Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1910 — A Common Way of Lying About the Payne Tariff. [ARTICLE]

A Common Way of Lying About the Payne Tariff.

Fowler Republican-Leader. In an article in the Lafayette Democrat under the head “Talk with the Ladies, how the Tariff Effects them,” the following are the first two paragraphs of that article: "Washington, July 27.—Madam have you been to the dry goods store lately —the dry goods store in your own town? “Have you noticed that you must pay from 10 to 12 cents these days for the standard muslins that retailed for 8 and 9 cents not so long ago?” We do hate a liar like that. We have a copy of the Dingley tariff law. We have a copy of the Aldrich-Payne tariff law. We will gladly assist anyone in comparing the duty placed on cotton cloth by these two laws. If there has been any advance in muslin jt is not on account of the new law.