Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1909 — HEMENWAYSEESPROSPERITY [ARTICLE]

HEMENWAYSEESPROSPERITY

Former Senator Say« Business Rush Answers Anti-Tariff Talk. Washington. Sept. 21.—Arguments made against the Payne tariff bill, in the opinion of former Senator James A. Hemenw ay of Indiana, are being answered by the developments in the business world since the new tariff law has gone into effect. Hemenway stopped in Washington on his return to Indiana from a trip through the east, In which he visited New York. Boston, Philadelphia and other business centers. He was bubbling over with prosperity predictions. “That there would be great increases in the prices of the necessaries of life as a result of the Payne bill,” said Senator Hemenway, “is already disproved by developments in the business world.”