Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1895 — Page 7

UNCLE SAM’S INDUSTRIAL THERMOMETER.

EXPORTS. r - .Value of Articles Produced by Labor tn tbe t'nited State* and Sold in —*4he M«rkttg of the World ” During the Two Fiscal Years Ending June 30:

DISHONESTY OF DEMOCRACY.

Trying to Cheat Members of Their j Party in Louisiana. In no instance lias the dishonesty of the present administration been more barefaced than in its dealings with our sugar producers. When 'the McKinley tariff vras passed In 1890 the Louisiana ■crop of that year was 180,000 tons. Under the protection then offered by Congress the sugar output of that one State almost doubled, increasing to 350,000 tons for the 1894 crop, which was cultivated, grown and harvested on the faith that the laWs of Congress would be executed, and that the honesty of the American Government would not bo impeached. It is the same ~ In the ense of t>»r beet-sugar product, which reached only 3,000 tons in 1890 and 30,000 tons in 1894, the phenomenal advance being made solely through the Governrfient's promise of protection.

The hardship experienced, more particularly by the Individual planters and manufacturers of Louisiana, has at length forced upon them the belief that the political party to which they have hitherto belonged is as dishonest as it is incompetent. First of all, the leaders of that party in Congress endeavored to repudiate the payment of the just claims of the sugar growers and producers. It was due chiefly, however, to their political opponents that •Congress insisted upon appropriating the sum of $5,000,000 wherewith to partially meet their demands. More than half a year has elapsed Since that money was appropriated. It has not yet been paid, and obstacle after obstacle has been presented by the Democratic officials to prevent its payment. Every delay and subterfuge that could suggest itself has been practiced so as to defraud the sugar producers, who have overcome every opposition and successfully met every argument used against them. For a year past statesmen, financiers, lawyers and Treasury experts have discussed the payment of this just claim, and all have failed in successfully opposing it. Finally, the Democratic officials in Washington were compelled to formulate regulations for its settlement. All details for payment were arranged and the date was announced, Sept. 1, when the monej r should be handed over.

Thus the hopes of the sugar producers were once more buoyed up. It seemed that the payment of the bounty was Inevitable; that there was no escape from it. But the confiding people of Louisiana did not know the depth of Democratic official degradation. An entirely new obstacle was suddenly set before them, and It now looks as if the grandest period of prosperity that was ever enjoyed by Louisiana will terminate with the impoverishment of her people and a check to her progress that cannot be overcome within a decade. Scores of the sugar plant•ers of that State have already been wrecked and ruined; other had tided ■over their troubles by obtaining advances and extensions of credit, owing lo the promise made by Congress that the bounty should be paid them. But now one official sets himself up to overrule the action of Congress, and those sugar producers who were being helped temporarily by hanks and capitalists must, many of them, succumb to the ruin and wreckage tiiat had previously overwhelmed their neighbors and friends. Not only Is It the sugar producers of Louisiana who are Injured, but every other Industry In the State is directly affected by the prosperity of the sugar people. The treacli•ery of the free-trade party and of the free-trade officials, step by step, through--out this entire transaction with Louisl-

BALANCE OF TRADE. Balance Trade in Favor of the United States During the Two Fiscal Years Ending June 30:

ana will, and can, never be sufficiently exposed. The Battle oFTSDO. Despite all Democratic efforts to befog the issue, the political battle of IS9G will be in the cause of protection. Complicated questions of currency that cannot be settled by a campaign, but rightly belong to a conference of expert financiers, capable of separating the false from the true, cannot displaco the great policy of protection to American industries. This a serf ion is purely dispassionate and logical. Since 1892, the time of the present administration’s rise to power, disaster has involved the entire country, throttling enterprise and stagnating prosperous business ventures on every hand. A healthy treasury has become an empty one, and the national debt, has been Increased by millions of dollars. Not only this financial distress, but every day adds an appalling quota to a monstrous treasury deficiency. Government receipts lag far behind Government expenditures, and revenues have decreased to an alarming extent. Common sense tells the people that the tariff policy of the dominant administration is at the root of all these commercial and industrial woes. Under protection everythingflourished exceedingly; under moderate free trade everything has depreciated.—Dailjt Saratogian.

