Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-29
TARIFF TlNkERlNo.

The country is in no mood TO stand
lengthy period Of tariff .tinkeIing.
There is a well grounded opinion that
the plan OF the president to have a
permanent board of revision. which
will take the matter out of politics
and make it possible for mistakes and
receptions to be corrected at any time,
is the thing the country needs be-
cause business needs it.
If the democrats are determined to
make changes in the tariff with the
aid of the insurgents. they should get
to business at once and be speedy
about. it. The longer capital is kept
in uncertainty, the longer business will
be dull.
The captains in the business world
desire to see the conditions made sta
BILE and are anxious to make the
wheels of industry hum
The commercial world has no more
patience with politics than it has with
war, and the minimum amount is to
it sufficient. 1t wishes to see manu-
facture and trade make new start.
Citizens in compulsory idleness are
looking for work on the tariff, not
political play. They are anxious to
see the way clear for maintenance
since the tariff agitation has been in
order.
1t would be a sad mistake to carry
this tariff tinkering into another year,
and to make a business paraly zing
bone of contention for 1912.
1t should be borne in mind by these
enemies of the present economic poll
icies of the government that an i'm
pairment of the law which will make
it impossible for the government to
meet its running expenses and create
a big deficit will bring to them the
reproof which they will richly deserve.
THE SECONDHAND AUTOMOBILE
1t seems as safe for the average
man to take a chance in the game of
poker as to take chance in buying a
second hand touring car. This is a field
where old junk made glorious with
paint and varnish may catch a buyers
eye and bring him to grief if not to
sorrow. In such field of pretences
as this, no one but an expert is safe;
and whoever chances it may soon say
for a truth: "A fool and his money
are soon parted"
But it appears to be- an inviting field
for a careful man who recognizes he
must move with precaution, and buy
with care. A cautious man who had
investigated the market writes:
by taking a reliable and honest
machinist along and carefully looking
for cracked cylinders. worn gears, etc,
he secured a 1907 model fully equipped
and in good condition. car that cost
$4,000 and which is sold today at
about s3,250 He paid $3.50 for it, had
it repainted and bought one new cas-
ing, and has found it to stand COM
parison and test in every respect with
many of the new cars of his friends
and far better than any $3.50 car he
has seen.
There are many persons who use
a car as it should be used and have
no need for the repair man. Just as
in the old horse days. or in the old
bicycle days, the year of the horse or
of the bicycle was far from conclusive
on the question of value. The condi-
ton and previous use of cars were
much more important
1.-The writer has had no need or a
repair man this year and sees no need
of one for long time to come. He is
a lawyer and understands the tactics
of some dealers and some repair men,
but upon the old theory of the law
'caveat emptor he knew that if he
was cheated it was his own fault
There are bargains in second-h
machines if a man has the requisite
knowledge TO select one.