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LITCHFIELD, MAY 29, 1928.

THE TARIFF.
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We published, some few months since, the Tariff Bill,as it came from the hands ofhe Committee which drafted it. The bill received some triHing amend ments in the House, and s, further amendments in the Senate But as it stands it appears to find many enemies in the country, and that too among the real friends of the American System Why it is thus, we know not. From the "Comparative View of the Tariff Laws," given below, and for which we are in- debted to the N. Y. Journal of Commerce, we should suppose that the duties on wool and woollens are such to afford real protection to the wool grower and manufacturer; not perhaps however to as great extent the interests of those concerned in the business at present demands And to the addition

 al duty distilled spirits and moiasses, really nothing objectionable in that We wish the duty on fhe former had been double to what it now IS, and that the latter will be as equal an indirect tax as could be possibly levied The complaint that it will fall heavily on the poor is favore Lobby, alwaysre- sorted to when attempts made to render a meas are unpopular. But even the poor, for whom certain politicians occasionally have very strong regard, expect pay something annually for the support of government, and if they in their families 25 gallons ofmolasses each in year, the indirect tax which they will pay in consequence ofthis Tari will be dollar and twenty-five cents! Upon average but few poor families in New England, or rich ones either, annually consume more than halfthat amount

 and this be saved by using gallon of spir- its Iess in that dme This additional duty was very popular with the Southern enemies ofthe Bill Their members chuckIed at the idea that the Yankees were bit this time; and that they would not be able here

 after to "sOp their bread but upon one side" But how fond sOever the Yankees may be of Tapping

 nOlasses," they do not lOve consume more of the black sweet than their southern brethren, and they

 certainly better able to pay ori it. Very ma1y of