Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1893 — GIVE THE PEOPLE HALF FAIR. [ARTICLE]

GIVE THE PEOPLE HALF FAIR.

The Columbian Exposition, as all eye witnesses say, is far greater, more varied, and more truly a World’s Fair than any like exhibit in the past. Its extent, its beauty and splendor, its lessons of utility and skill and taste are unequaled. The. recent bank failures lead the Ohio Farmer to suggest that the Postal Savings Bank is our manifest destiny. It is the only absolutely safe system of deposits and would tend to prevent financial panics. With the government behind the bank doors, failure would be absolutely impossible. Says the New York Press: “The last year of the Harrison administration Was the most prosperous iD the history of the United States. The first year of Cleveland’s administration sees more financial peril than any period since the last great panic.” The people wanted a change and now they have it.

Huntington Herald: Judge Gresham, Secretary of State, receives an annual pension of $360. It must be pleasant for him to sit with heels under an administration table surrounded by a lot of alleged statesmen who denounce the pensioners as “frauds,” “perjurers,” &c. Judge Gresham’s honors, under Cleveland, {ire accompanied with a loss of self-respect which must be very humiliating. Just as we are making better ships than anybody, and better guns than anybody, and better armor-plate than anybody, a test at the proving grounds, at Sandy Hook, lately showed we are making better steel projectiles than anybody.. It is only a few years since the free-traders were declaring that we ought to buy all these things abroad, instead of trying to make them ourselves.

Why cannot the railroads afford to give half fare rates to the Chicago Exposition better than to a Republican or Democratic National Convention? The first lasts six months —the last six days. To the first millions would go—to the last perhaps ten thousand. Why discriminate against the many aud in favor of the few? The people do not wish the railroads to lose money, but they do want fair play. Shall they have it? Can the railroads afford not to give it? Fair play and mutual good will are for the common interest—a truth which in this matter it is well for the railroads to see soon.