Show ANOTHER OF ITS SINS Another evil hasbeen traced directly tQ the robber tariff and it is a greater evil than that which relates to money It is bad enough whoa laws cause the people of a nation to suffer in pocketbook only but it is eminently worse when the health of tho masses Is attacked through legislatvo enactments en-actments DAVID WELLS demonstrates by figures which cannot bo disputed that the death rate of the people of tho United States is increased by the high tariff The statistics show that of every 100000 deaths in England Scotland and Ireland 9144 result from consumption and 4772 from pneumonia while of the same number of deaths in this country 112659 are from consumption and 8350 from pneu f J7lur r Wtolj monia The principal causes of these two diseases are colds resulting from changes in animal temperature These changes can be prevented or modified by woolen clothing The cost of sucn clothing in America is so much greater than in Great Britain by reason of the high tariff on wool that our people are compelled to wear cotton and shoddy and as a consequence conse-quence lung diseases aro more prevalent here than on the other side of the water although the United States are in a more southern latitude and enjoy a more equable climate than Great Britain |