Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1897 — A DAMNING APOLOGY. [ARTICLE]

A DAMNING APOLOGY.

The Middle Classes Injured by the Republican Tariff. In big final apology for the tariff for the tariff for robbery only Mr. Dingley laid the greatest stress upon “the tariff up n imported luxuries or articles in the nature of luxuries.“ He estimated the total of this taxation upon wealth at “thirty-five or forty millions," But he was only to ei umerate specifically thesitems: ® Liquors, $1,000,000 Fine cigars and wr ppera. 1,000,006 Silks, silk plushes and velvets. 3,000,000 Silk, linen and aotton laces and embroideries, 3,000,000 Kid gloves and jewelry, 3,2.10,000 Ostrich feathers, downs and a - tificial flowe.s, 1,276,000 Trimmings of beads, glass, etc., lOO.'ooO Braids anJ plaits of straw, 400,000 Plate glass and.china ware, 890,000 Painti gs and st atuary, 1,000,000 P rsonal effects of American tourists, 10,000,000 I’o $26 215,000 1 his is the official statement *f the tax* ation of wealth, quoted directly rom Mr’ Dingley's speech as reported in thu Co - gressional Record.

1 ho wives and daughters of artisans and small hop-keepers and of men of very moderate means generally will presently convince Mr. Dingley that he is no. taxing wealth when he raises the prices of Bilk plushes, velvet, kid gloves, straw goods, ostrich feathers, artificial flowers, beads and glass trimmings, laces and embroideries. All of these articles arc part ol the Sunday clothes” of every woman tn the nation who has "Sunday clothes." It is not necessary to characterize tin tax on pointings and sculpture. As for the tax on personal.effects of tourists, that alone would make the law hateful to .’he very classes upon which the republican party most relies for support. But granting for the moment that Mr. Dmgley is right in his absurd assumption that th.sa are taxes upon wealth, there are still only twenty>five millions of the $220,000,000 he alleges the law will raise. 1 hat is, only 11 percent of the taxation wealtfif >On What tbeße bouut V-Rivers coll And the remain ng 89 per cent, falls upon necessity and enables the trusts, mo - nopolies an i protected manufacturers to collect on their own account hundreds upon hundred* of rf’l ons of extortion from the people wuu must buy in the protected market.—N. Y. Wqrld. F

That which scemeth most casual and •object te fortune, Is yet disposed by the ordinance of Heaven. There are people who seem to think that God only expects them to keep the Ten Commandments on Sunday. It ts bad reasoning which builds up • theory of life on the narrow ledge of a passing human mood, and falls ta take tn the whole roiirjf life. it Was Nothing Extraordinary, One of the shock of ancient legend* relating to the Rock of Gibraltar relates how a young Scotch subaltern was on guard duty with a brother officer, when the latter In visiting the eentries fell over a precipice and was killed. When the survivor waa relieved from duty, he made the usual form, “Nothing extraordinary.” And thia brought the brigade major down upon him in a rage. “What, when your brother officer on duty with you haa fallen down a precipice 400 feet high and been killed, you report nothing extraordinary?” **Weel, sir,” replied the Soot, calmly, “I dtna think there’s onything extraordinary in it. If he had fallen down four hunder’ feet and not been killed—week I ahould hae ea’d k h*t ext rornjww ”