Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1892 — Pearl Button Trust on Deck. [ARTICLE]

Pearl Button Trust on Deck.

The combination that succeeded in raising the duty on pearl buttons from 25 per cent, to something like 400 per cent, in the McKinley tariff does not seem to have learned much from the recent election. It is stated that the Pearl Button Association has recently met and appointed “a committee to look after legislation at Washington.” This committee may as well save its pains and lobby expenses. The next tariff, including the duties on pearl buttons, will be revised in the interest of American consumers, as well as of manufacturers. So there will be no need of sending committees to Washington to instruct the representatives of the people in regard to their duties. The educational campaign has fully developed the truth about this pearl button business, along witli the other tariff iniquities.—Philadelphia Record.