Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1891 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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Congressman Springer, is throwing hot shot into the camp of the common enemy in lowa. In his speech at Spencer, in that State, he gave the following very good reasons why no Demoorat should forsake his party, as well as why all desirous of true anJ practical reform should rally to its support. He said. “At no time during the past thirty years has the Democratic party been in complete control of both branches of Congress and the presidency. During six congresses there was.a democratic majority in the house of representatives and during one Congress in the senate, and during one presidential term of four years the president was a democrat. But at no time could the democratic party enact new legislation or repeal that which was old without the consent of a republican senate or President. The remiblican party is therefore responsible for the legislation of the r oountrv since 1861. — That some of the legislation during this time has been wholesome, none deny; that much of it has been vicious, unjust and oppressive, many of us assert and believe. The most important legislation during this period is that which relates to taxation. To the legislation upon this subject I ask your attention. Soon after the war began it beoame necessary to raise a large revenue. Taxes of all kinds were imposed Taxes upon incomes, upon occupaiions of all kinds, upon . bank checks, upon conveyances and successions, upon domestic manufactures and productions and upon goods imported from foreign countries. Soon after the war was over Congress repealed most of these taxes, especially those bearing heavily upon the wealthy and those most able to pay. The income tax, taxes upon hank deposits, succession taxes and stamp duties, and all internal taxes except those on liquors and tobacco, have all been repealed But the taxes which bear heaviest upon labor affidthe agricultural interess have bfen generally retained and ; greatly increased from time to time, The last Congress passed what is known as the McKinley bill, which further increased the taxes which bear heaviest i upon the great mass of the people. Im- | mediately after the passage of the McKinley bill the people at the polls administered a severe rebuke to its authors in the election of memkers to the Fiftvsecond Congress. A majori vof 158 members were elected in opposition to that measure. Its friends now insist that its provisions were not understood; that they were misrepresented; and after a year’s experience ask a rehearing and a new trial. In lowa, Ohio, New York and a few other states important state elections wilt be held in November next, which will turn 1 rgely upon the merits of the tariff legislat on of the last Congress. But the great contest upon this question will occur in 1892, when another Congress and a President are to be e’ected, and the question of tariff reform must then be fought to a finish. It is important, however, that in lowa and others:ate elections this fall there should be no step baokward. Let the friends of tariff reform move steadily forward, subordinating all other questions to this overshadowing issue. The Democraiic party can not be held responsible for the vicious legislation of the past thirty years which has on one hand created millionaires and fostered monopolies and on th; other filled the land with tramps Referring to the Free Su ar Swindle, Mr. Springer sai 1 he desired the people to understand in the tallest sense the fraud that had been practiced upon them