Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1895 — Protection and Republicanism. [ARTICLE]

Protection and Republicanism.

Laporte Argos: Any man who wants a freer use of silver for circulating money can have it, He can go to any bank and get any amount of silver he may want in exchange for nthftr mnnoy By simply asking for it he can he can get what is due him in silver dollars anywhere. If he wants to carry around a bushel of silver dollars he can easily get them. If he has a thousand dollars due him and wants silver dollars he can take a grainsack and a wagon and get it. He can make his contract so that all who owe him will be obliged to pay in silver, and if he wants more silver he can surely get all he wants of it. It is not necessary to change the laws or to disturb business for that. It might be well for the free and unlimited silver advocates to try this Bimple plan before going further with their scheme.

For years it has been the costom of almost every county in the state to hold a county fair at least once each year in some enclosed place set apart for the , purpose. At these fairs were exhibited productions of the soil, manufactured articles, and farm animals, etc., together with a variety of entertainments. In most counties where these fairs have been held heretofore in a respectable, square and honest manner they have deteriorated into a congregation of the lowest. elasß of fakirs, gamblers, confidence men, pickpockets, and hoodlums, with a smattering of honest exhibitors who are deluded with the idea they can draw a premium on their exhibit against one who is on a committee or has a “pull” with the society. The county fair has seen its day, and many associations have already sold their property and disbanded, while others are considering the matter, many stockholders realizing that in being connected with attich an institution as the county fair they are losing respectability -- and lending- -support- to a -place where their children can learn very litile thatris good, but see and leirn of thmgs that are vicious. and of a degrading instead of elevating character. —Chesterton Tribune.

The national Republican convention of 1896 will enunciate the principle of protection of American industries. It will enunciate this principle with crystalline clearness and an emphasis never surpassed since, in the infancy of the Republican party, it nailed to its masthead the flag of protection, which it has never lowered for a single moment by a single inch. The national Republican convention of 1896 will declare in favor of various other things. But those who are deluding themselves with the hope that the convention will remain silent on the question of protection, or that its voice will be a whisper or its word a quibble, are doomed to bitter disappointment. The voice will bo a clarion call That word will be a watchword We cannot yield to our friends, the enemy, any jot or tittle in regard to protection; but we will cheerfully let them choose for that principle, so far as their own statements and discussions ore concerned, whatever nomenclature may be best pleasing to themselves. They are at liberty to call it McKinleyism, or iieediem, or Harrisonism, or Allisonism, or any other ism whatsoever. What they call it is a matter of entire indifference to us. It is quite sufficient for us to know that it is Republicanism, which is merely another way of spelling Americanism,—Boston Advertiser. >

Honey to loan on Real Estate in satis of $590 to $19,000. Call on or address J. M. Winkley, Monon, Ind. Office up stairs in Blakley block. J. M. Winkley, Monon, Ind. Any one contemplating buying a ffwef should call on W. E. Overton the implement store and learn (•Ices. See those baby bonnets at Mrs. Lecklider’s, The Emporium, going at actual cost.