Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1892 — TARIFF NOTES. [ARTICLE]

TARIFF NOTES.

Yfee-hnnaoron* ex-Congressman Barr, who bn been hired as a protection propagandist, declares in big type in the New York Tribune that— We tariff is levied in the first place simply to enable the people of the United States to pay the high wages everywhere prevailing in this country. This is directly opposed to the declaration of Mr. McKinley at Egpvidence, during the recent campaign, that— No one ever claimed that protective tariffs were intended to increase wages. Mr. McKinley is a better authority on the subject of the tariff than the peripatetic missionary of the monopolists can claim to be. And Mr. McKinley's action is confirmed by the action of the Republican house in voting down an amendment offered by a Democrat to his bill requiring the manufacturers to increase the wages of their workmen by the full amount of the proposed increase in the duty.—Shelbyville Democrat. For some time monied men have been working to secure the formation of a trust of all the plate-glass factories qf America. In glass circles nothing else is talked of. According to a well-known glass manufacturer there is an overproduction of plate glass, and unless a trust is formed competition of a disastrous character will occur. This is one of the peculiar blessings of the provisions of the McKinley bill. So soon as manufactories are established all over the land and an over-production is threatened, the people are compelled to pay enough for the products of the establishments to keep half of them closed up with a comfortable income.—Peru Sentinel. fijhp current receipts of the government are now just about sufficient to meet its ' expenses. How, then, can the Democrats expect to reduce the tariff without causing a deficiency t— Harrison Organ.

By ejecting the people who squander the surplus and empty the treasury. And by abolishing the prohibitive duties which shut wealth out of the country and keep revenue out of the treasury— Tipton Times.

It does seem a little singular, not to say paradoxical, that poor, down-trod-den free trade England should be able to send its impecunious business men over here with money enough to buy up all the great interests, railroads, factories, etc., that they can get their hands on.— Noblesville Democrat.

It is about time for the tin plate liar to commence tailing about the tin in this country and the vast factories ready to manufacture tin plate. While’ we have a few, they will make people believe that the country is full of them. —Decatur Democrat. The McKinley bill is said to be “justifying itself to its framers.” The statement can not be contradicted. It is doubtless serving its intended purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.—Pulaski County Democrat. The business outlook of the country is far from encouraging this spring. Dull times are not by any means confined to Jeffersonville. Alas for Bill McKinley and McKinley’s hill. Jeffersonville News.