Show S S TRUST THE TH E PEOPLE TO LEARN LEARNYou LEARNYou LEARNYou You cant fool all the people all the time So near the birthday of the Great Liberator It will not be necessary necessary necessary sary to credit that adage to Its author And the plain truth Is that the per permanent permanent permanent manent fooling of any considerable number any controlling proportion will wUl not be possible In the United States of America Senator Smoot In his recent address in New York told of the clerk who ex explained explained explained the increased cost of gloves to the tle Increase In the tariff on gloves But the tariff on gloves has not been increased The cost of living Is very high It Is unquestioned that expense of securing necessaries is greater now than It has hEl been in years probably ever In the his history history history tory of the United States And gentle gentlemen gentlemen gentlemen men with a motive moUe for deception hasten to say soy the increase Is due to an increase in increase Increase crease of tariff Let I t the careful citizen clUzen the man who wants the best laws enacted and en enforced enforced enforced forced take the case of any article on which the cost Is generally greater now than two years ago and then turn to the law Itself and find the truth We know of no Instance In which he will discover corroboration of the doctrine that the tariff has Increased the cost because he will find that the article i inow now costing more in not included In the i schedules on which the tariff rate has been raised The Tho people will find out Cost of living liv Uv living ing is higher but the tariff make it so The too general habit of leaving the farm and flocking to the cities has caused the Increased cost of living The right proportion of ot producer to con consumer consumer consumer sumer Is destroyed Too many must be bo fed ted compared to the number left to provide produce for their feeding Trust the people to find the truth They cannot be fooled tooled all tho the time timeo o |