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Show TWO WAYS OF LOOKING AT IT. As illustrating the effects of reducing the tariff, we call attention to the price of sugar. This is an article everyone uses and without taking anybody's word for it each housewife can figure out for herself about how much tax her family paid on this article last year. All recollect that up to the passage of the McKisley law, which put sugar on the free list from those countries where we get most of this article, it cost here in Provo about eight and one-half or nine dollars a sack. Now when we are allowed to buy where we can get sugar the cheapest, we get it delivered t our own door for $5.75 per sack a difference of aboutj three dollars on every hundred pounds, so if bought three sacks of sugar last year you paid a tax of niue dollars on that article alone. Take the tariff law and look oyer the dozens of little articles you are buying each day, and you will find the same high tax is being levied upon you without with-out your knowledge. If it is good to. admit sugar free and pay a bounty to infant industries to protect them, why isn't it good to reduce re-duce it on clothing, plows, rakes and the hundreds of other articles of necessity? |