Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 151, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1910 — Does This Look Like “Revision Upward!" [ARTICLE]

Does This Look Like “Revision Upward!"

Here are a few of the reductions in the new tariff law as compared with the old law. Note the effect on the prices now paid for these articles as compared with the prices under the old law. On some articles the price is higher, and in very few cases, if any, has the price been reduced. Here is a practical test by which every voter may judge for himself whether it is fair or not to charge the present “high cost of living” to the new tariff law. Beef—tariff reduced 25 per cent. Veal—tariff reduced 25 per cent. Pork—tariff reduced 25 per cent. Bacon and ham—tariff reduced 20 per cent. Lard—tariff reduced 25 per cent. Cabbage—tariff reduced 33% per cent. Salt—tariff reduced 10 per cent. Corn meal—tariff reduced ,5 per cent. Flour—tariff not changed. Potatoes—tariff not changed. * Beans—tariff not changed. Eggs—tariff not changed. Butter and milk—tariff unchanged on all dairy products. Coal, no duty on anthracite coal—tariff reduced 33 per cent on bituminous or soft coal. •*) Wood and manufactures of wood—tariff greatly reduced. Hides—placed on free list. Boots and shoes—tariff reduced 60 per cent. Harness and saddles—tariff reduced 65 per cent. Agricultural implements—tariff reduced 25 per cent. . Varnishes—tariff reduced 20 to 48 per cent. Window glass (common) —tariff reduced 4 to 20 per cent. Bar iron—tariff reduced 25 to 50 per cent. Boiler or other plate iron or steel—tariff reduced 16 2-3 to 40 per cent. Boilers and parts thereof—tariff reduced 25 per cent. Steel rails—tariff reduced 50 per

cent. Structural steel, not assembled or lubricated —tariff reduced 20 to 40 per cent. Iron ore—tariff reduced 60 percent. Pig iron—tariff reduced 37% per cent. Tin plates—tariff reduced 20 per cent. Beams and building girders—tariff reduced 37 per cent. Barbed wire for fences—tariff reduced 37 per cent. Knives and forks (commonly used) —tariff reduced 13 to 26 per cent. Sewing machines—tariff reduced 33 1-3 per cent. Typewriters—tariff reduced 33 1-3 per cent. Glazed brick—tariff reduced 22 per cent. Oil cloth and linoleum—tariff jeduced 9 to 38 per cent. Cotton thread—tariff reduced 16 to 20 per cent. Laths —tariff reduced 20 per cent. ■ Clapboards—tariff reduced 16 2-3 per cent. Hammers, sledges, etc —tariff reduced 8 per cent. Nalls, spikes and tacks—tariff reduced 20 to 50 per cent. Saws—tariff reduced 16 to 25 per cent. Silks (commonly used) —tariff reduced 10 per cent. Gloves (commonly used) —tariff re-' duced 16 2-3 per cent. Cream of. Tarter and salaratus—tariff reduced 16 2-3 per cent. Hooks and eyeß —tariff reduced 47 per cent. Starch, other than made of potatoes -"-tariff reduced 33 1-3 per cent. -

Sodas—tariff reduced 12 to 33 per cent. Crinoline haircloth—tariff reduced 20 per cent. * Gunpowder—tariff reduced 33 1-3 to 50 per cent. Ethers—tariff reduced 20 to 80 per cent. Dress steels—tariff reduced 17 to 28' per cent. Manufactures of leather—tariff reduced 13 to 75 per cent. Cotton goods—tariff not changed, except in certain finer grades which are luxuries. Raw cotton has always been on the free list. Woolens—tariff unchanged, except in unimportant details. Stockingß (common) —tariff not changed. Tobacco and manufactures of—tariff not changed. Petroleum, oil and products—placed on free list.