Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1888 — The Tax on Raw Materials. [ARTICLE]

The Tax on Raw Materials.

Chauncey Depew predicts, in a glowing period, the mission of our manufacturers to “enter all ports, explore new countries, and to compete with the most advanced nations in all the markets of the world.” Very fine; but our manufacturers can never do it so long as they are handicapped with the tariff-enhanced cost of raw materials and machine The United (States is the only manufacturing country in the world that taxes raw materials. Consequently the manufacturers of the “most advanced nations” undersell us in “all the markets of the world.” The percentage of manufactures in the total exports has not increased during twenty-five years of high tariffs. —New York World.