ) What definition has it given of the term “Tariff reform?” Why, it has passed a bill to untax wool for the benefit of the New England manufacturer and the injury of alt 8 farmers, while leaving the duty on - ns2ft _ tWmwGoleh _ ®^icl^s~tlratrTmiirTS ir called upon to wear. Yes, aud it has passed a bill to lift the tariff on cotton ties for the benefit of the South, while the almdst identical iron bands used in many other callingssttttbaveupoutherjtheold duty. economic policy of the Democratic party. It might* better be called no policy at all, for it obviously represents no system and can produce jitr uniform result fur good or bad. WHAT THE ALABAMA ELECTION MEANS. When Mr. Manning, of Alabama, arose in the Omaha convention to place General Weaver in nomination for the Presidency, he pledged that Southern State to the People s Party. There were many other enthusiasts who followed Mr. Manning, and "pledged their States, North and South, to the new party. This party’ called the Populis party and the People's party was to wipe out sectional lines, break down race prejuand bring the- political millennium. /T. Alabama has held its first electioh of the year. In this State election Mr. Manning and the People’s party have met the enemy theyi expected to wipe from the face of the earth. But the returns from Alabamtfmdieate that the regular Democrats will have a majority of 30,000 to 50,000. The Kolb people c.aim’ that systematic fraud was practiced against them, and threaten a contest. They arc in the position occupied by the Republicans in the South, and have been treated with no more consideration. They have made their cam- -- r**»n and have failed to break the Democratic line. * • dm well that the People’s party A CM’i*s*'' 'M .-■* . -s ' sli'X ...

leaders have had their opportunity early Rs Albania. They went into this work with great enthusiasm,and old tijtne Democrats from the South talked so much confidence at Omaha that they made many Western farmers believe that the solid South was to be broken by this new political force. The West was ready to the South half way. Alabama was one of the most hopeful Southern States. There was a split in the Democratic party. The new organization would take advantage of this and unite dissatisfied Deny- . ocrats with the alliance men to sweep the State. That was their outline at Omaha. But in the campaign the Kolb leaders depended upon another force to carry the State. Instead of breaking through the lines of the Democrats, Chairman Boman sought in every way,even by forgery, to speure the negro vote, which has Republican. He forged Chairman Moseby sname to an alleged Republican manifesto, urging all Republicans to vote for Kolb, and he more strife than did Re. publicans. . A It should be remembered that Colonel Kolb was an old Democratic leader ; that he was an ex-Confed-*erate soldier ; that he was for years a State officer; that two years ago he went into the Democratic State convention with more delegates than any other candidate for Governor, and even by a combination of all the other candidates he held them in a dead lock until they bribed several of his delegates and sprung several scandals in the press which went against him ; that he was the leader of the Alliance in the State, and as hopeful of controlling his phrty in Alabama as was Governor Buchanan in Tennessee Or Governor Tillman in South Carolina. But with all these advantages Kolb has been defeated in Alabama. Governor Buchanan has been compelled, to retire as a candidate for re-election in Tennessee, and Governor Tillman has a very poor prospect for re-nomination An South Carolina. The bubble has burst. There is little hope for the People's party in the South. The Alabama election clearly demonstrates this. ■ The Alliance men did xjot vote the Kb,lb ticket. Their State lecturer and several other State officers deserted Kolb. The old cry of white supremacy was just as powerful against the new political combination as it has ever been against the Republicans. Western Republicans who had a leaning toward the movement to take the Alliance into National politics are now able to see how futile are the efforts to break the solid South by -such a Southern Democrats talk fair/out they vote as they shot. The /destinies of this government can not be worked out along the Alliance line. The old political parties are to wage the battle and decide whether ty or minority rule shall prevail. ' The People’s party in the can only help those in favor pf minority rule. Every votwfor Weaver in Kansas, Nebraska. lowa, Minnesota, Indiana-mMllinois is a vote for Cleveland. The People’s party in the South is only a myth. The Alabama election has demonstrated this and that the new combination is only for use in the West to assist’ the Democrats. DEMOCRATIC SECRET CIRCULAR Indianapolis Journal. ■ A copy of a circular issued by the chairman of the Democratic State central committee has reached the Journal and is printed in another colunWi? The circular has been sent i to Democratic trustees, who are to act as spies on the chairmen of county committees,finding out what they have done or left undone, completing the worly they have neglected, and ; giving the chairman of the State > committee secret information as to the doings ot the local chairmen and also of their own operations. The circular se6m§ to suggested by a suspicion or fear I local committeemen, and especially the chairmen, coi|ld not be tr us ted. The burden of the instructions is to ascertain whether the local organization is doing its duty, and if not, why ■ not. The secret agent is to “asceri tain ” a great many things. Qne clause of "the circular ""reads “ “ Ascertain if they [the local committeemen "J are looking after voters classified as doubtful Democrats, and how. ” So it seems there are some “doubtful Democrats” in spite of * assurances to the contrary, and they are to be “ looked after. ” Mr. Taggarts method of “looking after” doubtful voters is pretty well known. clause pf the circular directs the secret agent to “call chairman’s attention to the necessity of conferring wltKcounty-commission-ers, etc., and see that a reductigpdjHhe levy for taxes is made at the meeting of the commissioners in September. ” So that racket is to be played again and on a larger scale. This is a repetition Of Chairman Jewett’s instructions, sent out shortly after the tax law was 14 ‘ passed, directing Democratic county commissioners aud township trustees to reduce the local levy so as to keep down the aggregate amount of taxation. In a number of counties this was done to such an extent as to compel the commissioners to negotiate temporary loans to meet current expenses. This is a characteristic Democratic dodge. Another clause of the circular directs the secret agent to “have chairman make out lists of names and addresses of German Lutheran Republicans and Mail the same to the State committee.” This means that an attempt is to be made to work th* Bennett school law scare in this State, and it can only be characterized as a dirty, contemptible trick.

