Show IS THE TARIFF A TAX As simple an article as wire nails teaches the necessity of the foste nug care of a protective tariff and shows the utter fallacy of the assertion made by democrats that it raises the anco of an article on which a duty is placed for a short time that may be the case but it does nut take ions until the pries is greatly reduced because competition at home brings x about this result statistics show that in 1882 with a duty of 1 cent per pound the country produced bat kegs of wire and all imported nails used cost tho farmer no less than 8 cents a pound in 1883 tho duty was raised to 4 cents a pound and last year our homo factories produced keap while the price hag dropped to lebs than 3 cents a pound in the face of such evidence there are people who believe the country derived no benefit from a protective tariff and that the duty is a tax that must necessarily be paid in full by tho consumer there was never a theory more erroneous |