Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1892 — Tariff Shot. [ARTICLE]

Tariff Shot.

Trusts keep up prices In the United j Ktatos by exporting their surplus at low' prices. This can be well shown by the operation of the “White Lead Trust n The June, 1801, number of the Hard-’ ware and Meta lie Review, published in Toronto, Canada, says of the practices of this trust: “Tho United States White Lead Trust has a price for the Canadian market that is as firmly hold down below tho cost of profitable production asi tho homo market pr.co of tho same •trust’ is firmly held above It. Unitedl States white lead is laid down here today in car-load lots in bond at #3.70 per hundred pounds. The Canadian Government justly requires' that tho duty of fi percent.be calculated 1 not on tho price quoted here, but uDon, prices quoted to tho United States trade, —that is, upon #(l.so—which makes thel total cost laid down here #4.o2>i per IOOt pounds ” Tho present price at which American! while lead Is sold at wholesale in Canada, with tho duty and all charges paid,, Is #5. 75 per 100 pounds, or In the United States, however, the white lead trust charges consumers #7.50' per 100 pounds, or Why shoti d try, by favoring a high tariff on white lead, give the whtte lead trust power to rob them at tho same time that It grants, favors to foreigners?