What the Vote Meant. It was to bring back prosperity that the Republican party marched to the polls last fall and voted all but thirteen Northern Democrats out of the House of Representatives. It was to condemn the paralyzing of American industries and the pauperizing of American labor that W. L. Wilson, .the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, was voted out of Congress in West Virginia, and a solid Republican delegation sent to 9 the House from that State in place of a solid Democratic delegation. It was a condemnation of Democracy, and an assurance to business and industry that the people gave Republicans control in the House by majorities in the delegations of thirty-two out of fortyfour States, so that if by chance the next Presidential election should be thrown into the House a Republican President would be sure to be elected. It is only eight short mouths ago that the people did all this, and yet the Democrats are trying to make them forget their own work and claiming the credit for that which is the direct result of what the people*d4d in condemnation of Democracy. The American people are quick to forgive and forget, but it is too much of a tax upon credulity to believe that they will forget why they turned down the Democratic party in the elections of last year.—J. L. K„ in the Dayton Daily Journal.

Thc Creation of Cheapness. That which creates a demand for cheap goods creates a demand for wool substitutes; and the present tariff law and the depression which grew out of the pernicious nnd unwise legislation of the Democratic administration have so reduced the earnings of the people as to largely Increase the consumption of iow-grade goods. This Is one of the Inevitable results of the Democratic policy of restricting the domestic market for the domestic manufacturer and and Increasing and broadening it for the foreign manufacturer. Our people depend for their wages upon making goods here, and that which tends to curtail their market tends to curtail their earning capacity, and consequently restricts their means of purchasing. It Is because of this that we not only see activity among domestic shoddy manufacturers, Increased im-

* ’ IMPORTS. Value of Articles Marketed In the United States, but Produced by Labor in Foreign Countries, Instead of hy in United States, DnrIng the Two Fiscal Years Ending June 30:

portations of all descriptions of wool substitutes, but increased importations of goods made from low stock.—Textile Manufacturers’ Journal. « Fooling the Farmer. It was as a sop to the farmers that the duty on burlaps and on grain sacks made from burlaps was repealed?* and it was ns a sop to the planters that the duty on cotton ties was repealed. Neither the farmer nor the planter has been benefited to the extent of a cent by these specious provisions of the Wilson act. But the government has lost $2,000,000 a year or thereabout. Cotton ties, in common with all other products of iron and steel, are advancing in price, and burlaps, despite the tariff reduction of 2 per cent, are stationary, with a rising tendency. .But the .fanners and planters will be “taxed”—how fond the free-traders used to be of that word, and how carefully they now eschew ifemse—to make up the deficiency in revenue caused by the repeal of the burlap duty. The revenue derived from imports of burlaps stood thus in 1894, the last yeSr of application of the McKinley law: On bags for grain made of burlaps $517,519 On burlaps of flax, jute or, hemp, under sixty inches.... 1,352,757 On burlaps of flax, jute or hemp, over sixty.inches/.... 108,543 $1,979,119 As we have said, the farmer still pays the McKinley act rates, though the government loses the McKinley revenue? This Is how it works.—Chicago Inter Ocean.

What the Tin Trade Needs. The trend of affairs in Wales will probably afford a partial relief to the strained condition in the American tin plate trade, but the greatest relief that can be expected will hardly place the industry here on a proper footing. Thera is a grght difference between the inducements needed to keep in the business a manufacturer who has his trade built up, and his works running on the most economical basis, and the margin of profit to be secured to a beginner who must build up his trade and spend money in experiments necessary to get the works down to Economical and efficient operation. For this purpose an increase in the protective tariff is absolutely necessary. A return to the McKinley duty is not now needed. For the first Introduction of the industry into the United States profits had to be assured to pay for costly experiments which have been made, and need not be rnado again, but * protective duty of 1% cents Is really needed to put t-lie industry on a fair plane, and it Is hoped that proper steps will bo taken to do justice to the tin plate industry as soon as the party favoring protective duties again comes into full power.—Tin and Terne.

