Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1888 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Taxes ap<i the Surplus. The fact of a Treasury surplus, the amount of which is variously stated, has directed public attention to a consideration Of the ptethods by which a national income may best be reduced to the level of wise and necessary expenditure... This 'opdition, has been seized upon by 'those who are hostile to pro ! tectirc -customs duties as an adrantapeous bow of attach upon our tariff laws. They have magnified and nursed the surplus, schich they pose of exaggerating the erils, tn order to reconcile the people to the extreme remedy they propose. A proper reduction of the revenues does not necessitate, and should not suggest, the. abandonment or impairment of the protective syatejn.—GsxsßAJh Habbisok’s Lbttkb or Accgf tamcb.