Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1912 — Another High Tariff Prop Fails. [ARTICLE]

Another High Tariff Prop Fails.

It is said that the report of the tariff board on cotton will show that wages paid in the industry in this country are about on a par with those in England, while the cost of living is in favor of the English operatives, and that under present conditions there could be a reduction of BO per cent, in the cotton schedule without danger of disastrous foreign competition. An early movement for downward revision of the cotton schedule will be the logical result of the submission of the report