Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1909 — THE NEXT STATE CAMPAIGN. [ARTICLE]

THE NEXT STATE CAMPAIGN.

After nearly five months of effort _Jbe special session of congress has passed a new tariff bill and adjourned. The result of its work Ib wholly unsatisfactory. Everyone knows that the Dingley law enacted in 1897 was a gross outrage on the people of the country. It carried the highest duties ever imposed up to that time. It was practically prohibitory of all importations which came inth competition with trust-controlled products and the people, being helpless, were shamelessly robbed in all directions. And now we have this new law

which raises the tariff higher even than the Dingley law.. Champ Clark, the Democratic floor leader in the house shows that when the twentyfive per cent maximum duty goes into effect next March, the average rate will be twenty-seven per cent, higher than that of the Dingley law. And what are the people going to do about it? What are they'going to do about the enormous increase in taxes, in expenditures, in the cost of living? What are they going to do about the unjust tribute that they } must pay to the trusts and special interests under this new tariff law, this latest manifestation of organized greed and legalized brigandage? The people of Indiana are as much interested as the people elsewhere in the country, more so in many respects. Are they going to allow themselves to be diverted from everything else by a repetition of the "liquor issue?” The trusts, the interests favored by special legislation, would want nothing better. A concerted attention upon one thing leaves the way open for other things to happen. And then things have happened and will keep on happening unless there is an awakening. It is many months yet before the next state campaign Srlll open, but It is not too early to begin to think about it.