Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1894 — JORDAN TOWNSHIP CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

JORDAN TOWNSHIP CONVENTION.

The Republican voters of Jordan tp., will meet at EGYPT SCHOOL HOUSE, at 2 o’clock p. m., on SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1894. For the purpose of nominating a full township ticket, to be voted for at'the November election.

M. G. LEWIS,

Township Chairman.

The A. R. U. pays Debs a salary of $3,000 a year, his chief aid $2,000, and seven others $1,500 each. The walking delegates and labor agitators all get good pay, and the money comes out of the pockets of the working people.

If any one wants to know- why prices of all farm products are low —fearfully low, let him look over the list of silent factories, dead furnaoes and empty shops. These are the reasons, more eloquent and more convincing than all the oral and written testimony that has ever been produced. And it is the fulfillment of Republican prophecy, literally and absolutely.

The disastrous Debs insurrection wiil be worth a good deal in teaching workingmen to beware of false teachings of conscienceless demagogues and fanatical cranks. But the trouble it is a lesson that will not last. There is no permanent cure for such conditions, short of a universal better education for the masses of the people, and cutting off the tide of ignorant and vicious immigration from foreign lands. . The American Economist has gone into detail in regard to the —number of sheep, their iversgo pr ice and their total value, in each state and territory of the country, two years ago and now. It shows that the fanners have already learned that this free trade disease which lias got among their sheep cost Ihein 825,660,013 loss -—in-the-actual val r.e of live- stock. The total clip value of wool loss was $23,073,596, thus making a total loss to the sheep raisers of the United States of 848,738,709.

Debs, Howard and some others strike leaders fire now in jail in Chicago, lor e uterapt of court, and. prefer to stay there rather than to give bail, they want to pose as martyrs. Defas^thinks its a of a free country where men can't advise others, to shoot burn, wreck trains, Arc. “Save your money and buy a gun” is the order he sent to his Montana dupes, July 2nd. 'there is no •doubt but what the fellow expected to inaugurate a successful insurrection. A good many Democrats in lleneselaer, and probably the same is tr ue of the, whole county, are very hot over the dark-lantern, Tammany Hall method by which the county’s, delegates to the Democratic congressional convention, were selected last Saturday. The old and supposedly defunct demo-cratic-central committee met in a room in the Newels House, and selected the delegates in the true public be d—d method; and no one else save members of this self-per-petuating committee was allowed to have any voice in the matter a all. Of course the scheme toad worked in the interest of some one of the congressional candidates, and against some dthers. For one thing, they did not intend that t he friends of Pat Keefe, the Newton county statesman, should, “get a smell” in this county.

If the tariff bill were to be become a law as it stands to-day, the net effect upon the fortunes of the individual American citizen would be this: No appreciable reduction in the cost of living; no material diminution in the market price of the commodities upon which the consumer now pays his indirect tax for thesupportof the government; but, on the other hand, a new and hateful tax directly imposed upon every citizen with an income of over $4,000, - and upon every citizen, rich or poor, jjwhose thrift has saved and whose prudence has invested his savings in any of the ordinary ways.

An unreformed Tariff and an unnecessary income tax! No gain on the one side, and on the other a new, direct, exasperating burden that will make every man who pays it the enemy of the party responsible for its imposition. This is the whole story up to date, as it effects the American taxpayer—N. Y. Sun. (Dem.)

The speech of Henry George the social reformer, in which he made the statement that he Would rather see all the railroad cars in the country burned and all the tracks destroyed rather than have t h**in preserved by force, was a remarkably disgraceful otfeT""Nu more incendiary utterance has marked the frotliings of Herr Most. It is the leadership of such men as Henry George that threatens the social fabric of the nation. - Lafayette Journal. Our democratic contemporary is eminently correct in the above remarks. It is exactly What Republicans have been saying about the blatant anarchist Henry George all along. They said the same about him during the campaign of 1892 when the Democratic National committee was having printed and wa3 sending out all over the country his latest incendiary book. Protection or Free Trade, by hundreds of thousands, at the people’s, expense, as a pretended part of the Congressional Record. More than any other, and all ot her agencies, in the country, the Democratic party is re- : sponsible for the spread of anarchistic ideas in this country, and their villainous and fraudulent circulation of Henry George’s book was one of the most effective processes by which those ideas were disseminated. Democratic demagogism, and Populistic madness has sowed the wind, and all the people, but more especially their deluded victims, the workingmen, are reaping the