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Show - - - - 1 - ! SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. - - 2 1 Tlie Sugkr Botthty. ' . k 1 Toledo B'ad?. . , " ": Some of the -ehort-slght&d-ffae -trader ro-attempting ro-attempting to' ridicule the. icputliciij' he- cause, as they say. the latter 'claim That the tariff -reduce prices 'on titer necessaries of lifeand at the sanYe time that the taking off of the" duty reduced the pi iec.of sugar. -This flii'v Seem "to think i'rin "inconsistency. It is nothing of the sort, because the statement. state-ment. riiieF to different aticles, which are tinder different conditions': The taking off of the duty on sugar reduced the prices, because be-cause the sugar duty was a purely revenue one. It is impossible for us, on account of the climate, to produce more than a small fraction of the isug.ir we consume; hence the price is set by th imported sugar, and where it pays a duty, that duty is added to the price the consumer pays. The taking off of the duty reduced the" price just Uiat much. The South and Protection. Chicago Intfr-Orean. The wages of the southern negro will rise fast when the south avails itself of the advantages ad-vantages of protection; they will fall fast if ever the south is able to'forc the north into ahandonmens of it. There are thousands thous-ands of colored men in the east, wet. north and south who are in the trades, or on farms, and who harc in all the benefits of protection. protec-tion. Protection to American industries is protection to ihe interests of all Americans. The Pearl Hutton Tariff. Milwaukoe Sentinel. AVPd and pathetic lamentations occasionally occasion-ally arc heard from democratic quarters respecting re-specting the grevions price of pearl buttons it is s.iid they arc two cents a dozen higher than last year and a democrat who pays two cents extra for a dozen buttons feels that he is being crushed b' the McKinley bill although he saves on "every hundred pounds of sugar that he buys. Nevertheless, Neverthe-less, he should not despair. In all probability probabil-ity the starting up of so many button factories fac-tories will soon result in lower prices than ever before for buttons. An Opportunity for the South. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The South has an opportunity to profit in a direct atul important way by the protective policy, and its thoughtful and progressive men are not slow in perceiving its advantages, advan-tages, and would not be backward in championing champ-ioning it if the negro issue were eliminated. A protectionist South and. West and a free-trade free-trade Northeast twenty or twenty-five years hence is not au altogether improbable eventuality. event-uality. Sound Common Sense. Kansas City Journal. President Harrison, in expressing the opinion that tin-plate can be advantageously and proiiiably manufactured in this country, simply agrees with the great body of sensible sensi-ble business men of the country. When you show a man of ordinary intelligence that a thing is being done, you naturally conclude that thero is no reason why it cannot be done. , . ' Peace Her Victories. New York Independent. Great are the victories which this admin istration is achieving for the American hog. Italy has now decided to recall kef interdicl against him. |