A Blow at Hia Wages. Whatever diminishes the demand for labor of an American workingman is essentially a blow at his wages. The Important thing for the wage earner Is that his labor shall be in active demand. That policy or system which results In largely Increasing our imports must also result In a corresponding decrease in the sale of competing American products. This is a simple statement that has been amply demonstrated within our own experience.—Mall and Express. Zerah Cblburn, when a child, liad the most wonderful memory for figures ever known. He performed operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division on sums involving from eleven to twenty places of figures without setting one down on paper. Being once asked to raise 8 to the sixteenth power, he almost instantly responded, "The answer Is 281,474,976,710,666.” j*

TALMAGE’S SERMON.

TALKS ON THE MOST CONSPICUOUS FIGURE IN HISTORY. A Sermon that Must Be Full of Inspiration to Christians Everywhere Christ the Object of Faith and Love and Hope—Treasures in Heaven. "t* ~v . ~ Christ Is the Chief. For his sermon for Sunday afternoon, Rev. Dr. Talmnge selected a topic which must prove full of inspiration to Christians everywhere. The title of his discourse was "The Chieftain,” and the text, “The clnefest among ten thousand,” Canticles v„ 10. The most conspicuous character of history steps out upou the platform. The finger which, diamonded with light, pointed down to him from Bethlehem sky, : was_only g ratification of the finger of prophecy, the finger of genealogy, the finger of chronology, the finger of events . —-all five fingers pointing In one direction. - Christ is the overtopping figure of all time. He is the “vox hamana” in »aU music, the grocefulest lint in all sculpture, the most exquisite mingling of lights and shades in ail painting, the acme of all climaxes, the dome of all catliedraled grandeur and the peroration of all language. The Creek alphabet is made up of twen-ty-four letters, and when Christ compared himself to the first letter and the last letter, the Alpha and the Omega, he appro-priated-to himself all the splendors that you-can spell out either with those two j letters or all the lettefs between, them, “I I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.” ,

The Chieftain. What does that Scripture mean which says of Christ, "He that coiaeth from above, is above all V” It means after you, have piled up all Alpine and Himalayan altitudes the glory of Christ would have to spread its wings and descend a thousand leagues to touch those summits. Pel ion,, a high mountain of Thessaly; Ossa, a high mountain, and Olympus, a ,Vnen the giants tvalfcd against \he gods they piled up these three mountains, and front the top of them proposed to scale the heavens, but tire height was not great enough, anti there was a complete failure. And after all the giants—lsaiah and Paul, prophetic and apostolic giants; Raphael and Michael Angela, .artistic giants; cherubim and seraphim and archangel, celestial giants—have failed to climb to the top of Christ's glory they "might - alLwetl unitc iir the words of Paul and cry out, “Above all!” ‘Above all!” But Solomon in my text prefers to call Christ “The Chieftain.” and so to-day I hail him. First, Christ must be chief in our preaching. There are so many books on homiletics scattered through the country that all laymen, as well as all clergymen, have made up their minds what sermons ought to be. That sermon is the most effectual which most pointedly puts forth Christ as the pardon of all sin and the correction of all evil—individual, social, political, national. There is no reason why we should ring the endless changes on a few phrases. There are those who think that if an exhortation or a discourse have frequent mention of justification, sanctification, covenant of works and covenant of grace, therefore It must be profoundly evangelical, while they are suspicious of a discourse which presents the same truth, but under different phraseology. Now, 1 say there is nothing in all the opulent realm of Ang! >-Saxonism, of nil the word treasures that w.e inherited from the Latin and the Greek and the Indo-Kuropean, but we have a right to marshal it in religious discussion. Christ sets the example. His ilustrations were from the grass, the flowers, the barnyard fowl, the crystals of salt, as well as from the seas and the stars, and we do not propose in our Sunday school teaching and in our pulpit address to be put on the limits.