No legislation of that character has been proposed in this State, andl there is not the slightest probability that there will be.--The attempt to introduce that issue in Indiana politics Is an insult to every German Lutheran in the State, because it assumes they have so little intelligence that they can be easily fooled. Thiff secret circular’ is notice to Republicans that they have to deal With an opponent who is underhanded, untiring, unscrupulous and ready to use any means, fair or foul, that may contribute to success. PROTECTION AT THE ROOT. N; Y. Press. Our.production of beet sugar grew from ' • 600,000 pounds in 1887 to , 4,000,000 pounds in 1888, 6,000,000 pounds in 1889, 8,000,000 pounds in 1890, and, under the McKinley law, to 12,000,000 pounds in 18917 "

A PLAIN STATEMENT. The greatest increase of duty on any article affected by ; the McKinley ■■ bill is that upon pearl buttons. Democrats are fond of saying that it amounts to 144 per cent. This may be an exaggeration, as most Dettiocratic statements relative to tariff duties are, but the increase is ebn- i sidefable, the old rate of duty being 25 per cent, ad valorem, white-the: new rate is 2J cents per line, and 25 per cent, ad valorem. In consequence of this increase of duty several thousand Americans have found employment in new factories of pearl buttons, the wages of operatives, which were from $8.50 to sl2 per week before -the passage of the bill have risen to $lB and $24, and a member of the firm of Whaton ; Bros, assured a reporter of the New York Tribune that “ buttons are cheaper now than they were before the McKinley bill was passed. ” Of some score or so of American pearl button makers interviewed by the Tribune’s reporter but one was found* who did not approve of the McKinley bill, and his reasons are so cogent that we gladly reproduce them in his own language :

“I am not in favor of the McKinley bill, because I am a free trader, and then, too, I don’t think it has been a good thing for the manufacturers. There have been, of course, a good many people going into the hnsinessp-and this Las created such 'a lively competition among the manufacturers that we have to sell our goods at very low rates, and there is little profit in the business for us. At the same time we are obliged to pay our hands higher wages than we did before the McKinley bill was passed, as there is now more demand for labor. At the same tipie we are selling our manufactured goods at a/ '"much lower rate than we did before; the bilf became a law, for the reason ! that a large number of new factories that have sprung up under its operation have caused a competition that has compelled us to lowei: our prices to such an extent that even with the present high tariff shutting out foreign competition, buttons are sold cheaper to day than they ever were before. The effect of the Republican protective tariff has been greatly to increase the wages of the workingman, iind also to prevent the concentration of the trade-in the hands of a few as it was ago, whenpfteMor six firms controlled the wholbjrade in this city, and as I regard the competition as ruinous, I shall Support Cleveland and Stevenson. This Democratic manufacturer is not'in favor of the McKinly bill because: 1. It creates competition. 2. It lowers prices to the con- \ . -'A— ■' 3. It raises the price of labor. 4. It prevents “the concentration of trade ih the hands of a few manufacturers." It is seldom that; an intelligent Democrat talks with such candor. These four reasons do, however, lie at the bottom of nine-tenths of all organized opposition to pfißf&ctive tariffs. The gentleman interviewed has madet a plaih statement of the free trade case. .

“I'm very hard pressed, just novvi," said Billsby, “It sets me crazy to be squeezed in this manner.” “Squeezed! "Why I think it’s delightful,” exclaimed his daughter, and then rushed from the room in confusion. —Boston Post. ped dead on the streets, just now," said the foreman. as I expected,” remarked , the editori . . C “He was too mein to die a lingering death and give the doctors 7 a chance. —Atlanta Constitution.

NO WONDER THE STATE IS POOR.