Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1894 — Voorhees as a Protectionst. [ARTICLE]

Voorhees as a Protectionst.

The Industrial World of Chicago, republishes the following extracts from an address delivered by Hon. D. W. Voorhees, now chairman of the senate committee on finance, at the opening of the industrial fair at Atlanta, Ga., on October 5, 1881. Mr. Voorhees said: Freedom of trade has a seductive sound, but if it be not reciprocal and of equal advantage among nations it is attractive only in sound and nothing more. The policy of a wise government is necessarily one of self interest, and it has a trust to perform in the care of its own people before carrying out benevolences to others.

The policy of a free and unrestricted exchange and sale of commodities between commercial countries has for the last fifty years especially, been the theme of eulogy on the part of British writers and statesmen, but it cannot be forgotten that this policy was never advanced on the part of Great Britain, until by hundreds of years of not merely protective but prohibitory legislation, she has so fostered and built up her home industries, and at the same time cheapened the wages of labor that competition on the part of other nations was no longer feared. Ihe student of history has but a short distance to go in the past inorder to find English laws demanding the barbarous penalties of death and mutilation against the importation and exportation of certain agricultural productions. Such absolute exclusiveness in trade as the comparatively recent history of England •-presents can hardly be found in any other country outside of China. B. F. FE RGUSON is now pre pared to make Farm Loans at 6 1-2 percent, interest per annum. Commission as low as any one else. He does his own abstracting and can save you money there. Be sure and call. We can make your loans quickly, because — we make it a specialty.

Jasper County Residents Implicated. The post-office at Boone Grove, Porter county, was robbed a few weeks ago. The postmaster discovered the robbers and fired several shots at them, certainly hitting two of them. One of the wounded men is believed to have since died, and that his body has been disposed of by his companions. There now seems to be pretty strong reasons for believing that Jasper county parties were implicated m the robbery, as will be seen from the following from the Valparaiso Messenger: Saturday evening N. G. Stumpfer, of the National Detective Bureau, of Hammond, Ind., made this office a call. Mr. Stumpfer has for the past month been ferreting out the Boone Grove postoffice robbers and before many days hopes to land several parties who were implicated in the attempted robbery bt hind the bars. He called at the county jail to see Michael Harrigan, who was arrested at South Bend a few weeks ago, as being one of the parties connected with the robbery. Harrigan, however, refused to say anything in regard to the matter. Near Wheatfield Mr.Stumpfer discovered some important evidence. In an old shanty he found an old coat, with part of the coat sleeve shot away and also some cloths which had been used in stopping the ' flow of blood. Another link was also found in the person of an old fisherman who claims to have seen a boat with five men come down the Kankakee to Baum’s bridge on the day of the attempted robbery and that the next morning he saw while standing on the bridge fishing the same party passing by. That in one end of the boat there lay a man covered up who was apparently suffering as he would now and then ask

for a drink of liquor. Stumpfer found a note addressed to one “Nellie” at Momence, 111., on the ground near the old cabin, together with a handkerchief covered with blood. Part of the note was in such condition that it was impossible to make out all the contents. But it was evident that the man was in a dying condition and had at tempted to write a farewell message to his wife or sweetheart. He is also of the opinion that the man who was wounded was done away with by his companions. In regard to the same circumstance, the Hammond News has the following: H. G. Strumpfer was employed to trace the other wounded man. He found in the marshes near Wheatfield two fellows living in a style beyond their visible income. They seem to raise nothing and do nothing, yet live well. Their hut is so concealed | that persons can be within twenty yards of it and not see it at ail. The inhabitant pretended innocence in regard to the wounded man, but Mr. Strumpfer searched and found a j hunter’s hut with a bedding of hay. This hay was matted with blood and and a handkerchief, vest, etc., found. I Mr. Strumpfer tore from the vest the ’ lining of the left breast which, showed a wqund had been made by ■ ,a shot gun just where Whitten berg claims he shot the man. Other evidence was found to show that the body had been shipped from Momence to Riverside and there—well no farther trace can be found.