Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1898 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

, President McKinley has an Opportunity to exercise executive power in the case of Captain John I). Hart, who is now locked up in an American prison for trying to aid the As the entire landed Spates is ia the sam< line of business, it ookslikea bit of stupia and inconsistent cru lty to keep Captain Hart any longer in bondage Hanna may think that to release Captain H rt would offend the sensitive feelings ol the Spanish. Attorney Gen eral* Griggs may think that there is noth.ng too j ad for a man charged with aiding the Cubans in t K eir sTuggle forliberty against the cow rdiy, cruel and treacherous Soaii- j iards, but the ueople of the: U.iite i.States,who have forced Hanna to eat his craven woi ds, “ There will be no war,” and j who have driven Griggs for once in his life to hunt up pre-< cedents for freedom instead of forging fetter* for freemen,the people will uphold and ’ applaud the president If he will set Captain Hart free As the Washington Tim-s well says: “What Captain Harr did lor the Cubans, the Marquis de. Lafayette did for the patriotic forefathers of McKinley during the wur of the revolution. ” Recently a stat rite of Lafayette was sent o France by American patriots as a testimonial that the memory of the gre?t Frenchman was held in reverence here b - cause he aided the cause of -ireedom. If America does revere i ce those who manifest a love for freedom, why is Captain John D. Hayt still a captive in the eastern penitentiary of Pennsylvania? No w is the time for presider t McKinley to release 1 aptain Hart. The war has not yet become so engrossingthat th~ executive cannot find a pen ana with R write the pardon of a man whose only crime was that of being a year ahead of the administration. When the revenue bill to raise the money to pros cute the war against Spain was prepared by the ways and means committee no democrat was consulted. It was the idea of republicans to ha ve a measure strictly partisan in charact »,r, strictly in the interest of republicans and t en to force the democrats in congress to vote for it under the plea that it a “war measure,’ and it would be “unpatriotic” to op£pose it. ? This sort of bulldozing is evidently going to be the method followed by the administration party, and the republican press has received instructions from Bos- Hanna, whose cringing slave it is, to work the “obstructionist 1 aci et” for all that it is worih. *■ Iheie can be no doubt that there are many things in the revenue bill which should not be there, but much more is it true t ere are many things in the revenue hill which sho’d not be there, hut much more ig it true that there are many things not in the hill that should be in it. Necessities of li e are taxed to the.utmost, but incomes and luxuri es are not touched. To be sure, the rich men bought protection, during the Ist nresidential campaign,by paying large sums of money to Mark Hanna, but there was no talk of war then, and the bargain ought to be declared off because of the change in con* ditions. W hile the republican majority in congress Here voted cheerfully to tax the necessities of the people, the inquiry will not down as to why such corporations as the giant Standard Oil combine should escape without the tribute of a single penny to the war^fund. Why should the man who has to spend m.mey for the necessities of life be forced to pay, a tax on every cent he spends, while the man who receives an income of $2,000 a day does not have to pay a cent of tax? And yet administration papers say democrats a -e “obbecause those same democrats want to equalize the burden of war by making the rich help the poor carry it.

One thing is certain: The internal revenue tax is going to raise the spirits of the people all over this country. Special Sale of Nttbseby Stock! Owing to the closeness of money among the farmers and planters we have Joiermined to plaoe this stock with n the xeaol of all- The sock is young, thrifty and v ell grown, and every tree will be foun abeled true to the name. All who wine t plant trees will do well to look oar sto k over. Stock can be seen at White’s Terj barn, Roussel er, Ind. Renickeb Bbos, llaloy is still selling shoes atoo st.