Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1894 — Page 10

AN IMPOTENT PARTY.

HOT SHOT FOR DEMS ALL ALQNG THE LINE. Items Which Go to Show Conclusively That the Party of Cleveland Is Utterly Unfit to Shape the Destinies of a Grcal People. No Protection in a Plagairlst. “Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a dealily blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave. And blasts them in their hours of might I” —Tom Moore's “Lalla Rookh.” “I take my place with the rank and file of the democratic party, who believe in tariff reform and know what it ia, who refuse to accept the results embodied .in this bill as the end of the war, who are not blinded to the fact that the livery of democratic tariff reform has been stolen and worn in the service of republican protection, and who have marked the places where the deadly blight of treason has blasted the counsels of the brave in their hour of might.”—Grover Cleveland’s Theft of Brains.

Left In a Hole.

Lightening Those “Heavy Burdens.” The people have not yet discovered how the new bill “will certainly lighten many tariff burdens that now rest heavily” upon them. They have discovered, however, that the price of sugar has been increased by the democratic tax upon their breakfast tables, which they shrewdly suspect has something to do with those “influences” to Which the President was so susceptible when he failed to veto a bill containing “inconsistencies and crudities,” whjich, he says, should not appear ‘inlaws of any kind.” Having experienced this one result of ‘"influences” upon democratic legislation, the people are not anxious to witness any “further aggressive operations against protected monopoly,” Operations that result only in enhancing the cost of the people’s food through democratic “governmental favoritism.”

Down With the Trusts.

The Gormon tariff bill is the law of the land. Let it be enforced. It will be remembered that immediately prior to its passage in the senate, Senator Morgan introduced a series of resolutions determining the • illegality of every combination, conspiracy, trust, agreement or contract between two or more persons that would restrain lawful trade or free competitidn, or increase <the price of tfny marketable commodity. The penalty is fixed at a fine ranging from $409 to $5,000,.an imprisonment for a term varying from three to twelve months. The attorney-general is directed to institute proceedings through the several district attorneys of the United States. Let him begin. Let him begin. Let him begin with the sugar trust. Let him follow this up with the Whisky trust.

Increasing Democratic Salaries.

Democratic economy has resulted in several large increases to democratic salaried officials. The democratic minister to Belgium gets SIO,OOO a year. This is $2,500 a year more than was paid to the republican minister to Belgium who preceded him. This looks as if protection were not such a bad thing after all, when it protects democratic office-holders.

“Clad in Party Perfidy and Dishonor.'

Too Poor to Buy Corn.

In 1867 the consumption of corn in the United States was 23.52 bushels for every individual In 1892 it was 80.33 bushels, an increase of 6.81 bushels ppr person, during 1 the good protection timea Directly the threat of free trade came the consumption of corn fell off, being only 23.66 bushels per capita in 1893, just the same quantity as it was a quarter of a' century ago j •

Did You Ever? No Never.

Did you ever see such mismanagement of the public finances by a national administration? < Did you ever see the gold reserve so low in a time of peace and gold gob* tfawally out of the dbuntry? .... "

ANOTHER’S BRAINS.

HOW THE'PRESIDENT COMPILES HIS SPEECHES. ‘ “ "Treason Like a Deadly Blight’’' Descends Upon His Own Head —Toni Moore’s I’oem Used to Slaughter the Democratic Leaders-. [From New York Sun,. Aug. 29.] The usefulness of a good working library to a President of the United States was magnificently illustrated in the mentor able days' wh en' the “American Cyclopaedia” furnished Mr. 5 Cleveland with speech after speech for delivery to the mayors anil citizens of son th western towns. Mr. Cleveland is not regarded as a scholarly man, but his library methods are still those of the patient toiler ih the alcove. Having on band during the past ten days the job of composing a letter to Mr. Catchings, and desiring to put to Catchings the infamy of treason in as strong and striking language as possible, the President goes to his book-

Where is Democratic Harmony?

