Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1895 — A Blind Man Should See It. [ARTICLE]

A Blind Man Should See It.

The commifisioners of Newton county had on their temperance war paint last week. Of the six applications for saloon licenses, all but one were refused. They were not knocked out by Nicholson bill remonstrances, but were successfully opposed under the provisions of the old law.

During the last twelve months of the McKinley law the exports from Manchester, England, to the United States were of the value of $7,343.659. Daring the first twelve months under the Democratic tariff they were $12,450,002. Now which is the wiser policy ? to have manufactured at home this difference of five million dollars and upward of wares as we were doing under the McKinley law, or to do as we have done under the Gorman-Wilson tariff law, send abroad for them? It would take a very blind man, indeed, with those Hignres in his head, not to see which encourages home industries and which discoitrages them.—Oswego Times. According to the Indianapolis Neivs, the State Liquor League will take up the license case of George Strickfaden, of Rensselaer, and push it through the courts as a test case. But although the News does not say so, this will probably depend upon the celerity with which his case gets through the circuit court. There are quite a good many counties in which are cases very similar to Mr. Strickfaden’s, and it is very probable that the Liquor League will specially take up the one that gets through the curcuit ©ourt the soonest. It is tbeiaten- •* ticn of the liquor League to attempt to overthrow the Nicholson bill in the Supreme Gourt, at the earliest possible moment, and on every possible issue.