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Show AGAIN THE TARIFF, Doesn't it seem funny to resd that ths leaders of both parties expect that the tariff will be the main issue next year in the campaign f That has been the main issue off and on now for four-score years. It has been discussed by the ablest minds there ever were in the United States. What does any present candidate or any supporter of any present pres-ent candidate expect to add to what Daniel Webster said on the same subject fifty years agoT And still we do not know. We do not believe the masses of the people understand the question as well aa they did fifty years ago, because then there were but few issues. The tariff was new thing, and they studied it. Ask the ordinary man to explain to you wha. the tariff means, and tha difference between be-tween protective tariff and a tariff for revenue, . J nk.... am et rt am rtiat K will nn he aula uio - u ouv a eat a a vvu v "uu " - able to give it Ask him about th tariff on wool, for instance, and what th effect would be to strike it out, he would probably answer yon that th wool men would get less money and tha poor people would get cheaper clothing. Ask him why they would get cheaper clothing, he would say probably the wool being cheaper, of course the clothes would brcheaperrAak him hovmuch the-wool in s rait of clothes cost the manufacturer under the present pres-ent tariff, he could not tell you. The limit of his ides' would be that whereas a suit of clothes could be bought in free trad times for half what it can be now, the difference must be due to the tariff. Ask him why sack of flour in Salt Lake costs twice as much aa it did thirty wears ago and he would not be able to say. Ask him what effect on other Industrie th removal of the tariff on wool would have, ha would be dumb. -And there you ar. . . Probably in twenty-five previous presidential elections the tariff haa been the leading issue. That has become one of the least important issues. When Falstsff was looking over bis eommand, he admitted his disgust sadly, but finally concluded that they would make juat as good "food for powder" as better men. And so th politicians next year, looking look-ing over the people, will conclude that the tariff ia just as good an issue aa anything else. It is all game, anyway. Whether th country needs something some-thing very much more important or not they will not attempt to explain, and w presume the reason ia on on hand that they don't know any better, and on th other they dare not tell what they know. |