Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1891 — Page 4

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it Costs You Nothing.

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YOU CANNOT FOOL A WOMAN.

. In a recent number of the Chicago Inter jQceon M+A Llizabel lt Hunt, of Bloomington Illinois, who speaks for. hersel f and..to the poiiif, gives her impression of the ..McKinley bill in tlte ■ tblknvrng terse langauge: ■ U I aera Democrat’s wife but lam sick of seeing such lies as this in newpapers whose editors claim not to be fools. I cut this paragraph out out of the Chicago Herald.” f “When a women pays fifty cents more for a yard for stuff to make a dress of than she would have paid if the McKinley bill had not become a law, she should keep it to herself. So doing she will confers great favor on President Harrison, who thinks that he may get another term in the White House if the people quit making ‘malevolent’ remarks about the tariff.” “Now, don’t this fool Democrat who edits the Herald know, or can’t his wife tell him, that everything a woman wears costs less than it did before the McKinley bill was passed? Calico is four and one-half cents per yard; a good summer silk costs from twenty-five to thirty-five cents a yard. It used to cost SI. Black silk can be bought for from sixty cents to $1 that use to cost $2 to $3.50. Sugar costs five cents that used to cost eight cents. Ribbons are half the old price, stockings the same, and jerseys—kince they are making them in this country —cost half as much as the imported. Ladies’things are down. We ladies know that Democatic husbands can lie to each other, but they can’t lie to us. We women are not fools. Let the Herald liar stick to men’s things when he lies l and not try to lie about women’s things. We won’t stand it lam a Democratic woman but I do’nt want any lying done to keep the party up. We are not fools.”

“ELIZABETH HUNT.”

THE GLITTERING BAIT OF CHEAPNESS.

The free trade attorney is always ready with his promise of cheap things. The farmer is assured that his implements may be had for less money: the mechanic is to lie required to pay less for his tools, andheadsof families are told they will need less money for purchasing the essentials^to comfort and convenience. All these are promised in return for votes backing up the European demand that our tariff shall be “reformed 1 ’ to a basis of practical free trade. It may be well for voters to consider for a moment the sham that so persistently parades under this garb of cheapness. As in the case of the gaudy fly with which the angler tempts the fish, the promise of cheapness is arranged to conceal what its victims are expected to learn by costly experience. And as the ultimate results from any radical change in our economic policy will press most directly upon that large majority of voters who work for their living, these are the men who should see to it that no mistake is made. It will not do to lose sight of thejfact that the opportunty to buy cheap is not the main requisite to comfort and independence. Before a man can buy at all he must have the money to tender in payment; and if he is really a prudent man he will hesitate to spend the dollar already in his pocket until the sees some chance to replace it with another. This is the point of view from which to contemplate the issue between the policies of Protection and free trade. Free trade would put the money paid for the majority of manufactured articles in the pockets of foreign workers and dealers. Protection insists thatevery article which can be as well made in this country as in any other shall be made here, and that the money paid for it shall go into the pockets of American citizens. Money cannot be sent to Europe to pay for work done there without by just so much depleting the supply in this country. Hence the effect of free trade must be to diminish the ability of American workers to make purchases, as it forces money abroad to pay for labor so long as foreigners are content to accept lower wages than are- paid here. On the other hand. Protection facilitates purchases by so far as possible furnishing all who are willingto work, the opportunity to get money with which to pay for what they want. And this is the consideration of chief importance to the workingman, however glibly free trade attorneys may prate of cheapness.

