Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1910 — Page 2

IK JISPER COOK! mil. 1.1 BABCOCt.EBITMHDPtIBLIMig. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. Entered as Second-Class Matter June 8, 1908, at the post office at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March 8, 1879. Long Distance Telephones Office 315. « Residence 811. Published Wednesdays and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 Pages; Saturday Issue 8 Pages. Advertising rates made known on application. SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1910.

FIGHT FOR FREE HIDES

Fierce Struggle of the Interests to Retain the Duty. HOW PROTECTION WORKS. Once Foreign Competition Io Shut Off the Next Step le to Monopolize the Trade—Methode Pursued by the Protected Trusts. A most illuminating phase of the effort of various interests to retain in the Payne tariff bill special favors granted them by the Dingley bill was the struggle for free hides, which only culminated in victory after President Taft had declared that he would not sign the bill If the duty of 15 per cent on bides was retained. The story as told by Mr. C. H. Jones at the recent dinner of the Massachusetts Reform club demonstrated bow hopeless is the lot of the unorganized consumer when such powerful interests as he represented could scarcely get a hearing. The circumstances are as follows: Up to the passage of the Dingley bill hides were admitted free. In that year, with the avowed purpose of enabling the farmers to get a higher price for hides, a 15 per cent duty was placed on them. As a matter of fact, few farmers have hides to sell. Cattle are bought on the hoof, and the price of meat determines the price they bring, so the butcher gets the hide for next to nothing. But the butchers in this case were the four great companies composing the beef trust, who divided among themselves the United States both as to buying and selling cattle; hence the tariff of 15 per cent on hides was a clear gift to them, for the United States does not produce enough bides to supply its own demand, and hence foreign hides have to be imported. And it is well to note that no tariff on hides, however high, can encourage our farmers to raise enough hides, for cattle are raised for meat and not for their hides. If the duty on hides had simply meant higher prices to the American consumer it would be exacted still, and the citizen unwise enough to grumble would be told that the extra price was what he had to pay for living in a “free country.” Fortunately It threatened the very life of some great organized interests, and a titanic struggle ensued, which resulted temporarily at least in the defeat of the meat trust. This conflict between Interests is typical because it shows in a concrete manner how “protectionism" really works. It is at first Invoked as a means of shutting off foreign competition. When this desirable end is accomplished. then the "protected” manufacturer seeks to stifle home competition. What he is really after is to shut off all competition. He can often do this only by combination, which is costly—chiefly, however, to the public—or by driving his rivals out of the market by underselling them, which is also very costly, or by getting special favors in the tariff bill, which, though Costly, In many ways costs less than either of the other methods. Now, the meat trust saw an opportunity to absorb by means of the duty on hides the tanning and leather business of the United States and ultimately the shoe business, in addition to the egg and poultry business, which it was in a fair way to control by means of special railroad favors which it enjoyed. The 15 per cent duty which the Dingley bill imposed on hides made it possible for the meat trust to get a full price for hides and yet supply its own tanneries with their raw material for 15 per cent less than any competitor could secure his supplies. Such competition must in the long run ruin the Independent tanners, and so when tariff revision was undertaken they realized that it was their one chance for their lives. An energetic committee went to work on the ways and means committee of the bouse of representatives and convinced that body that the tariff should come off bides. When the house bill was reported to the senate, hides were od the free list In the senate, however, opposition immediately manifested Itself. Senator after senator who protested that so far as be was concerned, he favpred free hides declared that the duty would have to stay because other states demanded it The committee representing the tanning Interests was denied a hearing by the finance committee on the ground that the matter had been disposed of and it would only take Up the time of the committee to no purpose. Then a canvass of the senate was made, and a majority of the senators declared In favor of free hides, but when the vote came the duty of 15 per cent was put back on hides by a vote of 47 to 80. Almost in despair at this outcome of a bravely fought struggle, the tanners!

representatives made a last appeal to President Taft to save them from falling into the voracious Jaws of the meat trust, which they had for yean struggled to escape, but which must inevitably swallow them if given a new lease of power by the Payne bill. After considering the matter Presitent Taft took their view and Insisted on hides being put on the free list, but so powerful were the Interests demanding the duty that twenty-two senators waited on the president, practically to threaten him that if be insisted they would resign. Such a dreadful calamity did not supervene because of the wiser second thought of the excited gentlemen, but the threat was made, and it must be said that President Taft faced it with complacency. Perhaps he suspected that ft was only the senators’ last protestation of loyalty to the source from which < campaign expenses bad flown with unstinted liberality. Possibly he realized that if these springs were dried up by putting hides on the free list these gentlemen would not be so willing to test the attitude of their constituents. The battle for free hides was won and the shoe manufacturing Interests saved from absorption, for a time at least. But the lesson of the whole story to the consumer Is that If the powerful Interests represented by the United States Leather company and the tanning concerns have so hard a struggle to get Justice at the hands of the bought and paid for representatives of the protection monopolies, what chance has the consumer?

