Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1912 — NO CHEAPER SUGAR. [ARTICLE]

NO CHEAPER SUGAR.

The price of sugar is not to be reduced two cents a pound—-not, at least, as long as the present Republican president and Senate remain in business at Washington-. The democratic House of Representatives, it will be recalled, passed a bill placing sugar on the free list. It was estimated that this would reduce the price approximately two. cents a pound. Another bill was pa.-sed placing; a tax on incomes above $5,000. This would have m<sant, in a few words, the transfer of a portion of the burden of taxation from the breakfast .table to wealth. But the republican Senate objected to any such transfer, with the re.-ult that the people will have to go on paying an artificial price for sugar, while wealth remains untaxed by Uncle Sam.

Perhaps sonig day it will be different. But it will not be until a Democratic Senate and president are elected to co-operate with a House of Representatives that is really trying to represent the will of the people Of this C”i a fry.