Show f A I F FALLACY Congressman Con iman of or the Car Car- Carl l OJ ton district In Illinois led himself lr his Democratic party part Into the wil- wil again on Thursday when he J 1 tell the tIne line old olti campaign statement state tate ment ent that American manufacturers ar ire are selling American goods In Europe Cheaper than thai In this thiH countr country Ill Jle held P lp to in the tIit public view kt a number of American watches s for fOl which h ho lie had Paid gon good mOI money in Iii New oi York J anti and which he ho said the dealer deal r told him were bought hought In Europe and shipped back back- to America and offered for sale at prices riCes lower towel than timi were vere asked for American watches th t had never ne been ben out nut bt of the country Doubtless the seller of or those watches saw Mr r. r Hainey coming He lie knew that thai he was a Democratic congressman congressman congress congress- s man looking 1 for 01 or campaign material anti and he Ill hastened to load Joad him hInt up He lie didn't care a penny for rOI the tho campaign use nse that might ht be made of the state state- statements merits ments but he did care earl for fOI the seven even dollars each he got goot for the vatche And Hah y lilt hit He lie bought hought half bait a dozen and hugged himself elC a as he prepared pre pre- pared his ht speech for the th house And a as usual th ho the bottom was knocked kJ kd out OtLE of his boat hoat by ly the facts fact In the t cn case l' l Congressman Boutell of the same state is not so fO much of a sucker ucler even if IC he tines does hall hail from Il II- II 1 Jinnis He lie showed showell that the watches had hati never tI ne been exported that the they 1 ne never nevet el been bought in Europe had hall ht never nevel lie el been re Imported to this country country coun coun- try hut but that the prices paid pall by br Rainey Halney was just a little higher than was asked for the same watches from rom EI Elgin ln from Waltham and from Hartford made InthIs Inthis in inthis this country count and offered alTered for sale ale In Inthis this country Different clerks cerks have different tell stor story They tel one m man n one and another man another story The They 01 are there for or the selling of or goods gool and m Lir th they think will wi help helpa a n sale f T thought he could catch nahl h by the statement that the watches before him had been out of the country bidding for fOl the he foreign trade and had come back a crushing evidence of oC the iniquities of the tho tariff and were now offered to Americans moment when hett Congress Congress- Congressman s- s Al At the theer er very At man Rainey was getting his alleged in information In- In formation and when he le lewns was giving up p his good money for had bad data other people were wre buying the vcr very same me watches at nt the tho vcr very same price and were not told the goods had ever e been heen out of or the country countr They were sold for those fUr figures 9 In In the regular rEgular course of business s. s Of or all al the tariff ar arguments ments of tho the Democrats nothing has hao been more persistently per per- advanced than that American Ameri Amerl- can manufacturers protected by the tariff were selling their goods abroad than the they were selling them for or le less s at home to American citizens But flut nul where the C cases e are run un they develop Just the same ame sort soil o of mares mare's ne nest t as that of Hohn and ond his unnecessary ary watches |