Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1897 — A NEW COMPANION EVERY WEEK. [ARTICLE]

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It >s said that American bicy-.'les can be bough tin Germany cheape than in the United States. So can Americm plows and farm maebin eiy. This is one of the beauties of protection to home iudustries. It enables home manufacturer* to combine for thepurposeof putting up th price do our own pjoplc, be cou s e foreign competition i kept out by the tariff and our people must pav whatever price is fi ed by agreement of the trust. The surplus is sold abroad for whatever can bo obtained. Thus the foreign consumer it favored t the expense of ihe home consumer.