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Who Pays The Tax?

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
May
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Bepublican claim that "the foreigiier puys the tax" is aruply proved by the following letter, vphich will appeal to the people of Nebraska and Iowa, as it interests them particularly: Omaha, April 10. The Albion Milling Company, Albion, Neb. : Gentlemen- Answering your inquiry of the 7th inst. The expliination of the recent inarked advance in the price of burlap bags is in the prospective changea in the tariff . Under the Wilson bill they are on the free list, but the Dingley bilĂ­ provides for a duty which would amount to something ovor 1 cent per bag on the 60 inch eight ounce burlap. The priee made you on your recent invoice is the lowest which we can offer on the present market. Yours truly, Bemis Omaha Bao Company. M. C. Peters, Manager. The consumera of burlap bags who live in this section of the country neert not imagino that the increased price of bags concerns them. The foreigner has to pay it. Congressman "Champ" Clark, in his speech on the Dingley tariff bill, said "the passage of the bill will force every merchaut in the land to make a tariff for revenue only speech every time he I sells a bill of goods across the counters. " The above letter is only one of the tariff speeches referred to by the eloquent and

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News