Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1896 — Trade for Farmers—POTATOES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Trade for Farmers—POTATOES

Preparing to Go Wrong Again. In the one-ring circus, known as the Democratic party, preparations for a grand finale of flop are plainly observable. Mr. Harrity. has got his mattress ready to fall on. He says that the “integrity(sic) of the party” is of more consequence “than its position upon the financial question.” That amusing tumbler, ex-Governor Campbell, hurries on his silvgr-spangled breech-clout with the words, “The masses are always right.” The ancient Morrison long ago gave a full-dress public rehearsal of his double-back somersault. He is no w waiting behind the curtain of the dressing tent for the 16 to 1 cornet band to strike up. We shall probably next observe Senator HIU putting resin on the soles of his sandals—we observed it before, in 18$2—and within a month the whole troupe will be cavorting over the horses’ backs, while the poor old ringmaster tucks the treasury trick dogs under his arm and trudges off to the ticket wagon to draw* his pay and go home. Joking aside, the signs of a surrender on the part of the gold standard Democrats multiply.

Why Believe Them Nows Considering the notorious free trade fabrications that have always been published by the Evening Post, the' New York Times, the New York Herald and other papers of that ilk, it Is surprising that any single person can be found to credit their currency theories and ideas. If these foreign sheets desired any degree of prosperity for the United States they would advocate the policy of protection. The Procession Proceeded. From this time forward business may be expected to proceed just as if we had not held an election.—New York Herald, Nov. 10, 1892. And the procession has been headed by the sheriff, followed by Coxey’s army of unemployed, the tramp of the hungry to the free soup house, and of the naked to the Herald office for free clothes. Canada’s Hay Crops. The Canadian farmer must be looking forward with satisfaction to the harvesting of his next hay crop. During the McKinley tariff period our impprts of foreign hay averaged only 80,000 tons a year, but in nine months of the current fiscal year we imported noless than 246,814 tons, practically all of which came from Canada. The Little Left to “Go On.” William L. Trenholm. President of the American Surety Company, said: “Business will go on without any interruption.”—New York Sun, Nov. 11, 1892. Yes, what was left of it to “go on,” but that has been at the rate of $37,000,000 a day less this year than In 1892. Free Trader* Know It. Tariff, is paramount with Republicans.—New York Times, May 25, 1896. This is the conclusion that a New York free trade paper has arrived at after investigating, through its correspondents, the political situation “In every State in the Union.” The reports cover nearly three entire pages of the issue.

Panic Order Failed. The stock market refuses to obey orders for a panic. The business world has the best of reasons for refusing to go into a panic, and it looks hopefully forward to definite improvement as soon as political uncertainties are out of the way.—Dun’s Review. Logical Candidate*. Grover Cleveland and William LockOut Wilson are the logical Democratic candidates for President and Vice President. Capturing Our Market. It looks as If 60,000,000 pounds of foreign raw cotton would be Imported during the current fiscal'year. He Arrested the Horse. Ingenuity is a desirable quality everywhere, but especially in a new country. Witness the following special dispatch to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat from Guthrie, Ok.: “A justice of the peace, who is also a school teacher, and who also serves as his own constable, thought there was a stolen horse In a certain pasture. In his perplexity how to get hold of him be concluded that ttje best way was to arrest him. On this idea he wrote out papers of arrest as justice, read and served them upon himself as constable, then read them to the hone, and took the animal Into custody.”