Life — February 14, 1907 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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*LIFE= Our Tariff History Specially Written by Ina Barbell Cuapter I HEN Columbus came to thiscountryin 1492 there was nosign of a Tariff as far as the eye could reach. Even scalps were raised without taxes. Later, when Sir Walter Raleigh, the ad- vance agent of the American Tobacco Com- pany, came over and started the first Pitts: burg stogie factory, affairs were no better. Tt soon became evident, however, that in order to make this continent a fit place for Andrew Camegie, something would have to be done. In fact, Industries were at once started, and since then there has been only MANY Ate CALLED wet Few ARE reorex the question of how much they should be fed. All Industries that are still being fed, but Infant Industries are of two kinds: ‘Those who have friends soso Ware old, are still called Infant in Congress, and those who have friends in the Senate of , ~ Nothing succeeds like the Tariff, except They are about equally divided Camegie and the Standard Oil Their diet as a rule consists of subsidies. ‘These are admin istered in the form of duties, either plain or with force. Incidents of a Bad Bargain HE pape y—and others deny—that the deed of separa- tion has been signed by the young Duke and Duchess of Marlborough. It is rather a forlorn issue of an alliance that was thought to be brilliant. But, after all, it was at best a highly speculative alliance, in which both the parties were very young and imperfectly disciplined, and only temporarily acquainted. The story of the Marlboroughs is by no means ended yet The material fortunes of the family have been considerably revived by the young duchess’s dowry, and there are two little boys, one of whom may in due time inherit a list of resonant titles from his father, and from his mother the sufficient fortune to maintain them. It is theoretically possible for the luck to change and these children turn out to be profitable, but that seldom happens by accident, and in this case neither environ ment nor heredity seems favorable to it. They look like chil dren doomed to eat the husks of fashion with the swine of the English smart set, which is pretty rough on two innocent babes. with some able blood in them. Once more the moral is that it is a bad use to make of good money, to give it along with a nice girl to an objectionable young man. Conversely, it may be an ill use to make of an hereditary title to bestow it upon a rich girl that you don’t intend to stick to; but that is no excuse for welching. It was a bad trade. The great family of Guggenheim would never have made it. They might have bought an option in the young duke, but when their experts had referred, they would have Nipissinged the match in bud and paid costs. The only glad thought in the whole story is that every self-respecting family in Newport will have to keep a basket of bad eggs by the front gate against the next young peer that comes a-courting. SMELL. No! we'ke pRonismontst!” But only fora little while. Poor Newport! micbooks.com