Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1892 — Pearl Button Infant Expires. [ARTICLE]

Pearl Button Infant Expires.

Every pearl button used in Missouri has three cents of McKinley tax on it for every cent of actual cost. And In face of this we have the following: “Chicago, Sept. 18. —Ignatz Zeisler, Secretary of the Pearl Button Factory, filed a bill in the Superior Court to-day asking a receiver for tho corporation, which was organized last March, with a capital of SIO,OOO fully paid up. Zelslcr represents that the manufacturing of pearl buttons is an Industry practically impossible in this country.” 'this comes just nine days after ihe letter of acceptance in which Harrison wrote; “Another Industry that has been practically created by the McKinley bill is the making of pearl buttons. Few articles coming from abroad were so distinctly the product of starvation wages.” We believe that the convicts at Joliet engaged in making McKinley pearl buttons are reasonably well fed. This being the case, why does this McKinley industry” go Into the hands of a roceiver? —Bt. Louis Republic.