Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1893 — Our Blessed McKinley Tariff. [ARTICLE]

Our Blessed McKinley Tariff.

As nearly everybody knows, the transatlantic steamship Umbria broke her shaft on her last voyage in 1895. An Officer ot the company said

a new shaft ca the other*side «ts the Atlantic, but as the tariff *tax Would be 'half of tbewUr inal <cost «of : the shaft section they would ndt’have it sent over and put ! in on tfeis -side, but would take the Umbria to Europe and have the repairsmade tbere. There were plenty of oisicbanics in New York capdble ■and 'Willing to make these ffepairs, but ! our ’tariff laws came between tlwm and their bread and butter.