People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1893 — Daniel Pratt Baldwin. [ARTICLE]

Daniel Pratt Baldwin.

Just now the above named gentleman is stricken with inconsolable grief. Like Rachel weeping for her children, he refuses all comfort. He has just learned that two hundred and fifty thousand persons own sev-enty-five per cent, of all the nation’s wealth, and w T hile this favored few are so highly blessed with three,fourths of everything, they pay only twenty per cent, of the taxes, whereat Daniel’s grief becomes uncontrolable. | Daoiel saw this great wrong and | left the Republican party ostensibly because it tolerated the I wrong, and went over to the ! Democrats who are going to remedy it by a two or three per cent, tariff reduction. Daniel's grief is of a spasmodic character, it comes on once in about two weeks, and when it does strike him, he hies himself to Indianapolis and lays before the Progressive Labor Club the cruel wrongs of the poor, committed by the unfeeling and ungodly rich. Daniel is seeking a remedy, and like other reformers,

. i will soon learn that the reformation of the world is the most difficult aad thankless task ever undertaken by God or man, and unless he becomes discouraged in his efforts to relieve the poor of this great inequality and unjust burden, we will give him a few pointers that he may proceed with the good work. There is a Daniel Pratt Baldwin that has a bank at Goodland (don’t suppose it is the same Baldwin) that is a paying institution, but when established it was so assessed or listed, that it only paid about seven dollars taxes, not as much as some blacksmith shops in Newton county. Now as a starter in this work of reform, making the rich pay their just share of taxes, he might look up this Baldwin that owns the Goodland bank, and if he isn’t doing better just make it everlastingly hot for him. Another pointer: There is in the town of Fowler another bank

owned by Daniel Pratt Baldwin, that is said to be a very profitable concern to the owners, but as a source of revenue to the county and state, it has been a dismal failure, paying yearly ten to twenty dollars of taxes. One would hardly think that this bank was owned by the same Baldwin, for one man would hardly be willing to do so many mean things. But whether it be the same party or not, it would be well for Daniel to see after this Baldwin too, now that he is so anxious to have the poor relieved of unjust taxation. One more case, Daniel, where you can do something in this matter in you seem to take such a deep interest. There lives in your city, Logansport, one Daniel Pratt Baldwin (there seems to be more Baldwins than good ones) who is reputed to be worth about five hundred thousand dollars, while he only pays tax on about eight thousand. Now, Daniel, he lives close to you and if this be true as charged, and w’hile we don’t know it, yet we believe it, you ought to look after him and see that he does as other good citizens do, pays his just share. Now don’t neglect to attend to these Baldwins, they need it badly. Don’t waste your energies in trying to reform a world that is beyond your reach, and neglect that where your influence is absolute. Farmers of Jasper, if you could have your tax burdens cut down to a level with the Baldwins, you that pay on an assessment of forty-eight hundred dollais would only have to pay on eighty dollars, that is, you pay sixty dollars of taxes where the Baldwins pay one dollar. The People’s party w’ants to change this and make the Baldwins pay the same that other people pay.