Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1882 — TARIFF INIQUITY. [ARTICLE]

TARIFF INIQUITY.

KTbere is a iikelihood’that the affair* of the Hubbell 11 ck.naiUngcomm<tteo will be investigated by * Congressional committee. pig iron Kelley, a Republican lead* er, wants to take the entire tax off of liquors aud tobacco, and that the tariff on the ueceaaaries of life be con tinuedae they are. That kind of re* form will swatnp the Republican patty bsyond redemption.

The New York Herald tbiuka that the Republican party uaa been found gull’y of giving aid and comfort to the protected monopolists and since found guilty both the protected monopolies and their alders and abet tors are willing to compromise. The existing tariff system and all that it itn plies is one of their most fruitful pasture*. In the twenty years since it; was adopted, originally as a war i iure, It says there has arisen around it a vast and comnrehensivo en\.i cry of fraud, jobbery and cori Hon, which it now seems almost :m ossible to destroy. A year ago t <■ upholders of this system were so jg, in their own estimation, that i defied public opinion. The bent , . lies of a high tariff controlled i overnmeut and dictated what it t d and should not de aS insolcntJ he slave owner cf a quarter of ii,ury ago dictated to the party tn in power. In accordance with i wishes, in obedience to their < naud, a commission was appoint- < The friends of reform had little < i ouhdenee in it, because they 9. id understood the agencies and i nents behind it. In the meant re has been a verdict at the b i box— a verdict of "guilty” on e v ou n t in the indictment against t ■ uen and their friends and sup* p. ii in au hority. What is the re Wiser than the old-time i the tariff lords have offered a “ :> iwnise.” They are willing to t. f from twenty to fifty per eent. t. that extent relieve the suffer* i .. ?, luetiiesof the country.

. Attorney General Wayne Mac* A .- h has been Interviewed in regard to ~ne statements made by ex-Sen* (.a Star Route Thief Dorsey. Mr. MaeVeagh being asked if he desired to reply to Dorsey’s Statement, said: No. I must be excused from entering into any controversy with a man like Dorsey. It was my official duty to examine these cases, and the only conclusion possible from such examination was that Dorsey is a thief. In that opinion Postmaster General James agreed. Since then Attorney General Brewster, Mr. Bliss,Mr. Mer rick, Mr. Kerr, two Grand Jurors and ten out of twelve ot the men who tri cd the ease have expressed the same opinion. As Dorsey, therefore, has been tried, indicted and once substantially co victed in the result of the trial es Rerdell and Miner, it is im* possible, with the most moderate selfrespect, to notice anything he says, even if he had not shown himself to ba. a most reckless aad shameless liar about both the living and the dead. “By the by," queried Mr. MacVeagh, “I wonder if there is another man in the United States, who, after indirect and substantial conviction for stealing public money, we aid hold on to the Secretaryship of a National Committee?" It seems that Dorsey is a liar as jvell as a thief, and what is funny about the matter is that Dorsey is still the Secretary ot the Republican N.itional Oommittsee. Even MacVeugh thinks it strange. Dorsey, Hi. ■ Howgate, knows some things, and whether he tells or kesps silent, will depend upon the treatment h? receives. Arthur understands the A i exchange says: “Keep a cup of j... zdered borax on your washstand; .-. i ldo wonders in the way of soft in ig the skin. If you have been doi a work about the house that has ; Jed to roughen the hands when y,. . wash them flip them in the borax ru) them well with it." ■ie one hundreih anniversary us : u iethodist conference will be held . > Hti more some time in Deoember, n that occasion it is proposed to i i fund ot $2,000,000 to be sppli<o o the church extension. The u or of Methodists now scattered ov.i uis land is estimated at four miu