Show FOOLING pOOLING THE CONSUMER During the tariff discussions Senator Sator Aldrich and others of his following have nave repeatedly repeated I called attention to the fact act that consumers of ot the taxed arti art articles artI I cles eisa under consideration C had asked for forno forno forno no reduction He made this assertion again on Friday In the debate on the wool schedules as reason for supposing supposIng ing lug all n the wool duties are perfectly sat satisfactory satisfactory tor to the people of the country The senator is deluding himself If he thinks the absence of organized protest signifies satisfaction with the duty in Inn inny any n ny schedule sch The Thu manufacturers and others benefited by b a tax are always represented because it pays them to tobe tobe tobe be on hand and in the senate finance committee hearings it has been next to for any but the bene bone of the tariff to be heard at all aU aUThe The truth Is the great mass of or con consumers consumers sumers somers which te Is the large majority of ot the people suffers from the delusion that the senators and congressmen of or their respective states will appear in their behalf and so make mako no 00 effort to organize for foi or their own benefit Jene t even when they the are In position to do so no o And that is Ig fhy hy Senator Stor Aldrich Is able to toy soy say y without contradiction that there hen has been no organized erga bed demand for such sueh tariff revision as ae the Republican plat platform form promised However b be consumer is not so in indifferent indIfferent Indifferent different or so 80 ignorant of or what la is be bc being belag lag ing done in the tariff proceed proceedings lags ings In as an Mr Aldrich seems to believe It takes a long lone while te to stir sUr the tho wrath of the American people but indications are plentiful that the day da of judgment judgments is 1 s iia to t come coins very ery elJo promptly for tor the Republican party if the anal iThal conference on 00 the tariff schedules sustains Mr Ir AI Al I i drIebe opinion that there is no generalI general I call for toe relief relle from the oppression of high b b prices p ees os due to te monopolies established under the shelter sheU r of ef a prohibitive tariff tart Ll declaration that you yu cant fool foel alt all the people all the time Is going groins to be proved when the Republicans go before belore the country in the next congressional Monal election and aRd ask approval for forthe forthe the Ute bunco tariff game |