Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-04-01
Letter from an Old Jacksoxian Dems.
| crat Of Greenwood Township.

March %, 1891.
NV Dear Mr.. Edator:-Ths Seven
Stars are eternal Is Old Hickory us
ed to say, and they twinkle as bright
LIP to. light as when I last wrote you
about the silver queation.
Dear Old Andy jackson was sill
YER man and a gold man; he wasn't
one Of your London gang that want
ed to do away with silver and make
tho bonds ali payable in gold 50 that
the big bond holders would double
their money by the shrinkags IN val
ues.
He was for selid things generally,
and if the wild cat banks that took
the place of the United States Bank
that he busted had stood by the sill
YER and gold basis their history
would net be one of spoils and fraud.
1t WAS by going out of the old path
he trod that they were led into f.
n.ncial swamp land and there stuck.
We had an old time meeting at
the stars this Saturday night. I felt
tip top for 1 had just como out OF q
campaign Of ten days taking blue
mass and physic for my bad spring
liver.
Aftor We did things up in old
time style one Of the friends led off
on the bad public times by yanking
out Of his pocket what he called the
Granger's bill that has passed the
Lower house of Legislature and is
now in the Senate. We all listened
to the Paul Pry part Of the bill with
the closest attention and then all
prayed that tho Senate would knock
| it out clean and clear.
1t is bill 210 and isn't what the
Grauger's want. They've had the
wool pulled over their eyes by the
fellows that are running the Grange
machine. The bosses got them to
sign petitions in favor Of tho bill
without reading to them the snake
in the bill
The grange bosses have their axes
to grind, but this bill will show their
cloven foot a. old hickory used to
call sreaking things.
The Grange mass are not . set OF
lunatics that want to be pat into a
hsle and be squeezed to death by a
Car of Russia tax system that makes
them take the witness stand under
any pop-in-jay assessor that may be
elected and tell him everything ono
may have in ono's pocket, in the barn,
in the fold. in tho house from the
cellar to the garrst, and hoH put 1T
all in a book and on blanks provided
for him that he may show around
to whonsoeyor he pleares.
The assessor is bound mp like \
cut throat criminal to Pry into your
income and tex it and in failure to
do so is subject to fine af five hun
drsd dollars and imprisonment not
exceeding one yoar.
I'd like to see tho Legislature that
would cram . cut throat law like that
down the throats of men of the old
hickory stamp.
Stand UP Mr., Granger and an
wer tho assessor and have the items,
and prices, and money received for
the Same recorded and summed up
for taxation.
How many eggs did you sell last
year and how much did you get for
them! How much butter mado and
sold and tho price! How many pigs
raised and sold, and for how much?
How many cattle and horses and
sheep and their WORTH How much |
hay, oats, rye, wheat and corn, and
how much was it worthi How much |
machinery aud it's worth! How many
dresses have your family and how
much are they worth' How much Is
your clothes worthi How much furn-
iture and what kind, tin ware, dishes.
&c, and musical instruments, every-
thing, and how much does it fsot up!
II it is over three hundred dollars,
he puts tax on it. If you don't
answer he'll fiI q sum for you.
Tho assessor will go into the car
penter shop and into the stone, and
he will pry around there among your
tools and goods and ginger cakes,
and nick-nacks, and he will hunt the
man who works for wages, and he
will huut the doctor and the lawyer,
and they will all have to stand and
deliver answers, and under oath as
to their valuables and income; and
their gross earnings and if they 60
above three hsndrod dollars you will
be taxed.
Shades Of Andy Jackson, can't you
come from the silent grave, and
stalk into the Legislature and tell
the towards of that body what pol |
troons they are to even think of pass
ing such an un-American LAW like
that in = time Of peace whom no pub
lie emergency or calamity demands
it at the bidding Of few unscrupu-
lous sud ignorant bosses that have
gst hold of the machinery Of . 30
crst organization.
Andy Jackson would never have
dreamed of attempting such kingly |
search for something to tax to carry |
on the war with the bloody red
coats in tho war 1912, and if such
an iniquitous system of prying into !
psoples' affairs had been pre-
pared only for tito purpose of
raising tax to carry on s1trava-
gantly in government affairs, and
pay big salaries, he would have been
almost for calling out the troops to
disband the Legislature.
The revolutionary war OF 1776
was started by little tax that king
George of England imposed on our
forsfathsr's tea.
Tho Grann>r,. toy hill haa sanaa