Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1892 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

REPUBLICANISM REBUKED. «i—We commend the Legislature for refusing to a opt Governor Hovey's /eoommendation to Increase the State levy from 12 oents to 25 oents on the 9100, and for meeting the necessary expenses of the State’s benevolent Institutions by a levy of 6 oents on the SIOO. We denounce the infamous conspiracy of the Republican oounty commissioners, township trustees and other officials of Indiana, who, for the pnrpose of creating unfair prejudice against the new tax law, have wnntonly and needlessly increased the looal taxes, in the forty-six counties controlled by them, more than one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars—a sum gieater than the total increase of the state taxes in the entire state. We call on the taxpayers of those counties to rebuke at the JQils these looal officials, who have put i;his needless and oppressive burden upon the people.—Extract from Democratic State Platform. THE ISSUE. We denounoe the Republican polioy of protection as a fraud, taxing the labor -f the great majority of the American people for the benefit of the few. We declare it to be a fundamental principle of (he Democratic party that the F)DERAL GOVERNMENT HAS NO CONBTI. TDTIONA*. POWER TO IMPOSE AND COLLECT TARIEF DUTIES EXCEPT FOR THB PURPOSE OF REVENUE ONLT, and WO demand that the collection of suoh taxes shnll be limited to the neeessities of the government when honestly and economically administered." From National Demooratio Platform. “To lay|with one hand the power of the government on the property of the citizen, and with the other bestow it upon favored individuals to build up private fortunes, is none the less robbery because it is done under the form of law and is called taxation. This is not legislation. It is a decree under legislative forms. Nor is it taxation. Beyond cavil, there can be no lawful taxation which is not laid for public purposes Opinion of Justice Miller, (Reoublicsn) of the United States Supreme court. The following from a speech delivered by Grover Clevel nd at Philadelphia on Jan. 8, 1891, is to the point and emphatic enough to satisfy all lovers of liberty.— When you read it bear in mind that President Harrison demands a force (political) bill that will plaoe the control of elections in the hands of his party. Here is what Mr. Cleveland said on the subject: “When we see our political adversaries bent upon the passage of a federal law, with the scarcely denied 'purpose of perpetuating partisan supremacy, which pei - vades the states with election machinery designed to promote federal interference with the rights of the people of the localities concerned, discrediting their honesty and fairness and justly arousing their jeulousy of centralized power, ye will stubbornly resist such a dangerous ano revolutionary scheme in obedience to our pledges for the support of the state government.” “The American people know a good thing when they get it. Heartiest congratulations. You deserve this triumph.” —Andrew Carnegie to President Harrison after his nominatinn a t Minneapolis. “The neoessaries of life used and oon sumed by all ihe people, the duty upon whioh add - to the cost of living in every home, should be greatly cheapened."— Cleveland’s message, 1877. S»- A. McCoy & Co. are prepared to furnish loans on farms at as low rates and on as favorable terms as can be obtained. Call and see us before making your arrangements. 3