Show THE TARIFF ON Senator Smoot voted with Payne and Aldrich to increase the tariff on rubber goods representing an controlled and largely owned Senator Rubber reported 31 net profits of and added to upon sales of new tariff had then been not quite eight These figures a net profit on actual sales of 15 per not tell the whole for the rubber monopoly has watered its and now has a fictitious Never-l its profit business done was more than In the competitive business of making leather shoes the profit on total sales is said to or y never more than 5 per It is The labor cost of shoes is from 22 to 27 per The ample tariff is 10 per cent on the cheaper But the Rubber Trust was not satisfied with a net merchandise I profit three times as great as the shoes manufacturers manage to 4 along Last March Smoot and others in- creased its protection from 30 to j 35 per That as Evans points out in the World's it bought out the Revere company and raised of rubber boots 10 per Later it took in the Canadian Consoli-f dated and again in May raised j prices 14 per as all the world crude the l raw has lately fallen in owing to the collapse of the London j The Rubber like the Steel according to needs no protection In its' report it congratulates stockholders upon having largely sales of rubber goods abroad without but By raising the rubber tariff by not removing or greatly reducing their party in effect had promised Senators Smoot and others poured millions into the coffers of the sole customer of Aldrich 's own raw rubber What say these caught robbing the people so Simply That the prices of food having been doubled by the as Senator Smoot claims in his best the farmers who receive some of the plunder of all keep even though the food trusts take the lion's share the senator's argument were good as to food prices it certainly does not apply to or white or or linseed or sewing or plows and or carpenters' plumbers' and a thousand other articles sold by these trusts at from 20 to 50 cent less abroad than they can be purchased for by any American consumer here at |