Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1888 — A SIGNIFICANT FACT. [ARTICLE]

A SIGNIFICANT FACT.

[Springfield Republican.] It is a significant fact that, while the wook n industry languishes and the manufacturers fail not only to export goods to any amount, but eves to control a large fraction of the home market, the Doot and shoe and leather industries are in a buoyant, active state, monopolizing the home market and exporting to a considerable extent. Wool is taxed, while hides are on the free list. Shipments of boots and shoes to points outside New England are larger than ever before, although factories are being built in other sec ions to supply the local demand.

Cheaper Food, Shelter and Clothing. —The plain facts about the Mills bill are readily understood, despite the sophistry in which the high taxes are trying to envelop it. It will give the people of this country cheaper shelter, food, clothing and tools. It will give the manufacturers cheaper raw material, so that they can make goods better ard at less cost than at present, and so they can ?ay their employes higher wages. he only legitimate fault yet found with the measure is that it is not sweeping enough. Opposition comes from monopoly, and this opposition will strengthen the bill with the people. ■ I . Who ever heard of a “trust” being formed before the republican party, for twenty years, fastened a war tariff on the people?\

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