Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1888 — OU OF THE RU [ARTICLE]

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(Boston Sunday Bud et.) 3here is likelv to be more indepen dent voting this year than ever before. It is not the business of a non partisan paper like this to say which side will be most benefltted by the changes that will be made. It is, however, positive gain to have so many citizens get out of the old ruts. 5 ven though the first efforts a* political thinking be crude and mistaken the thinking itself is good, and if continued will in the end set them right. Republican National Platform,’6B; It is due to the labor of the nation that taxation should be equalized aud reduced as rapidly a the national faith will permit. - I ■' *■<>>* ■ '■ Republican National Platform. ’B4: The Republican party pledges itself to correct the inequalities of ths tariff and to reduce the surplus. James G. Blaine, June 10, 1868* During the entire war, when we were seeking everything on earth, and in the skies, and in the waters under the earth, out of which taxation oo’d be wrung, it never entered into the eoneeption es Congress te tax bread* stuffs—never. During the most Dress' ing exigencies of the terrible contest in which we were engaged, neither breadstuff* nor him lor ever became the subject of one penny of taxation. * * * Sow, as to the article vs lumber, I again remind the House that there never has boon a tax upon this article I say that whenever the Western frontiersman undertakes to make for himself a home, to till the soil, to carry on the business of life, he needs the lumber for his cabin, for hie wagon or cart, he needs lumber for his plough, he needs lumber for almost every purpose in his daily liie Senator Bon Harrison. gov 28, *B2: The c: oation of the Tariff Commission wai a confession that the tariff needs revision If the report comes in It should be piomptly acted upon My opinion is that no time should be lost after gourress assembles ,ig bringing forward these bmsvim