Show THE SCARE AKGUMENT Our morning contemporary tried the pearL argument on its readers ester day1 told the ran who chews Battle Ax Plug that he was forced to pay an increase of 25 cents per pound That reminds us When Artemus Ward first Went to Cleveland he approached a stranger and said politely l I beg pardon but can you tell me where a person can get a wholesome meal for 25 cents Tho gentleman pointed across the street and said Right over there that is a good restaurant Whereupon Artemus said I beg pardon par-don but one more question Have you any idea where a stranger In your city could get twentyfive cents So with the gentleman who chews BattleAx Plug He has twentyfive cents now Four years ago he was asking for work In order to obtain the twentyfive cents and he could not get 1L He was marching in the van of the Coxey army and declaring to himself him-self that there was top much freedom and not enough protection in this coun I try tryThe The next scare Is that the fruitraiser i contributes 225 extra a box for the tin to can his products That Is a wholesale prevarication because tinplate tin-plate is cheaper right now than it ever was under the benign rule of free trade I Is only 1 a box I never was f > o cheap until the tariff on tinplate mado It possible to start home manufactures manu-factures Again we aVe told that the carpenter IHS 100 per cent increase for his nails and tools His tools havo increased about 40 per cent His nails are 50 percent per-cent cheaper that they were under the old rule of free trade 0 The next scare is to the farmer and scro It Is charged that he pays from 10 togo to-go per cent more for his agricultural Implements than he formerly did Prices generally have advanced 40 percent per-cent The farmers Implements cost him on an average SlO per year His crop brings him 10 per cent more than it did four years ago The farmer is not weeping over the change Our contemporary finds that the housewife has to pay more for coal oil cotton and woolen stuffs thread shoes stationery and many staple groceries gro-ceries Yes they have all Increased about I per cent and that Is what the Salt Lake Herald advocated four years ago to get more money and prices would advance to a living point But there are compensations The housewife house-wife does not need so much coal oil she uses electric light Then again n cotton bale Is worth twice as much to lie planter in the South this year as It was three years ago As for thread the housewife docs not need as much us she did four years ago because be-cause there Is not nearly so much patching to do The woolen stuffs cost more but then wool Is worth three times a3 much and so are sheep and there Is no trust on wool there Is no trust on shoes and the price of stationery sta-tionery Is due to the tremendous increase in-crease In the use of paper and the Increased I In-creased cost of producing it Paper is mostly made from wood pulp and I wood is growing very scarce And now the reverse of that is what happened under Democratic rule There wits not any money to buy any of those things A man can very much more easily pay 50 cents for something when he haw a dollar In his pocket than to pay 25 cents when hrs luisn a nloknl l That thing has been tried over an over in the United States over since 1837 f with the unvarying result thatcvery time the tariff wus taken away the country ra drained a money to pay for foreign goods Every time the tariff has been in force goods have sold cheaper than foreign goods uver were In this country under free trade That I Is a question that Is practically solved I and only amateurs pursue it any more 1 amateurs and fossils Mr Bryans Idea l of the tariff is 1 hereditary fossil planted In his brain and Is found asa as-a trlloblte Is on the top of some desert I mountain J Is only an Indication that at some time before the mountains wore uplifted there was suit water over I them The mountain has emerged but the trilobite remains and the old I nnl I I Democratic trlloblte fossil still cjlngs to Mr Bryans brain and makes him unable I un-able to comprehend that It Is i better for American worklngmcn to make anything than to have foreign workmen work-men make I even If it C08U a little i I more because the wages of the work I lngmcn enter Into the money circulation circula-tion of the country and all are made better because of It I |