Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1891 — Sugar and Tin. [ARTICLE]

Sugar and Tin.

The tariff was taken because we did not make enough of it, and the tariff was doubled on tin, so that we could make some of 4t. There’s logic] We do produce a large-amount of purely American sugar, tout there is not a pound of American tin plate on tbe market and never has been, although tit has been taxed ever since 1816 —seventy-five years. If the tariff on sugar, >»f which we make large quantities, was .an 'unjustifiable tax on the Americam ipeopie because we didn’t make quite enough, how are wo to characterize the tariff on tin plate, of which we make none at all? .Goes it not follow that it must be a still greater and more distinct and unjustifiable sax on the American people? Yet the American consumer must fork over $16,000,000 per year tin tax aud .about $10,000,000 for sugar 'bounty, or -$36,000,000 in all, for the fun of seeing Acrobat McKinley attempt to iride his two hobbies going in opposite directions.— Wheeling Register.