Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1892 — A Few Questions to Answer. [ARTICLE]

A Few Questions to Answer.

IRefore the late political contest is entirely relegated to the past let every good, honest, thinking Democrat, and every good, honest, thinking populist ask himself a few solemn questions. Let him get out his little note book and pencil and jot these questions down and answer them, as answering his own soul. Which party plunged this country into a civil war which cost millions of dollars and thousands of lives ? (If h e does not know the answer to this question let him read carefully the administration of James Buchanan.) Which party predominated in the struggle for the maintenance of our government? Was there ever a slaveholder, did you cvn kiiuw of one who belonged to the Republican party? Was there ever a country, did you eVer kujw ui one, that recovered as rapidly from the effects of a long and Lloody war? Under the rule of which party did it recover? With which party do the saloonkeepers rejoice? Was it not a significant fact thpt all the saloons, aim ost without exception in every city and towu, decorated in honor of Cleveland? We rejoice ia the prosperity of Am erica, in her great manufacturers, iu the liberal wages paid to labor, in her general prosperity. Was it not our protective tariff that made ue prosperous? If not, why is England so rejoiced over a Democratic vi ctory. Our own state, Indiana, is rapidly coming to the front as one of the most important states in the union. Can it be denied that in a great measure her prosperity is due to a pr o cfive tariff', allied with natural advantages? Was there ever, a time in the history of in:,-. country when a dollar would purchase as much as it will now? Was then tv~r a time when everything Us farmer has to sell brought better prices (unless in times of inflation, or of war, and everything he has to buy tyas cheaper? ~L Do you luAiiestly and cordially think that Mr. Harrison’s administration can be improved upon? * • . . - . - *. Williams i*oi>’t want the earth but hedoes w it the people to know that he h&s Urgest &toek of furniture and ear pvt i, in Jasper c