Words and Their Power. I know that there is a great deal said In our day agai nst words, as though they were nothing. They misused, but they have an imperial power. They are the bridge between soul and soul, between Almighty God and the human race. What did Christ write upon the tables of stone - ? Words. What did Christ utter on Mount Olivet? Words. Out of what did Christ strike the spark for the illumination of the universe? Out of words. '•‘Let there be light,” and light was. Of course, thought is the cargo, and words are only the ship: but how fast would your cargo get on without the ship? What you need, my friends, in all your work, in your Sabbath school class, in your reformatory institutions and what we need to enlarge our vocabulary when we •;ome to speak about God and Christ and ueaven. We ride a few old words to death, when there is such illimitable resource. Shakspeare employed 15,000 different words for dramatic purposes; Milton employed 8,000 different words for poetic purposes; Rufus Choate employed over 11,000 different words for legal purposes, but the most of us have less than 1,000 words that we can manage, and that makes us so stupid. When we come to set forth the love of Christ we are going to take the tenderest phraseology wherever we find it, and if it has never been used in that direction before all the more shall we use it. When we come to speak of the glory of Christ the conqueror we are going to draw our similes from triumphal arch and oratorio and everything graiuKaffu stupendous. The French navy have Eighteen flags by which they give signal,Jauf those eighteen flags they can put 1nwr06,900 different combinations. And I have to tell you that these standards of the cross may be lifted into combinations infinite and varieties everlasting. And let me say to these young men who come from the theological seminaries into our services, and are, after awhile, going to preach Jesus Christ: l'ou will have the largest liberty and unlimited resource. You only have to present Christ in your own way.

Christ’*} Power. Brighter than the light, fresher than the fountains, deeper than the seas, are all these gospel themes. Song has no melody, flowers no sweetness, sunset sky no color compared with these glorious themes. These harvest aef grace spring up quicker than we can sickle them. Kindling pulpits with their fire and producing revolutions with their power, lighting up dying beds with their glory, they are the sweetest thought for the poet, and they are the most thrilling illustration for the, orator, and they offer the most intense scene for the artist, and they fire to the embassador of the sky all enthusiasm.

Complete pardon for direst guilt. Sweetest comfort for ghastliest agony. Brightest hopq for grimmest death. Grandest resurrection for darkest sepulcher. Oh, what a gospel to preach! Christ the chief. His birth, his suffering, his-miracles, his parables, his sweat, his tears, his blood, his atonement, his intercession —what glorious themes! Do we exercise faith? Christ is its object. Do we have love? Ft fastens on Jews, —Ha vfc-we* fondness for the church? It is because Christ died for it. Have we a hope of heaven? It is because Jesus went there, the herald and the forerunner. The royal robe of Demetrius was so costly, so beautiful, that after he had put it off uo one ever dared to put it on; but this.robe Of Christ, richer than that, the poorest and the weakest and the worst may wear. “Where sin abounded grace may much more abound.” <

“Oh, my sins, sms,” said Martin Luther to Staupitz,' “my sins, my sins!” The fact is that the brawny German student had found a Latin Bible that made him quake, and nothing else ever did "make him quake, and when be found how, through Christ, he wns pardoned and saved, be wrote to a friend, saying: “Come over and join us great and awful sinners saved by the grace of God. —You seem to be only a slender sinner, and you don't much extol the mercy of God; but we that have been such very awful sinners praise his grace the more now that we have been redeemed.” Can it be that you are so desperately egotistical that you feel yourself in first-rate spiritual trim, and that from the root of the hair to the tip .of the toe you are scarless and immaculate? What yon need is a lookingglass, and here it is in the Bible. I’oor and wretched and miserable and blind and naked from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, full of wounds and putrefying sores. No health in us. And then take the fact that Christ gathered up all the notes against us and paid them, and then offered us tiro receipt! And how much we need him in our sorrows! We arc independent of circumstances if we have his grace. Why, he made Paul sing in the dungeon, and under that grace St, j’olin from desolate Patmos heard the blast of the apocalyptic trumpets. After all other candles have been snuffed out, this is the light that gets brighter and brighter unto the pitied day; ana a net, under the hard hoofs of calamity, all the pools of worldly enjoyment have been trampled into deep mire, at the foot of the eternal rock the Christian, from cups of granite lily rimmed, put out the thirst of his soul.

