Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1900 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS.

Otherwise tlie .ballot will not he-count-ed. You must not put auy mark of any kind on your ballot except as before mentioned. Fourth. After lftarkjng your ballots, and Before leaving the booth, fold them separately so that the face of each can not be seen, and so tlie initial letters of tlie names of tlie polling clerks on the back thereof can be seen. Then hand your ballots to the inspector, tlie pencil to tlie polling clerk, and leave the room. Fifth. If you are physically unable to mark your ballot, or can not read English, so inform tlie polling clerks, and make an affidavit to that effect, and tell them how you wish to vote, and they will mark your ballot for you. But neither you nor tlie clerks mus; permit any other person to hear or see how your ballot is marked. It is n penal offense, to declare that you can not read, English or can not mark your ballot, if. in fact, you can; and in 10 case shall the ballots he marked hv the poll clerks if the voter can read the English language or is physically able to mark liis ballot, and then no) until the voter lias made the affidavit KiXth. If you should accidently, or. ;lty mistake, deface, mutilate or spa 1 I your ballot, return it to the poll clerics land-.get a new ballot. [ Seventh. You must not accept a ha!• | Jot. from any person outside of the

Democratic party as today that party reveals itself, are men who know no calling but politics and contribute nothing to the support of tliair* fellows beyond the emoluments of such political offices as they may by chance secure.” The legislation of the Republican party has always been in the Interest of the wage-earners. Under its protective tariff laws the wages are higher in this country than in any other place in tho world. An Indiana editor is just in receipt of a letter from Prof. Jose M. Medina, teacher of English at Agua Calientes,, Mexico. The letter is In answer to one from the editor inquiring about wages and the price of commodities in that free silver country. Here is the scale of wages in that country as given by Professor .Medina; Mexican Motley. Common labor per diem $ 50 Bricklayers 1 "0 Carpenters 1 dO Factory hands 1 00 Clerks in stores from S2O to SOO per month. (The Mexican dollar is quoted In New York today at 50c.) And here is tlio retail price In Mexico of goods which the laboring man it) this country buys: , « r ‘ Per ib. Flour 614 c Potatoes c Bacon I<J d Ham 27 c Beef *2 c Butter 40 c Lard 20 c coffee, green 23 r. Sugar D c Crackers c Rice 11 p Suppose, for comparison, that the wife of a Mexican laborer goes Into Mle grocery with her husband’s earnings for a week, SB.OO, and orders the same goods mentioned above that the average American laborer buys each week. This would be the result: 24 lb flour(??sVjC $ 1 32 00 lb potatoes@2c 1 20 5 It) hnconfu 10c 80 3 Ib lard(q2oo 'SO 2 H> but ter®4oc* SO 1 dozen eggs 30 10 tb sugar '.... 1 10 2 Tb coffee 40 3 cans corn and'tomatoes 1 can baking powder 20 Total $ 7 r. 3 This bill of goods would cost more than double the week’s earnings of the common laborer and $1.53 moro than the earnings of the mason or carpenter. In our country the comipdn laborer, could pay for the above and have $5.00 left, the carpenter could pay for