Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1882 — The Key Note. [ARTICLE]

The Key Note.

DEMOCRATIC < (INVENTION! are requested to meet at the Court Hou*, on FRIDAY EVENING AERIE 21. 1882, at 8 o’cl< < k for the purpose of selecting the candidates for the severall Corporation offices- Committee. The only member cf the Gr f.e« cabinet left is Mr R-bert Li <o , god he was a atal-vurt. Judge David Tur: i«. of Indmi a polls, is being talked of in conneciKn With Attorney Generalship. Sixteen miles of track remain to b< laid on the Air Line bet we. n Indian apolis and Frankfort. The ties ar all on the ground.—Chicago Times. April 8. Ohio is greatly shocked. Deacon Smith has been heard to swear. The sbstance of his moutbfiliiug and most’distressing oath Is “D n il.e Dutch!”’

The Repu l > i an policy L to reduce American labor to the coolie levt , which General Denn;', An er imoCoi* sul General at Shanghai, says is from five to fifteen cents a day. The Fort Wavne Gazette: “The b 1 of $7,000 for wines, lunch, s and liquors furnished to congressmen whiie in attendence on the Gai field funera’, is raising a .Whirlwind of wrath that is destined to fall soon and disas trously on somebody.” R. W. Marshall, <>f Keener Town-inp opposes in t 1 week’s Re; U iicau, th vote of aR. R. Tax, and says that the taxes in that towi ship, are already pro* I optimally high r than in any oth.r Township in the county. How ca t sue h thi les be in a township almost uninimoii'ly Republican? The Fort Wayne Gazette can’t m - derstand why Joseph Hart, the principal agent, in the publication of the Garfield-Morey Chinese letter,should have been elected a member of the Republican Central Committee o* New York City, and calls for an ex planation.

The Republican majority in Cong. css, and our own Demotte among the number, have resolved that the taxes of the people shall not be di minished. Tweedisra and Grantism rule in Wasnington, and the people have no rights that the average Congressman is bound to respect. The “half-breed manager ot the Republican (the Stalwart being absent) say s ihq vote at Indianapolis was 1,000 shortAndj ow, lor the sake of argument, admit that cveiy man of the 1 000 short was a Republican, their ticket would still Lave been defeated, and how is the migh ty “half-breed” thunderer of the R< pub' liean going to account for the loss of tin immense ’radical majority iu that township ? Mr. Voorhees offered a resolutio n iu the Senate declaring that the conduct of the State Department in relation to the arrest and imprisonment of Daniel McSweeney and other American citizens by the British authorities was in violation of American law, inconsistent with the value of Ameriban citizenship and derogatory to the honor of the United St ites.

The L., N. A. &C. R’y week before last contracted for twenty-four fine passenger coaches, four parlor chair c rs, ten fine baggaga, express and postal ear?, three hundred box and live hundred coal cars, it being the largest contract for rolling stock ever let at a single letting. Very recently the company contracted for twenty engines, and when all are complete the road will be very ma teria ly improved in its equipment.

Mr. Speer, of Georgia, struck the key note of the opposition to Chinese immigration when he said that the safety of the people was the Supreme law of the land. The bill he regarded as a measure of self-defense, and he would vote for it on that giouud, even if there were no treaty authorizing the proposed legislationMr. Speer is one of the youngest members of the present Congress, being but thirty vfour years old. The “half-breed” thunderer of the Rej üblican says we lie when we state that oqr publication of Brown’s letter was in compliance with request of “Stalwarts” and ‘‘Half-Breeds.” Oh, no, we did’nt lie, neighbor. We are informed that at first, the “Half-Breed” manager desired to publish it but was opposed by th e “Stalwart” but as soon as it was discovered that Brown was a Blaine “halfbreed” then the “Stalwart desired to publish it, but was opposed by the “halfbreed” and the “happy family” continues harmonious.

The tariff commission bill lately presented in Congaess is a dodge, an adroitly devised scheme of evading the manifest duty of Congress to correct the monstrous enomities in the present tariff law. This commission bill is intended by the Republicans, and will have the effect, to continue the monstrous inquities of the present tariff law at least two years longer. The New York Herald of the 22d instant, puts this matter in its true liirht as follows: Remedy for Grievances Refused. —Kow that the Republicans have consented to debate of the.tariff comnikslon bill the Herald desires.to call the attention of Congress and of the ro ntry to the real question at issue i < revenue matters. This question |. Mt » been industriously befogged by the opponents of reform in the two

