Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1896 — Protection Is For All. [ARTICLE]

Protection Is For All.

<‘Our philosophy includes the grower of the wool, the weaver of the fabric, the seamstress, and the tailor. Tariff reformers have no thought of these toilers. They can bear their hard tasks in pinching poverty for the sake of cheap coats, which prove by far the deaTeast when measured by sweat and 1 toiL The tariff reformers concern themselves only about cheap coats and cheap Bhoes. We do not overlook the comfort of those who make the coats and make the shoes. wnd who provide the wool and the cloth, the hides and the leather.” — "Wm. McKinley.

The public debt has been reduced during every administration since the close of the war, with the exception of the present Democratic administration, with the advent of which the Democrats obtained full control of all departments of the government and were thus enabled to dose the country with their theories. As one result, the public debt has been increased more than it was decreased during Gen. Harrison’s term. The principal objects of Mr. Cleveland’s administration seem to have been a systematic effort to wreck the industrial system of the country, and thus deprive workmen of remunerative employment, create deficits, issue bonds, fish for gudgeons and shoot ducks. It has proceeded on the principle of enjoying itself while it can, because it knows it will be a long time dead. —r~ 1 1 ' ■*> »*■•_ .«■ .. , A great manufacturing company in Massachusetts recently paid their workmen on Saturday evening 700 ten dollar bills, each bill being marked. By the following Tuesday 410 of these marked bills were deposited in the bank of the city by the saloonkeepers of the town. Four thousand one hundred dollars had passed from the hands of workmen on Saturday and Suaday, and left them nothing to show for this gieat sum of money but headaches and proverty in their homes. One hears very little these days about the robber-tariff. The experience of the past three years has taught the people that it never robbed the men and women who lived on the farms and shops and factories of the country. The same cannot be said of the Democratic tariff, which has robbed the working people of the United States of millions of dollars.

Dr. Honan Married and Gone to Europe. The Hammond Tribune, of Wednesday, contained the following interesting news regarding Dr. J. H. Honan, lately of Hammond, a brother of the Rensselaer postmaster and himself well known and much esteemed in Rensselaer. — i~_ -—r- “ Cards are out announcing the marriage of Miss Mary McMahan, daughter Mrs. Mary McMahan, of Danville, Ind., to Dr. James H. Honan, of this city. The ceremony will be performed in St. Michael’s Catholic church at Danville, Monday morning, the Rev. Father Byron officiating. Immediately after the wedding Dr. and M rs. Honan "Witt - leSve~fQT New York and on Saturday they will sail on the Veendon to Rotterdam. At Berlin Dr. Honan will enter the University and take up special work in the Charity hospital, after which he and his bride * will make a tour through Germany, Scotland, England and Italy, returning to this city early in January when they will be at home to their friends. Doctor Honan is one of Hammond’s leading physicians aud has a host of friends. His bride was formeely, principal ofthe high school at Warsaw, Ind.