shelves. He does not take down the Cyclopaediaas before, for he seldom consults-that once familiar work now except under stress of absolute necessity He reaches instead for his copy of John Bartlett’s “Familiar Quotations.” Turning to “Treason” in the index, he finds first: “Treason can but peep, 112. ” That will not answer. “Treason can but peep” is too undignified for a semi-official executive communication. It suggests chickens. The next indication is this: ‘ Corporations can not commit treason, 24.” . That is manifestly unavailable. It is too favorable to the trusts. Next: “Treason doth never prosper, 39.” But it does prosper, and its prosperity is what Mr. Cleveland wants to complain of to Catchings. So he turns to the next line: “Treason flourished over us, bloody, 114.” That might do, but a reference to page 114 shows Mr. Cleveland that bloody treason is mixed up with the fall of Great Caesar, an unpleasant idea to contemplate. “Treason has clone his worst, 121,” The same objection applies. Treason has done his worst and Bun can is in his grave; malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further. “If this be treason, make the most of it, 429.” The same trouble again in the quotation from Patrick Henry's.speech in the convention: “Caesar had his Brutus; Charles I. his* Cromwell,” and so forth. Bnt the seventh indication is a find. “Treason, like a deadly blight, 526.” That’s the sort of treason he wants to impress on Catchings’ mind. Going swiftly to page 526 he scans with the satisfaction of a discoverer these lines from “Lalla Rookh:” “O for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o’er the councils of the' brave. And blasts them in their.hour of might!” Just the thing for Catchings. And so with patient, laborious care our President rounds out his period thus: “I take my place with the rahlFand file of the democratic party, who believe in tariff reform and know what it is, who refuse to accept the results embodied in this bill as the end of the' war, who are not blinded to the fact that the livery of democratic tariff reform has been stolen and worn in the service of republican protection, and

The Lumberman’s Fix.

who have marked the places where the deadly blight of treason has blasted the counsels of the brave in their hour of might.” It is true that the figures of speech ! are somewhat mixed, and that the ‘ patch line between Hon .JJrover Cleveland’s rhetoric and Tom Moore’s is rather too obvious; but that doesn’t matter much. It is a precious privilege to get this glimpse of the actual workings of a massive mind in fall and effective operation.

CLEVELAND ON WOOL.

7 LYING TO HEECE FROM Hl3 ATTACK ON FARMERS. Oh! How Different It Would Be If Ibero Was a Wool Trust —His Third Paralleled w.th the Wilson —letter. - . , President Cleveland's record on the question of free wool shows that he advocated ft in his third annual message to congress, Dec. 6, 1887, because “a large proportion of the sheen owned bythe farmers- throughout the country were found in small flocks numbering from twenty-five to-fifty.” The inference to be drawn therefrom is that free wool would never have- been thought of by President Cleveland or his party if the flocks of the United States had been large ones concentrated among a few owners, or, in fact, if there had been a sheen trust, a wool trust, or both. Such a trust could have dictated its own terms, but the unfortunate 830,960 separate farmers who owned sheep were selected as victims to free trade. President -Cleveland has -evidently, seen the necessity for correcting ..these views; and he tried to do so in his ad-

The Tariff Burglars.

dress to congress, sent from behind the back of Congressman Wilson. We quote, side by side, these remarks that he made last month together with those made in his message of 1887. President Cleveland’s President Cleveland’s Third Annual Mes- letter to Hon. Willsage to Congress, iamL Wilson, July Dec. 6, 1887. 2, 1894. I think it may be It may well excite fairly assumed that a ourwon-ler that demlarge proportion of ocr t< are willing to the sheep owned by depart from this (free the farmers through-(caw material), the put the country arejmost democratic of found in small flocks all tariff principles, numbering f rominnd that the incon-twenty-flve to fifty. s:stent absurdity of . . . When tho such a proposed denumber of farmers parture should be engaged in wool rais-Vmphnsized by the Ing is compared with •suggestion that the all the farmers in the wool of the farmers country and the small be put on the free proportion they bear list, and the urotecto our population is.tion of tariff taxaconsidered ; when it'tion be placed Around is made apparent ; the iron ore and coal that, in the case of a!of corporations and large part of those •capitalists, who own sheep, the benefit of the present tariff on wool is illusory, etc. In the course of the same message of 1887 Mr. Cleveland argued that a tariff upon wool “becomes a burden upon those with-mederate means and the poor, the employed and unemployed, the sick and well, the young and old. ” In his later message qf last month, while trying to hedge ground of his opposition to a tariff upon wool because it protected the interests of a large number of farmers, and while endeavoring to show that he is opposed to a tariff upon the “iron ore and ooal of corporations and capitalists,” ho plunges boldly to the protection of the sugar trust, advocating a tariff upon sugar.of which it may indeed be truly said that it “becomes a burden upon those with moderate means and the poor, the employed and the unemployed, the sick and well, and the young and old," while at the same time he continues to advocate the destruction of the sheep farming industry upon which the farmers depend. May not “the inconsistent absurdity of such a proposed departure” be calculated to “well excite our wonder?” The only conclusion that may be drawn from President Cleveland’s

“Tariff Reform.”

