Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1893 — Anti-Tariff and Anti-Monopoly. [ARTICLE]

Anti-Tariff and Anti-Monopoly.

A reform must be close at hand when the ministers of the churches dare proclaim it in unmistakable language from their pulpits. The antislavery agitation was coming in on i the homestretch before ministers, to any considerable extent, took part in ; the reform which culminated in the freeing of the bodies of the black - slaves. Now that both white and i black slaves are struggling to obtain industrial freedom from the onerous .taxes that shackle industry, cramp body and mind and lead to political . corruption, it is an augury that the industrial freedom proclamation may -soon be promulgated, to hear a ser,mon like the one preached by the JJev. John J. Peters, of St. Michael’s Church, in New York City, on Jan. 8. He condemned in strong words the politicians who steal from the ;poor; the officials who take bribes; legislatures that give away valuable franchises without compensation; the iparty papers, “to whom all that their ■worst party bosses do is right, provided only they bear the party name,” and evil in all places. “Woe,” he said, “to; the monopolies and trusts, aoal combinations, sugar trust, win-dow-glass trust, Standard Qil, men that go ,to Congress to lobby through a measure, to put a high tariff on steed tails, ,tin plate, articles,of .clothing as consumption in order that they may reap enormous profits, Joining house to house, field to field, with,the .money which they filch from the pockets of the wage earners, grind ,ing the faees of the poor. ”