Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1888 — Sample Republican Arguments. [ARTICLE]

Sample Republican Arguments.

[lndianapolis Sentinel.] To the Editor—Sir: Charles F. Griffin, who spoke at Greensfork, Sept. 6, made the following reference to the tariff on wool • “Take, for example, the suit I have on. It weighs five pounds, with a tariff of 10 cents per pound, making a total of 50 cents on the suit. Any man who would not be willing to pay 50 cents protection on a suit of clothes is not patriotic.” Does not Mr. Griffin know that it takes four pounds of greasy wool to make one pound of wool cloth? and if his suit weighs five pounds it would take 20 pounds of greasy wool to make the suit?— With a tariff tax of 10 cents per pound on wool it makes 82 tax.— Then there is an additional protection of 35 per cent, of the act uni cost of the cloth. Say the cloth cost SB, the “protection” would be 82.80, which, added to the tariff on wool, makes 84.80 tax on the suit. Mr. Griffin also used a great deal of argument trying to show the farmers how they wore protected 20 cents per bushel on their wheat, which caused many a smile from our well-posted farmers, who know that nothing of the kitad is possible, lake it altogether his speech was a very thin affair.

G. W. WELKER.

Centerville, Ind., Sept. 11.

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