Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1895 — True Cause Of Business Revival. [ARTICLE]

True Cause Of Business Revival.

Governor Matthews issued his proclamstion Tuesday, declaring the new laws in f<§rce. He makes an exception in ease of Chapter 146, which is the state house custodian law, which caused the big row in the house of represet atives, the night of the final adjournment. He claims that this law was uever propc-rly filed with the Secretary of State. •

It is still generally believed that the new representative apportionment law places Jasper, Newton, Pulaski and White counties all in one district, with two joint representatives. This belief is erronious, however. This arrangement was the one first proposed, but it was abandoned for the much more sensible and generally satisfactory one formerly prevailing; and therefore Jasper and Newton still form one district and Pulaski and White another. There is another point in the Nicholson bill which seems to be as generally misunderstood as the local option section. It is in regard to the removal of the screens. The general impression seems to be that no screens or blinds are to be permitted before the doors and windows of saloons at any time. This isan error. The screens are not forbidden during legal seeing hoars, but must be removed so as to permit a full view, from the front, of the whole interior of the saloon, during lawfully closed days and hours. This provision, if enforced, will prevent secret selliug on Sundays, legal holidays, election days,‘ and nights after 11 o’clock.

The democratic press is very happy over the slow recovery of business and industry. Every little advance of wages is heralded. Then these announcements are collected, revised, enlarged and published in long articles. They attribute it to the democratic tariff, which was so notoriously bad when it became a law that only a few irresponsible democrats, like Senator Voorhees, defended it in the campaign of 1894 Now that business is improving, these free trade organs which denounced the tariff made by the sugar trust are applauding it as the measure which has brought prosperity or the increasing signs of it to the country. The free trade democratic organ is wrong, as usual. From the date of the passage of the democratic ’tariff act until after the election in November, 1894, there was not a sign of what could be called recovery in the great industries of the country. A few factories had started up with reduced wages, but with no promise of continued employment. There was yet uncertainty. The administration and the democratic House made a fight before the country for the indorsement of its tariff. So vigorously was the battle fought that republicans scarcely claimed a majority of the House, while the party which had made the tariff was confident that a majority suoh as had made the tariff law had been returned. If returned, their work would be indorsed and the Gorman act would be further Wilsonized. In the election the democracy which made the present tariff was smitten down in nearly every State in which there is a fair election and an honest count, as a party was never before smitten at the polls. Its tariff law and tariff policy were the issue, and both were condemned by a popular verdict without parallel in the history of popular government. In the States where real elections are held the majority against the tariff for revenue, or rather for deficits' only, was hundreds of thousands. A congress was elected in which the free trade party has not the one-third neoessary to

prevent suspension of the rules. Everybody but the free trade propagandists and their organs knew that that election so condemned the policy of free trade that it cannot be an element in American elections for years. The country knows that the verdict of that same election was that the policy of this country, so far as tariffs are concerned, shall be protective None saw this more readily than manufacturers and business men. They saw that no more of the home markets would be given to foreign competitors by future congresses, but that all future legislation would strengthen the defenses of American labor and capital Very naturally, they resolved to fight to retain their position, assured that in two or three years it would be strengthened by protective legislation. They know that they have seen the worst and have absolute confidence in a better futurje. It is this assurance whieh has caused business to improve from day to day since the election last November. —lndianapolis Journal.