Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1893 — Turn on the Light. [ARTICLE]

Turn on the Light.

The total paid attendance at the World’s Fair has now reached the fifteen million mark, and will reach twenty millions or close to it, before the fair closes. This large attendance insures the financial success of the fair, so far as the payment of all floating debts and bonds is concerned. Very little if any, will be repaid of the ten millions raised by. subscrip tion and voted by the city of ‘ Chicago. Put the people of Chicago make enough out of the fair in other ways, that they will have no cause to be dissatisfied. In a certain locality on the north side, in Chicago, nearly a dozen factories are grouped together. Until recently 1600 men earned good wages in the locality. Now only 350 are employed, and short days and’at greatly reduced wages. The neighboringstreels are growing up in grass and weeds, and in them, the idle working men placed a placard the other day, as follows: • DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION’ • KEEP OFF THE GRASS. • • ' • • •• The idle men now know well the cause of their forced idleness and of the “famine in their children’s eyes.” They know that it was the election last fall of a President and Congress pledged to the overthrow of the protective tariff.

Peru Republican: It is wonderful what a humiliating effect the supremacy of the party that declares protection unconstitutional has upon the laboring men at Pittsburg, that made the Homestead affair a national issue only a short year ago. A dispatch from that city states that the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel workers have agreed to accept a ten per cent, reduction in wages. At present two-thirds of them are out of work and the mills will not hire them at the old scale, prefering to remain closed. A year ago the Democratic politicians hoaxed the working men of the entire country into the belief that the protective policy of the Republican party was a fraud and that free trade was what they needed. Their experience has been that of the fellow who sawed off a limb between himself and the tree.

The Remington Press copies the two items given below from -the Woodward, Oklahoma, Jeffersonian, with the explanation that the latter article is supposed to refer to Dr. Traugh: Col. Patton, the Receiver of the Land Office st this place is a first class officer, a gentleman and a thorough Democrat, of course. We would like to see the color of the man’s hair and the size of his feet who filed on the quarter section adjoining the townsite on the east at 43 minutes past 12 o’clock on the 16th. He is the fastest man in the universe, according to his tale. ’ We have heard considerable about this quarter section adjoin-1 ing the town site of Woodward, upon which Dr. Traugh filed a claim so phenomenally soon, (if not “sooner”) on the day of the great rush. The doctor is said to have hired a “cow-boy” to make the run for him. But 25 or 30 miles in 43 minutes is pretty fast time for one horse,even for a cowboy. Dr. Patton, the “first class “perfect gentleman” and

“thorough Democrat,” is reported to be enthusiastic over this claim of Dr. Traugh’s. Says its worth $50,000. “Being as how” Dr. Patton is such a “thorough Democrat,” perhaps, when the matter of Dr. Traugh’s title to the land comes to a trial,T)f.~Tatton could throw some valuable light upon the problem of the cowboy’s remarkably soon (if not ‘•sooner”) filing of the claim. Most any fellow might have got a quarter section worth §50,000 if the Receiver of the land office was a real “thorough Democrat” and an old political David and Jonathan friend and neighbor.

Who caused the panic? The American people regardless of party. Why did they thus? In anticipation of tariff repeal. Why were they in such hurry? In order to be ready Are they now ready? Yes, the people have acted as though the tariff laws had been blotted out, and we have the very condition that we would have if the tariff was abolished, so far as labor and finance are concerned. Who caused this? All the people. Free Traders themselves, the principal actors in the threatening repeal, became frightened and began to withdraw their capital from trade. The protectionists were to some extent expecting a panic. When will confidence be restored? When the administration is restored to the protective party. What will become of the laboring people who are now out of employment? Glorious free-trade will feed them.

Why so? Because they promised a free breakfast table, and they will not go back on that promise, surely. Hungry Americans who live in the midst of plenty are denied work on account of threatened change of the tariff to a free-trade system. Unless you can sell your labor you cannot buy bread.— American Economist. Prof. Karl Hemmersbach.. a graduate of the Conservatory at Cologne, Germany, has succeeded Prof. C. Haas as instructor in music at St. Joseph’s College. He is proficient in all kinds of instrumental music, and ocal music as well, and will be leased to give instruction toalimted number of private pupils, in the town. Call upon him at the College or address him through the post-office. '