Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1896 — Bleeding the American Buyer. [ARTICLE]

Bleeding the American Buyer.

When steel billet* wote Helling at Pittsburg for sl7 two we.kn ago .ho price of English billets was $20.(15, and the duty on them is $8.96. The rail combination, protected by a duty ot $7.84, s< Ils rails to Japan for $21,26, while the English price is $23.08, The nailmakers, while advancing the home price by 200 per cent, in one year, Hell more than 20,000,000 lbs. for export a .ring that year and are pr tooted by a duty of 25 percent; Howers these manufacturers to show, not that their tariff duties should be increased, but that any part of them in really needed for protection?—N. 1 Times. - ♦—..—....1.—. ■- ■ The “Flor de J j.” 10c cigar, is ns good as any imported cigar. Is made from the finest selected Havana tobacco.