Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1891 — A Po nt About Needles. [ARTICLE]

A Po nt About Needles.

Mistakes will occur even in the bestregulated protection families. Here, for examule, is one of the “tariff pictures” of the New York Press: “Ladies, the McKinley bill has not advanced the price of needles. They cost sl.lO a thousand last year, and only 73% cents this year; because we make them in this country, and the tariff does not touch home-made goods if we make enough of them. That’s mighty good reason why we should make enough of them, isn’t it?” And here is an extiact from McKinley’s speech at the great protection banquet in New York last April: “Do you know why we put sewing need es on the free list? We did it upon the great underlying principle of protection, because we didn’t manufacture them at home. ” That is why needles are lower now. The duty taken off by McKinley was 25 per cent, and already needles have fallen in price, according to the figures given by the Press, more than the entire amount of the duty. But do wo make needles? McKinley says no; the Press says we do, and that this is the reason that the price has come down. McKinley says he put needles on free list; the Press says there is still a duty on them. Yet, it is a well-known fact that this organ was subsidized by a rich Connecticut manufacturer to expound and defend protection.