Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-06-23
hen il tells. that a nan is taxed

TN has Chains. lUp
On his harness.. o0
aud so or, with n list of percentages
pu, on by business people, until !; real
,y imsgines that the people believe that
Republican people are the only people
in this country who charge percent
age for doing business, or establish taz
rates.
Even the mass Of the Democratic
party are getting too well informed for
that kind of dust throwing Such mis-
representation does not blind as it
used to d.. The people who indulge
Ia such writing EiGst presume that their
readers sfe poorly informed, or nesrly
quite ignorant. When We read such
I'D article We are reminded of the slight
of hand performers who used to play
before the Indians and cause them to
believe that their tricks were super
natural, that the Good Being was with
the "palo face" aud helped him. The
Indians know better nov, and the Dem
oc:acy will some day learn how they
have been, and are yet, tricked into
bitter opposition BY just such articles.
The Democrat and Register people
kaow that all business men who deal in
salt, perper, grain, plows, harness, and
every other thing of the almost endless
list OF srticlas used in every day life,
require certain percentage before it
reaches OF is handed TO the consumer
II it we're not Sc they could not live
there would be no business men
would grow and make only what each
individual needed, and no more.
Such dust singers as the Democrat
and Register do not say that it is wrong
20 give or sell what a man raises or
makes beyond his own immediate need
OF want, to business man who puts
percentage on what be paid for it, be-
fore be disposes of it 10 the consumer.
II an article pass through the hands of
half doEen middle peo-
tie who act as it we're as agents be
tween the producer and consumer, the
percentage IS correspondingIy higher
than if i, had passed through the hands
nj only one or two middle-men. But
these middle men, who, 10 make money,
raise the percentage, are no, the peo
pie whom the Democracy, through their
orators and papers are abusing di
rectly, yet indirectly they are the
people abused. They talk and
write In such way as to create
the impression among the unsrspec.-
ing and unread that Republican peo-
pie are the people who are DONG the
percentage bus nes The Democrat
and Register says, slow the people are
taxed" By these operations, by Re-
pubIicar rulers. There may be such
u thing as getting the percentage too
high, bat that is not our point now,
neither is Il their point. The point
they desire 10 make is to create the
impression that Republican people are
the people who are doing these things,
that ibey are piling on the percentage.
Reader, yen know how nearly correct
j, is that all OF the business Of this
nonLtry is done by Republicans. To
make the Republican party response
bic for ths percentage that business
exacts, il would be necessary .tat the
business Of the country be done by
Republicans. isthat true, Are there
~ Democrats a. business Are there
~ Democrats raising more yroduce on
farms, or manufacturing more articles
IN shops :han they themselves need ;
Ii such IS the case, then the Cincin-
ra,i srti0is reproduced in the Democrat
ana Rcgistey Is correct. Then are the
Democrats producers and consumers,
and not busicsss, or middle men, and
have nothing to do whatever with buy
ing and selling e. 3 profit.
bow many more Republicans than
Bcmocrats are !oiug business +.
But wig write forever about the
,hipg Of tax outside Of Jnnists county !
WY does tie D,moerat aud Register