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Show The Tariff and Automobiles A FREE-TRADE journal in the east says: "We are not of the opinion that the automobile auto-mobile trade would be seriously disturbed even If the present tariff of 45 per cent ad volo-lem volo-lem were wholly done away with in the coming 'revision. And it gives as a reason that all the materials entering into the manufacture of automobiles are cheaper or as cheap In this country as In Europe. One-thing, however, this writer does not contemplate. con-template. That Is the disposition of Ihousands of Americans who believe that if anything made abriad is not better than the same article pro-duced pro-duced in the' United States, it is vastly more aristocratic aris-tocratic and theiefoie vastly more comforting to own the foreign article. This feeling Is inherent in the minds of millions of Americans; hence we can think of no article on which it is more just to raise levenue than to tax foreign automobiles But there is another thought connected with it. Were the tariff lemoved would it not make the home-made article cheaper? |