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Show i oo PRICE OF GOODS NOT TO DROP. One of Ogden's largest wholesalers has received notice that Importers are slow in Issuing lower schedules of prices and many are endeavoring to retain their price schedule, taking ad vantage themselves of lower tariff duties. du-ties. "The foreign manufacturers." says an authority, seem to keep In close (touch with American tariff changes land a great many importern have re-1 re-1 ceived cablegrams the past week advancing ad-vancing prices enough to cover the! tariff reductions A n imber of American manufacturers who compete com-pete with imported goods have BOtl fled us that they do not it present contemplate price reductions " It begins to look aa though the. promised reduction in the high cost of living is not to be realised through ; i the Underwood-Simmons tariff. II 'there is not a Bcaling down of pricea, then by the next congressional elec Hons there will be many a Democratic : congressman in dire distress This revulsion in public sentiment may j ! save our beet aagar industry. The 'free trade In sugar does not go Into effect before three years, by which time the Democrats may be turned loot of offlo bv a diseusted electorate This tariff question will never be rightly settled until it la taken out of politics by a commission made up of experts With the return of the Republican party to power some such action will be taken, If the part) leaders prove wise enough to so guide thir course as to avoid the pitfall? of tariff tinkering and special privi lego. oo |