Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1912 — The Medes and Persians. [ARTICLE]

The Medes and Persians.

You will remember from your old school day histories laws of the Medes and the Persians were unchangeable.” They were, in fact, just what the standpatters would have you believe the constitution is and the “imperishable insteyetutions of the Fathers” are. * i Which, so far as the Medes and

Persians are concerned, accounts sufficiently for the fact that you have to look in the encyclopedia to learn where the Medes Jived, apd for the fact that for 2,300 years Persia has not figured iin the books except as some other country has kicked it. I 1 Undoubtedly the report of the tariff board shows the need of immediate downward revisibn of the actual tariff on wools and woolens. It points to the worst abuses which should first |be cut out. In this it is useful. But 1 we should not be at all surprised, as the study of the report slowly filters down to the minds of the voters, if its final utility will be in tending to convince the nation that the Whole scheme of the tariff is impracticable, fanciful, unbusinesslike, and a nuisance to the permanent interests of I the country.—New York Times.