Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1910 — Dishonest Substitution. [ARTICLE]

Dishonest Substitution.

A thousund evils necessarily spring from the protection fraud, but not one is more Insidious or more dangerous to the moral tone of trade than the evil of substitution. Old established firms which for years had taken a pride in seeing that everything which went out with their brand was of the highest grade suddenly find themselves confronted with an iucrease in their raw material cost which makes It impossible to produce at the former price. Soibecompetitor will manufacture in article which looks as well as theirs for less mouey which can be sold at the old price, and only the most stubbornly virtuous resist the temptation to “meet the market.’’ which is u way of sayiug deceive the consumer. Tills form of deceit has permeated our whole business life and Is responsible for much of our political decomposition—and the tariff gives it the chief impetus.