Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1892 — PROTECTION PARADOXES. [ARTICLE]

PROTECTION PARADOXES.

The law concerning the appointment of doctors to examine pensioners required that democratic as well as republican physioians be selected ,to serve on these medical boards When “blocks-of-five” Dudley was commissioner of pensions, Mr. Harrison desired a place for a republican friend that, under the law, shou d be filled by a democrat, and wrore to Dudley that he (Harrison did not mean to respect this feature of the law, “because,” he went ou to say: “I am not acquainted with any Democratic doctors fit to serve.” Ben is nothing if notjpn egotistic damphool. We all remember when he went over the state shonting: “I am glad lam not a democrat!” After “Biue Jeans” had wiped the political earth with him he was glad, too. No wonder “grandaddy’s hat” so completely conceals him from the pub--1 0 view: he is so exceedingly small.

New York World. The treatment in the protection organs, of this nation’s “commercial progress,” is characteristic. They claim the oredit of the increased exports due ohiefly to short crops abroad coincident with large crops here. And hoving passed a law avowedly to curtail imports—to,“prevent the flooding |of the home markets with the produots of foreign labor,”—they now have the ooolness to boast of “merchandise imports into the United States much the largest in value ever known in any calender year. ” The paradoxes of protection are stupendous. National Democrat. The Bepublioans are quite confident lhat the remission of the tax on sugar hns reduced the price to American consumers, and, therefore, is an advantage not to foreigners, but ourselves. And now the president is threatening by proclamation, to reimpose the tax on sugar from s igar from certain countries that haven’t done certain things that we want. Are we going to tax ourselves by way of punishing Venezuela?