Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1893 — The Real Purpose. [ARTICLE]

The Real Purpose.

To cut. down the pension list and to reduce the wages of American labor are the real purposes, says the Inter Ocean, of, the free Fide party, which is made up of the solid south aud of the alien importers resident in New York. To reduce the pen&iun lid io a. condition precedent to what they call “tariff reform.” For without great reduction of the expenses of the government there can be no no great reduction of tariff revenues, which even now is less by nearly $60,000,000 a year than it was before the passage of the McKinley bill. The alien importers would just as soon have the expenditures for the judiciary, or for the army, or for the navy cut down; their purpose simply is the importation of European goods without duty, or at such low duties as will not prbfection to the products of well-paid American labor. Rut the southern free traders who furnish the majority of votes for their party, insist that the reduction shall be in the pension department, for from that department little or no money flows to the solid south. Consequently “down with the infamous pension system.”