Show I 1 THE ISSUE 91 THE TARIFF REFORM LIAR LOOK I 1 ING fon A LOOPHOLE k lie to trie tries to docco the price prices current I 1 I 1 and avid official ite report ports the decreased prices irac Ir lc of gool goods C assertion disproved el I 1 I 1 the mckinley prices liar driven into I 1 a corner by relentless facts like the cur I 1 which has been caught sucking eggs I 1 I 1 looks frantically for some loophole of 1 1 escape even his seemingly unbounded audacity falls short of an attempt to deny that prices of manufactures have fallen rather than risen since the mckinley tariff took effect there are the daily market reports the testimony of honest free trade statisticians and finally the report of the senate committee on prices I 1 all before him lie ile realizes the futility I 1 of longer keeping up the attempt to deceive i the people by bald falsehood but is nevertheless determined to escape acknowledging his untruths un truths As the pilfering cur springs madly at ft tiny knothole in ili his efforts to escape tho the blows of his an angry gry master so our I 1 hunted liar tries to get away from tho the prices current and official reports which surround him lie ile pretends to take it for granted that the prices in controversy were of imported goods and pro coeds to prove from them that ho lie was right in asserting that pric prices eshad had advanced under the now tariff in the first place the controversy was not about prices of foreign goods at all t but referred to prices of domestic goods those are the ones which grover cleveland maintained would be advanced by a higher duty on imported goods and nd they were ivere always had in mind by intelligent persons in talking about prices it is a dishonest subterfuge to arguo argue that because goods actually imported under higher duties sold at higher prices therefore domestic goods were also higher and that the claims of the campaign of lying in 1890 have been thereby substantiated in tho the second place it is a notorious fact that imported goods havo have actually been placed on our market at and even below the prices charged under a lower tariff rate before the tho mckinley law it is the exception where they are found I 1 dearer because of increased duty to the that the fall in the import price lias has been due to a lowering of the k quality of tho the goods wo answer again that that fact even if admitted proves nothing as to the quality of do domestic mestie goods which let it always bo be remembered are tho the ones really in controversy on the contrary the quality of domestic I 1 1 products is known to have steadily 11 advanced under the now tariff tho the result has been that the efforts made b by y foreign manufacturers to get over the tariff by producing inferior products have proved a boomerang boo boomerang meran to them their customers discovered ohp fraud practiced upon them and promptly returned to the tile better domestic article so that all the conditions seemed to conspire to compass the very result aimed at by the framers of the mckinley act viz the supplanting of foreign goods in this market by domestic products the controversy is not over imported goods which concern not more than I 1 per cent of our people but our dome domestic stio goods abi r aroused aro used almost exclusively by 99 per cent of the consuming population prices of imported goods may havo have slightly advanced but even this thesis is doubtful 0 but it is a fact beyond question that domestic manufactures never before sold I 1 so cheaply as they have been selling un dorthis ler this mckinley tariff of ours although I 1 the mckinley prices liar said they vi were ern made higher from the instant that law 0 took effect in other words the free f trade victory of 1890 still remains with its sti stigma ma of the triumph of lying |