The Pharmaceutical era . l in the country will instructthe Representatives for their district to retain it onthe free list. Quinine has become almost an to the American people. It would be rank in-justice to again place a duty upon it. The drug trade would be very glad to sell quinine at 50cents an ounce. This may be done on small lots, butquantity prices are below 20 cents. But the argum nlthat a duly ever has iiiHuenccil or would nialerially affei-tthe retail price of this article has repeatedly been shownto l>e fallacious. When quinine was four or five dollarsan ounce t
The Pharmaceutical era . l in the country will instructthe Representatives for their district to retain it onthe free list. Quinine has become almost an to the American people. It would be rank in-justice to again place a duty upon it. The drug trade would be very glad to sell quinine at 50cents an ounce. This may be done on small lots, butquantity prices are below 20 cents. But the argum nlthat a duly ever has iiiHuenccil or would nialerially affei-tthe retail price of this article has repeatedly been shownto l>e fallacious. When quinine was four or five dollarsan ounce this price was due, not to any duty, but to lim-ited production. The cultivation of cinchona bark ilur-ing twenty years baik has progressively lowered theprice of the alkaloid, and this loo despite the tact thatthe duly nsHessed has several times been increased. Th •priipoHtnl small duly is asked as a protection to the do-nieiillc mnnufnctnrer; It would little affect the coukuiutwho purchnNeii a dozen powilers or Department Stores. What are you going to do about it? fairly well rep-resents the attitude of the department store toward thosewho object to its existence and its methods, and truly novery satisfactory answer is forthcoming. Legislatingagainst it has been tried, but it doesnt work, and prob-ably cannot V)e made to work, for the department storehas a legal right to life. The question has been dis-cussed pro and con till the disputants are black in theface, and still the greatest trade evil of the day is haleand hearty. It would seem, when all is said and <lone,that the only solution is to effect the reform as all greatreforms are brought about, by the force of public senti-ment. This requires a campaign of information, of edti-cation. We cannot drive out the department stores by abusingthem, we cannot get legislation to stop them, we musttell the people what they are and what they do, and theevil effect they have on every business. And perhapswe must copy so
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