Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1884 — GETS THE BENEFIT [ARTICLE]

GETS THE BENEFIT

ol the high tax and does not pav one cent of it Go to the dry.Soods store aud you find the same thing The imported and domestic article rose in price side bv side One has paid a high government tax. the other no tax. The wealth of the country does not pay tbe government tax It is paid when imported goods are purchased The consum<r pays it when he buys the goods diat have paid the government lai Now the gieat railroad wealth and bank wealth, and other corporate wealth pays scarcely anything of this government tax. Theso wealthy evrporarions buy none of these taxed goods and it tbertfo-e goes free of bearing a just proportion of the burdens of the government The poor men pay it when they purchase the O oods A poor man worth SI,OOO with an averagefamily will purchase about the same amount of woolen goods per a man worth SIOO,OOO Aitii an average family Here the poor man oa ys as much government tax as the rich man It is

so on every article Ought not this august and unequal law be reformed* Toe republican party saya no* It works on tbe side of wealth all the while. What party created uie monopolies of this country* They were created by high taxes—nothing rise. The government made taxes on two thousand articles high to build up home monopolies. Do you favor such a policy* If so vote the republican ticket- The democratic party wants a fair and just reduction <>l i government taxes. High taxes are un I necessary now to bring sufficient revenue and unnecessary to protect our ‘infant industries.’ They will be protected enough by a revenue tariff. That will give them over $.76,000,000, protection. Is that not enough? What decent republican r'e .ires to give them more protection tbai thiss A protective Jtai iff protects a few people who need no protec, im. The protected tew are financially the ablest of our people, A tariff tax high enough to support the government gives them ample protection.