The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-12-17

nllI the tlllefS OF tHe SOIL uOn-OWHerS
Every alternate producer will be the
creature of some one else's will.
But it is not only the rural homes that
falling prices and an appreciating dol
lar threatens. Those who joined build
ing and loan associations ten years ago
know something of the increased and
increasing difficulty of making their
weekly and monthly payments. Do
they realize that while their assess
mentS are the same on their face they
have, as a matter of fact, increased
greatly in value? Why? Because of
the unstable money in which they pay
the exchange value of which is much
greater than formerly A very exhaus-
tive work on this subject-''The Money
Question"-says: "A measure of gen.
eral prices the stability of which can
not be calculated upon IN advahcc~6y-
the citizens of State is a relic of bar
barism-it is unfit for a people who
plan for years in advance their expenses
and their savings"
This is unquestionably true. An un-
and any effort to discount the necessi.
ties of a rainy day uncertain, if not use.
less. 1t is a good thing for the shylock
but bad thing for everybody else.
An Extra Session.
The New York Mail and Express,
which was nearer the Harrison admin
istration than any other American pa
per, being, in fact, semi-official Or
gan, claims to speak by the card when
it says that there will be an extra ses-
sion of Congress. Major Mckinley, ii
declares, has no hope that the short ses-
sion which conveEes week from next
Monday will enact legislation looking
to an increase of Federal revenues. He
1897, issue his proclamation for an ex-
traordinary cOnvocation of members
elected to the Fifty-fifth National Con-
gress
We fail to see what legislation will
then be possible that Is not possible be-
tween now and March 4. Or perhaps
we should say we fail to see that legis-
lation impossible during the life of the
Fifty-fourth will not be impossible dur.
ing the life Of the Fifty-fifth Congress-
The newly elected body was not chos
en- to restore the Mckinley prohibitory
tariff rates. Nearly all the Republican
orators were careful to announce re
peatedly that there would be no tariff
tinkering under the majors admins.
tration, should he be elected. There
fore, needed revenue must, if good faith
with the people is kept, be raised out
side the custom house. As we have no
income tax, an increase of tine internal
revenue receipts will be absolutely es-
sential. The proposition to double the
rate now placed on beer meets with
much favor, and would insure a reve-
nue., according to conservative esti-
mates, of $35,OOO,OOO, which would per.
haps be sufficient under an economical
administration.
This tax would not be felt by con.
sumers, as it would amount to an in.
finitesimal sum per glass, but it would
be paid by the brewers, practically ali
of whom are rich beyond the dream OF
avarice, and most of whom are directly
or indirectly connected with trust.
Such a measure could be passed thh
winter, and it seems to be about the
only practicable method of meeting the
exigency Of the hour The Dingley
comedy of errors has already been
laughed off the stage. 1t will not, can
not, and as a matter of fact it should
not. become a law. Let needed legisla-
ton be given the country Immediately,
and then let the country be given a
needed rest-Chicago Dispatch.
Foolish Abuse.
There are Republican politicians. a,
well as political clergymen of various
denominations, who still talk of the si1
and half millions of citizens of th,
Republic who voted for William ]. Bry.
an for President, as supporting repudia
tion and anarchy. They evidently are
too much engrossed with their own wild
vagaries to be able to give any atten-
ton to the admitted evils that spring
from the trusts and mOnopolies that
have reused the ire of the American
workingmen as no issue of the last third
of century has reused it.
This talk about nearly one-half of the
American people being dishonest and
lawless is dangerous, as well as SUI
premely ridiculous. If the criminal
class really does get the impression
from such political raving that there is
such large division of the public in .
sympathy with it, then it will become
bolder and bolder in it's warfare ON the
honest, and life and property will be
more insecure.
The men who are voiding their spleen
ON their political opponents by this call
are presumably not aware Of the ma
ture of the work they are doing, but
those who are not entirely bereft OF
reason and who have influence over
them ought to inform them of the wick.
edness of their proceedings.
Six and half millions of American
voters cannot be called anarchists and
repudiators with impunity. To cal
them so is undermining the foundations
of social order. ~s-i
Gives His Views.
'The greatest ever submitted to the
American people, is the way in which
W. ]. Bryan describes the issue on
which the election turned, in his article
in the December number of the North
American Review. in which he dis
cusses the result of the election as af-
fecting the status of the silver ques-
ton. The declaration of the Chicago
convention in favor of the free coinage
of silver forced upon the people of this
country study of the money question
in general, and within the last four
months more people have been simulta-
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