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Show PRICE OF RAILS. The lliillmmlM Do Mot 'milnln of Allrireil I'lifiilnivKH. The Democratic press has discovered what it alleges Is "proof of high tariff evils" in the report that American steel rails have been sold to tho Panama railroad at a price lower than that which prevails In tho United States. Tho argument is that if the steel rail tarlft were removed or reduced purchasers pur-chasers at home could buy at equal rnte with purchasers abroad. It Is worthy of note that not the American railroads, but the Democratic press, complains of unfairness. The railroads utter no word of protest, although al-though they could, If they believed themselves victims of extortion, break prices lu a singio day. Hut they urc satisfied with tho price, which is $28 a ton. Tho Democratic objectors compare this prleo with the price of rails produced pro-duced abroad and lay the difference to the operation of the "high tariff." Thus It again becomes necessnry to remind tbcm that the tariff Is not higher now than when the Wilson-Gorman tariff law was In operation. Prom Aug. 'JS, ISO), to date the tariff on steel rails has been $7.8! per ton -Harrlsburg Telegraph. |