Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1888 — What the Surplus Represents. [ARTICLE]

What the Surplus Represents.

Representative Bland of Missouri—That overflowing treasury of $100,000,000 is tempting bait. Every one puts his hands into it to see how much he can extraot from it. Where has that $100,000,000 come from? It has come from the men who labor/who are taxed 50 per cent for the hats they wear, 40 per cent for the blankets that cover them. Every dollar paid into the treasury of that amount of $100,000,000 has cost the taxpayers of this country at least $5. That amount represents $500,000,000 that has gone into the hands of monopolies, and trusts, and syndicates, and capitalists under this infamous system of a protective tariff.—Congressional Record.