Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-08-13
He ALDRIlyHsT Il i AF1IFF.

THE ALDRICH TARIFF
Duluth Herald 1T Is my judge.
ment that a revision Of the tariff, IN
accordance with the pledge Of the re-
publican platform, will be on the
whole A Substantial Revision DOWN.
WARD, though there will probably
be a few exceptions IN this. regard. =
! President Taft before election.
Unless we act in accordance with
our promises. or it we only keep the
word of promise to the ear and break
it to the hope. we shall be made &C
countable to the American people and
suffer such consequences as failure to
keep faith has always been visited
with. 1t would be better to have no
revision at all, unless we are gong
honestly and fairly to revise the tariff
on the basis promised by our party. -
President Taft after election.
''Ihls is not a perfect tariff bill, or
a complete compliance with the
promises made. strictly interpreted,
but fultillment free from criticism
in respect to subject matter lnvolv-
ing thousands Of articles could not be
expected. ''-Presldent Taft after 81 en-
ing the bill.
The farce is over. The Aldrich- Taft
tariff bill Is law, replacing the
Dlngley schedules. Congress has ad.
journed, and the president, having
signed the atroclous lnfamy which a
conspiracy OF greed mas evolved, has
gone to his summer home.
In his capacity of apologlst for this
betrayal OF the people, this reputation
OF party promises, the president plays
an ungrateful role ungracefully. This
is not "a substantial revision down
ward 80 1t is revision upward, and
when in March, 1910, Is per cent
advolorem is added to all these
schedules, it Will be the most pro-
digious, coniscatory and prohibltive
tariff ever perpetrated. In this bill
Mr.. Taft's party has done just what
he said would bring it such con.
sequences as failure to keep faith has
always been visited .with''-it has
kept the word OF promise to the ear
and broken it to the hope.''
The president is dlsingenuous when
he says that except as to liquors, silks
and ''some high classes of cottons, all
of which may be treated as luxur1es, {"
there have been very few increases
in rates. What grades OF cotton are
Injuries? The answer Is. all OF them
since this tariff bill became. law. On
PLAIN bleached cotton cloth, universally
used for women g and children S cloth
ing, costing $50 cents per square
yard, the duty has been raised from
8. 80 cents to rs cents, an advance of
% 80 per cent; when this cloth gets
above IL cents. as it will, the increase
will be 121 IL per cent. All kinds Of
clothing made Of unbleached, bleached
or printed cotton cloths will be adj
vanced in price because of tariff
increases; and the whole population
uses these things, none OF which are
luxurles.
The sentiment regarding this bill IS
universally and justly one of censure
and execration. Not single bloated
interest IS discontinued with It's pro-
visions. !; not single humble consumer
is relieved in the slightest degree.
The conpirators are banking on
burst OF prosperity to quiet the pro.
tests against this infamous thing. Let
them bring on their prosperity; we
shall need it to pay the enormous cost
of living that this tariff revision"
will bring about!