Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1888 — THE O=DEST AND =EST. [ARTICLE]

THE O=DEST AND =EST.

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“If the government may rightfully collect money by taxation and then donate it as a bounty or subsidy to individuals or corporations engaged in particular industries or particular commercial enterprises, in order to make their private business profitable, why may it not also collect it and distribute it among particular classes of the people to equalize their fortunes, and thus accomplish all that Socialism and Communism are demanding?”—Speaker Carlisle. One Grabber Makes Money.— Bill Arp says: “A farmer said to me the other day: “Why doesnt Uncle Sam pay me $lO bounty on every bale of eotton I raise? He ’ ays Joe Brown $6.50 on ev: ry ton of pig-iron, and I’m just as good as Joe Brown.’”—Atlanta Constitution. That is what we call getting to the core of the matter. The Minnesota farmer is just as good as the Pennsylvania iron king. If the latter be entitled to a bounty on his iron, why shouldn’t the former have a bounty on his wheat and pork?—St. Paul Globe. Thebe is more philosophy in a woman’s little finger than in a man’s old . hat. Next to love, sympathy is the divine passion of the heart.

The great men of the republican part • differ in their estimate of President Cleveland. Our neighbor, of Mie Republican, refers to the President as “The ignorant amateur statesman !” James Russell Lowell, one of tbe acknowledge I intellectual men of that party, and late republican Minister to England, at a recent banquet _n Boston, said: “I feel strongly attracted to Mr. Cleveland as tbe best re: resentative of the high st type of Americanism that we have seen since Lincoln was snatched from us.— We are here to felicitate each other that the presidential chair has a man in it, and this means that every word he says is weighted with what he is, that he understands that politics means business, not chicanery; plain speaking, not paltering with us in a double cause. That he has the courage to tell the truth without regard to self or party, Our politics call for a broom. Cleveland has found it and begun to p]y it. He ha:; set us an example of courage, good sense and moderation. He has kept well to his text.”

Governor Luce, of Michigan, a strong Republican, says, “I m oj posed to piling up a surplus for the sake of spending it I say cut the revenue down to die actual need of the government. Ti ke the tariff off sugar and pay a bounty to the producer, and wt would soon be producing all our sugar Then put on the tree list every article not produ ed in this country ?”