The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-09-16
Meetings Held Nearly Every Hour
from Early Morn to Late
at Night
NEW FEATURES SHOWN DAILY
Mrs. J. Borden Hartman Will Ad.
dress Meetings Held on
Ladies' Day


New York, Sept. 14.--New York
has found new center of interest
in the tariff exhibit which was
formally dedicated by Governor VIII
son.
Meetings are held practically
every hour from early morning un-
til ten o'clock at night and there
are thousands of people who are in
specting the educational exhibits
and paying extra close attention to
the corps of speakers.
The public is shown how much
cheaper household goods would be if
protection were cut off, and the
trusts are shown as the chief bene-
ficiaries of the present tariff system.
In the window of the exhibit are
Installed six fat porkers, all alive.
Each of these pigs is labeled with
one of the following appellations:
Sugar Trust, Woolen Trust, Match
Trust, Steel Trust, Harvester Trust
and Thread Trust.
New features are to be intro.
duced into the exhibition every day
Every Friday will be ladies' day
and next Friday at noon Mrs.
Borden Hartman win be the speak
er. 1t is only fair that the Demo
Gratis should give a day a week to
women, because it was woman who
conceived the idea OF the exhibit.
The credit is due to the wife Of
Congressman James l.. Slayden, Of
San Antonio, Tex. Last spring Mrss
Slayden had occasion to buy sew
ing machine of American make in
San Antonio. Some time later while
travelling in Mexico she found that
she could buy the same machine
there for 90 per cent less. Then
she discussed the matter with her
husband and learned that the Trusts
exported their goods to foreign coun-
tries, where there was competition
for less money than they demanded
for them here at home.
why don't you get up an ex,
hibit and show that" said Mrs
Slayden. you'll have half the
housewives in America preaching
Democracy from the housetops."
So the idea of the exhibit was
gradually evolved. 1t has many at
fractions. Under a tent there is ?
Tariff Misfortune Teller" who viii
explain the Tariff Misfortunes, tr
any one who wants to hear them
You can find out there just what yo,
would have to pay for any article II
there were no protective tariff.
There is a group of three wax fig.
ures against one wall One of them
represents the capitalist, "this man
gets it," another the working man
"this man pays it," and the third
Colonel Roosevelt, blowing hot ali
through tube. A placard make,
him say What In blazes ails that
pay enyelope---fm blowing as hare
as ever"
A group of small balloons repre-
sents the fragrant fragments of thu
Tobacco Trust" This is also a sym,
bolic group. In another place a liv,
horse will work at treadmill. II.
Is just out of reach of the fodde'
which he continually strives to get
Doesn't have horse sense" reads
the pl4card. Neither do you IL yo,
Keep yourself on the protection
treadmill any longer"
Another placard informs the pub
lie that the Democratic party takes
good care of this horse
There are cartoons on the wall,
by all the famous New York car
toonists. They are the original draw
ings of the cartoons which have an
peared in various newspapers lately
There are quotations from Roosevelt
and refutations by Woodrow Wilson
and all sorts of tables, statement,
and even epigrams, such as the fol
lowing:
"The tariff is not stimulus, bur
sterilizer."
THE threat to reduce wages Il
the tariff is lowered is the HALLMARK
OF ignorant management.
One of the crowning features O
the exhibit Is a home tn which sew
eral rooms are represented. In eacl
room the articles are labeled Will
the prices paid for them by the Elk
hibit commission and the amoun'
they would cost II there were M
tariff. For instance. the placard OF
the dining room chairs reads as fol