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any adequate reduction in the price of the goods he buys 

 back from the manufacturer. 



Some one has very appropriately named it the "zig- 

 zag bill. ' ' The interests of the manufacturer had to be 

 looked after in order to appease New York. Iron and steel 

 must be looked after in the interest of the Virginias. 



Lumber could go free and begging, because the great 

 lumber States of the North would go Republican anyway. 

 We fear the committee has dug up more snakes than it 

 can kill. A number of very lively ones were turned loose 

 in the Democratic caucus, and bid fair to bite some one. 

 It is a good plan never to dig up a snake unless you are 

 armed with a club to kill it 



We are opposed to the Mills bill because it does not 

 even approximate to a revision of the tariff u in a fairness 

 to the interests of all." It is-an abortion produced amid 

 the clamor of conflicting interests in the heat of a political 

 campaign, and prostituted in the interest of partisan success. 



It is thrust upon the people at a time when the in- 

 dustries of the country .are languishing for want of an 

 adequate circulating medium, as the only means of refuge 

 from threatened financial collapse. It is a false, issue ; it is 

 the handiwork of politicians and not the product of pure, 

 unbiased and patriotic statesmanship. It is proclaimed 

 from every hilltop and valley to be the great and over- 

 shadowing issue of the day, and nine-tenths of the people 

 have never read it, and not one in a hundred are acquainted 

 with its provisions, and would not endorse it if they were. 

 It is a false clamor to cover up the follies of the past. It 

 is the twin sister of the bloody shirt to keep the people 

 divided. It is the one cry of the politician, the dema- 

 gogue and parasite who would fatten on the public crib. 



It is u the wooden horse of the Grecians to destroy the 

 inhabitants of Troy." It is the one issue which the 

 leaders of the Democratic and Republican parties have 



