Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1889 — No Excuse for It. [ARTICLE]

No Excuse for It.

It is estimated that the fresh fish trade of Buffalo amounts to 1,000,000 pounds a week, and that three-fourths of the fish marketed come from Canadian waters. If the duty on fresh fish voted by the Senate should become a law, the Government would collect from the Buffalo trade an average of about $2,500 a week. This would be added to the retail price of the fish and would come out of the pockets of consumers. At a time when the Government does not deed this money, why should it be thus exacted faom the people, and especially from workingmen? And why should this tax be put on an article of food that has been on the free list for of er a quarter of a century? It is an imposition that has no reasonable excuse.— Buffalo Courier. The Senate stood nobly up to the declarations of the Republican platform. What do Republican tariff reformers, who voted for Harrison in the delusion that tariff reform would be best off in the hands of Republicans, think about it by this time? Fat for fat is the business principle of the protected interests, and the United, States Senate has come down handsomely.