Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1892 — THE ASIMIME BLOW-HOT-AND-COLO TARIFF [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE ASIMIME BLOW-HOT-AND-COLO TARIFF

“.The tariff cheapens iron and gives the farmers cheap plows and other farm machine- ”

?hown by the record. However, only a pettifogger would’resort to such a dodge. In the house the conference report was adopted without a division. The report on part of the house was signed by Beasley, Oppenheim and Claypool—the same Claypool who has written so much for The Journal against the tax law recently. If Mr. Claypool had been opposed to the law then, why did he not bring in a minority report? If there were two Republican members in the house opposed to the bill, why did they not avail themselves of Section 12, Article 4 of the constitution, which says: “The ayes and noes on any question shall at the request of two members he entered together with the names of the member demanding v'ne same.” Governor Hovey will long he remembered as a “veto governor” of Indiana. Every bill that met his disapproval was promptly vetoed. But the tax law he fully indorsed with his signature, as will be seen by consulting page 1422 of the house journal, which contains the following message:

Executive Department, I Indianapolis, Ind., March 7,1891. j Mr. Speakers: I aid directed by the governor to inform the house that he Las signed house bill No. 487, the same being “an act concerning taxation.” Very Respectfully, W. B. Roberts, Private Secretary. No doubt if Governor Hovey were living he would be proud of his action on the tax bill. And the time will come, too, when Mr. Shockney and the other Republicans who voted for it, will refer to this vote with pride, for the new tax law does not levy a cent of taxes but compels the railroad corporations to pay taxes on full values. As the new tax law, as heretofore stated, does not levy taxes, it simply provides how property shall be assessed. Separate bills of the legislature in 1891 levied two special taxes. One of six cents for the support of the benevolent institutions, and one of five mills for the completion of the soldiers’ monument. Both, these tax levies are temporary and only for the years 1891 and 1892. Next year this extra levey amounting to sixand one-half cents will not be made. The twelve cents levy for the support of the state, which has been in existence since 1877, and the one-half cent levy for the state university endowment fund, the sixteen cent levey for the support of commm schools, the fifty cents a poll for the common school fund, and fifty cents on each poll for the general state fund will remain on the statute books the same as they have been for years. The extra six cent® tax levied by the last legislature to stop the increase of the state debt contains just one section, and was approved by Governor Hovey, March 7, as will be seen by reference to the house journal, page 1410. Why is Mr. Shockney denouncing the

“The tariff puts up the price of iron and increases wages correspondingly.”

law which he helped to place on the statute books ? Because the Republican state platform dictated at Fort Wayne by the richest man in Indiana, C. W, Fairbanks, owner of three railroads, denounces the law—because Mr. Fairbanks has been compelled to pay more taxes on his railroads.

The Campaign Jackass—" What! Replace the tariff on sugar! Tax the poor man’s luxury of the breakfast table! Perish the thought!”

JANUS-FACE D M’KINLEY.