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So say letters from Washington, yet we can
not believe it. 1t seems to us impossible that II
should be so, but, on a matter OF such vital I'M
portance, we dare not rest on our oplnlon alone
The following extract from a private letter from
well informed friend in Congress IS corroborated
by many other advices -


House OF RFPREsEHTATrvEs,l


March IL, 1914.


Mn Dear Str-I perceive from The Tribune that
Won EXPRESS the opinion and encourage the people
TO believe that there probability OF the passage
of the Tariff bill pending before the House; "
own belief is that the bill will be arrested IN the BE-
nate, but many OF our irenas ,ba frSt Mace
ger than YOU seem to suppose. In tne 1rst place,
there is no doubt the bill will pass the house. IL
is ingenously drawn as party measure, ana Mr.
Van Buren's men are committed to go Tor II. In
framing the bill, Mckay was in constant consulta-
tion with Wright, Benton and others; and one OF
the Committee informs me there is no doubt that
MIR. Wright is the principal author of the REPORT
Tts MASSAGE is the price s pulated to the South Tor
the support of Van Buren,. The specific Duties on
manufactured Iron and Sugar are intended to
proptate and m hnxe nossed the
House and reached the Senate. MIR. Wright will
vote for it, and possibly the Senators from Pennsyl-
vania Suppose three or four Southern Wings
should desert us in this extremity-what would be
the result? declare to you my beei that lhe ma





in opposition to the bill. AT the same time, the
possibility of danger is sufficient to justify some
alarm and instead of encouraging sense OF secu-
ritv, YOU should call upon the people to rally, re-
monstrate and avert the danger.


We have never intended to favor the impress
sion that the Tariff would be saved without effort
on the part of the People-we have believed that
it would be saved because the People would rally
around and preserve it. True, it seems to us in
credible that the Pennsylvania Senators should
vote for this BILL utwhat will not some men do
for the sake Of Party? And SilaS Wright, too,
whose vote was claimed as having passed thi S
Tariff, which vote was specially approved by one
of Mr. Van Burens Syracuse Conventions, IS now
the grand contriver of destruction to the manu-
factures of Iron, Woolen, Cotton, Salt, &c. OF
our State! What madness of party what reck-
lessness of public interest and of National Pros
perlty!


Freemen. Laborers. Farmers! Artisans
Your vital interests are at stake! awake. arse
assemble. and from every quarter pour IN youl
petitions to the Senate for the stoppage of this
destructive measure! Prepare petition at once
ask your neighbors and townsmen to sign, ant
desnatch it to some Senator at Washington al
soon as it can be got ready! Call on your Var
Buren, neighbors who say they are Tariff men
and ask them to sign, or demonstrate separately
if they prefer it. The form of the memorial Il
not at all materia-we throw out the following
as a sample, which you can alter as you thinl
proper:


To the Senate of the United States:


The undersigned, citizens of ---, respect
fully Representative since the enactment of th
existing Tariff, the condition Of the country ha
been steadily and vsibly improving, and is no"
far better than for some time before the passage
of that law-that Labor finds reader employment
and in the average bett reward, while there
on the whole quicker demand and larger mar
kct for nearly all the productions of our Hom
Industry. This state of things your memorlallst
apprehend would be disastrously changed by tn
passage of the bill to reduce and transform tn
Tariff proposed by the Committee of Ways an
Means of the House of Representatives-wherc
fore we earnestly entreat you to arrest and proven
the passage of the same, or any similar measure
into q law.


With deep respect and confidence,


We remain your fellow citizens.


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