The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1909-07-27
Everybody Works Poor Father. "

adopted by the Senate, hit father?
This question is answered in the fol-
lowing dispatch from Washington to
the Lincoln, Neb., News:
A careful analysis of the bill in its
present stage of development shows
that the man Of the family is entitled
to a considerable crouch, granting of
course. that the increase made in the
duties of some of the necessaries of
life as well as on minor luxuries, mean
a corresponding raise in retail prices
which is usually the way a tariff
bill works. The very first thing in
the morning, supposing pa is fond OF
bologna sausage for breakfast, he may
we'll wrinkle his brow, for the tariff
on that article of food has been raised
beyond expression in figures Of per-
centage.
In the Dingley law and the Payne
bill, the succulent bologna was on the
free list; the tariff rate was no per-
centage at all. The Senate made the
rate of % per cent ad valorem.
Should pa lead off in his breakfast
bill. of fare with few juicy slices of
pineple, bologna would be the second
jolt to his nervous system. Payne
raised the Dingley rate on pineapples,
the Senate Finance Committee raised
it some and the Senate shot it up
again, the net result being l28 per
cent over the Dingley duty.
When he comes to his German fried
potatoes he will get third shock, for
the Senate aeroplaned the price of
potatoes from Is to as cents bushel-
an elevation of 80 per cent.
{ Buckwheat cakes will be a fourth
reminder of the Senate's penchant for
boosting rates. The tariff on buck
wheat was raised over Dinghy and
Payne rates rs per cent.
Unless the miiliners are phiIanthro-
pic enough to bear the tax, father will
find that he will have to pay more for
his wife's and daughters trimmings
next fall. If it is true, as has bel
alleged in the Senate, that retail
profits are higher than the present
EN- perature in Washington, maybe
the milliners will deduct the increases
made in the bill, but father hardly ex-
poets that. The duty on ostrich feath-
ers and on artificial fruits, leaves and
other exhibits from the farm, field
and forest that adorn the headgear of
the feminine, has been increased 20
per cent.
His monthly bill for the children s
clothes will also be higher. In the
matter of cotton cloth the House
adopted the Dingley rates. but the
Senate bill raised the rate on common,
cotton lbs per cent; on
the bleached 400 and on the colored or
printed goods, so per cent. The finer
grades show increases of 10 to so per
cent, and some are unchanged.
Knit goods remain about the same,
the average rate exceeding 100 per
cent. The Payne bill raised the Ding
ley duty on woman's cotton stockings
from 20 to 80 cents dozen, but the
Aldrich bill restored the Dingley rate.
Pa may find some consolation, also,
in the fact that ladies' and chiIdren's
gloves, on which Payne raised the
Dingley rates from 100 to 300 per cent
on the ground that the protection
would transfer the industry to this
country. have been returned to the old
rates in the Aldrich bill. He cannot
help wandering, however, what the
conference committee will do to this
schedule as well as to that relating to
shoes, on which the Senate placed
duty of 20 per cent ad vaIorem as COM
pared with Is per cent in the Payne
bill and rs per cent in the Dingley law.