Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1898 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

bill as agreed to by will give t : ie treasury enough money for war purposes through the is* suse ot $400,0C0,000 of bonds, the coinage >f silver, increased taxe* on beer, tobacco, cigars tnd cigarettes, stamp taxes, the tax on gross receipts of sugar trust, standard oil and sleepingc ir' crop ,n es. lega v and inheritance tax, the duty on ten, and macy other tax s of minor moment, but will not meet in addition the deficient cies constantly increasing by operation of the DingJey law. It provides for the issue of s4o ),000,000 of oondsto meet war expens s For the coinage of all the silver in the treasury at the raUj ot $1,500,000 a month. For a tax of $2,00 a barrel un all beers.

For increased taxes on to* J bacco, cigars an I cigarettes. For stamp taxes on bond and sJocK issues on speculative sales of the same, on life in* surance policies, on perfumer* ies, proprietary medicin J s and the like. For a tax of ode-fourth of one per cent on the gross receipts ot lhe sugar tru.it and st ndard oil c mpany, with f 250,000 exemption on each, an I on all sleeping car com Dairies. For a legacy and inheritance tax. For a duty of 10 cents per 1 ouh 1 on iea, and for many other taxes.

> he eastern press begins to < riticise the administration rather severe on the conduct of the war. .he New York World < harges the preside it with pursuing a policy designed to prolong tin war. It says: “The president acts thr; ugh these retaryof war and sundry and various officers appointed by himself, of nisown motion, or on recommendation o. the secretary of war. But has the power to appoint and remove, o at least relieve from active duty, any or all of these subordinates, he is and must be held responsible. “It was the president who changed this war from a short and simple naval war to a long and languid land and sea war. It was the president who called out these v Aatitaura when the regular army could have done all the land w rk that would have been necessary in a common sense cam* paiga. It was the presideut who appointed incompetent and utterly inexperienced civilians to the vita I post? in the volunteer army, side tracking the regular army officers who have been training for years at the public expense lor just suchworK.”

STRATEGY ok CRIME. When the i ime comes, as it must come sooner or later, for us to make real war in Cuba, thousands of American lives and proba! ly some good American ships svill be unnecessarily sacrificed as a result of the incomprehensible po.ioy that has i ermitted ihe Span." iards to perfect t eir defenses and their gui neryal their lei" sure, under the very eves of our commanders. When the so-called war began we had the absolute command of the sea. Cuba was eighty miles from our naval base. The Spanish fortifications were dilapidated, uid the Spanish gunners coula n t shoot. It would have been a perfectly easy, simple and safe , jeatter foj- ourshiis to make tin, entire circuit of the islan 1, destroying every fortification, blowing up every mine and ta k i i g possession of every sio kof coil. Every harbor in ; üba could have been bro't as completely under our c .11troi as the harbor of Manila is under the control o Dewey. Instead we have all >wed our enemies to make their defenses as nearly as possible impregnable. W 3 have permitted them t o get together a strong fleet ana put jt under s he shelter of powerful forti. fications that did not exist a month ago. We hav c . allowed that fleet to fill its bunkers from supplies of coal that co’a just .as well have been in our possessi n, and when v, e fight it. i P chooses to let us fight, we shall have to dispos' of ths snips, the land batteries and the mines all at once. If that ib sir .tcgy, what is di.cyd— Ae w Y _»i k J o ariial.

Patrick Egan is < ot at all in favor of an English-American alliance. It is prem iture to get excited over this matter, lutthe time ma, come, and perhaps it will come sooner than is now expected, when the übje ,t will fie worthy of very serious consideration. There can be little dcnbt that the mere suggestion of an