Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1906 — Tariff Reform Needed. [ARTICLE]

Tariff Reform Needed.

The sewer pipe trust Is to be dissolved, being threatened by an indictment of the grand jury In New York. This trust controlled about all the manufacturing concerns making earthen piping, which were bound together by an agreement on prices and territory. The trust Is protected by a tariff rats of 35 per cent, so the abandonment of the association will hardly aid the buyers of its products until the tariff Is revised. All over the country glazed drain tile Is used, and ths high price charged has been a great tax on every community. Reform the tariff and protect consumers Instead of, as now, protecting the monopolies.