Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1891 — Miraculous Medicine. [ARTICLE]

Miraculous Medicine.

The American Economist is not satisfied with Bismarck’s recent talk on protection and on our McKinleyism. It says: “While Bismarck announced himself a protectionist, he does not seem to comprehend one of the fundamental principles of protection, at least as far as this country is concerned.* that while

it protects labor, It at the same time cheapens products, and thus also benefits consumers, especially the farmers." Of course! Then McKinley puts higher duties on manufactures to make them cheaper, and thus benefit the farmers; and to make the thing “fair and equitable,” he raised the duty on nearly all farm products to a very high point in order to make them much cheaper, and thus to benefit the manfacturers! Protection is a most remarkable thing; give Jones a dose and it cures Smith!