It would seem, Indeed, as if the men who condemn the tariff as a method of raising money for government expenses are in the right. Protection must be fought both In theory and In practice. It has turned congress Into a stock exchange, If not a bucket shop. It cannot be reformed, but must be cast out root and branch If we want salvation. JOHN J. MURPHY.

THE TARIFF ON HOSIERY.

It* Result Is Cheapened Material to Meet Import Tax. Mr. Thomas H. Norton, our consul at Chemnitz, Is evidently the right man In the right place. He collects all possible Information about the manufacture of hosiery at his official post and sends it to the United States for our enlightenment. Under the “revision of the tariff,” according to the New York Press, an Increased duty, of 80 per cent is put on hose and hilt hose which retailed In the United States for 25 cents per pair. Now, 25 cents for a pair of socks has become as much a standard price as a nickel for a car fare. The retailers could not change the price If they would. What was to be done? The United States government under the Dingley law put a duty of 65 cents per dozen oh socks which cost fl per dozen In Germany; the Payne bill makes them pay an additional 20 cents, bringing the duty up to within 15 cents of as much as .lt costs to make the socks, including cost of material. In other words, every one who buys these socks, and in spite of the almost prohibitive duty an enormous quantity Is imported, pays the different parties as follows: Cents. Price at Chemnitz, per pair 8 Tariff 7 Jobbers' profit, freight * Total .................................... 19 This Is the price the retailer pays. All this is simple enough. But when Mr. Norton starts to explain what is the result of the increase in duties he displays a master band. It obviously will not do to shout that the American consumer Is Injured. He therefore shows that the Chemnitz manufacturer and the American Importer come together and agree to reduce their profits In order to be able to retain their market. incidentally they will have cut wages and so send more immigrants into the United States to bring down the standard of American living. Even all this is not enough, however, to make up for the additional 20 cents per dozen duty. So they decide to modify the material somewhat.' It is true, the consul says, that we will get “virtually" the same product as before for the same price, only the government will get an extra 20 cents per dozen duty. There is much virtue in the word virtually. We have usually been able to send our socks to the laundry twice before discarding them. Hereafter we’ll send them a time and a half. One grain of comfort, however, Is to be extracted from the article, although the editor does not seem to be able to see the humor of the suggestion. The consul deciares It is lhe prevailing opinion In Chemnitz that our manufacturers will be able to offer a better quality of wares than their foreign competitors and that thus the business will go to the home industries. Seeing that we now give the American manufacturer a protective duty equal to the whole cost of the stocking in Germany and yet the German manufacturer can send his goods to us, this seems a likely story. If 85 cents duty on a dollar a dozen stockings Is not adequate to encourage home Industry, to what heights must we raise it? Is there no such thing as fair play tn business? Hereafter when our toes appear through our socks after a single wearing let us put the responsibility not on the manufacturer, who la trying to give us all he can for what he gets, but on the tariff which robe him and us of the fair return for our labor. The Payne bill is like our modern cheap sock—it is already wearing out at the toe, and it will soon be relegated to the rag bag. JOHN J. MURPHY.

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Notice of Ditch Petition.

State of Indiana,) White County, ) 8 ' White Circuit Court, February Term, 1910 In the matter of the petition of Christian Stoller, et al, for drainage. Notice of the filing, pendency anu docketing of petition. To Noah Moser, Leopold St. Pierre, Thomas N. Boicourt, Peter N. Garber, Samuel B. Hirstein, Isaac F. Nordyke, Eben H. Wolcott, Benedict Moser, John B. Moser, George Turner. You and each of you are hereby notified that the undersigned petitioners have filed in the White Circuit Court of Indiana their petition for the drainage of lands owned by them in White County, Indiana, fully described in said petition by means of the following describeu ditches, which they ask to be established and constructed: Ist. Beginning at a point on tne north line of the railroad right-of-way of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company, about sixty (60) rods west of the east line of Section 28, Township twenty-seven (27) nortn, Range six (6) west, in Jasper County, Indiana, from thence following a variable course in a general easterly direction over the best and most practicable route for said ditch, to a point about thirty (30) rods south of the north-west corner of the east half of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-seven (27), Township twenty-seven (27) north, Range six (6) west, in White County, Indiana, and there to connect with the head of a public ditch known as the E. L. Dibell ditch, and thence tn a general north-easterly direction, following as nearly as practicable the route of the said E. L. Dibell ditch to a point about ninety (90) rods south and about eighty-five (85) rods east of the north-west corner of Section nineteen (19), Township twenty-seven (27) north, