Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1897 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Prosperity is in sight—for the ' trusts. The revenue produced by the Dingley bill will go into the cos. fers of the trusts. The new tariff is going to com. pel a good many tc dress cool in winter, and don’t you forget it. Gov. Mount proclaims to the people that miners end their families are in terrible want and calls for aid, and that quickly. «■» —..... Under the new tariff the profits of the trust will increase and the wages of labor will buy much less of the necessaries of life.

Just how the government is to derive revenue from imports when imports are shut out by high duties, we would be pleased to have the advocates of Dingleyism explain. Under the tai iff bill which passed last Saturday, th people will be re-accorded tL6 great boon they held und r the McKinley bill,— that of purchasing shoddy goods at all wool and a yard wide prices*

The new tariff increases the tax on coal 27 cents per ton, making n total duty of 67 cants per ton. 1 f the miners suppdbod that labor would reap any of the benefits they should end the strike now on and go to work. When a young man of moderate means attempts to build a home for himself and family, he will be required to pay a tribute of #2 per thousand feet of lumber to the lumber trust. The U. 8. Treusui y will not receive a penny of it. When McKinley s'gned the Dingley bill ht not only cancelled his obligat ons with the trusts that furnished his campaign funds, but hut he also paid off Hanna and others who rescued him from bankruptcy wile Governor of Ohio.

The republican press, old and young, great and small, vocifor ously announce that “the republican party redeems its pledges.”— Yes, it stood pledged to reimburse the trusts which suppliedtbe boo - die for the last president!. 1 campaign, ai d it has done so. Rob’t J. Tracewell, of Indiana has been appointed Comptrollei of the Treasury, it is said to the surprise even of some of the members ot ths Indiana delegation. It is announced that senator Fairbanks has, since the inauguration, urged the president to recognize Tracewell as an immensely p< | u lar m«n, who had consented to make a second race for congresb . d please the leaders, but the president selected him for his legal ability ?

Gov. Pingree, (rep.) of Michi” gan, denounces the tariff bill just passed in bitter terms. He says the duty on hides means an average increase of 25 cents a pair on men’s shoes; that Armour, Swift, Morris and the Libbys control thehide market and will coin millions out of it. As to sugar, he says: “1 wish somebody would tell me how a sugar duty tnat makes people pay more is going to benefit them, or how a higher price for sugar is going to bring prosperity It seems to me the trust is going to reau all the benefits.

“The lumber schedule hits people of moderate means the "hardest. It increases the cost $2 per thousand. Not much lumber is Used these days in business blocks and fine city residences. It is the farmtr and workingmen who have cause to complain, for they cannot afford brick and stone. And it is all for the benefit of the few who control the remaining pine in Michigan and adjoining states. “I don’t recall that the Dingley bill imposes any additional duties on paintings or diamonds. It is the necessary commodities that are made to bear the increased taxes The prorfloiers of this bill ought to be proud of it. I predict a reckoning for them yet with the people.”