Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1890 — Has Done Too Much. [ARTICLE]

Has Done Too Much.

“The present congress can not be charged with not having done anything,” says the Enquirer. “It has done too much. Much that will have to be undone, and much that the people will have cause to regret “It has trampled underfoot all the rights of the minority in congress, who, strangely enough, represent a majority of the people, the intelligence and the patriotism of the country. It has clothed the Speaker of the House with irresponsible des* potic power. “Itha.l increased by a single act the fixed expenditures of the government $50,000,000, and while in so doing it offended the true soldiers it gladdened the hearts of the pension ag. *nt sharks,the coffee coolers and shirkers. “It has disspated the surplus, and will soon have the government in the role of a borrower, while taxe. mount upward and publicans increase in numbers and i ersistent exactions. “It has made two states out of populations no larger than half a dozen wards of Cincinnati, and given them twice the power in the senate as Ohio with its 4,000,000 people, and four times the voting power in the lower House that the same population in Cincinnati posses-es. “It has passed a bill through one House that is designed to tax the millions into abject poverty and recoup the “fat-fned” millionaire monopolist for all that it cost to elect a president and congrecs on the “blocks-oi-five” plane of politics. Another measure has gone thro* the same House to abrogate and destroy home rule and the right of local self-government. It has re-' asserted the political creeds and dogmas of Lord North and George 111, which inspired the Declaration of Independence and precipitated the Revolution a hundred and fourteen years ago. “Congress has done a great deal. “It has doomed to destruction all that has been accomplished by halt a dozon wars and the wisdom of a hundred years of statesmanship. . “It has done too much. “The people shouM give it an eternal rest, if they are ever again permitted to go to the polls and vote ”

Geo. Wm. Bond, the oldest and best known wool dealjr and ex** pert in this country, und a well known advocate o f . protection, re* cently issued a ,vool trade circular in which he said: “An experience of the high duty for over twentyfive years has failed to increase the value of wool, home grown. 8o different is the|character and quality of wool grown in different parts of the same country, that if wools were free the probable jesult would be to equalize values the world over, and it would be found that countries wo’d want onr wool as mnch as we sho'd want theirs.” He also states in his circular that the price of wool increased in this country after the tariff was taken off most wools in 1857. General W. E. Hazen says you can escape a tornado as you see the funnel advancing by running t 3 the north or northwest of it. On the east and south of it there are indrafts extending quits a distance. John P. Bnchanan, the Demos cratie nominee for Governor of Tennessee, is a farmer and an ac tive member of the Formers’ AU liance.