Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1882 — Caught with Both Hands in the Treasury. [ARTICLE]

Caught with Both Hands in the Treasury.

The Bepublican party as seen in Congress, both branches of which it controls. is not a party of reaction. Unlike the democratic party, it does not go back to the days of Thomas Jefferson, or point with pride to various venerated leaders now defunct. Neither is it a ( party of progression. It;is a party of the present, and it attends to business < the way a pioneer at Chicago kept hotel —" like hell. ” . As an organization it is after the almighty dollars of your Uncle Samuel, and it tc&w care that upu© of

them escape. It finds a surplus revenue of $150,000,000 and declines to reduoo it in such manner that the payers of this enormous surplus shall have the slightest relief. Its proposition was to take the tax off patent medicines, bank checks, playing cards, perfumery and the like, a proposition so ludicrously absurd that after a little ventilation of its grotesquery by the opposition the bill fails, and the Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means is glad to run to Colorado in order that he may avoid any further consideration of the subjeot. The surplus is retained, whioh’ was probably the original purpose, since the proposed reduotion was obviously a sham, and to dispose of that surplus to the best advantage of the jobbers Keifer was made Speaker. The increase of the appropriation bills thus far is $80,000,000, and the mammoth River and Harbor bill is quickly passed over the veto of the President To bring abqut this result, Democratic aid was asked and given ; but the public has been educated into the belief that the Democratic party was nothing but an organized appetite, and that all the morality, the eoonomy, A he patriotism, the deoenoy of the republic was found in the party of Robeson, Keifer, Page, Butterworth, Hubbell and Horr. • The Republican party is a party of the present, whioh couldn’t possibly engage in anything less harmful than looking back with assumed fondness upon the record of the fathers of the republio. It is a party whom the President has caught with both liands in the public treasury, and one whioh has impudently borne off tlie plunder, notwithstanding his cry of “ Stop thief Chicago Times, «...