Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1889 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Plundering American Connuiners’ In a recently reported interview •JJJr. John Jarrett, Consul to Birm> ingham, said tnat he found in England “very little that is cheaper than articles of the same kind in America, except sait and sugar.” “r. Jarrett then proceeded to enumerate clothing, hardware, furniture Hana other articles-all. of which he found to be dear in England as in this country. Why, then, are the Jarretts and the rest of the tariff lobyists so loudly clamoring tha: a reduction of the high wall of protection would subject American manufacturers to a ruinous British competition? The answer is s in pie enough. The tariff wall i= not maintained for the prot-ct: ‘i of American manufacturers, but in order to rob American consumers.

Andrew Camogie and the rest, f the Structural iron Ring, for ex*, ample, could not extort upward of S6O a ton for iron beams if the outrageous duty of S2B a ton on this article shoulcbbe substantially redneed. A reduction of this duty to $lO a ton a« proposed by the "ills Tariff bill, would not have denied protection to the manufacturers of structural iron; but it would have lessened the margin of plunder inflicted upon American housebuilders.—Philadelphia Record.