Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-10-17
Things of Interest.

I0l0RS Ol lHtCICoOs
There was no tariff on that Nwet
blanket which Hadley threw over
the Republican campaign opening.
Governor Hadley is against the
Democratic State ticket, but he
has never been able to give very
good reason why.
Taft's recent promise of Tariff
revision downward will be con-
strued in the light of a similar
promise made by him four years
ago
Under the administration of
Cornelius Roach the revenues in
the Secretary of States Office have
increased forty per cent. That's
the kiud of administration that
means something to the taxpayer.
Missouri farmers will not forget
that Attorney-G General Majors
victory for the'' ''full weight statute"
in the United States Supreme
Court, saved Missouri grain pro-
ducers S50O,OOO.OO per year.
Wooden blankets bear tariff OF
from 104.55 per cent to 165.42 per
cent. Those who think of this in
November may not be forced to
remember it in January.
The average tariff tax on cotton
shirts and collars last year was
61.A per cent. The American
consumer must do one of two
things. He will have to go to
wearing silk shirts, or-e1se take to
voting the Democratic ticket.
Under the Payne.A Aldrich tariff,
the cheaper the quality of clothing
you wear, the higher the tariff tax
you must pay. This, OF course,
upon the the theory that people
who can't afford fine clothes
shouldn't wear any at all.
"
The tariff tax paid by the con-
sumers of cotton goods in this
country in 1910 amounted to S21O,
900, 600 or an average of $3.50 for
each of the twenty two million
families in America. And Sem
ator Lippitt's trust got the money.
The Underwood cotton bill SO
reduced the cotton schedule as to
save the consumer of cotton goods
IS88, 900, 100000. But Taft vetoed
the bill, and John G. Mckinley
endorses Taft.
Of the 94,000,00O people in the
United States 1854 per cent are
benefited by the protective tariff,
while 96.36 per cent are robbed
II by it. The Republican ticket this
year should expect 1854 of the vote,
and no more.
Since 1895 wages have increased
20 per cent; but in the same
period the cost of living has in
creased go per cent. Democracy
will reverse the order of these per-
centage.
Government statistics show tina
the protective tariff extorts from
the American consumer two bill
: lion, five hundred and seventy
: million dollars per year; and the
Republican party, in nation and
State, is still pledged to the pro-
!. tective tariff. Are you?
Missouri's first Republican gov.
: ernor in forty years finds, at thu
\ close of his administration, two
!: Republican candidates for presi
dent, and frankly recognizes hi
: inability to endorse either of them
OfIthe eight billion of American
I trust capital, Moody's Magazin
| says that only two million is
Y cash Investment, while the othe
six billion represents watere,
stock, based on the privilege
\ granted by the protective tariff.
n Attorney General Major place
\ S225, 100000 in the State treasury
\ as the results Of the suits won b.
4 him, and his Office has cost til
\ people only S76,S30,33. Hadle,
4 held the same Office four years
put nothing in the treasury, an
\ took out ofthe treasury S1O3, ,252.S