Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1888 — CEASE ROBBING THE PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

CEASE ROBBING THE PEOPLE.

The Democratic pai ty comes before the country with the straightout proposition that the Government has no right to take from the pockets of the people $100,000,000 a year more money than it has any legitimate nse for. Those who oppose the Democratic party would have the Government continue the policy by which this vast umouut of money is annually taken from the pockets of the people. The Democratic party declares against a policy whioh, look at it as you will, is unmitigated robbery. There is no amount of sophistry; there is no amount of political chicane; there is no amount of demagogism that can, by any means, obscure such political scoundrelism. Those who oppose the Democratic policy place themselves on record as favoring a policy of downright robbery. There is a large element in the Republican party that will not follow the freebooting flag of the Republican bosses who advocate robbing the people of $100,000,000 a year. Already the most influential Republican organs in the country indorse the Democratic policy as mapped out by President Cleveland. The Republican blatherskite press contend that protecting the industries of tho country can only be accomplished by robbing the people of $100,000,000 a year. They say, in effect, protection und robbery mast be maintained at all hazards; that they go hand in hand; and they say this thing of robbing the people of SIOO,000,000 a year, $1,000,000,000 every ten years, don’t amount to anything—the people can stand it, have stood it under Republican rule for many years—and (hey point with pride to the colossal fortunes that have been built up under a policy of robbery. This blatherskite, robbery Republican press tells the people that to rob them of $100,000,000 ft year, $1,000,000,000 every ten years, is good for them; that robbing them makes them richer, just as bleeding makes them stronger. But the people are no longer to be gulled by such clap-trap. They say taxes to the extent of the absolute needsfof the Government economically administered—not one dollar more—that is the Democratic policy. Upon that policy Democrats are united, harmonious, in splendid fighting trim. The Republican party is split, demoralized. The honest and intelligent element —vide the Chicago Tribune and tne New York Times— are with the Democratic policy.—lndianapolis Sentinel.