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Show 1 JAY GOULD OS THE TARIFF. I '-The I'rovo Dispatch (Dem.) quotes j approvingly Jay Gould's opinion of the McKislky tarilf as follows : I "I cannot &ea Ufa, the new tariff will j be a disadvantage to the- luouptry. If it t increases the cost of some articles peo-! peo-! pie will use less of them. Take wool for instance, Ii the tariff on wool makes clothing cosj moru a person will ' iret along with one suit, y Iwin le would otherwise have two. J.v Goi'Lii." 'Comment is unnecessary," says the BiH'ATCH. liut that is merely the opinion uf o;jr Democratic contemporary contempo-rary . If a pesoi copld get along with oue woolen suit oi pujeij American material and nianufactute, and license with one of foreign make and material, it certainly will not be denied the countrv is riflicr than it would have l been if the money for the extra suit bad bpe.n sent abioad. Ogden Standard. Stand-ard. I Or in other words, if tlu& JcKinley I tariff on wool gives to the American lalxMrr but one suit of clothes, he is just one suit better ojf, Or again, if the country is going to be mle rich by taking our clothes would it be right and who would be the rich fellows, not those 5 !)0 could only have one suit of clothes. Or even again: If a person could get along with one suit, how about washday, and the day of mending; or but, oh heaven ! Protection and one suit of clothes against the world, Why, a man ought to get rich with no more 1 clothes than that. Hut again, eupposc McKini.ey would get to thinking that the tariff on wool ought to he increased, and as wfc got along with one suit we could, according to Govld and the Standard, get along with a half suit say a pair of socks I and a shirt but how, like the devil, j we would look. Hut as the country j would be richer, why, we could stand it, especially in warm weather, A rich country with the people modestly attired at-tired in a half suit would, no doubt, remind re-mind us of the peons of Mexico. It is a confession as to what the Mo KixLEY bill is capable of doing, and half huit probably, or, as the tariff j might go up, our clothing would corre-j corre-j Bpondingly go down, until we skipped around in our socks, and then wouldn't the bees have fun w ith us! Ah, what a day that would be. and how much richer the country. Oh, that tariff on wool ! Belgium is referred to as pre of that j free trade Belgium being in a sense j a free trade country, that the j system is ruinous, and that notwith- ! standing the energy and industry of the people, they are paupers. If the state- ment is true, it proves nothing. The laborers of Austria, Russia aud China, highly protected countries, are in about the same condition, and France and Germany might almost be included in the list, while, upon the other hand, if protection controls wages, we might as ! evidence to the contrary refer to Penn- jsylyania, where protection reigns su- j preine, and where the lowest wages are I paid, compared with any other state in ithe Union. i . |