Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1891 — Taxing Rellgion. [ARTICLE]

Taxing Rellgion.

The pure cussedness of the tariff and the still worse cussedness of those who collect it is Illustrated by the following letter from a gentleman in Chicago: “Sin: One Bagster's Bible and one ‘Bohn’s Classical Quotations’ mailed to me from London, in two sealed packages, and invoiced to me at 8 *.60. Packages cut open at New York Custom-house, invoice raised to 83.60; packages rewrapped and mailed to Chicago Postoffice, C. O. D.. ninety cents duties. “I have preserved the mutl ated packages as an object-lesson. ”