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it was not shown that Lorimer himself paid
the money does not prove that the election
was not corrupt and that his scat in the Sen
ate was not bought.
Men of Lorimer’s shrewdness do not go out
and publicly commit crime in away that
makes them sure to be caught and jailed.
The dirty work in such elections is done by
those hired just for that purpose, and in the
Illinois Senatorial election both Republicans
and Democrats were bought for Lorimer.
The 1,000 Canadian farmers who assembled
at Ottawa to demand tariff reform adopted
the following resolution:
“The farmers of this country are willing
to face direct taxation in such form as may
be advisable to make up the revenue loss
under new tariff relations.”
The new relations which these farmers ask
is reciprocal free trade with the United
States in farm tools, produce, supplies, oils
and lumber, and the gradual removel of the
preferentia tariff with Great Britain.
No one can doubt that the Canadian farm
ers would be much better off after paying a
direct tax to pay the expense of running the
government than they now are, where they
have to pay the expense indirectly by a
tariff, as well as a big profit to the Trusts.
Trusts that make tools for the Canadian
farmer to make his crop with treat the
farmer just the same as our Trusts treat the
farmer on our side of the line; —in fact, the
majority of them are one and the same Trust
working on both sides of the boundary line
in order to escape the tariff in each country.
