The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-10-28
some LIES
ABOUT The TARIFF
Many Shallow Falsehoods Ex-
plotted by Enemies Of
Protection.

1t is a short. ugly word, but dt fills
the bill
Some one has lied.
Some one has been trying to make
us believe that the people are suf-
fering from Republican misrule.
1t is a lie! Look about you.
Some one has been trying to make
us believe that there as a great deal
of idleness in the United States, that
the unemployed are many, and that
want is widespread.
1t is a lie! Try to hire someone.
Some one has been saying tha:
wages have not increased as have
prices of the necessaries of life.
1t is lie! Denison pays s2.25 ped
day for street work.
Some one has been telling us that
you can reduce the price of foodstuffs
without reducing the price OF farm
products.
1t is silly lie,
Some one has been urging that the
Payne Tariff law was not a Revision
downward the prices We're increased
on account of it; and that it did
not redeem the promise of the Re-
publican party.
IL is lie.
The payne law reduced the Tariff
on 654 articles and increased the Tar
if on 220 articles. The Paine Tariff
law decreased the tariff on goods the
consumption value of which was $i,-
1,S7S,575 and increased the Tariff on
goods the consumption value OF which
was $S7S,756,074. A balance of over
81, 600, 900 900, on the decrease side of
the ledger
Some one has been telling that the
Tariff is causing high prices.
1t Is a lie!
Boots and shoes are higher than
ever before. But hides are on the
free list and the Tariff on boots and
shoes has been reduced 60 per Cent.
Harness is still high, but the Tariff
was reduced So per cent. The Tariff
on agricultural implements was re-
duced % per cent, on all iron and
steel products the reduction was from
16 per cent to so per cent. On bar
bed wire the Tariff was reduced 81
per cent. Petroleum and its products
were placed on the free Est.
Some one has said it was a rich
mans Tariff
OF the $S7S,756,O74 worth of goods
on which the Tariffs wede increased
$637 ,903,549 come under the head OF
Injuries articles of voluntary use while
s240, S52,525 come under the head OF
necessaries. In Other words, the usel
of Injuries pays three-fourth of the
Tariff increases and the user Of neces
saries one-fourth. On the other hant
the nearly five billions of dollars
on which were decreases We're prac.
! tically all on necessaries.
Some one is trying to make us be-
lisve that the farmer Is the chief suf-
ferer from the Republican system oil
protection as carried out in the Ding.
ley and the Payne Tariffs.
II is a lie! .
During the past ten years the value
of farms and of farm products has In
creased A per cent, or rofm twenty
thousand millions of dollars TO twent,
nine thousand millions of dollars
Some one has accused the Republican
leaders of being out of harmony with
the people, as being tools of cor.
porate interests.
. 1t is a lie!
Some one has pointed to the part,
of the future and has intimated tina
the usefulness of the Republican par
ty was at an end.
| 1t is lie
Traitors may betray Democracy ma
triumph for time, the lesson o
1892 may have to be Repeated, blu
Republicanism will survive and vii
again be victorious, and will be tn
good, old Republicanism. the Repubh
canlsm that stands for protection an
prosperity. the upbuilding party, tn
party of Mckinley. of Roosevelt, an
of Taft.-Denison IA. Review.