Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1909 — THE TARIFF AND THE EVERYDAY PERSON. [ARTICLE]

THE TARIFF AND THE EVERYDAY PERSON.

A writer in the Review of Reviews shows how the new tariff law was formed to skin the buying public. He calls attention to the fact that through changes in classification the duties on cotton goods will be raised "as much as 100 per cent., and in some cases more, above the rates of the Dingley tariff.” One of the devices by which this increase is effected is described: ' “Under the Dingley tariff cotton cloth was subject to the same duty whether mercerized or not. The new tariff provides (in par. 323) for an additional duty of 1 per cent a squarp yard on cotton cloth mercerized or subjected to any similar process. In paragraph 320 the definition Of mercerized cloth is given as one 'which has any. . .mercerized. .. threads in or upon any part of the fabric.’ This will any cloth having two or more glossy threads in the fabric subject to the addttion-

al rate as ‘cloth mercerized or subject to any similar process.” Further, by changing classifications and substituting specific for ad valorem duties, the rates on cotton* cloth while they may appear to be the same have actually been increased “from as UCtle as five per cent, for the finest cloth to 100 per cent, and more for the poorer grades." As for the duties on hosiery the same •writer says: “The conferees modified the advances passed by the house by leaving the following increases of duty on the lower-priced hosiery in the act as it finally passed: Hosiery valued wholesale not at more than SI.OO per dozen pairs, eighty per cent., ad valorem, as against sixtyseven per cent., under the Dingley tariff; valued at SI.OO to $1.60, 77 per cent., as against the Dingley rate of fifty-eight per cent.; valued at sl.50 to $2.00, sixty-two per cent., as against fifty-one per cent., under the Dingley law. The duty on the high-est-priced hosiery, valued at more than $5.00 per dozen, remains unchanged at fifty-five per cent ad valorem.” About woolen goods he says: "Criticism of the wool and woolen schedules is based mainly or. the fact that there has been practically no change of the old rates, which, it Is charged, have been instrumental in buijding up a woolen trust by “discriminiation against the carded woolen industry, which produces the poor man's cloth, in favor of the worsted manufacturers, due to the imposition of a uniform duty of eleven cents a pound on raw unwashed wool, which taxes the cheaper wools as high as 500 per cent and more, while frequently amounting to less than twen-ty-five per cent on the finer grades used for the more expensive cloths.”

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