Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1890 — VILAS IS FOR TARIFF REFORM. [ARTICLE]

VILAS IS FOR TARIFF REFORM.

Private advices to the effect that at a secret convention, held in Milwaukee, last week, of the Wisconsin Anti-Tariff Reform League, ex-Secretary Vilas, hitherto a revenue reformer, came out openly and squarelyforfree trade, occasions considerable surprise among the friends of Mr. Cleveland’s ex-lieutenant. Mr. Vilas has always been noted lor the conservatism at his views on tariff reform, his leanings being considerably in tjm direction of Mr. Randall, and the announcement that he intends to be hereafter a free trader, pure and simple, is taken as an indication that he is training for no unimportant part in the next national preslden tial campaign. The human skin is composed of three layers, averaging in all between onetwelfth and one-eighth of an inch in thickness, and in extreme cases at much as one-fourth of an inch in thick- , ness. The skin area of the average adult is therefore estimated at 2,0d0 square inches. The atmospheric pressure being about fourteen pounds to the square inch, a person of medium size is daily and hourly subjected to a pressure of 28,000 pounds.