Indifference to Greater Liberties
There were bills before Congress the last session which involved the liberties of every American citizen. The great mass of the people were utterly indifferent to these. Some earnest people, lovers of liberty, have tried to arouse the conscience and energy of the country, but comparatively few have been stirred. Hon. Serenus Payne's bill on the tariff, however, has stirred up a perfect storm from one end of the land to the other over the proposed increase of duties on stockings. In towns galore people are signing protests against raising the duties on ladies' stockings which will increase the prices thirty-three and one-third to fifty per cent. Surely it would be worth while if men and women would take at least a modicum interest in things of far mightier import.