Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1894 — Duty of Protectionists. [ARTICLE]

Duty of Protectionists.

The Jasper county Republicans are “in it” for an old time majority, this year. Look at the connty mid township committees. They are as full of vim and victory as an egg is of meat. “Old men for counsel; young men for action. ” Both classes are well represented in the new county and township Republican organization, this year, and the result is a ‘-Jim Dandy” organization. Still another good man on the list, for the Republicans of th e Tenth District to choose a Congressional candidate from: Capt. Frank Swigart, of Logansport, has definitely and formally, announced himself in the field.

The Senate baa rejected Hornblower’s nomination, and given King Lili a terrible black-eye. Beally, it begins to look as if the long latent manhood and self-re-spect in the democratic senators was beginning to revive, and that they would not always do the cuckoo act at command of the most collossal misfit dictator of all time. ~ 1 ■■■ We are glad that the Farmers’ Institute President Yeoman and Secretary Nowels, have set down hard on the proposition to work politics into th*_ .forth-coming Farmers Institute. The bloviating of two or three wandering Populist cranks, like Dr. Robirfson, pretty nearly ruined the Institute of two years ago, and we are very glad there is to be no repetition of that mischievous nonsense.

“The adultress will hunt for the precious life” is as true to-day as it was in the days of Solomon. The bLfOd-thirsty old tigress, Liliuokalanij assured Cleveland’s wretched tool, Willis, that it was her iutention to have all those connected with the provisional government and all others who had assisted in driving her from her throne, beheaded and their property confiscated. And, after this, Cleveland and Gresham still plotted to get her back upon her throne, and not only plotted, but they sneaked, and cheated and lied and deceived to get her back, they are no better than she is herself, and justly deserve the doom she wanted to deal out to those whom her own depravity compelled to drive her from her throne.

Cleveland, Gresham and Liliuokalani! Great triumvirate of infamy !

“Grover, Grover, four years more of Grover.” .Well, you don’t hear anyone singing that song now, nor even “//iree years more of Grover.” Still it is three years; three long amrbitter years, in which the people of America especially the working people, must drain the cup of Democratic adversity to the vbry dregs. Three years more of free trade hard times before the return to power of the party of protection to American homes and American workingmen. And three years more, alas, of'bitter shame and humiliation before the advent of another truly American president can wipe out, so far as it can be wiped out, the burning disgraces of Cleveland’s un-Amer-ican and unpatriotic foreign policy. The attempt of Cleveland and Gre-iham to force the wretched drab Lili back upon the Hawaii-

an throne, especially after she had so plainly proven to them her debased and half savage nature in insisting upon having the lives of those who had driven her from it, is, beyond all comparison, the most disgraceful episode in American his tory. And the s peaking, underhanded, deceitful, treacherous methods they have resorted to, not to speak of absolute lying! Their whole course in the matter has been absolutely infamous.’ And we still adhere to the opinion we expressed long ago, that if full justice wete meted out to these chief conspirators in this4nfamous policy, Cleveland would be impeached and removed from the office he disgraces, and Gresham would be shot.

The Press has repeated!/ declared that it does not advocate prntection for millionaires. They are generally able to take care of themselves. With European wages and his magnificient plants and machinery Mr. Carnegie can undoubtedly compete with foreign producers. He can live and prosper under the Mills, McKinley or the Wilson bill. How about the wage earner ? He can exist on half the rate of wages in 1892 But is it wise for the republic that he should thus live? That is the question as’the Press understands it. • Protectionists need just now both courage and principles. They cannot afford either to compromise or aid the enemy on any foolish supposition that it will settle the tariff question. The course to pursue is to leave no stone unturned to defeat the Wilson bill. This done the responsibility rests elsewhere.—New York Press. l

With the full knowledge before their eyes that Queen Liliuokalani was an abandoned, dissolute creature in her private life, that her government was as . corrupt and rotton as her private character, that she was openly seeking to destroy constitutional government and restore absolute monarchy in Hawaii; that she was determined to establish the Louisiana. lottery in her realm; with the knowledge of all these facts before them, Cleveland and Gresham set about, secretly, treacherously, sneakingly, to restore her to her throne. And for what purpose? For no conceivable purpose under heaven, other than a ftialicious desire to discredit President Harrison’s administration.'

But, worse than all, more shameful than all, these wretched, secret conspirators, Cleveland and Gresham, persisted in their purpose even after the queen had herself furnished the fullest confirmation of her unfitness to reign or even to live, by insisting as a condition of her acceptance of their offered restoration that she should bo allowed to take the lives of those who had driven her from the throne. With this fall knowledge from her own lips, of her bloodthirsty, abandoned and tyrannical character before them, Cleveland and Gresham still used every effort which their treacherous malignity could suggest, to restore her to her throne! Shame of shames! Inexpiable disgrace!