Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1891 — TAKING THE BREAD. [ARTICLE]

TAKING THE BREAD.

T. E. Willson writes to the Indianapolis Sentinel: The total direct appropriations from the treasury made by the billion-dollar congress—not including debts saddled on the country for fifty years to come—were $1,009,000,000. The report of the department of agri culture for 1890 estimates the average value of the corn crop of the United States for the past eleven years at $676,714,286, and of the wheat crop at $368,442,611. It will take both the corn and wheat crops combined to pay for the luxury of having a republican congress—which represented only a minority of the voters. The billion-dollar congress has litterally taken the bread out of the mouths of the American people, for every bushel of corn or barrel of flour produced in this country last year represented merely the t ixes to be paid to meet the expenses imposed by it.