Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1882 — NO RELIEF FROM THE CRUSHING TAXATION. [ARTICLE]

NO RELIEF FROM THE CRUSHING TAXATION.

Mew York Sun: The sham which orr ginated in the House of Representatives, pretending to be a relief from taxation, but which was really contrived in the interest of the banks, ot the proprietors of patent medicines, of the dealers in perfumery and of the monopoly of manufacturing matches, may now be regarded as dead and done for. Alarmed at the signs of public resentment against Congress, the Senate Committee sought to propitiate favor hy adding steel and sugar to the other items. When the bill was reported to the Senate in this changed form, the door was at once opened to amendment. The Democrats were placed in a position to test the sincerity of the Republican side by proposing real measures of general relief, all of which were quite as germane as the amendments which emenated from the Republican caucus. The record shows how these propositions were received, and it also shows that, after days of discussion, the Republicans abandoned their bill on Wednesday, and took up instead that enormous swindle which feecor Robeson proposed and carried through the House, to secure his monitor job, and to punish a number of officers who had disapproved of bis corrupt management of the Navy under General Grant. This retreat leaves the Republican party in a grave dilemma for the fall elections. The reckless profligacy and prodigality of this Uongres? exceed all experience. The farmers, the mechanics, the laborers, and the plain people, as Mr. Lincoln called them, who pay the great body of the taxes by the sweat of their brows, have cried aloud for relief; and they have cried jn vain. Coagress will adjourn leaving a discreditable record. It has voted away the people’s money in wild extravagance, without any honest attempt to reduce the burdens that weigh upon industry and enterprise. If tne Democrats were at all wise in their aominations and in presenting the issue of retrenchment and reform, as they did in 1374, history will be apt to repeat itself ia the history of the coming elections .