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PERTINENT COMMENT

PERTINENT COMMENT RISING prices and new combinations in restraint of trade verify the warnings of the opponents of the Aldrich bill. The sham "downward" revision of the tariff is illustrated by the...

...Judging by the effect "unfriendly legislation" has had on railroads, it's a wonder they don't pray for more of it.友arm, Stock and Home...
...It is so different.猶ittsburg Index...
...No less truly does the community which contemplates improvement give birth thereby to its newer self...
...If Senator Aldrich finds there really is an "enemy's country" he can thank himself for making it.邑all Street Journal...
...The sham "downward" revision of the tariff is illustrated by the fact that since the bill was reported the value of the common stock of the Steel Trust to which the tariff privilege is a most important asset, has more than doubled...
...They should be further advised to pray to be relieved of Cannonism and Aldrichism.佑hicago Record-Herald...
...There are people nearer home who seem to need talking to on that subject.佑hicago Record-Herald...
...today it is quoted at $450,000,000...
...Philadelphia voted as enthusiastically as ever against reform...
...This fact shows how "hard the trust was hit...
...and the work of the "protection" combinations has hardly commenced...
...Bruno Beckhard in "Our Town," Twentieth Century Magazine...
...Returns from Massachusetts may cause Nelson W. Aldrich to give up his proposed trip to the Middle West for the purpose of telling the people how splendid the Payne-Aldrich tariff law is...
...Another fact worth noting is that since the "downward" revision of the tariff began, the average price of commodities has risen 8 per cent...
...President Taft's tour reminds one of the Roosevelt trips...
...Cannon says the Payne Bill is "the best thing Congress has done in fifty years...
...The rise in wages has been so slight as to be negligible.友rom circular issued by Tariff Reform Club, New York...
...if that is so, no wonder Roosevelt wanted the Secret Service to investigate Congress.幽ouston Chronicle...
...On February 1st, it was worth $210,000,000...
...Whenever a reformer shows his head in Philadelphia the old town wakes up and hits it.佑hicago Record Herald...
...President Taft in his Thanksgiving proclamation strongly urges the people to go to church on the appointed day...
...The imagination of one age makes the progress of the next...
...The man who dreams of better things takes the first step toward their realization...
...Mr...

Vol. 1 • November 1909 • No. 47


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