Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1884 — A RECEPTACLE FOR DISHONESTY [ARTICLE]

A RECEPTACLE FOR DISHONESTY

nd corruption ? Will the honest men of iiis country permit this corrupt system to be repeated this year? Will rascality supplant the honesty of the people? There has not been a fair and honest presidential election in this country for twelve years. Bribery, fraud, corrupt ion, and general dishonesty, brought about by the force of unholy money, has carried the last three presidential elections, How long is the voice of the workingmen, the farmer, the mechanic and lhe aitisan to be stifled in this way? Their newspapers publish anything, true or false. Their workers aud strikers labor to slander, defame, and villify. Gan such a party be longer trusted? The republican party in congress defies every effort to reduce tlie government taxes. It is known as the high-tax party. The contest this fall is between high tax and low tax. The republican party wants a protective tariff, which means a high tax on imports. The democratic party advocates a lower tax, June sufficient to raise money enough to support this government and no more- It does not believe in protection beyond this amount. That is enough for the consumer to pay. What party made high government taxes? What party compels the workingmen to pay $3 for *2 worth of sugar • Is 50 per cent, tax high on sugar or not? What party compels the laboring man to nay *32 for a *2O suit ot woolen cloths? Is *0 per cent, on woolens a hsgh tax or not? and so on through the list of two thousand articles We want less tax, less defalcation and better government. This high tax on all the workingmen wear and part that be eats takes back a part ot his daily wages for the benefit of the monpolisl Let him count the increase of price on all be buyfc during the year by virtue of high taxes, and subtract the sum from his daily wages, and he will find that he is less paid, at the end of the year, than the laborers of England. The laboring man does not grow rich by high-tariff tax. Who does? Not the farmer or mechanic The monopolist is the man benefited by the high-tariff-tax He is prosperous from the earnings of others that he has paid no bing for Is this true? Go over to the store and you find one price for sugar. whether jt is the imported or domestic article The imported article has pa d 50 per cent, tax while the domestic article has not, yet they both sell for one pilce Thetmanufacturer therefore