Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1888 — The False Prophets of 1872. [ARTICLE]

The False Prophets of 1872.

About sixteen, years ago what occurred? Our tanners and iosihermcn went td -congress and they; werij influential in securing a law for the importation o_f hides into this country duty free, thereby exciting the same sew tof clamor against free hides that we j>» w hear against ivue wool. Why, tho farmer was to he ruiued, thebutchers were pf) be ruined, by taking off on an average, from the value of every animal slaughtered in the t Umted States; cur industries -•were to bo very greatly injured by decreasbig tho market, value of domestic hides. But congress passed the law for free hides. Now our • :her and leather manuiac- •’ ten ti . aes greater than ' ;c- ; c ihe passage-of that law [appk.. ... and tho formers and butchers arc'noP; _. inrauae they buy cheaper’ hoc. I ether articles which tli ' .a i.y*nody is benefited bv the ' ' ;'a. • t tdt pf buying free hides d.a r ; tina, which are ‘brought h-avo ' ; Tip, and tho products of wßitn ,a only sapply in part our home dcmasul, but g ■ o-v; into the commerce of tj-; - dikl aid r the Americs-t fia a.. ev-. t a is ram, , [Ldlighte,' mid op-. dr.:--’ .J Debt, a