Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1884 — Randall Under His Own Vine and Fig- Tree. [ARTICLE]

Randall Under His Own Vine and FigTree.

If Mr. Randall fails to make friends, and perpetuate his political influence* among his own immediate constituency* we would respectfuUy inquire where heexpects to make a lodgment. Mr. Randall’s entire district is within the limits of the city of Philadelphia. Ail the wards comprising that district are more or less Democratic. One of ihosewards at the last Congressional election gave Mr. Randall nearly 900 majority, and yet we find the Democratic Executive Committee t>f that ward at ameeting last week passing the following resolutions: Resolved, That we express our unqualified, opposition to the present system of tariff taxation as an unjust and oppressive burden., put upon the labor and living of the people, while fostering monopolies and raising unnecessary surplus revenue to be a temptation to corrupt aud extravagant expenditure. Resolved , That the true Democratic dootrlne upon this subject is that the Government ought not, and has no right to, tax the people one dollar more than is necessary to raise the revenue necessary to conduct its affairs; that there is no constitutional warrant for a tariff levied for any other purpose, and that every dollar levied in exoess of the necessities of the public expense is an. unjust and illegal exaction. Resolved, That we are opposed to removing the tax on whisky and tobaoco, 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 chanoe 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 any-' thing, as being antagonistic to the principles we have declared. Resolved, That we believe an immediate reform of the tariff is alike demanded by common sense and common honesty, and we deplore and deprecate all acts resulting in a further continuance of tbe burdens and injustice of our present system of tariff taxa-, tion as wrongful to the country aqd antagon- 1 lstie to tbe principles of the Democratic* party, and a betrayal of the cause of the people to monopoly and oppression. Be it remembered’now that these are> not the words of some remote agricultural community uttering a warning; voice to those Democrats in Congress who are following the leadership of high protective Republicans in tariff' robberies, but they come frqm the* Democrats of the largest manufacturing city in the country, and are evidently intended for the man who novr represents them, or rather misrepresents them, in Congress, viz., Samuel J. Randall.— Exchange.