Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1896 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

esormaus mcretse and] puts the total vote of Ohio up to about 1,100,500. This’ is about 260,000 more votes than were cast at the state election one year before, which would indicate an increase of over 1,000,000 in Ohio's Dopulatlffin in the twelve months immediately preceding the 3d of November, and it will be remembered that the wnole country wai surprised at what was then considered the phenomenally large vote of ’95 The Courier’s conclusion is that‘‘lt is n t agretable to think and yet it is impossible to avoid the conviction that£a largo proportion of the votes m the large cities named as well as in the stat? of Ohio were fraudulent, and if this conclusion is correct it follows' naturally that the frauds were committed on tho side which had the money. Every bod j kn’ows which side that was.”

Healy’s Christmas shoes are the great attraction. It is more than likely that the g. o. p. will be very sick of the single gold standard before the close of McKinley’s administration.—* The single gold standard may do for a creditor nation like old England but for a debtor nation it means absolute ruin to the producing classes. A low estimate makes the indebtedness of the United States 20 billions. Every dollar of this vast debt must be paid from the products of the soil, The aearer money can be made the more products required to pav the debt. ksProf. Itidpnth shows, "It will take mere products to pay the national debt after it lias been deduced two-thirds than it would at the close of the war to have paid the whole debt. In other words, the people have paid two-thirds of the national < ebt, but measured by the value of products, it will require F.s much to pay wbat is left as under better prices it would have taken to pay the whole."

Mrs. N. Towers offers her fourroom cottage, on Cherry street, for sale. According to the N. Y. Worid the McKinley programme is to impose more burdens on the poor and further exempt wealth from a just share of government taxation. “It is proposed," save ths World, "t-> re tore the barbarous and cruel tax on wool, to increase the taxes on wo dens, to raise the rates on crockery and glass, to reimpose duties on lumber, eggs, potatoes, onions, cabbages and hay, but to continue the exemption of wealth in every form. “In 1866 the internal taxas collected on manufactures aside from whiskey, beer and tobacco, aggregated $122,000,000. They werejall repealed. “Other taxes collected from wealth in that vear w»re: From incomes, $61,071,932; from banks, railroad companies, etc., $13,279," 142; licenses, $18,038,097; gross receipts—from 2| to 3 per cent—of publishers, telegraph and insurance companies, steamboats, ferries, stagecoaches, theaters,operas circuses and m aseu ms, $10,092,707; legacies and successions, $1,170,S7B: Rtamt», $15,044,373. All t’*ose, one after another, were abolished at the instigation of wealth’s lobby. “There were other smoll taxes, like those on salaries of pnblic officials, on passports, etc., the proceeds of which bring he total of internal taxes repealed immediately after the war up to $240,000,000 ‘This exemption of wealth left the whole Hirden or the oost of government upon consumption mainly of the common necessaries of the people. And this is where the party bossed by Mark Hanna, with McKinley a« its fig-ure-head, deliberately proposes to leave the harden.”

A Suitable Christmas Present. As a very desirable Christmas present, get a box of cigars made 1 y A. Lewis, the Rensselaer cigar manufacturer. They are put up 25 and 50 iu a box, in handsome boxes especially made for the holiday trade. Just the thing for gentlemen who smoke. All of Lewis’ standard brands, “Coleridge,” “69,” “Our New Court House.” For sale by all dealers — , Our exports for the month of October this year exceeded $111,000, 5 OCO in value, the largest month’s export business in the history of the country. The larger parr of the vast business was done with England and per cent of the commodities sold abroad was composed of products of /he farm.