Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1909 — The Real Proof of the Tariff Is In the Testing. [ARTICLE]

The Real Proof of the Tariff Is In the Testing.

The Panhandle railroad at Logansport had the biggest pay day in its history at Logansport this week, more men being employed than at any previous time. * The Standard Steel Co., in Hammond, now has 1,800 men at work and within the next, month expect to employ '1,200 more, making a total of 3,000. The American Bridge Co. wUI at once start qn the erection of its new plant at Gary, employing 2,000 men. Western shippers are complaining of car shortage, an evidence that the railroads are taxed to the utmost to handle the traffic.