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NOVEMBER 2, 1901
THE TARIFF ON HIDES
IPormor Governor Douglas of Mass
achusetts has been calling attention
in a lato speech to the $30,000,000
added cost to tho boot and shoe bill
of the American pooplo through tho
tariff duty on hides and sole leather.
Tho tariff tax on hides is 15 per cent
and 20 per cent on solo leather. The
beof packers control tho market for
hides and havo Increasod tho price
80 per cent, and yet tho price of cat
tlo has declined. This conclusively
shows that the farmers and stock
raisers do not benefit by tho duty, but
that tho beef trust does. Governor
Douglas declares, as one of tho largest
boot and shoo manufacturers in tho
United States, that he will bo quite
willing to part with tho tariff duty
of 20 per cent on manufactured boots
and shoes in order to obtain free
hides and free sole leather. He also
declares that with these tariff duties
removed ho and his brother manufac
turers can hold this market and can
invade foreign markets on an exten
sive scale and that the exports of
boots and shoes would be increased
to $100,000,000, which are now but
$8,000,000.
Every person has noticed that his
boot and shoe bill has been gradually
Increasing since 1897, when after 25
years of free hides tho present tariff
duty was Imposed. There are about
18,000,000 families in tho United States
To Get More Strength '
from Your Food,
WHEN tho Bowels aro filled
with' undigested food wo
may be a great deal worso
off than if we were half
starved.
Because food that stay3 too long In
fhe Bowels decays there, Just as if It
stayed too long in the open air.
Well, when food decays In the Bowels,
through delayed and overdue action, what
happens1?
The millions of little Suction Pumps
hat line the Bowels and Intestines then draw
Poison from the decayed Food, instead of
Che Nourishment they were intended to
draw.
This' Poison gets Into the blood and, in
time, spreads all over tho body, unless the
Cause of Constipation Is promptly removed.
That cause of Constipation la Weak, or
lazy Bowel Muscles.
When your Bowel-Muscles grow flabby
tfiey need Exercise to strengthen them, not
PhysIc" to pamper them.
There3 only one kind of Artificial Ex
orcise for the Bowel-Muscle3.
Its name 13 'lCASCARETS,'? and Its
price Is Ten Cents a box.
So, if you want the same natural action
Chat a six mile walk in the country would
give you, (without the weariness) take one
Cascaret at a time, with intervals between,
till you reach the exact condition you desire.
One Cascaret at a time will properly
cleanse a foul Breath, or Coated Tongue.
Don't fail to carry the Vest Pocket
Cascaret Box with you constantly.
All Druggists sell them over ten million
boxes a year.
Be very careful to get the genuine,
made only by the Sterling Remedy Com
pany and never sold In bulk. Every tablet
fcaraped "CCC." 741
so that this tariff tax alono on hides
and solo leather costs each family,
averaging five persons, two dollars a
year and a great deal more, if tho
family is larger. Tho tax Is especially
hard on tho workingmen and farmers
who wear out lots of shoes and gen
erally havo a largo family. Regarding
any loss to farmers, and stock grow
ers by reason of tho abolition of tho
duty on hides, Governor Douglas says:
"In this country cattlo aro raised
and slaughtered principally for beef.
HJdos are an incidental product of
the butchering business. It is absurd
to suppose that putting a tariff on ono
of tho by-products of tho beef Indus
try will materially change tho prices
paid for cattle. Cattle aro slaughtered
for boef and their prices aro fixed,
not according to tho price of hido,
but almost exclusively by their value
for beef purposes." Tho Columbus
(Ohio) Post
GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS
At the beginning of tho last cen-
Jtury tho printing orders by congross
in tne conduct of legislative business
was practically all that was required
by tho government Congressional
printing, moreover, was limited to
bills, reports, claims and journals,.
No exact comparison, therefore, is pos
sible between that period and our own,
since modern conditions bear no re
semblance to those of a century ago.
A computation, however, for different
years through the century, of aggre
gate pages issued, at least roughly
illustrates the rapid expansion of offi
cial requirement Tho total number
of printed pages of all classes pub
lished by the federal government in
1800 was 4,582; in 1820, 6,518; in 1840,
19,331; in 1860, 42,007; in 1880,72,171.
After 1880 the use of printed matter
of all classes increased at a prodigious
rate, and, according to tho report of
tho public printer, the total number
of pages of all classes of printing In
1900 amounted to 312,634. April Atlantic.
SIMPLIFIED
It is said of a noted Virginia judge
that in a pinch he always came out
ahead. An Incident of his childhood
might go to prove this.
"Well, Benny," said his father when
the lad had been going to school
about a month. "What did you learn
, today?"
"About the mouse, father.
"Spell mouse."
After a littlo pause Benny an
swered: "Father, I don't believe it was a
mouse, after all; it was a rat"
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
HOW TO KEEP A GOOD JOB
Have you a good Job? Dcn't forget
that a lot of hungry-eyed Individuals
are standing around waiting more or
less patiently to drop Into it whenever
you get a bettor one or when you get
"fired." The way to keep a good Job
Is to bo better than the present Job;
the way to get on the toboggan Is to
get It into your head that you are In
dispensable to the office and to begin
acting independent and "bossy."
Lawrence (Kansas) World.
THEIR USE
"Papa, what is an 'observation
car? "
"An observation car, son, is a car
with a large open rear platform with
easy chairs for the accommodation of
the passengers."
"The passengers who wish to ob
serve the scenery?"
"No; the passengers who wish to
observe the antics of the people who;
Imisa the train." Houston Post
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