The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1912-07-19
What Good Will Tar.
iff Reductions Do
You?

II you Take of the Tarin or chop it In two,
Make sure in advance what there's in II for you
| VIII rents then be lower or laundry bills
| down!
Or will dressmAkers charge less for making a
| gowns
Will your collar and cuffs. or your coffee or tea,
| Or your soap and sapolio a cent cheaper Der
TIE cobbler, and tailor. and baker will say
That they won't do your work for penny less
pay.
How much less on your note will the bank
interest bef
| And will lawyers reduce the amount of their
feey
your Ills?
| And, when dead. how much less will be funeral
billsr
II. the railroads to help, we make rails duty
free.
Do you think any cheaper your carfares will
be?
Will cocktails or cigarettes be any lower?
Or billiards, or pool, cost you less by the hour
Whether pew rents or pork, tools or trousers,
or tar,
The prices will stay just as high as they are.
The Tarin Board showsNwhen good suit you
get,
That the wooden mans profit is thirty cents
net.
When woolens come free, and mills close
through the land.
How much OF this thirty will be In your hand?
Do you wish to see armies of tollers unfed-
Their work taken from them-aud begging
their breadf
Destroying Is easy and wrecking the same,
But whom ruin follows, on whom lies the
blamei
II is not the Tariff that keeps your coal high,
Or your lumber, or gas, or the ice that you buy
For trusts aud combines and the middlemen's
fraud.
Seek redress right ct home here. and not
from abroad.
II the trusts should control all OF the food that
we eat
is the Tariff to blame for the price OF your
meatf
By the retailers tactics and greed you are hit,
And removing the Tariff won't hurt them q bit.
For goods may coma In from the West or the
East,
Ana their prices will not be reduced in the
least.
In the "busting" Of trusts we have met with
success,
But are oil and tobacco now selling for less,
While the cold.storage men remain in the
game,
Eggs, buttsr and chickens will cost you the
same.
Then, SO soon as the custom house revenues
melt,
blow ut your income will surely be dealt.
For the nations expenses have got to be met,
And each one must shoulder his share of the
debt.
So, on Tariffs you'll wish you had not turned
your backs,
When you're brought face to face with smart
When employers their clerks and their sales.
men engage,
With the Tariff reduced will they pay higher
wage?
VIII porters, or drivers. or motormen gray,
Or workers on farms, get raise In their pay 2
VIII the farmer get more for his cotton or hay,
For his horses or cows, with the Tariff away ?
For his wheat or his corn, or his sheep or his
shoats;
For his rice or potatoes; his wool or oats!
And the hope of cheap imports won't count at
the end,
When you find to your sorrow you've got less
to spend.
Shall we knock down the Tarir and Protection
let slide,
And keep open house and shove prudence
aside:
1t has built up our nation. but just for u lark,
Some excitement we'll get by leap in the
dark.
Oh! be true to your cosntry, and rise In your
might;
Speak and work 'gainst injustice, and stand
for the right.
Tell those whom your votes to the Congress
have sent
That destruction like this will not have your
consent
JAMES CHITTICK.