THE HONEST AMERICAN BEDUCED TO BEGGARY.

contrary courses is his desire to strengthen the belief that he has completely sold himself to the interests of the sugar trusts and to the coal barons who propose to develop foreign properties in Canada.

Effect of Free Wool.

If wool be put on the free list, the American wool grower will have to submit to the disadvantages of raising wool in this climate on even terms with his foreign rivals, who do not have such difficulties to contend with, and so without, adequate protection must nsoessarily ho driven aut of the

business. Our seventh largest agricultural industry, producing anhuaily 000.000; worth of wool and representing Min investment of $1Q0,000,000 in sheep, will be destroyed by free trade. Sheep will be fattened and will then be sent to market as food and flocks will disappear forever Our food supply will in time thus be decreased and our manufacturers eventually wiil be driven to buy their wooly

Stronger Planks Needed Here.

in London or in Australia—-Gold will, thus be sent out of the country again, increasing the harmful influences that must follow with the balance of trade permanently against us. The wool growers would be forced into some other industry. They would probably plow up their present sheep pastures when the land is suitable and raise wheat, of which we already have an overproduction and a surplus It is to the interest of American farmers to diversify their industries and to produce such articles as will find a market at home instead of abroad. The present administration favors a glut of a few products with their consequent cheapness to the producers. Presidential Prevarication. President President Cleveland’s Message land’s letter to to Congress, Dec- Hon. William L. ember 4, 1893. Wilson, July 2, A measure has I B ** 4, been prepared by You know how the appropriate much I deprecated congressional com- the incorporation mittee embodying in the proposed bill tariff reform on of the income tax the lines herein feature, suggested. It is the result of much patriotic and unselfish work. The committee have wisely embraced in their plans a few additio na 1 internal revenue taxes, including a small tax upon incomes . derived from certain corporate investments. If “I deprecated the incorporation” in the Wilson bill ‘‘of the income tax feature,” why was it necessary to say that the ways and ineans committee “wisely embraced” it? If the income tax were “wisely em-

“Tariff Reform.”

WALK UP AND PAY YOUR TAX TO THB TRUSTS. “

braced” by the ways and means committee “on the lines herein suggested” --in “my message”—on what grounds can it be claimed * ‘how much I deprecated it? Which is “the result of much patriotic and unselfish work?”

“Democratic Principle and Policy."

Letter to Mr. Wil- Statement in the son, July 2, 1894. World, July 28, While no tender- 1894. ness should be en- Mr. Clev eland tertained for stated to members trusts, and while lof the house that am decidedly op- if a concession to posed to granting the refining interthem, under the ests were found to guise of tariff tax- be unavoidable in ation, any oppor- order to pass a tunity to further tariff bill this contheir peculiar cession should be methods. I suggest put in such form that we ought not as to make it absoto be driven away lutely certain from the democrat- what it means. ic principle and 1 policy which lead to the taxation of sugar.

Sugar Economically Studied.

Continuing the economic study of the sugar question, on the basis of a 40 per cent ad valorem rate of duty, a 45 per cent rate and a 40 per cent rate on raw, plus % cent differential rate on refined sugar, we attain the following results: Average value of sugar, cents per pound. . Duty in cento. At 40 per cent ad valorem 1.10 At 45 per eent ad valorem 1.2875 At 40 per cent ad valorem and & Rent. differential.....1 1.225: nefit to refiners at 40 per cent and Ji cent above4s per cent rate.... 0.0125 Total benefit to refiners on 4,430,006,000 pounds sugar at 0.0125 cent 8552,500 It is ’but a trifle of half a million dollars, but every little helps

RAINMAKING.

