Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1892 — Stockings. [ARTICLE]

Stockings.

Under tho law which was repealed by tho passage of the McKinley aot the tarltf tux ou ordinary stockings was 4(> per cent. Tho McKinley act has made tho tax, aocondlng to value, 64.59 per cent., 70.41 per cent., 69.57 per cent, and 58.99 per cent. In 1891 the people of this country bought foreign stockings that cost on tho othor side $3,380,724. Tho tariff tax on them was $2,349,190, so that for $3,380,724 worth of stocking the Importers paid $5,729,920, and those who wore the stockings paid tills enhanced price and the profits of the wholesaler and retailer reckoned on the whole, This Is what tho McKinley law has done for the wearer of stockings.—New York World.