The provisions of the new tariff bilí t...

The provisions of the new tariff bilí to be submitted to congress, when it meets next Monday, have been made public. It largely reduces the tax upon all raw materials which enter into manufacturing and thus will give a e;reat stimulus to manufacturing industries throughout the country. It adds coal and salt, and lumber and iron and copper ores, and wool, to the free list. Already the great Julius Caesar Burroughs has announced, through an interviewer, that this free list will rum the people of Michigan ! Who constitute the two millions and more people of Michigan? Do the three score or more owners of the Calumet & Hecla copper mines, residing ia Boston, constitute the people of Michigan? Do the three score or more lurnber barons and millionaires residing in Detroit and New York constitute the people of Michigan? Do the wealthy mine owners of Cleveland and Chicago and Detroit constitute the people of Michigan? Let us bring the matter home to the people of Washtenaw county. How are the farmers and other people of Washtenaw county to be injured by haviDg lumber on the free list, thus enabling them to buy it for one dollar a thoasand less than they pay under the McKinley bill today? How are the farmers' wives and poor washerwomen of Washtenaw to be injured by being able to buy a copper clothes boiler and copper tea kettle for almost forty per cent less than they pay for the same articles under the McKinley bill today? How are the farmers of Washtenaw county to be injured by paying fifty cents for a barrel of salt for which they pay eighty cents under the McKinley bill today ? How are the people of Washtenaw county, who buy stoves and stove pipe and iron ware and farming implements into which iron enters as one of the materials going to be injured by buying these articles from ten to twenty per cent less than they pay for the same articles today ? How are the great masses of the people of Washtenaw county to be injured in wealth or in health by being en; bied to buy an all wool shirt as cheap or cheaper than they can buy a shirt made of shoddy today ? The great fallacy of the protectionist argument has always been in assuming that a few wealthy capitalists and monopolists - pampered and made rich by a protective tariff at the expense of the country - constitute the entire people. There are other people in this country whose interests should be considered in tariff legislation besides a few wealthy mine owners and lumber barons and bloated salt manufacturers. Out of the two million of people in Michigan not twenty thousand receive any benefit from a protective tariff and they are benefitted at the expense of all the rest. The masses and not the classes are to be consulted in democratie tariff legislation.