Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1902 — Homeseekers’ Cheap Excursions to the West and North-West. [ARTICLE]

Homeseekers’ Cheap Excursions to the West and North-West.

At the present rate of progress In the isthmian canal negotiations the purchase of the Panama canal will be completed and the treaty with Columbia signed long before the next session of congress. It takes a Republican administration to do things.

The census figures on Indiana agriculture have recently been given to the public. In a recent issue appeared an article giving some interesting statistics showing the development of agricultural interests in this state during the decade ending with 1900. Agricultural investments in Indiana aggregate a billion dollars, and the welfare of the farmer is a matter of vital concern to every Indianian. The prosperity of the Indiana farmer should not be endangered by legislative experimentation such as that which brought the price of everything he bad to sell to low water mark six years ago.

In regard to the article on the judgeship question published in the Goodland Herald, and signed “Chant Township Republican” and which we sized up as a Rensselaer production, the Herald says if was handed in by a Grant township men who “assumed” the authorship. ‘‘Assumed” is good, Brother Kitt. Writing an article and finding some one else to assume it is an old trick. We are still firmly convinced that we correctly diagnosed the authorship of that article, and have no doubts but that another fake letter, recently published in the Brook Report, er and signed “A Northern Newton Co. Republican” came from the same source.

In 1894 the people of Indiana rendered a very emphatic verdict on the only Democratic effort at framing a tariff law of which any citizen of thia generation knows anything. Thirteen Republican congressmen were elected; for the first time in the history of the state the delegation was politically unanimous. No one would have ventured to predict eight years ago that Democratic leadership would ever again go before the people with an issue so thoroughly discredi ed as the doctrine of tariff reform, which went down under the avalanche of 1894. The old issue, however, has been removed from the political lumber room, carefully dusted and again placed before the public gaze by the leaders of the reorganized Democracy. It is not that they love tariff reform more, perhaps, but that they love free silver and Mr. Bryan less. In a former issue appeared an article summarizing the comparative agricultural and industrial conditions under the Gorman-Wilson and the Dingley tariff laws. It is a case whore figures argue eloquently in favor of letting well enough alone.

via Chicago & North-Western R’y from Chicago, Jane 17, July 1-15, August 5-19, September 2-16 and October 7 and 21. Exceptionally low rates to a large number of Doinle in Northern Wisconsin, Michigan, North-western lows. Western Minnesota, Nebraska, North and South Dakota. Better owns farm. Start riow. Send 2 cent stamp to W. B Kniskero, 22 Fifth Avenne, Chicago, for copy of the “North-Western Homeseeker.’’ Apply to your nesrewt ticket agent, or A. H. W agger er, 22 Fifth avenne, Chicago, 111.