Show TARIFF BILL I Independent Press of the Country is with it K curious- fact about the new Kf a synopsis of which we Ket in this is that few are praising while many B finding The greater Republican papers Be either silent or they are certain features of the B. All re disappointed with papers denounce Most of the papers think that Be bill is not a clear attempt to Bise the tariff downwards this is on it's it professes to B We are content to give the Ew of the independent mh spite of a first impression to Be says the Indianapolis Bs the Payne Bill as B the House nothing for the ultimate and we have not yet any predictions that the would be further to the all remarks the Neward News Wp is perhaps fortunate first presentation of the Ped new tariff was as pleas- to the general public as it to bp a i adds the same looks quite Evening Post E early and ardent William Taft's can- Eff the Republican Burners that salaT-earner have K r tHe are r and The New York paper of the same name discovers evidence that the consumer is going to speak up on this occasion as never is the asked Taft when the tariff hearings And The Evening Post now voice like the sound of many waters is rising from various parts of the country to show where the consumers and also what is their state of Senator Clapp of regards the new bilL as inasmuch as lays the whole country under tribute to the manufacturing of the New England A Democratic According to the minority re- port of the Ways and Means as put before the House by the Democratic Champ the bill is and and its reductions far short of the substantial relief which the people were led to This report claims not only that the bill as a whole affords' no but that it would actually the cost of living for the average The average rate of the Payne is per higher than the average rate of the Dingley Law a fact which bad temper or bluster can conceal from the American Ridiculing the reduction in the sugar schedule as being of no benefit to any one except the Sugar he declares that under the cut of five cents on pounds man have to eat sugar at top speed for fifteen months to save a The Evening Says a correspondent the New York Evening Post he goes to a clothier next autumn for his ready-made suit of winter he will expect to get a better suit for than he bought for that price last Or he will expect to get for what he paid for last He will want a pair of shoes such as used to cost him and now cost for the former He will expect to see evidences of tariff reduction in the price he has to pay for a rubber boots for the and rubber He sees a reduction on and and looks in vain for the necessaries which so much he may whether the tariff is being downward for his The same correspondent reports that Western Representatives and Senators that the new bill give some of the great industries of the country an excuse saving money their The Post though independent in was one of President Taft's supporters in the recent It's present view of the new tariff bill is quite similar to that of other non-partisan papers throughout the county Women Oppose the New The interest taken by women's Organizations in many parts of the country is unique in the history of American And it arose chiefly from the increased rates and similar on articles of feminine The Taxed The official schedules of revenue expected to be raised by the Payne tariff contain a computation as to stockings which may be thus Not dozen Not over dozen Not dozen Not over dozen Totals Present Now Expected Per The highest rate is now collected on the cheapest The duty is already in every case far more than the total labor cost in this More than half the increase is expected from stockings now sold at 25 cents a pair or Judging by added revenue will not be An extortionate tariff reduces no one knows how many millions' the American consumer will pay in additional profits to knitting manufacturers because of without raising knitters' Stockings are a universal prime In no other way could the Government exasperate more people than by raising this jj to get a million and a half more revenue which it probably will not get after V The Times Gives The tax on hose and the New York Times regards as a dangerous challenge to the To are imported in consid- According to the figures of the committee's the imports are dozens of or about two pairs each for all the women and half-grown girls of country The average cost of these on a dozen or a over 11 cents a Dingley the average tax was per which is certainly ample protection for the home being about one-fourth more than the average on all imported In bill of the Ways and Means Committee the tax on the cheaper variety of these goods that is to on thoSe costing a dozen or less is advanced by from 40 to 42 per On goods costing- from to a dozen the advance is 25 per On goods costing from a dozen upward there is no increase of On goods costing a dozen and more the maximum remains at 55 per ad or less than four-fifths of the tax imposed on goods costing less than per for a how this discrimination against the poor works out in actual A with an income of a having to buy a dozen pairs of stockings for herself and and selecting the say those costing a dozen to is taxed 70 cents at or 7 per of her weekly on the A woman with an income of a buying stockings imported is taxed or only per of her weekly The Times strongly supported President Taft in the |