Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1892 — At Its Old Tric[?]s. [ARTICLE]

At Its Old Tric[?]s.

The Iron Age, of June 30, announces another advance in the price of shot of 5 cents per twenty-five pound bags. It was only June 2 that a similar advaneewas announced, and it was only a year ago that another advance was made. Ten large manufacturers, protected by a duty of 24 cents per pound, have had a trust in shot since Sept. 5, 1890, and they propose to* work their protection for all it is worth. Th« whole ammunition business is McKinleyized and trusted so that everj explosion helps to swell the profits of some trust. Shoot with paper shells and the Loaded Paper Shell and Fowder Trusts are benefited. Shoot bullets or shot and the Lead, Smelters’ and Powder Trusts all reap protected profits. Shoot with cartridges and the Cartridge Trust, which has advanced prices 99 per cent, since it was formed in 1883, takes f.O per cent, of the cost of your cartridges as a protected profit—unless you buy the same brands in Canada for 25 per cent. less. Shoot off fire crackers on the Fourth of July and the Powder Trust will make a protected profit out of your noisy patriotism. Go down into the bowels of the earth aud explode a gallon of nitroglycerine in your oil well tend the High Explosive Trust will hunt you up and mand a tariff tax of you. All of these trusts will tell you that this is a free country and a blessed country.