Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1891 — Ad Unguarded Confession. [ARTICLE]

Ad Unguarded Confession.

The protectionists appear to be doomed to tell the truth about the tariff despite themselves. One of their favorite assertions, which they all squeak from McKinley down, is that the foreigner pays the tariff tax. But here is a paragraph from the Boston Commercial Bulletin, which was evidently written when the editor was off his guard and had forgotten his office as defender of the faith according to McKinley: “The McKinley bill is kicking up a serious row in Canada. Tho Canadian farmers would be very glad to get their combing wools in here free under reciprocity. These wool 9 are Leicester or Cotsvrold, and cost 22 cents in bond or 34 cents duty paid, an •Jmogt prohibitory price. It wa* paid,

however, last week for a lot of 100,000 pounds tag and top in Hamilton, Ont., by the Pacific Mills.” i Now these Pacific Mills are a wellknown woolen manufacturing establishment of Massachusetts. And yet the foreigner pays tho tax!