Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1910 — “MARY” IN THE LAUNDRY. [ARTICLE]

“MARY” IN THE LAUNDRY.

If “Mary of the vine-clad cottage” finds it either necessary or convenient to do her own washing she should not forget that under the “protective” tariff for which Senator Beveridge stands, she pays tariff taxes as follows: Twenty per cent on her soap; 25 per cent on her ammonia; starch. IJ4 cents a pound ; bluing, 30 per cent; washboard, 35 per cent; wringer, 35 per cent; clothesbasket, 35 per cent; clothespins, 35 per cent. On the tub over which “Mary” bends and scrubs there is a tariff tax of 35 per cent. The bench or chair which it rests upon are taxed 35 per cent anti the paper pail beside them is tarifftaxed 35 per cent. The boiler in which the clothes are boiled is tariff-taxed not less than 45 per cent. If she has been able to save up and get a mangle, the metal castings for it are tarifftaxed 1 cent a pound, the wooden rollers 35 per cent; and the frame work 35 per cent. Nothing is so small and no one so poor as to be overlooked. And these laundry taxes are only a part of the general scheme of tariff extortion of vvliich “Mary” and her familyare victims.