Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1891 — Canada’s Pauper Ice. [ARTICLE]

Canada’s Pauper Ice.

Cold weather is much more abundant and cheap in Cahada than in the United States. In fact, that country is such a “dumping ground” for the pauper ice product of old winter, that an Ohio ice company has taken it into its head that there must be a protective duty put on Canadian ice. A petition to that effect was recently sent to Maj. McKinley by the Spring Lake Ice Company, of Toledo, Ohio. But McKinley did not act. Perhaps the poor man i 3 confused in nis mind as to the actual effects of his famous tariff law, so many of his party organs are trying to prove that his high tariff has reduced the price of manufactures, but has raised the price of agricultural products. Ice being neither a farm product nor a manufactured article, it would doubtless be difficult for McKinley to tell what effect a duty on ice would have. Perhaps, too, he concluded that if he had put a duty on ice, the wicked Canadians would have paid it, aad then the Toledo company would have got no good from it. At any rate McKinley did not. act, and now Congress

has gone home, and McKinley has passed off the stage. There will never be a duty on ice. The time has come for the tariff wall to “melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew. *