Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1894 — Wall From a Miner. [ARTICLE]

Wall From a Miner.

Lots of us don’t like it; but you know its three more yeans of Grover, and then the clover will be on top Of us I think. We have over 20,000 miners idle in Illinois, and fourteen companies of the state militia in different places in the state at present That’s democracy sure enough. We had to work before, so you see w« can do without it now and get the soldiers to watch us, as they do over in the old country. We must be English, they say. Don’t you think it’s pretty like it? Twenty cents per ton of a reduction will help to bring us nearer to it And many of our republicans here said it was better overt there than here. They did not expect it to come so soon. All I hope is that they will smother that bill in congress se dead that it will never live again, and all the bourbons and copperheads with it forever. The monster, the southern confederacy, would like to show its slimy head again—that’s my honest opinion. A man’s bread is his life, and when they bargain for my bread I must kick. _ Robt. Bowie. Braidwood, HL, May 29, 1891