Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1892 — TARIFF PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

TARIFF PARAGRAPHS.

The price of wheat in 1864 in New York was; lowest, $1.75 a bushel; highest, $2.75. The subscription price of the Rockville Republican that year was the same as now—sl.so a year. Threefourths of a bushel of wheat would therefore pay a year’s subscription then, while for some years back it has taken two bushels to pay a year's subscription to a paper that eooly asserts that everything the fanner raises will buy more now than at any previous period in our history. The taxpaying power of wheat shows a still greater difference when compared with “free trade times.” In 1854 a bushel of wheat would pay local taxes in Adams township on $285; now a bushel will pay on considerably less than sloo.—Rockville Tribune.

This is sheep-shearing time and we are momentarily expecting the Delphi Journal to explain to the sheep-raisers of Carroll county why it is that the McKinley increase of the tariff on wool did not increasejthe price of wool. We feel confident The Journal will spit on its hands and tackle the question lief ore the season is over, if it does not do it immediately, and that is why we are holding our breath. We know it will not let the inviting opportunity pass, It is true, the price of wool has actually gone down under the McKinley bill, but we don’t expect The Journal to say anything about that. It will only explain why it did not go up.—Delphi Times.

Every Democratic state convention, so far, has recognized the tariff as the leading and absorbing issue for the coming campaign. And just so it is with Republican conventions. A more clearly defined issue was never accepted in the history of the country. The Republicans are compelled, too, to accept and pretend to vindicate the most extreme jihase oi prohibitory tariff taxations—even McKinleyism—or abandon their organization. Like “the old man of the sea” on the aching shoulders of Sinbab, McKinleyism is a deep set barnacle that can not be scraped off without sinking the ship. —Noble County Democrat. Republican papers set) dire havoc threatening the prosperity of the country because a slight increase has been made in the state tax, but they nave nothing to say of increases of federal taxation. The state taxes in Miami county are not one-thirthieth as much as the sums collected for federal purposes. Peru Sentinel. Under the old law the tariff on tin plate was $2.15, whereas it is now $4.75, or $2.60 in advance. Recently The Democrat showed that the price to the tinner had advanced $2.25. Does not this plainly show that the tariff steal keeps just behind the tariff rate?—Franklin County Democrat.

There is a very general desire to know where is the laboring man whose wages have been advanced since the McKinley bill became a law. On the other hand it is very evident that the purchasing power of the poor man’s dollar has been impaired.—Daviess County Democrat.

The persistent attempt of the McKinleyite to naturalize an imported sheet of iron dipped in imported tin by imported workmen is as ridiculous as the attempt of a New York dude to be an Englishman.—Madison Herald. It is at last conceeded, even by the most rabid protectionist, that the tariff is a tax and that the foreigner don’t pay it. Experience is a dear school, you know.—Frankfort Crescent. The presidential campaign will center on tariff reform, and the Democratic party has already taken the road that leads to glory.—Ripley Journal.