Show SHORT TARiFF M30N8 I I If the Republicans in Congress are truly I desirous to get the truth about the tariff I before the country in the Congressional Record they can insert the following views of the martyr President General GARFIELD GAR-FIELD Unless the tariff men take heed unless they consent to n rational and considerate adjustment adjust-ment of the tariff such as only can be made by tho full light that a careful statistical study of the subject will bring I fear from them more than from any other source In 1SG7 JOHN SHERMAN said in the Senate of the United States In considering so complicated a subject as a tariff nothing can be more deceptive than the nmilicntinn of such trRnprat nhrasea as a Tiro tectlve tariff a revenue tariff a free trade tariff Every law imposing a duty on imported Im-ported goods is necessarily a restraint on trade It imposes a burden upon the purchase and sale of imported goods and tends to prevent every importation The expression a free trade tariff involves an absurdity If you converse 1Yith Intelligent men engaged In the business at manufacturing thoy will tell you that they are willing to compote with England France I Germany and all tho countries of Europe at the old rates of duty The old rates referred to by the Ohio Senator were the 20 percent average tariff in force before the war and not the 60 percent per-cent tariff of the McKiNLET bill in force today |