Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1888 — The High Tariff Curse Differs Only in Degree from War or Pestilence. [ARTICLE]

The High Tariff Curse Differs Only in Degree from War or Pestilence.

The rates of wages are lowest and the condition of labor worst under the most highly protective systems in a gradually descending scale. The high protective spirit in Spain has converted a brilliantly endowed and enterprising nation into} one of the poorest and feeblest in Europe. Its influence in Cnina, where the protective system has obtained the most complete development that the world has ever known, has been blighting. High protection is a gigantic curse upon the population of Europe, differing only in degree of destructiveness from war and other scourges that afflict mankind.— Philadelphia Record.