Consolation for the Dying:.' T~ Agatn, I remark that Christ is chief indying alleviations. I have not any sympthy with the morbiditv abroad about our demise. The emperor of Constantinoplearranged that cn the day of his coronation the stonemason should come and consult him about the tombstone that after awhile he would need. And there are men who are monomanlacal on the subject of departure from this life by death, and the more they think of it the less they are prepared to go. This is an unmanliness not worthy of you, not worthy of me. Saladin, the greatest conqueror of his day, while dying, ordered that the tunic ho had on him be carried after his death on his spear at the head of his army, and that then the soldier, ever and anon, should stop and say: “Behold all that is left of Saladin. the emperor and conqueror! Of all the states he conquered, of all the wealth he accumulated/nothing did he retain but this shroud.” I have no sympathy with such behavior, or such absurd demonstration, or with much that we hear uttered in regard to departure from this, life to the next. There is a common sensical idea on this subject that you need to consider — aye only two styles of departure. A thousand feet underground, by light of torch, toiling in a miner’s shaft, a ledge of rock may fall upon us, and we may die a miner’s death. Far out at sea, falling from the slippery ratlines and broken on the halliards, wo may die a sailor’s death. On mission of mercy in hospital, amid broken bones and reeking leprosies and raging fevers, we may die a philanthropist’s death. On the field of battle, serving God and our country, slugs through the heart, the gun carriage may roll over us, and we may die a patriot's death. But, after all, there are only two styles of departure—the death of the righteous and the death of the wicked —and we all want to die the former. God grant that when that hour comes you may be at home. You want the hand of your kindred in your hand. You want your children to surround you. You want the light on your pillow from eyes that have long reflected your love. You want your room still. You do not want any curious strangers standing around watching ;p>u. You want your kindred from afar to hear your last prayer. I think that is the wish of all of us. But is that all? Can earthly friends hold us up when the billows of death come up to the girdle? Can human voice charm open heaven’s gate? Can human hand pilot us through the narrows of death into heaven’s harbor? Can any earthly friendship shield us from the arrows pf death, and in the hour when satan shall practice upon us his infernal archery? Vo, no, no, no! Alas, poor soul, if that is all. Better die in the wilderness, far from tree shadow and from fountain, alone, vultures circling through the air waiting for our body, unknown to men. and to Lave no burial, if only Christ could say through the solitudes, “I will never leave thee, I will never forsake thee." From that pillow of stone a ladder would soar heavenward, angels coming and going, and across the solitude and the barrenness would come the sweet notes of heavenly minstrelsy. Their Laat Words. Gordon Hall, far from home, dying in door of a heathen temple, said, “Glory to thee, O God!” What did dying Wilberforee say to his wife? “Come and sit beside me, and let us talk of heaven. I never knew what happiness was until I found Christ.” What did dying Hannah More say ? “To go to heaven, think what that is! To go to Christ, who died that I might live! Oh, glorious grave! Oh. what a glorious thing it is to die! Oh, the love of Christ, the love of Christ!” What did Mr. Toplady, the great hymn maker, say in his last hour? “Who can measure the depths of the third heaven? Oh, the sunshine that fills my soul! I shall soon be gone, for surely no ohe can live in this world after such glories as God has manifested to my soul.” What did the dying Jane way say? “I Can a's easily die as close my eyes or turn my head in sleep. Before a few hours have passed I shall atsriti on Mount Zion with the one hundred and forty and four thousand, and with the just men made perfect, and we shall ascribe riches and honor and glory and majesty and dominion unto God and the Lamb.” Dr. Taylor. condemned to burn at the stake, on

his way thither broke away from th# guradsmen and went bounding and leaping and jumping toward the fire, glad to go to Jesus and to die for him. Sir Charles Hare, in his last momenta.had such rapturous vision that he eried,‘‘Upward, upward, upward!” And so great was the peace of one of Christ’s disciples that he put his finger upon the pulse in his wrist and counted it and observed it, and so great was hi* placidity that after Awhile be said, “Stopped!” and his life had end ed here to begin in heaven. But grander than that was the testimony of the wornout first missionary, when in the Matimrtine dungeon he cried: “I am ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight. I have finished my course. I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me in that day. and not to me only, but to all them that love his appearing!” Do you not sr» that Christ is chief in dying alleviations?