The Apparatus Used to Draw Slxjwers In _ the West. The faith of prairie residents in the modern Aquarius, the rainmaker, is evidenced by • the large sums received from localities for trials of the unique science, from SIOO to SSOO for five days’ work is the ruling quotation for a visit from the rainmaker and usually even these amounts are not contingent upon rain appearing. The modern rainmaker has his apparatus on wheels and his car’s advent into a prairie town is hailed with delight and wonder. The Rock Island railway, has three cars operating in—Kansas and Nebraska constantly, and half a score of independent aspirants for cloud ruling Work in the same territory. When the rainmaker’s car is sidetracked at a prairie station and gets, ready to bombard the heavens it presents an odd appearance. On top of a freight car is a tank holding 800 gallons of water. Through the roof project three pipes to lead into the air above the gases generated in the laboratory inside. In one end of the car is the operator’s living room. In the other is an imposing array of bottles, jars, electric battery, cells, pipes and wires. The principle on which the work is done is that of sending elect rifle d gases through the pipes. These being tighter than air ascend with great rapidity to an altitude of 4,500 to 6,000 feet where they are supposed to intercept a current of moisture moving from northeast to southwest and turning cold, sink, forming a vacuum into which a* drawn the moisture laden air currents. About 4,500 cubic feet of gas is sent up per hour and the records of the rainmakers show that, either through some influenee or by good fortune, clouds have formed soon after the issuing of the gases al many stations —although in some instances they have bombarded the heavens in vain for days. The operation is quite expensive, an alloy with murium, costing sls a pound, being much used, and the eost of the cars is about SIOO a day.

NAMED AFTER PRESIDENTS.

Philadelphia Maintains Ker Record for Patriotism In Nomenclature. Of the twenty-three presidents of the United States John Adams has the largest number of namesakes, twen-ty-three in the Philadelphia directory. Janies Buchanan ranks next, twentyone men of nearly a£ many vocations bearing the name of the only Pennsylvania president. There are fifteen Andrew Jacksons and fourteen Andrew Johnsons. The name of the father of h'is country is borne by eight day laborers, one caterer, two waiters, one janitor and one real estate dealer, or thirteen men in all. The grandfather of Benjamin Harison has three namesakes, while one laborer and one upholsterer have the name of Tippecanoe’s grandson. There are four James Monroes and the same number called John Quincy Adams. One hostler, one puddler and a weaver are known as James Madison, and a bartender, a clerk and a superintendent answer to the name of Zachary Taylor. There is llut one Thomas Jefferson, whose occupation Is not given, and the only John Tyler is a weaver. A brakeman and a minister of the gospel are Franklin Pierces, but there is nobody with the name of Presidents Van Buren, Polk, Fillmore, Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, or Cleveland, except as a handle to the surname.

Burned to Life.

“While I was in Brussels a few years ago,” said Dr. T. L. Taylor of Boston. “I witnessed a restoration from apparent drowning in one of the hospitals that struck me as rather remarkable. A man had been upset in a rowboat, and was only recovered after a cqnsiderable time. An eminent physician in the city applied all the remedies he could think of, but no sign of life manifested itself. As. a forlorn hope, or last resort, the doctor proceeded to apply plates of iron, heated to a white heat, to the upper parts of the body, near the more vital organs. After a short time, to the utter astonishment of the assistants, faint signs of breathing were observed, and in course of half an hour the man came to life, and was finally fully restored, the only inconvenience sustained being the result of the severe cauterization which his skin necessarily underwent.”

Trick of the Cigar Trade.

There is a little trick in the cigar business to which some dealers will confess good naturedly if you ask them about it The dealers will display a card in a box announcing that the cigar ts sold fpr twenty cents; 819.50 a hundred, extremely innocent person would suppose that the dealer could not expect to sell many of those cigars at wholesale when a buyer of 100 would save only one-half a cent on each cigar. Well, the dealer doesn't expect to sell them by wholesale, and he doesn’t sell them, but he knows that it just tickles a smoker to death to think that he is getting a single cigar for practically what it would cost him if he bought a ship load of them.

A Revolving Car Fender.

A unique trolley car fender is proposed by a Boston inventor. He has taken the large revolving brushes from a street sweeper and placed them in such a position under the car that a person who happens to fall in front of the car will be practically swept from the track. The brushes are geared to the axle of the car so that they will revolve as the car, moves along. Their position is much the same as that of a cow catcher—that is, in the shape of aV, with the point ahead, -

HAD NO TIME TO WASTE.

