Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1884 — RANDALL IN HIS OWN DISTRICT. [ARTICLE]

RANDALL IN HIS OWN DISTRICT.

Mr. Randall’s entire district is within the limits of the city of Philadeln phia All the wards comprising that district are more or less Democratic. One of those wards at the last Congressional election gave Mr. Randall nearly 900 majority, and yet we fied the Democratic Executive Committee of that ward at a meeting last week passing the following resolutions: Resolved, That we express our unqualified opposition to the present system of tariffjtaxation as an unjust and oppressive burden put upon the labo and living of the people, white forcing monopolies and raising una< i s-ouy surplus revenue to be a temptation to corrupt and extrava* gant xpenditures. Resmv-d, 1 hat the true Democrat* ic doctrine upon this subject is that the Government ought not and Las no right to tax the peeple one dolla’ - more than is necessary to raise the reveuue necessary to conduct its affairs; that there is no constitutional warrant for a tariff levied for any other pm pose, and that every dollar levied in excess of the necessities of the public expense is an unjust and illegal exaction.

Resolv ed, That we are opposed to removing the tax on whisky and to* baoco, and believe that the surplus should be reduced by removing the tax on the necessaries of life and raw materials, so as to give American labor a fair chance to compete in manufactured products in the markets of the world, and we are therefore opposed to the tariff plank of the Allentown platform as a trimming evasion, and so far as it means anything as being antagonistic to the princi. pies we have declared. Resolved. That we believe an immediate reform or the tariff is alike demanded by common sense and common honesty, and we deplore and deprecate all acts resuiting in a further continuance of the burdens and injustice of our presenl system <>t tariff taxation as wrongful to the country and antagonistic to the principles of the Democratic party, aEd a betrayal of the cause of the people to monopoly and oppression. The above come from the Demo-* crats of the largest manufacturing city in the country. A tariff that will yield as much in*» come from customs as is required for the support of government without taxing the people for commodities that are produced at home Is what rerenne reformers mean by free trade.--Philadelphia Record.