Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1883 — WHYTAX[?][?] AT[?]ALL [ARTICLE]

WHYTAX[?][?] AT[?]ALL

With a surplus of revenue, wliy not get rid of a senseless imposition much can never be Justified except as a necessary tax under stress of war! Not Mr. Oouger. of Michigan, for whose constituents the country bears the salt and timber taxes, must have his iron ore protected also. Mr. Mahone, of Virginia a late and expensive acquisition to our party, clamored for a duty of two dollars per ton on iron ore. After debate in both Houses the rate fixed by the Commission, viz., fifty centa per ton wss agreed upon.— Your packed Conference Committee took up the matter and of ite own motion—shall I sav—increased the rate to seventyfive cents per ton. This was an outrage < upon the public and an insult to both Bouses, but honorable Senators and Congressmen at their bumble pie without a murmur. To have offended Mr. Mahone may have led to the election of a Democratic Secretary of the Senate—a disaster too dreadful to contemplate.