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Show A TARIFF FACT. 'When men feci like scolding about the incre d cost of clothing and charge it to the tariff, they should reme mbor that it was brought out in the senate last week that the cloth for a $40 suit of clothes can be bought for $3.25 under the present tariff. The difference'between that and the $40 J of $34.75 is put on after the cloth ia bought. There ia the tailor, the merchant and the freight. These last would remain if the tariff vras entirety thrown off. The only thing to prevent it would be the tariff tar-iff that ke-.s ont foreign manufactured suits. All of which shows that congress is not competent to frame a sensible tariff law and .that tariff laws should be auch as a tariff commission would pre. scribe |