Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1891 — Cheapness All Around. [ARTICLE]

Cheapness All Around.

In continuing to denounce cheapness President Harrison either willfully or ignorantly overlooks the feet that cheapness is a rolative matter. When everything is cheap nobody suffers. When some things are dear and some cheap those who have the cheap things to sell and the dear thing 3 to buy must suffer. The farmers and workingmen, for instance, who have to sell their products and labor at competitive prices and buy necessary artic es at artificial prices fixed by a protective tariff are heavy sufferers, and their sufferings are due entirely to the discriminating policy of the President’s party.—St Louis Post-Dispatch. A young Tennessean, inspired by martial ardor, wrote to the Superintendent at West Point for the t|tms of admission. The usual circular of information from the Secretary of War was returned to him. Some time after he wrote again, thus: “I received your terms some time since. I was not seventeen years of age when I heard from you. I can’t come under such terms. I will give you the terms that I will come under. I want only to study military tactics. I want to stay three years. I want S4O per month. At the end of the term I want a position over some army of the United States. I want you to send me a round ticket there and back. I think I am both physically and mentally qualified to fill the position. I will not be out anything, but I want the position. Please answer this.’* The great factory at Irwin, Pa., with a capital of 51,000,000, has recently turned out Its first glass. It is announce! that its output will be 1,250,0.) feet per annum. This quantity, at the average prices for American plate glass, will bring the company $937,000, while the same glass bought In Europe and laid down in New York, without the duty, could be bought for $412,0 0. Great is protection for American industry. Is 1890 c heese to the value of $1,295,506 was imported into this country. The same year we exported cheese to the value of $8,591,043. What we imported came in the shape of the small and rich. Swiss and French cheeses, with which the article we export cannot possibly compete.—Rural New-Yorker. Thebe is a duty of 45 per cent, on pickles, and a combine of twenty-five pickle manufacturers has just been effected at St Louis and prices fixed for

the season. What a pickle these tail! trusts w ould oe In if there were no protective tariff to give them full control of the American consumer!