The Tariff Bill has passed the House of Representatives, and is now before
the Senate. The friends of this measure think that it is sure to pass.

But the bill seems to have as many enemies as friends, for the outcries
against it are loud and long from every section of the country.

It is difficult for us to guess whether the bill is going to be useful or
harmful to us.

On one hand, the people who are in favor of it are praising it to the
skies, and speaking of the immense industries that are going to arise as
soon as the bill is made law. The duty on raw sugar, according to these
people, is going to encourage people to try and make the raw sugar over
here, and the American farmers to grow beets to make beet sugar from. They
claim that a wonderful new business is to grow out of this new industry,
that is to make all farms pay and everybody happy.

The importers and people who do not approve of the bill are crying aloud
that clothes and woollen goods are going to be so much dearer.

A picture was published of a lady and gentleman seated in a pretty room,
talking the tariff over, their little girl playing beside them.

Every article of furniture in the room, every garment they wore, and the
basket of marketing which the lady had apparently brought in with her, had
a ticket on it, showing how much more expensive each article would be if
the Tariff Bill became a law.

This picture, however, far from having the effect intended, of making
people dislike and fear the Tariff Bill, makes thinking people approve it.