Show EUCLID OUTGENERALED Mathematics wi have to gl Our morning contempoary has a new way Dr reaching conclusions Euclid Arc Imeesand polonius have bee outdone out-done and al the modern masters ae shame Bare assertions bdat demonStration demon-Stration any tim with our neighbor and a Slnple of its new art of calculating cal-culating is fOUld in a editorial which appeared yesterday The whole amount of tinplate uSed in the United States since I the law was created has not excteded onefrh of n bIllion of dollars and a very Iara I pro portlon workmen of that fs been go American Now the duty on tinptste was made specific and fixed at L1 cents per pound by the special tariff act of Feb s ISj5 the McKinley bIll raiser i to 22 cents and under the Dlngle bill It was fxed at 15 cents per pound The Tribune says Yo formerly paid for tn7Plat 2IOOOor 2 OCOOOO annually I I we fornierly paid that Uch we hare probably paid It ever since he I law was create which made the tax specific Tiis would Indicate that we have used aCieasl 550000000 worth I of tinplate since the tariff law of Feb S 18j5 was enatteda healthy looking quarter of a million Indeed But our Republican contemporary says that a very large proportion of the money thus etorted from the people peo-ple by he tinplate trust has been paid to American workmen I this be true wh dos our neighbor saTe sa-Te first duty of congress upon its meeting sQoul1 be to strIke the tariff from tinplate |