A Knock-out for a Dishonest Tax-Law Liar.

~~~Editor Republican. The Sentinel of Friday April 24, contained an article over the signature of “Alliance” commending the new tax law. It is news to me, and I think to many members of the Alliance, that the whole thing was concoct-cdf-passedTipon and petitioned for by the County Alliance organizations. I wonder if the farmers knew; this before? He says the Jasper County Alliance recommendvd an increase to 25 cents. Well, they kept their light under a bushel. The state school taxis 16 cents, the state tax 12 cents, endowment fund | cent; the new tax for hospital purposes is 6 cents, all told 344 on each one hundred dollars. I am not a member of the Alliance but I wonder if the Alliance petitioned to have the appraisement changed “to a fair cash” basis? That will double the tax or nearly so on personal property and treble or nearly so on land. He seemed certain that the farmers were feeling so badly because they were paying only about one third as much tax on their farms as they ought so they petitioned a Democratic Legislature to have the appraisement increased so they could pay more. The farmers ought to be very happy because they have this opportunity! He says “the increase in these values will cause a corresponding reduction in the levy for county and township purposes and the amount paid by the average farmer in the county and township taxes will be reduced to a much greater extent than his state tax will be increased.” Let us see: Any man of sense knows that each county and township needs a certain amount of money to pay expenses and the levies have to be made with that object in view. If a man has a farm appraised at SI,OOO under the old law and the levy is 75 cents on each one hundred dollars as it was in Jasper county for 1890, he will pay $7 50 for county purposes. In 1891 his farm is appraised at a “fair cash value,” or S3OOO and the levy is reduced to 25 on each one hun-

dred dollars will hp pay any less' for county purposes? No, he pays the same or $7.50. In 1890 this same man’s tax for state purposes was, for schools 16 cts., endowment fund | cent, state tax 12 Cts., total 28| cts., or on his SI,OOO he will pay $2.85. In 1891 his farm appraised at $3,000, and taxes for , schools 16 cts., state tax 12 cts., hospital 6 cts., endowment fund | • cent, total 34|cents on each SIOO ihe will pay $10.35. The argument of “Alliance” looks more like the Special plea of a shyster lawyer or a democratic demagogue than a defense of the so-called Alliance scheme of taxation. “Allianefe” says that under the old law a man who has SSOO worth of personal property pays as much tax as the owner of a farm worth $2,000. I heard the editor of the Democratic Sentinel repeat that yarn on the street this week. Yet he says the Democratic party is the only party that “does anything for the farmer.” “Alliance’s” efforts to bolster up the blunders of the late Democratic Legislature is pretty thin. I think the blindest man in Jasper county could see it. He calls the editor of the Republican a liar and a brother also at the same time. In the mean time yon can be getting ready to pay yonr taxes next spring.

Tariff Pictures.

The Republican Clubs at Gincinnati a few day ago distributed 1,500 tin souvenirs for the button hole. The were sought as eagerly as though they were gold and silver. Here are the wages of the tinsmiths at home and in England. Averagedaily wages—Tinsmiths; England sl.lO. United States $3.00. The souvenir button not only represented the starting of a new industry worth ten million dollars annually in wages, but it was an emblem of American wages as against foreign wages. —New York Press.

AN ODIOUS TAX LAW.

The tax law enacted by our last Legislature is creating great dissatisfaction the State, and justly so. The people knew before the Legislature met that the State finances were in a bad condition, that a debt of .nearly $9,000,000 had keen piled up, and that the revenues of the State were insufficient to meet its ordinary expenditures, not to speak of the necessity of providing, for a reduction of the debt. Under the circumstances it was plain that something would have to be done to increase the revenues. Those who were familial’ with the situation expected that; but they also expected that an effort would be made to discover new sources of revenue, and, as far as possible, shield the people, already heavily burdened with taxation. There wasl he more reason to expect this since the majority of the Legislature were particularly loud in their professions of reform, their promises of relief to the farmers and tax-payers generally, and their pretended opposition to corporations.

