Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1892 — Republican Platiorm on the Tariff. [ARTICLE]

Republican Platiorm on the Tariff.

The New York World, speaking of the Republican party, as portrayed in its recent platform, says: “It reiterates its preposterous claim that the country has been made prosperous by taxation—which is equivalent to saying that if crops grow in spite of frosts, frost is good for crops. The argument put forward in defense of the McKinley tariff by Andrew Carnegie,that “it possesses free-trade features to a greater extent than protective ones,” is intended for English use only. On this side of the water the tariff is defended for other reasons. A dispatxh from Guayquii, Ecuador* says that Marie Juneau, a French woman, has given birth to seven perfectly formed and healthy babie3.