Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1894 — Democratic Promise and Performance. [ARTICLE]

Democratic Promise and Performance.

•■Vote for Cleveland 1 Vandalia, 111, ami g>tsl.2“>for wheat.” ; July s.—Wheat thresh—Chicago Herald, 1892.' ling is in full blast in ) Fayette county. Six ; hundred bushels of the new crop was Brought } to market today and j cents. por bti-hel. Tin’.beri I'y N exceptionally fine "? and weighs over sirfy pounds to tho bushel me a siire.—C hie ag o ; Herald, ISM.

A girl was killed in Tennessee, last week, doing the parachute leap act. A week or two previous another parachute girl met the same fate, at Anderson, this state. This parachute business is altogether too dangerous, and managers of fairs and celebrations who provide it, as drawing attractions, are guilty of a great moral wrong, every time they do it.

The large force of stone cutters working on the new court house, at Monticello, who were getting 35 cents an hour, struck for 40 cents. After laying around on expenses, and losing their time for over a week, they went to work again, at the old price. Many of the men had long been out of work, were hard up and had families to support. Yet they went on a strike when they were earning such good wages as $3.50 a day, and lost their time and money and ran a big risk of losing their jobs. This striking business, as a general rule, is the monumental folly of the century.