Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1893 — Free Trade and Farming. [ARTICLE]

Free Trade and Farming.

In addition to the many tin plate works now in operation five large factories are being erected at the following places: Elizabeth port. New Jersey; Philadelphia and New Gasile, Pennsylvania; Niles, Ohio, and Gas City, Indiana. The product of -these mills will be about two-thirds bright tin plate and one-third terne, and the output exceeding twenty thousand boxes a week, or an average of more than four thousand boxes per week each. Estimating the out-put for a year on the basis of fifty working weeks the product of these mills will be one million dollars. This is another practical illustration of the benefits of the McKinley tariff. ' (Jen. Packard: Scratch the man who 4 in this country tries to ape the old world aristocracy and you’ll uncover a Democrat. Scratch the public official who strives to imitate in language the rulers of the effete monarchies of Europe and you will find a Democrat. The Emperor William or the Czar Alexander, even the crazy King' Ludwig says: “My Ambassador.” “My Minister.” These belong to the ruler. They are his. Louis Fourteenth, of France, said: “The State, it is I.” Jeff Davis was accustomed to say, “My People,” and speaking of the Hawaiian affair and Mr. Blount, Grover says “My Minister.” Does he think he is the nation like Louis XIV? Truly it has that appearance. We shall next hear of “My People,” “My Army,” “My Navy,” “My Congress,” “My Judges” and “My V, States.”

Ft. D. Blackmore, author of "Lorna Doone,” is a practical fruit grower. He speaks as a fruit grower aud not as an author when he writes from hig home in England to the New York Tribune concerning the harm which free trade has done to the agriqultural interests of Great Britain. In acknowledging the receipt of a “Farmers’ Almanac” Mr. Blackmore writes as follows: Alas that our poor farmers no longer require o,r could afford one, so wholly does their money pass to your less demented. ..country, Thousands of acres of good land in England have dropped all out of cultivation, so wretched are the prices of all produce under our system. And yet the poor do not get tho benefit—or very little of it—in prices, for bread is as dear with wheat at 25 shillings per quarter as it was at 40 shillings, which is about the lowest figure at which it can be grown with any profit here. The same rule applies to my produce—fruit. New York City has adopted the system of placing red barrels on the street corners with the injunction “Throw your waste here” painted on them in plain white letters. They are designed as the recptacles for all kinds of waste, such as papers, banana and orange peelings, apple cores and the like, in order to keep this stuff from being thrown into the gutters and on the sidewalks. They are emptied every morning, or sooner if filled. The plan works well as a means of keeping the streets clean, and an ordinance will be passed by the city making it a misdemeanor to throw anything whatever upon the sidewalks or streets. —South Bend Tribune. The Vidette believes the public must at length extend its scavenger provisions to deodorizing excrement and saving it as valuable fertilizing matter for the soil, instead of washing it away in sewers as offensive waste that must pollute the water and the air below. Dry earth is an immediate sue-

cessful neutralizer, cheap as dirt. —Valparaiso Vidette. The Tribune and Vidette are both entirely sound in the above views. A ‘ better and more convenient eubstanee as a deodorizer than dry earth, however, is dry coal ashes. They can be saved perfectly dry, as they come from the stoves aud furnaces, and being perfectly inert, and finely powdered, their action as a deodorizer is is immediate and complete. And in using them in the manner suggested by thd Vidette, they are divorted from a public nuisance into a useful purpose.