Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1910 — A MAX’S VOTE AND HIS CLOTHES. [ARTICLE]

A MAX’S VOTE AND HIS CLOTHES.

The average American man takes pride in being reasonably well dressed and he likes to be comfortable, when he can afford to be. He is, however, just now waking up to the fact that his vote has a great deal to do with his being either well-dressed of comfortable. A newspaper that has studied the question says on this o poiht:" When you go to the clothier. Mr. Voter, and pay S3O for a suit of clothes you could have bought a few years ago for sl2 or sls, or when you buy a cheaper "all woof” suit only to find, the first time you get it wet that it is a cheap cotton and shoddy imitation, kindly remember that it isn’t "protected American labor’’ that is getting the money that is filched from your pockets^—but that it is the high tariff fetish, and ihe millionaire beneficiaries of the high tariff that you are paying tribute to.’’ In considering the question of the high cost of living and how you shall vote to bring about a remedy, the following “protective" tariff taxes should not be lost sight of: Cotton cloth, per provided no such cloth shall pay less than 50 per cent; stockings. SI per dozen. 70 cents per dozen; stockings. SI to $1.50 per dozen.

85 cents per dozen: blankets, 33 cents per pound and 40 per cent; flannel, 7 to 8 cents per square yard and from 50 and 55 per cent: readymade clothing, wool. 44' cents per pound and 60 per cent; shawls, wool, 44 cents per pound and'6o per cent: knit goods, wool 44 cents per pound and 60 per cent: refined sugar, per pound, 1.91 cents.