Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1885 — Salt as an Infant Industry. [ARTICLE]

Salt as an Infant Industry.

St Paul Pionew Press. The manufacture of salt in this country is not an “infant industry.” It has had plenty of time to get upon its feet. There are less than half a dozen places it the United States where the buiiness is carried on to an extent worth mention ng. Yet this product, one cf the commonest of all necessaries of life, is taxed to the enormous extent of twelve cents per hundred in order that every citizen may choose wether he will pay a high price for a foreign article or us that which is still by the protectionist’s confession, vastly inferior. And this is one of the duties that are “inadequate.”