Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1883 — A. PRETTY EARD TIME. [ARTICLE]

A. PRETTY EARD TIME.

unless he begins with a good deal of capital. If he goes West by-rail the cost of transporting his fsmily and household goods is quite large—and larger than it ought to be tor the reason that your iron ore tariff and your pig iron tariff, and your iron and steel rail rariff adds to the east of every mile ot railway travel. Arrived at his destination he must build a dwelling, and a barn and enclosures for animals, and on all the material he uses lor these, you impose this, senseless timber tax. It happens frequently that he has no money to buy high-priced lumber, and be builds a dwelling with prairie 8»d. and in this cave he buddies with nis family until bountiful nature give* him a crop which enables him to pajrthe timber tribute you impose upon him for the profit of the yaudaiS w ho destroy our forests. Last winter »bffe were in Washing ton looking after the interests of the public, there appeared in Indianapolis a minister ot the gospel with well-worn garments soliciting aid for a Presbyterian. Cnurcb, of which .he is parlor. He lives in Nebraska, and the Church build, ing in which hepreaqhpa is made of sod. He traveled I,OOQ miles to get ffipfley to enable the poor people of his congregation to pay Mr. Conger’s rich copaitueuts the tax which you asff other Presbytelian ek ders in C ngress WS'£ putting noon building material. And yet fheae ffion- | eers wbp, by ‘ ‘protective" legislation arg i compelled to burrow in, the eaith like prairie dogs, are expected to give their! enthusiastic support to our pasts while,it enacts such lawrf. My Presbyterian Brother Feejla, isn’t It asking too rnuen f

W.P.FISHBACK