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Show ... j OUR SITUATION AFTER , BjVS THE PRESENT WAR (( VAH "I Insist," says ex-Congressman Cul- j BBB der, "thnt a revision of tho Tariff on - I" IH many commodities whero tho rcduc- ' i BBB I tlon of tho duty has not affected ad- ' k I H , vantagenusly tho prlco to tho con- i ' BBi sumer, will furnish much of the rov- j; H cnuo needed." .' J I And, If anybody could point out IvBBjfl whero tho reduction of tho duty In ' tl'aBlfl tho Democratic Tariff law hns affect- j'P BBB cd advantageously the prlco to tho '' I) BBJH consumer, tho Democrats at Wash- iiiBwfl , Ington would bo overjoyed. Tho con- '' fVaVafl Burner, ns a matter of fact, has not It pBBJ been benefited In Prlco of n elnglo I jAjJ articlo slnco that Tariff law went In- f f ' ?VAfl to effect. 'H Instead, most of tho articles on '" ILwbI which tho duty was reduced havo j! "" gono up in prlco. Thu government ji 'BBJ has lost hq much rovcuuo tho lend- i,H. BBJ era of the majority at Washington l;f ifl nro at their wits' end to find now il fVAjJ tnxes. American Industry nnd bust- ; V ;BBJ , ucss havo been gravely injured In ) lit. jVAyJ everything not nffected by the Euro- Ji AyB ; jienn war, which has built 'up an ji ' (BBJ enormous but purely temporary trado ' it f vBS In things that aro being destroyed so J-Jj,, iVAyJ mpldly. m4 imffl If. Mr. Wilson's temporary nnlvit- siltBBJ lion, tho war, Hboiul come to an end 1,1 r iBjBB beforo the Republicans nro put In ;j ., power to restore tho Tariff, thM 't'ilBJBjl country would bo In n serious coudl- 'IbJBJb! tlcn Indeed when faring the sudden y 'ILwfl tutting off of our export ImrlucMi S BBBfl thut If, now making things to bo used !lh"Afl up as fast as thoy aro produced by 1 !(iH tho processes rr doct ruction abroad. !j ' ,-BB And make no mlstnko Europo Is :f IBS gulng lo, bo n despernto competitor j BB for markets from the tlmo when It l. I B becomes necessary to find work for r 'BB tuns of millions of men now support- r I t IH ed out of monoy borrowed by their Ki V ! '' governinents, but themselves produc- Kj ( 'BM lug notliiiig.' Brooklyn Stuudanl UII'ibjI """". ilir-'BJsi |