Hope for the Redeemed. Toward the hist hour of our earthly residence we are speeding. When I see the sunset I say, “One day less to live.” When I see the spring blossoms scattered, I say, “Anohfre season gone forever.” When I close the Bible on Sabbath night I say, “Another season gone forever.” When I bury a friend I say, “Another earthly attraction gone forever.” What nimble feet the years have! The roebucks aud the lightnings run not so fast. From decade to decade, from sky to sky, they go at a bound. There is a plaee for us, whether marked or not, where yob and I wilt sleep the last sleep, and the men are now living who will, with solemn tread, carry us to our resting place. Aye, it is known in heaven whether our departure will be a coronation or a banishment. Brighter than a banqueting hall through which the light feet of the dancers go up and down to the sound of trumpeters will be the sepulcher through whose rifts the holy light of heaven streameth. God will watch you. He will send his angels to guard your slumbering dust, until, at Christ's behest, they shall roil ?way th*> stone. J So also Christ is chief in heaven. The Bible distinctly says that Christ is the chief theme of the celestial ascription, all the thrones facing his throne, all the paims waved before his face, all rthe crowns down at his feet, Chernbim to

cherubim, seraphim to seraphim,. redeemed spirit to redeemed spirit, shall recite the Savior’s earthly sacrifice. Stand on some high hill of heaven, and in all the radiant sweep the most glorious object will bp Jesus. .Myriads gazing on the scars of his suffering, in silence first, afterward breaking forth into acclamation. The martyrs, aM-theTrarerTor-the flame through which they passed, will say, “This is the Jesus for whom we died.” The apostles, all the happier sot the shipwreck and the scourging through which they went, will say, “This is the Jesus whom w e preached at Corinth, and at Cappadocia, and at Antioch, and at Jerusalem.” Little children clad in white will say, “This is the Jesus who took us in his arms and blessed us, and, when the storms of the world were too cold and loud, brought us into this beautiful place.” The multitude of the bereft will say, “This is the Jesus who comforted us when our hearts broke.” Many who wandered clear off from God and plunged into vagabondism, but were saved by grace, will say: “This is the Jesus who pardoned us. We were lost on the mountains, and he brought us home. We were guilty, and be has made us white as snow.” Mercy boundless, grace unparalleled. And then, after each one has recited his peculiar deliverances and peculiar mercies, recited them as by solo, ...I the voices will come together into a great chorus, which will make the arches echo and re-echo with the eternal reverberation of triumph.

Edward I. was so anxious to go to the Holy Land that when he was about to expire hfrliequeatlied $1(50,000 to have his heart, after his decease, taken to the HolyLand in Asia Minor, and bis request was complied .grith. But there are hundreds to-day whose hearts are already in the Holy Land of heaven. Where your treasures are, there are your hearts also. Quaint John Banyan caught a glimpse of that place, and in his quaint way he said, “And I heard in my dream, and, lo! the bells of the city rang again for joy, and os they opened the gates to let in the men I looked in after them, and, lo! the city shone like the sun, and there were streets of gold, and men walked on them, harps in their hands, to ring praises withal, and after that they shut tip the gates, which when I had seen I wished myself among them!”

Queer New York Character.

Hugh Dinnln died in the basement of the building, No. 53 New street, from Bright’s disease. He was born at No. 12 Trinity place 5S years ago, and lived In the first ward all of his life. At one time he was worth SIOO,OOO. He lost all this, and for years has been considered poor, although at no time in peed of a dollar. Dinnin began business life as an apprentice to bis father, who was a plumber. What little education he gained he picked up in the great university of life, and he took degrees in many branches He went Into Wall street and made much money. Then he bought the saloon at Dey and Greenwich streets under peculiar circumstances. He entered the drinking place one day and called for a glass of whisky. He was shabbily dressed, but was a good judge of liquor. Dinnin protested that he never had tasted worse stuff. The owner replied that perhaps Dinnin did not know, good whisky when he tasted it “Perhaps not,” was the reply, “but I do know how a barroom onght to be run. How many dollars in cash do you want for the old place, anyway?” The proprietor said SIO,OOO, and was perhaps the most surprised man In New York when his shabby looking customer drew a greasy wad of bills from his pocket and bought him out on the spot Dinnin had a keen appreciation of a smart saying, especially if it was tinged with a vein of cynicism. He had these sayings painted on signs and hang outside the door of his place. The last two which he put up were: “The world is a shadow, sham and a game of wits,” and “High positions are like the summits of steep rocks—eagles and reptilea alone can reach them.”—New York, Preav mR., ■ —.