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Show ' realize sooner or later that the price must stay up so long as the tariff remains as it is." Mr. Shipley, by figures, proves that the manufacturers did not need the higher protection as under the Dlngley rates they were able to meet foreign competition, with a ten per cent margin in their favor. Ogden dry goods men have had the tricks in the new tariff law brought home to them, and they have gone over to the great majority in their insurgency. The dry goods trade has been severely injured by the unjustifiably high prices for cotton goods which the new cotton cot-ton schedule has forced on the people and as a result there is a high resolve to make reply on next election day. The tariff of the intimidators has started the greatest revolt within the Republican party since its birth. OGDEN MERCHANTS ARE INSURGENTS. The dry goods men of Ogden are Insurgents and they have been made so by the Payne-Aldrich tariff. We asked one of the local merchants why he was opposed to the present tariff and he explained by presenting us with a copy of "Dry Goods," a trade journal, in which Frederic B. Shipley, chairman of the publicity committee of the Wholesale Dry Goods Merchants' association, after telling why the merchants fought the cotton schedule of the tariff law, said : "I know from my experience on the committee that merchants who fought the cotton tariff increase did so with timidity because of fear of the powerful interests that had the new schedule enacted. ''I received a warning myself to stop agitating against the new tariff. A friend of mine came to see me and told me he had something some-thing of very great interest to communicate. He advised me it would be a good thing for my business if I would find it convenient to go to Europe for four or five months. "Others I know had been approached in the same manner. Instead cf the promised revision downward, we got it upward up-ward in cotton, with the result that the trade is in worse condition than it has been in years. Merchants all over the country are buy-ing buy-ing only half r8 much as usual because the public is not buying at tbe atV.-r.:-rr(" iv. ' "Of course the pnblio, having to pay the increased duties, will |