Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1892 — Tariff Pictures. [ARTICLE]

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In the month of May prior to the passage of the McKinley bill, the amount of rainfall was two inches. While for the first nineteen days in the present month of May, under the McKinley bill, theamountof rainfall has been two feet. And there are people who say that more rain Is needed to settle the rain that has already fallen.—Washington Poet, May 23, 1892. What college crew would attempt to win a boat race with half of their oarsmen rowing in one direction and the other half in the other direction? And yet we expect to secure commerce by putting bounties on shipping to encourage trade while we have taxes and duties on imports and shipping to restrict trade. Verily some of our statesmen are pulling at their boot straps and wondering why they don’t lift themselves. Ask your Congressman for a copy of “Protection or Free Trade,” by Henry George. It is one of the best works on the subject, and as It has been quoted entire by six of the leading Democrats in the House, It is now being franked to all parts of the United States and will cost you only the penny you pay for ths postal card on which to send your address. The American Wool and Cotton Reporter announces that the American Spool, Bobbin and Shuttle Company’s factory at Burlington, Vt., has been ordered to shut down for an indefinite period. The spool and bobbin trust has to maintain Its grip on prices if It has to close up half of its mills. There are many people who mistake trouble for religion.