Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1908 — TAXING THE STRICKEN CITY. [ARTICLE]

TAXING THE STRICKEN CITY.

When San Francisco was destroyed the proposition was made to admit lumber for its rebuilding free of duty. The Republican party managers sidetracked it. But why should they have taken this attitude? As long as they plead that the foreigner pays the tax there was no particular reason for them to compel the people of that stricken city to pay ten per cent more for the lumber In its rebuilding than they would otherwise, just in order to prevent an object leeson In the event of reel tariff revision.