Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1897 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The price ot everything except labor is going up Wages, always the first to fall, are the last to rise. It is said that President McKinley never drops less than a fiftycent dollar in the contribution box at church. It is expected that the total annual tax on sugar will amount to fifty million dollars. This consumers have got to pay to the sugar trust.

The heavy demand from Europe for American wheat has been the most prominent factor in the’grain market. It is estimated that the purchases for export, within (he last six days amounted to about 1,000, OOOJbushels a day The demand comes principally from the continent. “Tyranny on the bench,” says Governor Fingrea, speaking of the injunction craze, “is as objectionable as tyranny on the throne.”— And he declares an obvious truth when he remarks further tl at “in our greed for great wealth we are becoming not only inhuman, but foolish We are sowing the win<’ to reap the whirlwind.” The problem the Dingley tariff has to solve is to collect about one millio dollars a day, including Sundays, to meet the ‘billion dollar” appropriations of the govern* meut. Actual collections so fc,r this month do not exceed $600,000 a day. Treasury receipts have bce.i pretty large considering the adqance importations under thd Wilson tariff, but the higher duties of the Dingley law are calculated to keep out importations, thereby reducing the revenues, and is causing much concern in administrationfcircles.

The people are utilizing the first fruits of McKinley prosperity in paying off Cleveland mortgages. Wise people!—Republican. If they are Cleveland mortgages they were created under a financial policy commended and adhered to by the Republican party, and denounced by the Democratic national con v ention. Observation too, shows that the largest proportion of these mortgages are being paid of with the necessary aid of the sheriff. “1 do not only think, but know,” said congressman McMillan,| recently, speaking of the Din ley bill, “that jt is the worsr) tax law ever enacted, and it placed the heaviest burden) ever imposed on the American people. The rates ar? heavier and the schedules more outrageous than than those of the McKinley bill, which the people condemned. It protects every trust in existence and invites others to foam. Under it already sugar and other things have gone up. The ptice of what the people must buy is increased without their ability to buy being increas - ed.”

At a meeting of taxpayers last Saturday afternoon to consider the proposition of enjoining the commissioners from going into what might be unnecessary expensive furnishings, etc., for the new court house, committees were appointed to examine into what was being done, and report at another meeting. The commissioners express themselves satisfied, and say it will no doubt set at rest many false and exaggerated reports and suspicions that have been set afloat. The report of the viewers in the Mansfield ditch, wlrch is a joint ditch affecting lands in Jasper aiid Pulaski counties, having disapdisappeared from the auditor’s office ai.d can not be found, auditor H. B. Murray went over to Winamac on Thursday of last week and and mac)e a complete copy of the report filed there, which is a duplicate of the copy filed here, and the same is now on file in the auditor’s office for inspection, by all interested parties. It requiied about three days’ work to make a copy. John Kressler will leave Monday for the G. A. R. meeting at Buffalo, N.Y John Sullivan has gone to West Baden Springs for treatment.