houses. It is important that it should be brought back into daylight in the ooming debate. It is not a question of free trade or protection at all; it is a question of cu ting down needless oppressive taxation by which the people are robbed. When a people have contributed out of theirearnings the sum needed for the support of their government and for rhe payment of just and due obligations they havi contributed all that can rightly be required of them. If their rulers force them to pay moje that is nothing but an act of robbery. In a free and a representative govermeut like our own the people thus robbed by the act of their representatives avenge themselves at the succeeding elections. In the present ease the people will have opportunities next Novetn ber to pnt)i-h those representatives who shall prove false «o their trust. Congress w.is made aware, three months and a half ago, by the President in bis message, and by the Secretary of the Treasury in his report, that the taxes forced from the people under existing laws had for some time past been greatly ic excess of all the needs of the GovernmenLand that this extortion of money not required and for which there is no honest use, still continued. These executive officers, faithful to their duty, both urg“d such changes and reforms in the revenue laws as should remedy this gross abuse of collecting from the people than is needed bv their Government. The President and Secretary would have failed of one of their most important duties had they omitted to call attention to ihe fi.c» that $150,000,000 per annum—s 3 per head .or every man. woman and child in the country, sls from every man who has to support a wife and three children by I.is la.ber —is wrung from the people needl- ssly, ; i;d therefore unjustly. It was the highest, the most urgent duty of Congress, when, early in December it read these offi cial reports to instantly proceed to remedy this monstrous wrong. To force money from the people not re quired by the Government is a more indecent and inexcusable robbery than the levy of an invading and con quering army. It is worse because the people elect men to Congress to repeal bad laws and to remedy their grievances. What has the Republi can majority done since Congress met to relieve the people of this op pressive and tyrannical exaction? What has it planned or achieved to save one hundred and fifty millions to the taxpayers now forced from them in defiance of right though under the operation of laws? Nothing. On the contrary, the Republicans have deliberately matured a plan which has for its sole and confessed object to continue this robbery of the people for at least two years longer. They have framed a tariff commission bill and committed themselves to it, which, when they have passed >t will prevent any lowering of customs du ties for at least two years to come; and to complete their scheme of spo iation they have pledged themselves in caucus against anyjexcept the most :rivial lowering of internal taxes. That is the Republican programme in Congress, adopted in the face of their President’s wise aad urgent rec ommendatione, and this programme is an announcement to t„e people that for at least two years to come they shall be condemned to contribute one hundred and fifty million dollars a year out of their earnings over and above necessary taxes; and not for the support of the Gove ament, for that does not need it; not to lie idle in the Treasury, for that would be absurd, but to the fattening of a nu merous and hungry lobby whose schemes already crowd the House calenders, for they have mostly been approved and reported by convenient committee men. Honorable and faithful men of both parties have protested against this great spoliation. Mr Kelley, of Pennsylvania, the oldest Republican member of the House and the chairman of its most important committee, has warned his party repeatedly that it ought to reduce the taxes. Mr. Dunnel, of Minnesota, also a Republican, has shown that, he is not willing to continue this robbery of a whole nation to feed a lobby. On the other side, Messrs. Carlisle, Hewitt, Tucker, Morrison, b’pringer and some others have also demanded a reduction of taxation. But the Republicans in caucus have pledged them elvs to oppose reform and con tinue the unjust exactions. Nor js this all; for. seeing the growth of opposition, they have determined to so change the rules of the House as to enable them, a small but compact majority, not only to resist reforms, but to pass the lobby bills which are ranged on the callender or biding their time in committee rooms—bills some oi which commit the country to expenditures for ten years, oth rs fpr fifteen and twenty years to come, and thus shameless}? mortgage the earnings of the people for a third or half generation ahead. It is on these schemes that the one hundred and fifty millions unjustly and needlessly forced from the taxpayers are to be scent, and the lobby which holds out its hands for this vast sum of the people’s earnings is reinforced by other rings, such as the Reaserqer steel ring, which, under the laws that the Republicans refuse to reform, mad*e last year a clear profit of twenty millions on a capital of twenty millions, and paid their workmen no more than the average wages; and the blanket ring, which opposes chant ges in revenue laws because it has got a tax laid on poor men’s blankets of from eighty-nine to ninetv-two per cent—a tax which doubles the costs of blankets to every workingman’s and farmer’s family in the country. We repeat, there -is no question of protection or free trade involved. The question is whether Congress shall or shall not repeal iniquitous laws under which the people of this country have been and con tinue to be forced to surrender of their hard earnings every year one hundred and fifty million dolhrs more than the Government needs, this great robbery being continued for the enrichment of rings and lobbyists who divide its proceeds among them.