Governor Hovey was among those who hoped that an earnest and honest effort would be made to increase the State’s revenues without increasing the burdens of the people. In his message to the Legislature he made a very clear statement in regard to the State finances. He showed that there was an absolute necessity for an increase of revenue, but urged that it be done by increasing the taxes of corporations. He called attention to the fact that some of the States raised much the largest part of their revenue in that way, thus relieving the people in the same proportion. The following extract from his message shows the character of the information he laid before the Legislature:

• In New York, New Jersey, Connect! cut, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and other States, scarcely any part of the tax for State purposes is collected on lands. The farmer is left almost untouched, and the principal State reve nue is collected from corporations and railroads. In these States corporations and railroads alone will nearly average the full amount of our State revenue. New York collects from her corporations as follows: Class 1, insurance. $100,196 05 Class 2, railroads 661,657 27 Class 3, steamboats 47,947.11 Class 4, telegraph and telephone.. 41,488.25 Class 5, gas and mining 95,633.08 Class 6,miscellaneous . ............ 154 314 50 Class 7, banks 6U6&45 Total $1,172,589.73 While the State of New Jersey col led sTaxon railroad corporations $938,515.59 Tax on miscellaneous corporations 222,103 os Tax on certificates of incorporation 43,463.20 Tax on foreign insurance companies - - - 6,110 48 Total : $1,210,13230 And the State of Connecticut Collects. Tax on savings banks r.r.v. on? 44 Tax on non-resident stock.. .. *7B.<Bs<h Tax on mutual insurance companics a.w-1 Tax on agents of insurance com- ' ponies of other States . . 24.749.4« Tax on railroads.... 671.8W.S Total Contrasting Indiana with Connecticut, he showed that Connecticut, with 1,010 miles of railway, collected in taxes from that source 1671,820,

OLD DEMOCRAT.

•while Indiana, with 6,961, collected only $83,715. In Wisconsin thg revenue from railroads nearly pays all the expenses of the State, and her niarifls are not taxed at all for State purposes. The Governor called attention to the fact that in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut the State levy was far below that of Indiana, owing to the fact that the other States raise so large a revenue from corporations. In Ohio the State tax rate in 1889 was 2 7-10 mills on the SIOO, the rest of her revenue being raised by taxes on corporations. In the same year Pennsylvania realized from her taxes on corporation stock and limited partnerships $1,952,771; on gross receipts of corporations, $517,276; on the stock of bank, safe deposits and trust companies, $469,900; on private corporations, $103,530. The State tax levy was 3 cents on the SIOO. Little New Hampshire realized $107,353 from her railroad tax. Michigan collected $846,294 from taxes upon railroad, insurance, telegraph, telephone and other companies. lowacollected in corporation taxes $1,348,585. Maine realized $99,002 from her tax on railroad companies and $24,825 from her tax on insurance companies. In Indiana the total amount realized from taxes on foreign coroprations' during the year ending Oet 31, 1890, was $100,261, and of this amount $98,632 was paid by insurance companies, all other corporations paying only $1,728. With all this information before it, or easily accessible, the Legislature might, with very little trouble, have prepared and passed a bill that would have produced all the increase of revenue required by the State without adding a penny to the taxes of the people. It could teven have made a material reducion in the State levy if it had passed a welldigested law for the taxation of corporations. Instead of this, or of making any effort to meet the well founded expectations of the people, what did the Legislature do? It passed a law increasing the State levy from 12 cents to 18 cents on the hundred dollars, requiring all property to be listed for taxation at its full, true cash value, and giving assessors inquisitorial powers of the most searching and arbitrary character. As if this were not enough, it reduced the tax on sleeping-car companies doing business in the State from 10 per cent, on gross receipts to 2 per cent, on gross receipts, a