Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1890 — A Tender Spot: [ARTICLE]

A Tender Spot:

Cincinnati Enquirer: The lowa farmers are terribly exercised over the binding-twine monopoly.— They want some legislation to protect thpm from its unjust exactions. They are strongly in favor of protecting American industries, but they do not like to pay two or three prices for this necessary article in order to give twine manufacturers the advantage of the home market. They wish them to prosper, but not at f heir expense. They are certainly intelligeat enough to know that it is the tariff on the raw material which enables the twine manufacturers to practice this ex* tortion. The mechanic day laborer can enter a similar complaint and with the same show of reason that they are compelled to pay too much for their clothing. The taxes upon their garments is as direct as the duties on jute and sisal grass, and they are the victims of extortion as much as are tne farmers in the purchase of binding twine. These same farmers are .delighted with the idea of a duty of twenty-five cents a bushel on potatoes and five cents a dozen on eggs. They favor these taxes because they think it will enable them to obtain an increased price for those commodities. The wor* kingman who takes his lunch in a tin pail to his work is taxed on his boiled eggs,jj which are an important item in his frugal meal for the benefit of the grower of poultry. If the duty on eggs, potatoes, rye, barley, turnips and onions does not bring to the farmer an increased price for those necessaries of life where is the benefit of the duty? If it does furnish a remunerative market and gives him better prices, those who consume those products have'as much ground of complaint as farmers .have to complain of an increased cost of binding twine or farm implements. It were far better for all parties if all this partial legislation was wiped out, and the natural laws of trade were unobstructed. The farmers of lewa, who are so clamorous for protection, are pinched in a tender place, and it will furnish them an object lesson wh ch will work out profitable results. Over 100 different spring patterns of boys’ youths’ and ehild* ren’s clothing at the astonishing low prices of 75 cents per suit to $9 per suit. Chicago Bargain Store