The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-07-28
GAME OF BLUFF
President Taft and the Repub!l-
can Leaders
F0OllNG The PEOPLE

Meanwhile the Pabnc Protests, and
the President to Appease Il Tries
to Check the Ciamor for Time,
But the Cost Of Living VIII Go
Up When the Tariff Bill Passes.
Zack NcGhee. in his Washington
letter 70 The State about sizes up
the game OF bluff now being played
by President Taft and the Republican
leaders IN their attempt to foot the
people. Zack says Washington
seems al! expectant AID excited about
Mr.. Tatt's Aja1iHs. aad from mouth
to mouth. and from Washington pa
per to Washington paper. 1t Is com
nunicated eha: the tariff Is to be re-
yised downward in spite OF appear
snces. and that the people are 70
come into their own
AK GUS o. SoS~'C 80
morning and again this afternoon IL
the afternoon papers And .ir. Alc-
rich Is iuse going to be compelled 70
come under, they say. The press as
sociatsons have been given to under
stand that Nr. Taft will just not put
Up with any soolishness about this
thing, that be is committed to re-
vision downwood and revision
downward there must be. But Sen
ato, = remarked the other day
that the way for you to tell whether
the promise has been Kept Is when
YOU 20 to q store and ind out II the
price OF your sugar. your cotton
cloths. your gloves. your stockings.
and the various other articles you
buy are any cheaper than they were
last year.
Last year. and ever since the Din
sley tariff law been been IN force the
articles you have been buying was
exceedingly high. The people pro-
tested asains. the high prices caused
By the Dingley tariff for many years.
/ 81 last the Republicans coulc
withstand no longer the c!anoc and
promises to revise the tariff and re-
S.ce the exhorbitant rates OF bounty
the people have been paying TO the
estortionate protected interests. II
they had kept their promise. or Il
vet they keep It. II Mr. Taft COM
pels them by this Ata1ing OF his to
keep this promise made TO the peo-
pie IN the last campaign. why then
the prices will be cheaper than they
we're last year.
Members Of congress are getting
by every mail prepared statements
from merchants and merchants as
sociatioas. showing how rates aavS
been raised. and how. Il the rates IS
HSe6 in both the house and the sen
ate bills. which bills are now being
harmonized IN Conference. are en-
scsed into law the people will have
TO pay higher prices for their arti-
cles Of clothing. especially cotton and
vollea cloths NJ. Tacs himself has
been e;rcuIariZed and in various ways
has been made to feel the weight OF
this showing up.
Every dry goods merchant in this
country almost Is already an active
agent for the Democratic party The
importers in New York and elsewhere
along the shore have been circuiaris-
ing retailers all over the country. the
merchants associations and the var
ious representatives o. those concerns
which have all 70 lose and nothing TO
gain by the raising OF duties Lave
been sending out letters and circu-
lars to the men and concerns which
they deal with in the small towns
and the merchants Of the whole coun-
try are studying the tariff as they
haze rot studied it before.
was IN little town IN tie South
the ocaere day and to my great sur
prise I found small dry goods mer-
chan. VINO had never before beea
known to take any interest N na-
tsonal politics talking tariff. He took
rae behind his counter and showed
ne gloves tha: he sold sors2.2s. but
which, II the proposed Payne rates
on gloves go into eject, he would
be compelled 20 sell for IS. he
showed me ladies' hose. which he
was low selling for 25 cents pair.
the Kind the greater number OF NO
men buy. and he had figured out that
81 the proposed Payne duties on
stockings go into effect he would
have 70 sell these stockings for 35 or
30 cents. And be took me all about
MS store and showed me cotton and
WOODEN goods Of various kinds which
would have to be raised in p:ice.
No it does not make any di1ererce
whether q man Is q Republican or
Democrat, If he IS a dry goods mer-
chant he IS going to raise the price
OF his goods SO sure as this bill soes
through. as 1t seems now destined
70 DO. NJ Tat has been told this.
and he h&s been made to realize 4.
That's the reason he is AjaIins -
maryeloss.y. He hears a rumbliag
Of the political earth in America and
he must Sestir himself.
Seeing how unpopular Just a. this
time Mr.. Aldrich and Mr. Cannon
are. xho. by the way, are 40 worse
and no better than their party. the
president does not want to apes: to
be doing what these two unpopular
party leaders want him TO do More
than that. he wants to have the peo-
pie believe that he it Is who IS going
to drive the two arch enemies Of the
people into doing his bidding. and
he is going 70 bic that the tariff come
down
In other words. the president Is
making a desperate effort today to |
put 3 check to the tremendous and !
tremendous; noisy public clam