Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1892 — Protecting Metal Workers. [ARTICLE]

Protecting Metal Workers.

Mr. Henry G. Marquand imported from England, not long ago, a bronze statue of Eros, eleven Inches high, for which he paid $l,lOO. The collector imposed a duty of 45 per cent, on it, classing it as a manufacture of metal. Mr. Marquand appealed to the Board of Appraisers, ana they decided to admit the statue free as an antiqity, as it was made about 250 B. B. The collector appealed from this ruling to the United States Circuit Court, and Judge Lacombe has decided that the object is dutiable at 15 per oent., as a- piece of metal statuary. So Mr. Marquand must pay $165 for the protection of .American metal-workers against competition from rivals dead 2,000 years.—Exchange. To bcy what you need in a dear market and sell your labor in the cheap world’s market is indorsed every time a ballot is cast for the tariff. Stop voting that way and grumble less.—St. Louis Courier.