Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1891 — The Tariff the Issue. [ARTICLE]

The Tariff the Issue.

Senator Carlisle has recently been in New York. Asked while there whether the tariff would be the leading issue in 1892, he answered:

“I think so. It ought to be. and I sincerely hope that it will be. I think the Democratic party would make a serious m'stako if it allowed tho tariff question to be made second to the silver question or any other. It is the real issue. The party is a unit on that question, while on the silver question it is divided. That alone is one reason why tho fight should be made with that for the main issue. I hope the silver question will be laid aside or made secondary, leaving the tariff as the dominant issue.” The protectionists are forever referring to the nail industry as one of the special cases proving the wisdom of tho protective policy. It seems, however, that this child of the protective system does not insure to its laborers all the comfort and happiness which are said to be the certain result of encouraging domestic industry. At any rate a protectionist trade paper prints the following item: “A reduction of 16 per cent, in wages, to go into effect May 15, has been ordered by the Brook Nail Factory Company, of Reading, Pa.” The great State of Pennsylvania is reported to have raised 37,000,000 pounds of tobacco last year, and hasn’t a cigarette factory within her borders. We see no necessary connection between the two things here stated, but if llinois, with her immense cabbage Helds, should be reported without a cigarette factory, we could at once seo something wrong, a palpable neglect of industrial possibilities. Miixioxs of small, red transparent things, about the size of a pea, having long feelers and numerous legs, are found to inhabit the waters about 41 degrees south latitude and 49 degrees west longitude*