Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1898 — REIGN OF TRUSTS. [ARTICLE]

REIGN OF TRUSTS.

Dewey snubbed PrmceHe* l ry, of Pru sia, brcther of .he German Emperor, because the lat er slighted th e (mi ted States at a dinner at Hong Kong before the war began. Then the Prince apologized to 1 fife A merican commodore Now Germany i ‘^ B t ,? 1< ? re friendly to the Uni.ed States th in ever,because Si eh is come to know what we are capable of doing.

\\ ith absolute unanimity the republican se lato s have vot* ed to tax the people and not to tax the trusts. Solid as a Roman phalanx the nobl rep iblicins presented an unbroken front to the democratic attempts at leach* ing the hoarde 1 millions or th' plut crats. faxes on the necessities oi liie were favored by the republic ms. The poor man’s Inxu* ries were gladly placed on the tax list by these patriotic and noble-minded -en lemen.but woen a tax on cor do 'a ti ns was suggested a howl of indi" - mint protest was raised an* the propositi -n was promptly a oted down.

When the republ cans co’d (i ot rgte they descended to r dicule, a d pretenaed to see something exirenn ly funny in the idea of taxing trusts. That is just the way th a ari. tocrats tre ted the demands <>ft he people before the Fren h revolution inaugurated a rei’n 0 terror. 3 here will be no reign of ve» ro r in the Uni led Si ates, but, thanks to the intelligence and courage o: the common people, there will < ease to ex* ist the reign of t’ usts.