Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1892 — Tariff Trusts. [ARTICLE]

Tariff Trusts.

Brethren, we say to yon that if the protective system is to be employed for such purposes as this the game is up. No CHAMPION OF THAT SYSTEM CAN SUCCEED, EVEN IF HE WERE WILLING TO TRY, IN COMMENDING TO THE PEOPLE AT ONE AND THE SAMI’, TIME THE PROTECTIVE SYSTEM AND THE SUGAR TRUST, It is quite impossible to expect the nation to regard with enthusiasm, because it proposed to reduce the price of sugar, a law which enables the sugar trust to defeat that intention. What the purpose of the act is consumers do not so much care.—Philadelphia Press, High Tariff Organ of the Manufacturers’ Club. The primary object of a protective, tariff U to invite the fullest competition Vy individuals and corporations in do. mestic production. If such individuals or corporations combine to advance the price of the domestic product, and to prevent the free result of open and fair competition, I would, without a moment’s hesitation, reduce the duties on foreign goods competing with them in order to break down the combination. • • • Whenever this free competition IS EVADED OR AVOIDED BY COMBIN A-. TION OF INDIVIDUALS OR CORPORATIONS, j THE DUTY BHOUIJI BE REDUCED AND FOR- I EION COMPETITION PROMPTLY INVITED.— ! Scoretary John Sherman, Oct. IS, 1889. i The public may regard trusts and , CORPORATIONH WITH SERENE CONFIDENCE. | —Andrew Carnegie, Nov. 8, 1888. The Indianapolis Labor Signal last week exposed one Charles Martin, of “Blue Book” fame, who has been passing as the representative of the railroad men in, the interest of the Republican The Signal says that Martin expelled June —, 1892, from the local lodge of Brotherhood of Firemen for fraud. He had hem* slated for the legislature b y the Republicans of Marion county, bur since the exposure they have dropped him. The Indianapolis Labor Signal, the organ of the labor unions, asks: “C.m any one point to a single act favorable to labor placed on the statute book by a Republican legislature ?” This question Will remain unanswered. The railroads paid $987,203.20 more taxes under the new law than under the old. Of course the tax law was enacted by a legislature composed mostly of fanners in the interest of corporations.

The Republican county commissioners and Republican township trustees increased the local taxes last year $1,358,- 1

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