Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1891 — Mexico at the Fair. [ARTICLE]

Mexico at the Fair.

Mexico has accepted President Harrison’s invitation to take part in the World’s Fair at Chicago. That will be an odd spectacle—two countries exhibiting the wares which they would like to sell to each other, if it were not for their high tariff walls. Mexico collects an average duty of 40 per cent, on what we sell to her people. The principal thing in Mexico that we want is silver and lead ore, but we shut it out by a duty

equivalent to 64 per cent. Mexican mustangs worth $lO are prohibited with a duty of S3O a head. What a merry fair we shall have!