Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1870 — For—Against. [ARTICLE]

For—Against.

The Democrats are continually prating about a "reduction of the taxes,” the “ high tariff,” a better regulation of the currency of the country, etc. Let it be remembered by all who hear Democrats talking on these subjects, or who read Democratic newspapers that are continually banging away upon them, that in all the leading measures of the Forty-first Congress for lightening the burdens of the people, the Democratic party, as represented in the Senate and Mouse, were found stubbornly resisting. Whenever they had an opportunity of supporting measures that were calculated to reduce taxes or the tariff, or to regulate the national finances and the currency on a more satisfactory basis, they preferred to play the dog in the manger. They voted in almost solid phalanx against the bill whereby the tax on tea, coffee and sugar was reduced, whereby a large free list was added to the tariff, and whereby sixty millions of internal taxes were entirely removed. They voted with [equal unanimity againßt the bill which proposes to fund the public debt at four per cent. Interest, and thus immensely decrease the annual charge upon the people. With very sow exceptions they voted against the bill which gives to the South and West something nearer to a fair proportion of national banking capital, and which on the speefo basis makes the banking [system free to all who wish to engage in it, as by right and justice it should be. The Democratic party, as represented in Congress, stands recorded as voting agpinst all these measures of relief, amelioration and justice, and the organa of that party might, therefore, with greater propriety, turn their guns against their own representatives, who tried to prevent the doing of that which has been done, instead of berating the Republicans in Congress for not having done more’in the same direction.— Chicago Journal. The New Albany, Ind., Ledger says: “ There is a man in Tef re Haute who pays his wife a regular salary of three dollars a vteek to keep her mouth shut Every time eho speaks to him, except when absolutely necessary, he ‘docks* her ono cent a word, lie was out a little late last Saturday night, and she took out a mbnth s wages for his shortcomings, and ho finally hid to agree not to ‘ count it,* in order to get to sleep.**