Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1888 — One Result of Protection. [ARTICLE]

One Result of Protection.

With free trade in hides the leather manufacturers of the United States imported $23,000,000 worth last year and exported $10,000,000 worth of leather goods,' after supplying the home maiket. Without free hides they could not export at all. If a 55 per cent, tax were put on hides as on wool this export trade would be destroyed at once, $10,000,000 would be taken from the manufacturers, and they would be compelled to discharge all the workmen whose labor is required to produce these exported goods. The “protective” policy requires this tax on hides; it demands the loss of this trade and the discharge of these workmen; and although its advocates may not be ready to enforce this demand immediately, they are endeavoring to prevent hundreds and thousands of workmen from obtaining the paying places that would be open to them if wool were untaxed, so that we could build up suoh an export trade in woolens as we have in leather goods under free trade in hides.— St. Louis Republican.