Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1891 — Protection’s Profits. [ARTICLE]

Protection’s Profits.

The Board of Directors of the Cumberland Glass Company advertise the payment of a dividend of 100 per cent. It is an extraordinarily profitable business that yield-i a yearly profit of 100 per cent, and the Louisville CourierJou nal has been moved to an investigation of the cause. It finds that the Cumberland Glass Company is protected in its business by duties ranging from 68 to 142 per cent This is a practical authorization by Congress to charge from 68 to 142 per cent, more for its wares than they are worth. This explains the mystery. What is perhaps the greatest dairy section in the United States is within a radius of fifty miles of Utica In this territory the manufacture of cheese is conducted on an enormous scale, and the transactions run well into the millions of dollars every year. The McKinley bill added two cents a pound to the duty on cheese, raising it to six cents. The ruling price paid for cheese on the Utica Board of Trade, Monday, was B%c. Two years ago it was Was there ever a greater swindle than that addition of two cents to the duty on cheese? We think the dairymen in this section are disposed to answer the question in the negativa The tariff was increased for their “benefit. ” Where is the benefit? —Utica Observer. Reciprocity mu t bo confined to farm products so far as any practical results can be hoped for. But South America Is an agricultural country and can feed itself in the main, which leaves us where we started. Reciprocity with manufacturing countries would give us broader markets for our food, but according to the MoKinley s hool it would cripple our industries. Scrutinized closely, then, reciprocity as defined by Blaine is an arrant humbug. It exists in glowing colprs upon paper, but yields no practical results.—Kansas City Times. A French poet has discovered that “Cronstodt” has just.enough letters in it to spell “Tsar Carnot.” “This being the case,” adds a critic, “nobody need be surprised at the fall of the German Emperor. m Happy thought! Feeblewittle suggests that henceforth it be considered quite the proper thing to serve dropped eggs with r plcked-up dinners.