Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1892 — AN OLD DEMOCRATIC FALSEHOOD REV AMPED. [ARTICLE]

AN OLD DEMOCRATIC FALSEHOOD REV AMPED.

We stated at the beginning of the campaign that the Democrats had no possible hope for carrying the election on their free trade platform except by audacious* persistent and unalloyed lying; and that they realize* the fact and were fully prepared to act upon. One of their rankest efforts inthis line is found in some illustrated articles, sent out in stereotype form by the campaign committees and published in local democratic papers. The last two issues of the Democratic Sentinel have contained several columns of this matter. Pictures of certain agricultural and household, implements of American manufacture are given, with alleged American and foreign prices of the articles, in every case the American prices being represented as much abave the foreign prices. The object of course is to make people believe that the “protected manufactures,” are robbing the people of this country by charging much more than a fair profit on their articles.

These pictures are usually in parallel columns and are sometimes of the same machine and sometimes evidently not of the same, but designed tojnake people believe that they are. In the issue of week before last the Sentinel gave, among other implements, the picturesrof a common looking mower, said to be manufactured by the Ann Arbor Agricultural Company, and the American price of which was stated at $65.00, and the foreign price at S4O. Now no one in Rensselaer bandies the above alleged company’s implements, but the hist ntoweis made have been sold in Rensselaer during the last two years for from S4O to $45. The best 5 foot mower, of any make, can be brought any day, right here in Rensselaer for $45. Four foot mowers 'or S4O. Plenty of good and no doubt better, machines than the one represented in the pictures as priced at $65, haye been sold here, to Jasper Co. farmerj), for from $35 to S3B. The matter of sulky hay rakes fully as bad. The American prices "of those is stated at $25 and the

foreign at sl7. Now our local dealers have been selling fine sulky rakes, right along, for the past two years, at sl7 cash or $lB on time, and in some oases down to $16.50. Hay tedders are quoted at $45 in this country, and SBO when exported. Only one hay tedder so far as we can learn, was sold in Rensselaer this year. Its price was S3B. Spring tooth cultivators are represented as $26 here and $22 when sent across the water. Right here in Rensse'aer they have been sold right along for $lB. In the items of plows the fraud is still greater. The prices are represented just twice as high in foreign countries as here. In this case they not only. lie about the American prices, as in the articles above mentioned, but the picture of the higher priced plows, as sold here, are quite different looking implements from those of which the foreign prices are given. The American prices represent two horse plows and the foreign prices ©nehorse, but the authors of the article seek to convey the idea that they are the same kind of plows. They are proven liars by their own pictures.

In the issue of last week the first picture given was that of a sewing machine. A very common, indeed ‘'scrubby” looking machine, plain in finish and with only two drawers and those with on oiie side. The American prices of these are stated at 145 and the foreign price $32 We showed the picture in the Sentinel to an honest and truthful old Demo. craL “Why” says he, “I can get a better machine than that any day for $181” And so he oould, while S2O to $25 will buy very much better looking machines than the one in the picture, while the price of the very beet two

drawer machine made would not exceed SB2, stated to be the foreign price of the shabby looking thing in Mac’s paper. A couple of pictures of shovels are given, of a round point and a square point The home price of both kinds are stated at $9.20 per dozen and the foreign price at $7.86 per dozen. Now you can buy these shovels, by the single shovel, at either of out bardwv'Stores, for 75 cents, and If W A*. ao«»w. Will *■»««.

tee that you can get them for $7.86 which is quoted as their foreign price, and unless you really want a dozen shovels, we don** think you had better offer even $7.50 for a dozen of them.