Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1888 — TRUTH ABOUT THE TARIFF. [ARTICLE]

TRUTH ABOUT THE TARIFF.

One Resultof Protection St. Louis Repuldican: With free trade in hides- Hr leather nirnufacturers of tli: United States imported $23,000X10 v. rth bt l \ear and exported $10.1)00,000 wn*<h of ileather goods, after sup; lyn.g Ihc home market. Without fr« elides they could not export it nil. If a 55 per cent tax were put on hides as on wool this export trade would bs destroy ed nt once, wo’d be taken from Ahe u-i.iiufniturers and they would be compelled to discharge all the workmen whose labor is required to produce these exported goods, ihe “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 1 s ready to enforce this demand immediately, they are endeavoring to prevent hundreds and thousands of workmen from obtaining the paying places that wo’d be open to them if w were untaxed, so that we couid bui'd up such an export trade in woollens as we have in leather goods under free trade in hides.

It *s a curiot s fact that wasps’ nests sometimes take fire, as is supposed by the chemical action of the wax upon the in terial of the nest is composed. Undoubtedly many fires of unknown oiigin in haystacks an farm buildings may thus be accounted for.

Nearly all the railroads of Dakota are blockaded—not by snow, but by wheat. The exportation ot last year’s crop has begun in earnest, and the result is that the rail ro ids, w irking day apd night and Sundays, enn’t begin + o accommodate the shippers.