Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1910 — Good Times and Tariff. [ARTICLE]

Good Times and Tariff.

Peru Journal. “Why ail this furor about the tariff anyway? Is the country in the midst of a great depression that tariff is suspected of having brought about? Is there a panic on? A hundred times “no.” The fact is if we are to judge new law by the times which have ensued since its passage we must enthusiastically accord it the honor of being the best tariff we ever had. It is true that the prices of living, the prices of things we have to eat, are not made by the tariff in any sense, unless it has so stimulated manufacturing that the city mouths the farmer has to feed have been fairly doubled. Food products were reduced in the last tariff enactment. Even the more scholarly of the tariff reformers do not pretend that the present times condemn the tariff, Their strong argument is that it is ‘.‘morally wrong” to shut out the foreinger from our market. They contended that he should be allowed an equal if not a better chance with his pauper made goods than the sovereign American with his. The tariff man, on the other hapd, claims that it is “morally wrong” for the American government to allow the cheap labor of Germany. France and China and Japan to prey on the American people.”

In the hold-up of a mail train on the Southern Pacific near Benicia, Cal., Saturday night, in which 94 packages of registered mail were taken by the bandits, the name of the postal clerk in charge of the mail car is given as Herbert B. Black. The fact that our Herbert Black, brother of Oliver C., is in the postal service has led to the belief here that he may be the one concerned. Under threats of dynamiting the car he and his assistant were compelled to hand out ’ the registered pouches, though Black at first tried to satisfy the robbers with newspaper sacks.—Monticello Herald. The famous “four-cornered” race track at Terre Haute, on which so many -world records for the harness horses were made, is to be destroyed, and, as If by the irony of fate, an automobile man is at the head of a syndicate which will plat the laud in town lots. Mabel Thralls, of Shelbyville, has been granted a divorce from Stewart Thralls after five weeks of married life. The evidence showed that her husband deserted her last September. In five weeks the only purchase that he made for her was two pairs of cheap hose, Theodore Roosevelt will delivef several speeches in Indiana for Senator BdVeridge in September, according to a fYasliington dispatch in the Louisville Courier-Journal yesterday. The first will be in Indianapolis following Roosevelt’s appearance before the conservation congress in Kansas City.