reduction of 80 per cent.; it reduced the tax on telephone companies from 1 per cent, on gross receipts to | of 1 per cent., a reduction of 75 per cent; it reduced the tax on telegraph and express companies from 2 per cent, on gross receipts to 1 per cent., a reduction, in each case, of 50 per cent We doubt if the entire history of legislation in any or all of the States would furnish a parallel to this action of the last Legislature. For utter imbecility in the handling of an important financial problem, for stubborn and stupid rejection of suggestions showing how it should be dealt with, for blind disregard of the example and the experience of other States, for complete betrayal of campaign professions and promises, and for open sacrifice of the interests of the people to those of corporations, the record has no equal. It is itself its only parallel. The party that made it should be buried under an avalanche of popular indignation, and its epitaph should be: “Here lies a party which wasted in petty schemes of partisan advantage the time that should have been given to public affairs; which devoted itself to stealing offices, while it should have been reducing their emoluments; which acquired power by promising to reduce the burdens of the'people, and prostituted it by increasing them; which added to the debt it was pledged to cut down; which refused to accept suggestions for increasing the taxes of corporations, and actually reduced them from 50 to 80 per cent., while adding nearly 100 per cent, to the taxes of the people.”— lndianapolis Journal.

Tariff Pictures.

Decrease in price of wire nails in the United States: Price in 1875. 10c. per pound. Price in 1879, - . Bc. per pound. Price in 1890, 3c. per pound. —.Vew York Press. Plow shoes,—Farmers don’t touch a plow before buying a pair that will last you the season, from Ludd Hopkins. A good two horse Studebaker wagon and a single top buggy for sale. Dexter <fc Cox. Our stock of Hats is complete, embracing all the latest styles in crushers and stiff hats. J. H. Willey & Sow. Just Received, at A. Leopold’s, the finest assortment of all kinds of carpets, floor and table cloths, win-dow-blinds, fine lace curtains and chenille curtains.

JOHN W. PAXTON & CO. (Successors to Wolfe <£ Go ) Dealers in ALL KINDS OF LUMBER! LATH, BUNDS, SHINGLES, MOULDING, DOORS, LIME, SASH, | HAIR, Ac. Carry Everything Pertaining to Our Line. Come to Rensselaer and call at our Lumber Yards, south of the Railroad, examine the quality of our stocand 'save money. We mau ufacture our own lumber in the Wisconsin pineries, and know that we can give the best qualities for the least money. CLOSE ESTIM ATES ON BILLS A SPECIALTY. __ _ JOHN W. PAXTON & CO.

Itasohr Stock Farm STALLIONS FOR SEASON of 1891.

PLUTO, 1950. Sire of BLUE WING- 2.251. LEO-2.29J. CLARENCE-2 30. LANOEWOOD CHIEF-2.3H WEDGEBROOK—2.36I. JOHN, H. P.-2.39. OLIVER 8.-2 42. PLUTO, J r-2.45J, by WEDGEWOOD, 629. Record 2.19. Dam PRIMROSE. (2 in the 2.30 list, and 5 producing Stallions) Season 1891 at SSO to insure. Royal Cossack 2459 Four-yenr old Uic.l 2.35|. by DON COSSACK, 950, Record 2.28 and sire of three in 2.30. Ist Dam—May Queen. by Am. Clay, 34. 2d Dam—by Ericsson, 130. 3d Dam —by Davy Crockett. 4th Dam —by Kentucky Whip. Royal Cossack Is 16 hands high, a rich bay and has won many premiums in the show ring. His colts are all bays and of good size. Season of IS9B at S2O to Insure

We have a competent trainer and as good a half mile track as there is in the State. A few promising horses taken on reasonable terms to be handled for speed. Send for Catalogue of Standard Bred Stock for Sale. Address RENSSELAER STOCK FARM, Rensselaer, Indiana.

Mi Jv 4J > A. MCCOY & RANDLE have hand a large lot of store EWES, which they are offerin in lots of ten or more, to suit purchasers, and bred to Shropshire rams or not bred, as desired. All good, healthy sheep, and warranted free fiu.n all diseases. . ■■■ ' "■■■'< Ttrwh —Cash, or six or twelve month’s credit, to responsible partie*

Rensselaer Wilkess STANDARD. by ALCANTARA, 929. Record 2.23. The best son of Geo Wilkes—2.22. Ist Dam-Nena by Nutwood, 2.18 f. The greatest sire living with 51 in the 2.30 list. Second, third and fourth dam all producers. Season of 1891 at sso'; The Season Book Full. PLUTO, RJ., Record 2.45 J. by PIaUTO; 1860. Sire of 3 in 2.30 at 10 years of age. Ist Dam—by Jjm Swjgert, Son of Swigert, 650. This is a fine individual and a natural born trotter. He will be given a record this year. S«a»on of 1891 st 10 to insure Season to close July Ist,