Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1891 — Protection in Mexico. [ARTICLE]

Protection in Mexico.

Henry Wall Allen, of Kansas City, writes a lolt*r from the City of Mexico to the New York Standard, in which he says: “Tho vast majority of this population are so poor that they have never had on shoi or stock ng. It is estimated that 95 per cent, of them never buy an imported article. (How McKinley an’d his so lowers would bow down and worship such a reopl.‘.) But cotton cloth is the one thing that, more or ies3 of it, generally less, everybody must havo. With free trade Fall River could supply it at five cents a yard. But, a® it happens, this artic e is protected- The price of an inferior quality of it ranges between ten and twenty cents a yard, apd the mill operatives work fourteen to fifteen hours a day for thirty-five to seventy cents. The manufacturers, ft may be needless to add, have becoUhe very wea thy. ”