Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1888 — WHY. [ARTICLE]

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A Few Questions for the Free Whisky Organs to Answer. [From the Cleveland I’laindealer.J The free whisky organa have been invited several times to explain these things, but they don’t respond: Why Republicans in 1872 favored putting salt and umber on the free list. Why they have chancod their minds. Why in 1884 the Republicans favored reducing tariff taxes. Why they have changed their minds. Why the Republicans placed hides on the free list in 1872. Why the tanning industry was not ruined thereby. Why no pauper-made leather or shoes of Europe came over. Why the leather industry prospered more than ever before. Why more workmen were employed. Why they got better wages. Why, in short, the Republican tariff theory didn’t work. Why the price of wool has steadily declined under a protective ta> iff. Why the reduction of the duty on wool in 1883 was followed by an advance in price'instead of a decline. Why the lowest point in the price of wool was reached under the highest tariff. Why sheep in Ohio hive decreased in number right along for seven, years under a protective tariff. Why the sheep of Ohio decreased over 200,090 in numbers during one year, 1881-2, when the highest wool tariff existed. Why tho price of wh >at Ims declined right along under a protective tariff. Why the price of corn has declined under a protective tariff. Why wages have declined under a protective tariff. Why strikes and bitter eonfl cts between employes and employers have been common under a protective tariff. Why the workingmen of this country have lost more by tenfold in strikes and lockouts caused by attempts to reduce their wages under a protective tariff than they could have got out of the tariff tux, if they hud received every cent of it. Why the cost of living has increased under a protective tariff. Why anarchy and socialism have developed under a protective tariff. Why trusts have grown up under a protective tariff. These are onlv a few o’ the manv points that the people would like to have the advocates of the high-tariff blessedness explain. It may not bans easy als to howl about rebels and rave over the bloody shirt, and cry out that Great Britain is upon us, but would be vastly more sensible.