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Show fPItOITEERING UNDER THE UNDERWOOD UN-DERWOOD LAW , , The New York World prints prominently promi-nently on its editorial page a communication communi-cation from a Brooklyn "Consumer," who says: "The reformed candy man who frankly frank-ly admits profiteering 300 per cent is just one step in the right direction, but M"hat a very instructive object lesson is contained in this wholesome news for the old reliable goat (the consumer, the case hardened" victim of many previous tar-, . if fs, but of none, so vile as Fordney's latest la-test extortion unlimited." A little, matter overlooked both by the contributor and the World is that this 300 per cent profiteering took place not under the operations of the Fordney or any other protective tariff laws, but (under (un-der the existing Underwood non-protective tariff measure. Under the present non-protective tariff tar-iff law there has been more profiteering, more oppressive exploitation of the consumer, con-sumer, that the American people have ever before experienced or even dreamed dream-ed of as a possibility. It has demonstra-tedthe demonstra-tedthe total lack of relationship between tariff schedules and prices to the American Ameri-can consumer. Yet there are actually people peo-ple still parroting the old phrases about the high cost of living being attributable Jo protection. National Republican, & Si |