Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1883 — Robbing the People to Enrich One Man. [ARTICLE]

Robbing the People to Enrich One Man.

Mr. De Pttuw, who owns, a plate-glass mill iq Indiana, has been in Washington lately, where he succeeded in convincing tile Congressional tariff-tinkers that he should feel very bad indeed if the duty of 100 per cent, or so on plate glass was disturbed. To avoid wounding Mr. De, ?auq r > feelings, Mr. Kelley’s committee lias consented to allow the tax op plate glass to stand as it is. ,De P&uVs niill Is the only one in the country wlifere Certain grades of plate glass are manufactured, and he is the sole beqeficiary of tyie duty on these qualities. If the duty were knocked off on’iuch glass, yteSnle could buy it for about "half what they pay now; but in that case the country might be Hooded with cheap foreign glass, and Do Pahw’s industry” would bo destroyed. 'The peojde, Of course, would much rathwr* keep De Pauw’s mill going, - by .paying double price on all the plate glacis they, use, than sec it dose up and throw Do Pan#’out of the enfoymetirdf "a jfortiottlarly soft thing. —Chicago' Timet. * i ’o