Show Tariff Talks y Of late the political editor of the Standard has been exhibiting a lack of 5 ability ae well as a lack of ordinary sense to such degree that he is entitled to the sympathy of a patient public He imagines u that slush and hogwash will be received by hiS readers and accepted as intelligent reading matter and that so long as his columns are full it makes no difference with what kind of stuff they may be filled a Our friend will find as his subscriptions expire that the public is not made up of S children and fools and that enough of such a paperas he is editing is obtained in avery a-very short time We charge you nothing for a pointer c No one ever supposed that the tariff editor of the Standard would be sure that J > e knew what meant or what anyone I S fUe could mean when speaking about the I or a n a a = 1 = = r7w 5 j 4 tariff on plows and harrows But as he 1 I asks a question we will answer it just the I same as though we suspected he could understand the answer His question is I What has the McKinley bill to do with themi It has simply this to do with them In tb first place it fixes a duty on the raw I material used in the construction of the I plows and harrows and then protects them by an exorbitant tariff The result is that I with such duties the American is forced to pay twice as much for his plows as the Brazilian Spaniard pays for the same plow I |