Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1909 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Judge Dodge of the Elkhart circuit court held the county option law to be unconstitutional. If the supreme court shall hold the same way, it would appear that all these special elections have been costly experiments. There is a chance for a slip, however, between a circuit court cup and a supreme court decision.

In the tariff debate in the senate the other day, when the subject of print paper was under discussion, Senator Tillman said that many of the papers that were demanding free paper were "the very headlights of protection.” Because of their inconsistent attitude he denounced them as humbugs, and declared that they want for themselves what they deny to others. All of which, so far as that class of papers is concerned, is true. But they have learned, at least, that the foreigner does not pay the tax, as they used to assert with such glib and partisan zeal. The Dlngley rates on print paper amounted to $6 a ton, a practically prohibitive duty. The Payne bill, as it passed the house, lowered the duty to $2 a ton. In the senate it is proposed to split the difference and make the duty $4. The Democratic position is that print paper and wood pulp should be free.