The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade . mmittee was to ask for atariff reduction on a staple article likeglass, or merely to try to remedy arbi-trary rulings and penalties. The discussion took a wide range.E. G. Hill denounced the Dingley tariffrates on glass and other florists ma-terials as iniquitous, that on glass hav-ing been doubled without reason. Heurged that congress be memorializedfor relief. Col. W. W. Castle, of Boston, sug-gested that the effective way of applyinga remedy for onerous tariff conditionswas not by petitions to congress thatare generally pigeon-holed, b

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The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade . mmittee was to ask for atariff reduction on a staple article likeglass, or merely to try to remedy arbi-trary rulings and penalties. The discussion took a wide range.E. G. Hill denounced the Dingley tariffrates on glass and other florists ma-terials as iniquitous, that on glass hav-ing been doubled without reason. Heurged that congress be memorializedfor relief. Col. W. W. Castle, of Boston, sug-gested that the effective way of applyinga remedy for onerous tariff conditionswas not by petitions to congress thatare generally pigeon-holed, but by per-sonal solicitations of congressmen bytheir florist constituency. He believedthe time had come when the wholecountry realized that the tariff was nolonger for the protection of Americanlabor, but only for the advantage ofmonopolists and trusts. Manufacturers, not artisans, were its beneficiaries. Hedenied that American labor needed pro-tection in the manufacture of any arti-cle whatever, whereas the only manwho paid the tariff tax was the con-. ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF THE NEWPORT HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. Best specimen palm, awarded first prize.—See page 219. sumer or user of the article. He rec-ommended that the committee of thesociety go to the committee on waysand means at Washington and demandrelief from the glass tariff in the nameof the florists and horticulturists of thecountry and of the millions of capitalinvested in their industry. E. G. Hill endorsed the statementthat remedial legislation was only tobe had by plain talk to congressmenabout tariff robbery. He spoke of hisown efforts in this direction at Wash-ington and asserted that popular senti-ment favored tariff revision. W. H. Elliott, of Brighton, Mass., argued that before informing congressof its views on the tariff the societyshould determine what its views wereso that it could demand a specific rate.He said that when the last change inthe tariff on glass was made the manu-facturers wanted an increase from