Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1891 — Praising Free Sugar. [ARTICLE]

Praising Free Sugar.

The simplicity of the Republican organs in persistently pointing out the advantages of free sugar is beautiful to see. The Cleveland (Ohio) Leader says: “Every one of the 175,000 grocers In the country and their 350,000 clerks are to-day informing their customers that sugar has dropped one-third in price ‘because the McKinley law abolished the sugar on April I.’ It is a big thing for the country—about $65,000,000 a year—and a big thing for the McKinley law. And the reduction will go right on advertising the beneficence of that measure until the Presidential election of 1892.” In other words, the one strong, redeeming point in the McKinley law is where it gives practical free trade! But how is that going to make people believe in protection? This organ points out that the removal of the duty On sugar lowers the price. But the familiar protection doctrine is that increasing duties lowers prices. How can the removal of duties have the same effect?