Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1896 — Which is Better? [ARTICLE]

Which is Better?

The American Economist in commenting on the issues of the coming campaign says the question for republican newspapers to decide is; Whether it is better for American labor to be busily employed earning good or is it better that American labor should be idle and earning no wages. In the one case our industrial work will be preformec at home; in the other case it wil be done abroad. There is not a Democratic newspaper in the United States that does not know it states what is untrue when it says the Republican party “controls- both branches of congress,” and yet they all say it There is not a Democrat paper in the United States but is perfectly aware of the fact that the reason we can have no revenue or financial legislation is the obstruction of a combination of Democrats and Populists in the senate; will yet Dot one has the moral courage and manhood to tell the truth about it —New Albany 1 Tribune.

We want to call the attention of of newsdealers in Rensselaer, and throughout the county, generally, that the Legislature of 1595 passed an act prescribing a penalty for selling, exhibiting or offering for sale, papers which make a specialty of depicting crime, or as the law might have said, that make a specialty of educating ip, and encouraging crime. This act is specially intended to stop the sale of such papers as the Police Gazette. The penalty for the violation of the law is a fine of not less than $lO nor more than 9200. This is a most wise and righteous law, and one that ought to be strictly enforced. In Rensselaer especially, it ought to be seen to that our community is no longer disgraced nor the minds of our boys and young men depraved by the sale of these pernicious

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