Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1888 — USELESS BURDENS IOF THE TARIFF. [ARTICLE]

USELESS BURDENS IOF THE TARIFF.

(Springfield Republican, Mass.) Tariff taxes on raw materials not only enhance the cost of product and restrict the operations of the manufacturers but antagonize countries that produce them.— Thece taxes should be removed. We produce only about half the quantity of wool needed to make the goods demanded by oui people. Why burden the manufacturers and ourselves with a tax on the other half? We produce little of the hemp and flax here consumed. Whv load taxes on that which is not? We produce only a tithe of the raw sugar consumed. Why drive away trade with Mexico and other Southern countries by taxing it? Free hides gave such an impetus to our leather industry that it now monopolizes the home market and a good fraction of the foreign, and such has been its expansion that the demand for domestic hides has bee., increased. Free wool would work the same results. Free ores, coal, tin plate, flax, hemp, jute, lumber, salt, etc., wou*d yield untold benefits in the way of relieving people of useless burdens, industry of narrow re - strictions, and our market of ina - bility to expand.

On Monday last Representative Breckinridge of Arkansas introduced five tariff bills in the House. He does not expect that a general tariff bill will be passed during this session of congress and introduced these bills in the hope that congress may put a chock upon the trusts. mm m mm., , ■ How Capital is Fbiqhtlned.—Another glass works company was incorporated *at Indianapolis yesterday. This doesn’t look much like capital feared "free trade. Vincennes Sun. “We favor the entire repeal of the internal taxes Aon whisky and tobacco) rather than the surrender of any part of our protective system.”—Chicago platform. “The platform is in entire hnr ; mony with ray views.”—Ben Harrison.