WOatlnchouse Gave Vanderbilt as Good —y —— as lie Got. :— r-—_ When Westinghouse first obtained his patent on the air brake, like most . inventors, he was poor and friendless. He managed to secure an introduction to Commodore Vanderbilt, who was never noted for his gentle manners. Westinghouse found him engrossed in his correspondence, and he did not deign To stop reading his letters while the inventor extolled the merits of bis invention. When he had spoken bis little piece Vanderbilt for the first time seemed to take any notice of him, and, looking up suddenly, said in his gruffest tones: “What’s that you say?" So Westinghouse commenced all over again and explained how by an air pressure of thirty pounds to the square foot the brake was applied by the engineer, and when he finished he waited patiently for the verdict. Once more the old commodore raised his head high enough to jerk out: “What’s that you say about air? Westinghouse told him. Looking him steadily in the face the old man replied in freezing tones: “That will do; I have no time to waste with a d —d fool!” Discouraged, but not disheartened, Westinghouse left,only later to bring the great invention to the knowledge of the Pennsylvania railroad authorities. With that opening it was easy enough to get other roads to use the brake, and Westinghouse’s fame and fortune were made. When that time had arrived he one day received a letter from Commodore Vanderbilt, asking him to call at the Central’s office. Mr. Westinghouse’s reply was terse and to the point. He simply wrote: “I have no time to waste with a d—d fool.”

ONLY A GIRL.

But She Has a Record for Killing Rattlesnakes. The town of Liberty, in New York, claims the champion rattlesnake hunter in the person of sixteen-year-old Mary Burton. Early last summer she 1 killed a rattlesnake in her father’s yard and cut off the rattles. Since then she has developed a craze for collecting the rattles of these snakes, and spends her time hunting the venomous reptiles. Up to date she has killed twenty-eight rattlesnakes, and from them has obtained twenty perfectly matched sets of rattles. Each apt has nine rattles or segments. The other eight sets are odd ones, rang* log from four to ten rattles in a set The women of that part of the state seem to have taken an amazing courage in dealing with snakes. A report from Hancock says that Mrs. Frank Tower, of that place, was on her way home after dark one evening whecf x she heard a rattlesnake sound its rattles in the weeds at the roadside. She hurried home, said nothing to any one, got a lantern and a club, and returned'to the spot where she heard the rattler. It was there still and sprang its rattles as soon as Mrs. Tower approached. She turned her light on it, saw it lying coiled ready to strike, and smashed its head with a club. The snake was an immense fellow, measuring over five feet, but it carried only nine rattles. A young girl named Henrietta Quick, across the Delaware in Lackawaxen, Penn., heard a noise among her chickens. She went out and saw a rattlesnake maneuvering to capture one. She cut its head off with a hoe. This one had thirteen rattles.

English Real Estate.

Lord Vaux of Harrowden, can justly claim to be original at a period when originalitv of the kind is rare. Most English landowners are now selling their family estates. Lord Vaux has reversed the process, hay, ing just bought back Harrowden, which had been separated from the title for over 200 years. Say what they will, for those who can afford to wait land is still one of the best investments. Population and the v-ik ume of wealth increases rapidly iA these days, while the area of land, dA course, must be stationary. This is ’ the period of transition, and everything is more or less disturbed in consequence, but given another half century, when stability has more or less been re-established, and the value of landed property must inevitable improve considerably.

A Famous Comic Weekly.

It is now fifty years since the EHegende Blaetter was started in Munich. During the first ten or twelve years the Fliegqnde Blaetter did not appear regularly, but merely from time to time. The two publishers were Kaspar Braum, a clever artist, < endowed with a rich, /lowing vein qf humor, and Frederick Schneider, who was possessed of a tender and poetic soul The former also took charge of the artistic part, and the latter fixed the literary standard of the periodical Kaspar Braum died in 1879 and his partner in 1864.

A Monitor Lamp.

The Echo des Mines announces the invention by a young Belgian of a lamp such as has never been seen before. The lamp Is composed of 3,000 piecea It is six feet high and measures three feet ten Inches in diameter. Its light is so strong that one can read . by it a distance of 600 feet The lamp' is fed with lard oil, and the consumption is said to be very small

Where He Drew the Line.

"You have called me a pitiful aneag, sir, a coward, a poltroon, a small-souled, miserly, overbearing brute," said the man on the north side of the Hue fence, removing his coat and rolling up his sleeves. "I don’t allow anybody on earth to talk to me like that,” he added, jumping over the fence and knocking hi» neighbor down, “except my wlftk" /