Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1884 — A $20 BIBLE PRIZE. [ARTICLE]

A $20 BIBLE PRIZE.

After the adjournment of the CoConvention, the Democratic voters of Marion township are requested to meet and place in nomination candidates for the Townibip offices. HENRY FISHER, Chairman Dera Township Committee Bob Lincoln, Arthur’sijSeeretary of war, is opposed to the restoration of Gs*. Fitz John Porter to the armyAh well, Bob is only a very ordinary son of an illustrious father. The author of the Morey letter, in the campaign of l v ßo, has paver been discovered, and John I. Davenport now asks the state Legislatures to pass a law puuishing similar.offences Th* campaign is about to commeace, and the Republican U, S. Sen*, ate have comaiittees at work mam% faoturing BiJUthern outrages for Northern consumption.* Bo far they have not made much progress. • The communication of “Mentor,” pointed on first page of to day’s Ssnhnel is well timed, antLoshonid receive (he consideration to which it is entitled from ever citizen without regard toparty. It presents pithy points. Read it. Citizens of Warsaw have petition ed Congressman Calkins to see«re two oondeaint d cannons and four cannen balls to ornament a plot cf grouiad in Oakwood cemetery, at Warsaw, *et aside for the burial of deceased soldiers Johflfe Davenport who was charg-t ed with dis«overing the writer of the “Merey" letter, say# he gives it up. Y*ry m*ny|peopie, Jchnaie. *re very firm in their convictions that the victim of your Republican imthet, G«iteau, was'the autherjof that latter. Well, now, what about the Moirison tariff? I submit to yon, feilow citizens, that it is the most cautious and conservatiYe measure that has ever been proposed, if we are to do anything, that is the least we can do. It proposes in the first place to put throe classes of commodities on the freo list namely, salt, coal and lumber. Is there any man in this community aggrieved by these additions to the free list ? Is there any article like salt, which enters into animal consumption , and without which hsalthy life cannot be supported? Do you think that an article of that' sort should be taxed? Do you in New York object to .having coal on the free list? If there is any body to sell you coal to cook your food and warm yowr houses cheaper than our neighbors in Pennsylvania, inj Heaven’s name ought you not have the privilege of buying it? [Loud applause.] Taxes on lumber increase

your rents, Do you oDject haring this on your free list?” “No political party in any country ever lost political support by demanding a reduction of taxes. We Democrats do not ask it nnreasoaa bly or for mere partisan purposes. We ask that taxes shall be reduced because tb? people of tnis country are even now, in 1884, taxed under laws enacted in 1861; la lvs enacted for the purpose of carrying on the great civil war long since ended. The Government now has no war expenditures and the pit lie debt is being rapidly extinguished. The framers of the Morrill tariff law of 1861 have declared publicly that it was a tempo rary measure, intended only to raise money for the war expenditures ot the Government, ’and for the payment of the public debt, and that when the necessity would cease for such heavy taxation, the laws would be repealed. It was upou that ground they were e’ abled to pass their bill through Congress. But they have not fulfilled the pledge which they gave to the country as economists and legislators. On the contrary, tbey have maintained the so-called system of protection which in truth, is a system of organized bounties to the few. Even on the plea of protection the industries which ha ® been benefited by their legislation no • longer need its privileges—Hon. P rry Belmont’s recent New York speech.

An aged newspaper man once said on retiring from active life: “During the fiist six months of my professioa al career I knew nil about ruuniug a newspaper—how te make everybody taae it, aid how to make bushels of money. Now I know’nothing at all about it. I therefore feel that I am too old for the business, _ _ • Blaike is not a reformer. His pibiic record is stained from beginning to end with eorrupt jobs anddisoroditablo method?. In every a3l, from the;Forcimith bond affair as ipeaker of the House to the guano claims scandal agSecretaiy of State, he ha 9 oeen dipping into rotten schemss for plunder. Why, therefor*, shoild he be presented as a reformer? —Harrisburg* (Pa.) Patriot. People may talk as much as they please about the benefits of protec tion to Ameriean industry, but there are sometimes stibborn facts to be met and explained, and among tiem the decline of American shipping is the most notable. Of the 1,190 steamers that were engaged in the traus-Atlantio trad* last rear, not onecairied the American flag. Last year there were 166 aaiJin" vessels engaged in this trade, of which this country furnished but two. and they were the smallest ones in the fleet.— Forty years ago there were fifteen ship-yards in New York alor.e, giving employment to 15,000 men. jfiow many are there bow?

Congressma* Hurd, In a rseeut lottar on the tariff to New York Beta oerats said: * . The tariff questou, which you say will be considered, is one in which 1 feel a «teep interest. I bwlleve it to be to day the absorbing question of Federal polities. There is no object as to which there is more discussion or about which he people desire more information. With this an issue the Democratic party cugat to occupy no uncertain position From tha day that in iheir first Congressional caucus the Democrats, under the leadership of Thomas Jefferson, declared for eotmu»reiai freedom uutil how our party has opposed the monopoly or prut-etion. It# »o a t signal victory was w*o in 1844. in the election of James K IMk over Henry Clay, tho ch*mpi«n of piotection to American industry The Imi authoritative declaratie* of ihe National Dounoeracy waa tor >1 tariff for revenue only. The Democratic party i* committed by its whole history te the doctrine of low tarifl taxation.

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