Show the People aad Other Senators Working to Abolish Popular Voting on Tariff Questions tte American people are intelligently involving tariff they Si be prevented in the future on these the theory and ob-Z of Senator Aldrich and other at purpose is to present tariff by increasing most grates of The ultimate to tha tariff out by having all the schema written and enacted by an tariff not by the people or in any responsible to The Dazed i Senator declared last week in Congress that he would be the session all in order that the sites might understand k were voting on in the various of the Aldrich Senator Aldrich instantly re- M that the Senate could not A the various schedules of rading tariff measure even J devoted ten years to their ft the frank both the opponents h defenders of the proposed tax thousands upon of the vast of thera being articles of me and common Oat the men who are levy- and who are sup-W to how what it is they are Noto the American peo- authors of the measure do not real- they are Honal lawmakers have the for the various with which they the of liat it already G also Sm- understand tha thy hl mim tote that an pert should be appointed to take this question out of politics so that the people shall never again their little about The Real We if any or or trust-obligated congressmen really believe that the people cannot understand these simple That the tariff is a tax on certain That this plus interest many times compounded the taxed article passes from one middleman to is finally paid by the That every similar article produced in this country has its price advanced by the amount as that which is on the final to the imported 1 That no direct product of labor produced in this country apart from has its price raised one penny the law that is supposed to protect the average man as well as the That everything made directly or mainly by labor in this country is sold cheaper than the articles are sold in- any other country That every- article made directly or mainly by enterprise's that require large and that soon merge into trusts or combinations or sell at from 25 to per cent dearer in this country than in any other such articles as and white tin and metallic ware in all of hardware except wood all manufactures of all all all all agricultural all machinery of any use to farmers or to farms of any all sewing all articles of whether or the various and cotton that are called len by our clothing all these abi thousands of articles must not forget our own Stand- ard coal oil in all its have their prices advanced all the from 25 to per cent by the tariffs levied on similar foreign articles that are kept out by the Can it be that the Senators are right in the belief that it will the intellect of the great American public to these Schedules Don't Change It is true that the busy especially since the last attack of hard times have little time for analyzing the Dingley even if they but they know what has happened to them under the existing They know that they have not been getting the worth of their money in projected articles of food and Steadily increasing prices is what they hear powerful interests glorify as They are of as' Senator Dolliver and they judge tariffs by their Question of 1 It is also true that the average man does not understand economic and trade The subject does not interest He will not wade through dreary Senate debates on protective duties on carpet top waste and shoddy or on schedules graded according to the number of threads in a piece of cotton He cannot interpret the phraseology of tariff acts or estimate the measured in imports and of ad valorem and specific But he does know that the necessaries of Ufa are oppressively and he wants the tariff changed so as to afford him relief from the exactions of Privilege that grows' more and more arrogant and Cheaper Living any amount of quibbling by Senator Aldrich over the tariff plank of the Republican platform alter the fact that the people expect the cost of living to be reduced by the revision of Ding-ley Was not Senator Dolliver when he said that the people tired of having these duties raised from to per cent for the clothes they wear upon their o Why the Extra was session of Congress called forT Cannot the people understand Was it simply for as Senator Aldrich of putting a false partisan construction on the Republican platform to justify higher duties on necessaries and higher prices to millions of Or was It for the of making a tariff bill with such reasonably reduced as will reasonably reduce the cost of The People Will These are the beyond all the people are both able and willing and ready to Let the stand-patters who still think they can write into the new law the schedules dictated by trusts what sells abroad reasonable rates and at home at rates amounting to mere try the at the present and the people the next election will let the stand-patters know what they think and what they can understand about the in creased prices they pay 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