Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1890 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The tariff is a tax. QAnd the consumer will hare it to pay. ■ Importers and jobbers are sending oat circulars to their customers notiiying th«m of increase in price of goods rendered necessary by the passage of the McKinley tax bill. The window glass manufacturers will advance prices October 15th to conform with the rates fixed for them by the McKinley tax bill. This tax levied on the consumer all goes into the pockets of the manufacturers. The government will not get a penny of it. □McKinley, in his speeoh accepting a renomination to congress:soughtto console his friends with tho statement, “the tariff will pinch the people forja while." He did not state how long the ‘pinching’ process would last. Very consoling? Thousands of miners at Ishpeming, Mioh., have struck for higher wages, and this in the face of a tariff bill passed in the interest of home products. Home products, the property of the employer of labor is protected, but the laborer, the producer of the product, according to McKinley and the republican party let them ■trike and bed—d. Their placee can be filled by imported negroes and foreigners. Blessed tariff!

The canned goods industry receives a hard hit from the MoKinley tax bill. Tin has already advanced 60 per cent. Bnt, according to Jay Gould, the consumer can reduce his tax by using one can instead of two, Poor Jay is a philosopher. Jay Gould, the millionaire, says “If the McKinley Tariff increases the cost of some articles people will simply use less of them. If the tariff on wool makes clothing cost more a person will get along with one suit where he would otherwise have two." McKinley should have padded a seotion to his tax bill taxing such Jay Gouldl philosophy. The failure to do so may be regarded as an oversight, as he no doubt thought he had taxed everything. Indianapolis manufacturing establishments are reducing tho wages of their employes. McKinley, Owen & Co., and our own “Republican” told the people it wo’d increase wages, and that the consumer would not pay the tax. What think ye it? Read the expose of the design of the Republican party to import negroes into Indiana to compete with our wage-work-■rs in their efforts to earn a livelihood' and to vote the republican ticket. The Indianapolis News, a republican supporter of Harrison, says of the infamous scheme: “There is no questioning the reality or rasoality of the proposition."— "The people should gibbet this infamy." Let honest men ponder. The theft of the presidency for Hayes; the open purchase of voters for Garfield; the “blocks-of-flve" methods for Harrison; and the proposition now entertained by the managers of that party to colonize a sufficient number of negroes in the States of Indiana, Connecticut and West Virginia to stifle the expression of the people of these States, should cause every honest man to leave that party in disgust.

The Patterson (N. J.) silk factories have given|notice of a 10 per cent, redaction in wages. We don’t think the employes in* terested in this notice will hang in their parlors the motto: “God bless the tariff." Lonis S. Hayes, of Chicago propounds the following tariff questions to the Tribune of that city: “The republican party advocates a tariff on foreign articles and manufactures," says Mr. Hayes, ‘in order to protect and foster home labor? Why doeß uot our republican congress provide a system of government inspection requiring the manufacturer to spay a tariff tax or percentage on each ‘head’ of foreign labor employed in American industries? It seems to me but logical to presume that if a tariff on foreign productions is a good thing for home industries a tariff on foreign labor should also be a good thing for home labor." Mr. Hayes' questions are full ofjmeat for farmers and wageworkers. Phelps, Dodge & Co., the greatest importers of tin-plate in the country, say: As importers and metal dealers we simply add the duty to the Drioe of our goods and the consumer pays" it. The effect of tke duty on tin will be widely felt. Bio. Marshall always argues that the fczwgn manufacturers pay it QJohn Sherman says there is nothing aaw in reciprocity. It is surely not new that genuine reciprocity Is real free trade. The Democracy of Colorado “demand a sewer du|y upon the necessities of life and A wider market fat American products." ■