Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1894 — Meeting Of the Republican League. [ARTICLE]

Meeting Of the Republican League.

HofW. D. Owmi, of Logansport, Mio achievedMistinction as a meftbpr of congress from the TenthMistrict, is a candidate for the wjpublican nomination for secretj||p of state. Mr. Owen resided At Lafayette at an early period ©f his career, and is well and kiijfly remembered here. Mr. Owen s|an aggressive republican with am . extensive acquaintance throughaUt the state, and is one of the mem formidable candidates connection with the office he seeflgLafayette Courier. If the Inter LmXin is correct the Catholics are pretlfe well represented in the in Chicago. The mayor, csiaf of the fire department, postinafier, city attorney, clerk of circuit court, clerk of the probate court, clerk of the superior court, several of the judges, and forty-five pf the sixtyeight alderman are! Catholics. It is further alleged, that ninety per cent, of the poliJ|force, eighty per cent, of the lumbers of the fire department, ipd sixtyseven; per cent, of thsL schoolteachers are Catbolics\ From this it would appear that time is no discrimination in ChStogo against Catholicism. —Goodlwd Herald. %

Judge Baldwin, of Logansport, who is by all odds the most able defender of free trfftle, and the Wilson bill, in northern Indiana, says that working men will be as well off under the Wilson bill, making $2 a day as they were under the McKinley bill, earning $4 a day, because the price of everything the workmen buys will be reduced as much as his wages. The judge is wrong in several respects. There are many things which workmen use the price of which will not be reduced in any such proportion as their wages will be—such as tea and cofFee which are not produced in this country, and. sugar, which is not produced very largely; There -are also many articles which are protected by patents, and the prices of which will remain about the same, whether workmen have large wages or small. And the same facts apply to farmers as to wage earners. Although the average prices of what they have to sell will inevitably be much lower under the Wilson bill, or any other free trade measure, much that they have to buy will be as high as ever. And almost nothing which either workiugmen or farmers have to buy will be reduced so much in proportion as the labor of tbe one or the farm produce of the other. To illustrate this last assertion: Suppose wager of' workingmen and produce of farms fall 50 per cent., as Mr. Bald win,practically admits, and suppose again a farm implement or a suit of clothes, costing under the McKinley bill S2O. Half of that cost or $lO represents the cost of the labor that produced it. Under the Wilson bill, the labor will cost $5, and ihe cost of the machine or suit of clothes will be sls instead of S2O. Thus while the workers’. wages or the farmers’ produce is reduced 50 per cent, the price of what they have to buy .is reduced duly 25 per cent. In the matter of debts already contracted, on the workingman’s home or the farmer’s farm, as well as all kinds of public debts there will be no redaction at all, and what, under the McKinley

bill could be paid by 100 bushels of wheat or 100 days’ wages, will call for 200 bushels or 200 days’ work, under the free trade basis. But in the case of the workingmen, the effects of free trade would be not only to reduce the daily rate of wages, but it will also greatly reduce the number of days’ work. Inevitably, and beyond the possibility of denial, the Wilson bill, with its free lumber free iron, free wool, free salt, free machinery and its greatly reduced duties on most everything, will result in vastly increased imports. Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of goods will be brought from foreign countries every year, which under adequate protection would be made at home. All this will mean so much work taken away from the men and woman of this country and given to foreigners. Under the Wilson bill there will be not only vastly less wages but also vastly less work.

The annual meeting of the Indiana Republican league will occur at Indianapolis, Tuesday, February 13, at the Marion county court house at 11 o’clock a. m. At night there will be a grand mass meeting at TomHnson hall. Speeches will be made by Congressman J. C. Burrows, of Michigan, Hon. W. O. Bradley and Hon. Augustus Willson, of Kentucky, and probably other distinguished and eloquent speakers who have been invited, will be present and address the meeting. ..

The speeches will be interspersed with patriotic songs and music, and I hope that as a result of the large meeting that we intend to have, there will be such an increased interest-in the league work, as shall cause the immediate organization of Republican clubs m every township in the gjjtate.. This will produce greater Ikiity of purpose, concentration of atifion and more harmonious and eutwusiastic work in the campaign, and Consequently our clubs will be great%factors in redeeming this state f?Bhl the. hands of the Democracy, %d will do much next towards assisting in giving su<lk a large majority in Indiana aswiaH politically place her in line wmli her sister states, Ohio and Permpylvania. All Republicans, andwfchose who intend to act with themqbi this campaign, are invited to attend the aforesaid meeting. MarcuVß- Sulzer. Pres; Republicandfetate League. Madison, Ind, Jan. 2qk 1894.