Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1892 — New Use for the World’s Fair. [ARTICLE]

New Use for the World’s Fair.

The Single Tax Club, of Chicago, has sent a letter to Geo. K. Davis, Director General of the World’s Fair, requesting that “on foreign exhibits of dutiable goods at the World's Fair the selling price in the country from which the goods are exported, the transportation charges from point of origin to Chicago, and the selling price in Chicago be stated separately, so that visitors may be enlightened in reference to the influence of our present system of tariff taxation and find out who pays the duty. ” The Director General will undoubtedly comply with this request, as he, on June 29, notified the Secretary of State that placards giving foreign and American prices would be permitted on foreign exhibits. will welcome this opportunity to demonstrate the fact that the tariff tax is paid by foreigners. If these placards will show that a box of window glass that sells for $2.60 in Europe sells for $2.50 here, after paying $3 dnty, and that woolen cloths that sell for 50 cents per yard in England sell for no more here after paying 634 cents duty, then McKinley will hold some trump cards, and his claim will be substantiated. If, however, they should show that duties are added to the foreign cost before Americans can possess foreign-made goods, then the Democrats would come to the front and McKinley would have to take a back seat. It Is a pity that the fair does not occur before the Presidential election.

According to European arithmetics twenty-five years ago, they nearly all wrote a billion thus: 1,000,000,000,000. That plan has been falling so rapidly into disuse that the last edition of Chambers’ Encyclopedia says that with the exception of Great Britain and its colonies, and where it controls, this plan has now been abandoned, and the billion is to-day written and taught as it is in America, namely: 1,000,000,000 is one billion. Many middle-aged men from Europe were in childhood taught that a billion was 1,000,000,000,000, while the same schools now teach it as 1,000,000,000. ability to steal depends upon individual activities, some measure of respect for skill involuntarily accompanies the condemnation. But when the power of government is invoked to help the larceny, we despise the transaction regardless of the tax protection which tariff systems are decorated with, The less we pay for what we need the greater the shriek of the tariffites. Did it rain good things we would all be out of work. Heavens! protectionist editor, what more do you want? You’re chained to the desk now.—St, Louis Courier, June 25, 1892. The rejected reciprocity timber i* now the plank on which Harrison relies to float him safely through the raging waves raised bv the anti-tariff storgi.