Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1893 — NO MORE PATRIOTISM FOR REVENUT. [ARTICLE]

NO MORE PATRIOTISM FOR REVENUT.

Indianapolis Sentinel: Republis can paners are much exercised because the American flag which the sugar trust floated overits Hawaiian steal has been taken down. A member of corgress once said that every scheme of republican thiev* ery took refuge behind Abraham Lincoln’s memory. It is different now. The republican party has endeavored to cover up thj trusts and combines of the country under the American flag and the American workingman. The workingman has removed himself, and a democratic administration will remove the flag. The day of patriotism for revenuejonly is past Hereafter the monopolies wil 1 have to do their stealing in the:, owl names.

Speaking of Thomas Jefferson's birthday, April 13, the New Alba* ny Ledger savs: '' e as a nation *we more thanks to him h r our civil policy than to any other mar. He divo -ced church and state; he abolished the law of primogeniture; he enlarged, in fact, may btsaid, to have founded the common school svstern; he issued the first call for a commitiee of correspondence which led to the creation of the Continental congress; li c wro'e the Declaration of Independence; he procured the inseitiou hi tl e constitution of the ‘Bill of Rights; he organized the Democratic tr ity; he was the author of the ‘Mm - roe Doctrne; bv peaceful meai s he added an empire to our domains; he was one of • the most learned men of his day and was at all times and under all circutn~ stauces a friend of the plain per * ph.