THE MILK-WHITE COW.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143976, 19 December 1912, Page 7

THE MILK-WHITE COW.

The advocates of tariff reform in New' York have illustrated their arguments by _ opening an exhibition of articles which are made costly by the Customs duties. Everything that the ordinary housewife requires in her home is represented and each exhibit hears a tag stating what it cost and “why it cost so much.” The central feature of the exhibition is a life-size model of a cow made of plaster of Paris. The figure is pure white in colour and from its udder there extend several long rubber tubes ending in rubber nipples. The ends of the tubes are gathered together and attached to a wall bearing in huge letters the sign, “The Trusts.” “This cow,” states a notice attached to the animal, “represents all of ns being milked by a few of us. The milky whiteness of the cow represents our innocence.” In another part of the shop, which was during the Presidential election campaign, are three figures, representing an advocate of high protection, a working man and a millionaire. The protectionist is blowing into a tube which apparently leads to the pockets of the working man. But the pockets remain flat and closer examination reveals the fact that the tube has a branch which goes past the worker and reaches the distended pockets of the millionaire. A lecturer who was attached to the exhibition when it. first opened explained’ anomalies of the tariff to visitors. . He stated among other things that if a New Yorker wanted a suit of clothes and could get a couple of days’ holiday he could have a trip to Toronto, in Canada, free of cfvn’ge. The difference between the American price and the Canadian price would pay the train fare and the hotel bill. It was claimed that the exhibition bad secured many recruits to the army of tariff reform.