Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1890 — Learned It in Ten Years. [ARTICLE]

Learned It in Ten Years.

There is a man in Philadelphia whose ideas on the tariff have been clarified by thp repeal some years ago of the duties on quinine. His name is Jones. He is a member of the firm of Powers & Weightman. At a meeting of the Drag Exchange, of Philadelahia, on Tuesday, he said? “There is no argument whatever that you can bring to bear on quinine that does not apply to other commodities. I tell you I am either a protectionist or a free-trader. It is going to be a duty on quinine' and on everything else, or we are going to have the British system, if I can do anything toward it, that’s sure.” Hurrah for Jones! He has been a long time learning this lesson—ten years, in fact—but he has learned it perfectly. The theory of protection is that, even if you don’t get any advantage fiom it yourself directly, yet you get a great deal indirectly. The money that the protected classes get is kept in the country, and that raises your wages and g.ves you a home market. Why should not Jones profit by it in this way just like the rest of us? He has been studying ever since 1879, and now he pronounces it a humbug, and says that unless there is a tax on quinine he is going for free trade! And this observation of his, this result of ten years’ study of political economy in a drug house, was received (the report says) with applause by the others present, who had not had J ones’ advantages in the way of instruction. What is the world coming to? —New York Evening Post. ■ 1 'V —-• Phosphorus, discovered in 1677, was first applied to common lighting purposes by Godfrey Hankwitz, who, in 1680, found that a minute portion rubbed between folds of brown paper would take fire and ignite a sulphur match brought in contact with it.