Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-10

side of the House"
IF newspapers that base their circula-
ideas would offer prizes for stupidity you'd
win hands down." retorted Nora. THE
tariff is a tax, any baby ought to know
that"
THE tariff is duty levied on foreign
imports to equalize the difference between
wages abroad and at home"
And We democrats have got it in bond"
began Mary, eager to display her newly
acquired knowledge. "and we are going to
keep l. there for five years. till it natures
or somebody wants 1t at a dollar bushel-
or wasn't 30 cents a gallon they set it,
sara? 1 got little mixed among all the
patches they were putting on the bill. 1t
is only ten cents difference. anyhow, and
nobody would quarrel over that!"
why, / thought from what Mr.. McMillin
said that the tariff was something you all
are forcing the poor laboring man to take
for his pay" observed Louise. timidly, land
that 1t wasn't nearly enough, SO he wants
an income added, which he is going to
take from rich men,"
You've got it. Louise" said Bobbie. with
an assuring pat. Il didn't know, you dear
little mouse. that you had it in you to COM
prehend financial subjects so thoroughly. 1t
is so necessary. 1 think, to understand
these great questions. Now, 1 am letter.
perfect up to date. / just dote on politics,
and think of nothing else when 1 can get
my mind off of my calling list. When we
were here two years ago-that was before
l was out, you know-Inamma brought me
up to the house quite often, and 1 was here
when that lovely Mr.. Bryan from Nebraska
spoke his piece, and for an encore gave the
Last Rose of Summer oh, he was simply
divine. l remember distinctly what he said
about the tariff, though l may have got the
figures a little mixed. 1 never can re-
member figures. He said that 1t was a per-
feet shame to make a young married man
take Mr.. McKinley's tariff because he had
to pay 1t right out again. And don't you
know 1t was Just awful the prices he must
pay for things. Papa says that 9 per cent
Is about 70 break him up, though l don't
think that is much. But Mr.. Bryan said
that the young married man had to pay 20
per cent for lumber to build his house, and
q per cent for the mortgage on it, and 10
per cent for the table cloth and 60 per cent
for his stove. and II per cent for his
knives and forks and a lot more on every
thing else, and that he could hardly afford
to get married anyhow, because he had to
pay so much tariff for his wedding clothes.
And just little while ago, you know Mr.
Bryan said that he and Mr.. Ward Meal
lister thought they would have to go to
England to live, because the tariff ON the
nag was more than they could pay and"
American Stars and Stripes.
I'VE don't pay duty on the bunting in
cur flags any more" interjected Elaine.
Since We have had protection for our
laborers. bunting factories have been es-
tablished here, SO that our beautiful flag is
all our own, American in every sense of
the word. and it waves over the grandest
nation on earth"
"O"' shrieked Louise, in her high falsetto.
making the chairman rattle his gayel and
shout for order in the galleries. II remem
Der Mr. Bryan toasted that sentiment in
his piece. when he said, with that perfectly
adorable smile:
'Breathes there a man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,
ms is my own, my native land?
Maybe he Will be good and add the tariff
70 the incomes that he wanted tackled on
the Wilson bill, SO that the poor laboring
men over in England who only get fftv
cents day can come over here and 90 To
Congress and have clerk to do their work
ana then We can have more men at orr
social functions: 1 should think though,
that they would rather live over there if
they don't have to pay taxes or take tho
tariff for wages"
20. Louise" sighed Elaine "All YOU need
TO be peripatetic internal revenue bill is
the gentlemen from New York. IL YOU
could only hire Representative Hall and
lecture ON what you don't know about the
tariH. business would revive at once"
For my part, I'm ashamed of Won
LOUISE knew Dorothy was about ready
to explode-'Pd hate to say it. If I did
think it, that would like to live in Eng
land for any reason. It's bad enough to
and Prince of Wales handsI axes
And it would be dreadfulIy uncornfort-
able TO go around all the time in court
trains with three feathers in ones hair
The dampness here would take all the curl
out OF ostrich feathers" was Jennie's addi
ton to the row she had precipitated. az
she turned her lorgnette reflectively on Miss
Rose Cleveland, who occupied the Presi-
dents pew"
This isn't your five minutes and T de-
cline to YIELD Dorothy said decidedly. as
Jennie began to comment on the Paris
made gown. Il wonder how on earth Won
suppose England supports Queen Victoria
and her children If they have no taxes in
England. Just listen to this" and in spita
chairman, Dorothy proceeded to read a elm
ping which she extracted from her card
case. which was entitled English Taxes -
And what was ii the gentleman from,
New York said about it's being bad taste
for debutantes to wear diamonds, because
they We're SO cheap?' asked Louise as she
borrowed Jennie's lorgnette to gaze at the
handsome bachelor from Chicago.
He never said it," asserted Elaine
20, but he did," insisted Louise; II hea I'd
him with my own ears"
Diamonds should BE Free.
well. they must have been stuffed with
Tom Johnson's free wool them or else you
have mental stigma tism What YOU are
trying to get at is that it is extremely bad
taste for debUtantes to wear gems particu-
larry diamonds. You read that in the last
number of Good Form. What you heard was
the speech of Mr.. Hendrix of New York. who
said that diamonds ought to come in free or