Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1910 — WHEN THE DEVIL IS SICK. [ARTICLE]

WHEN THE DEVIL IS SICK.

The devil is sick: The old hegoat devil of High Tariff, we mean, who, attend’d by the Painted Harlot of Protection and her retinue of courtesans, big and little, has had a long and riotous debauch at the expense of the plundered millions that dig and delve and sweat and labor, and eat food, and wear clothes and pay taxes. The devil is sick. He is very sick, and, Lord, what a saint he promises to l>e if the voters will only just give him another chance. Only yesterday, still under the spell of a glorious revelry, he was pointing with pride to the Payne-Aldrich plan to raise the wind for the Painted Harlot By frying more fat out of the consumers. “Behold!” says he, “this ' intricate but matchless work of art! Was anything ever s& scientific, so symmetrical, so fantastically phantasmagoric and unique? Get down on your marnow bones and worship, ye of little faith, at the shrine of St. Nelson, of Pawtucket, and at tfie feet of your Uncle Joseph Gamaliel Cannon ! v ,v-_ ,_iLWhat a change has come over the, spirit of his dreams now that,

a trifle sobered, he has awakened to things real? / Through ’ his able attorney, William' Howard Taft', late of the Cincinnati Bar, he ( is going to amend his original ‘ pleading, "Whilst he is stub convinced,” the Associated Press tells us, "that the Payne-Aldrich law is the best tariff law the country has had up to this time, he has at last reached' the conclusion that there is decided room for improvement.” Is it possible.' Can such things be and over-, come us, like a summer cloud, or a blast of hot air?. Nay. hold your nose and your breath and listen: "He does not propose,” we are still quoting the Associated Press, “that business shall be upset by another wholesale revision,” bless you no, the business of the county can only be disturbed by Democrats, "but he will recommend to Congress that individual schedules in the tariff system be taken up separately and disposed of on a scientific basis. The new revision is to be based on the findings of the tariff commission as to the cost of production at home and abroad. Only a fair profit is to be allowed the American producer. ‘Extortionate and unreasonable profits,’ Attorney Taft declares, are to be tolerated no longer.” The best plans o’ mice and men! Fool who? The voters are neither blind nor deaf. 1 hey know a thing, or two. Ihe next House will be a Democratic, not a Republican House. 1 hen what will Attorney Taft do, and where will the Devil of High Tariff be, even with the Painted Harlot of Protection and her frazzled retinue of courtesans, both big and little, behind him?—Louisville Courier-Journal.