Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1890 — A Tax on Daylight. [ARTICLE]

A Tax on Daylight.

From Pittsburg recently was sent the following dispatch: “The Western Window-glass Manufacturers’ Association met here and decided to shut down all the factories in the country for the summer on June 14. A combine was also made with the jobbers by which the price of glass is to be made uniform hereafter to all cities. The jobbers and manufacturers agreed to neither buy nor sell to any but members of their respective associations. This action, it is claimed, will result in the removal of unequal competition and a general steadiness of trade. ” This meeting occurred on the day following that on which the McKinley bill was passed by the National House of Representatives. By that bill the following increases in the tariff on windowglass are made: Pres- Proeut posed „ duty. duty. Common window-glass,loxls,per lb. 67.61 73.72 Common window-glass.l6x24,per lb. 115.41 123.10 Coipmon window-glass,24x3o,per ib.128.58 135.34 Common window-glass,above.per 1b132.29 138.04 . The mildly worded Pittsburgh dispatch simply means that the price of wjndow-glass. which has been advanced very materially during the last few months, is likely to go still higher; that competition is to be shut out by careful combines; that production ig to be stopped; that the payment of wages to workingmen is to cease for an indefinite period, and that the be well taxed tor the)R p \ Wy Of - ft good- 4 pf salt aa the wntf forinstance”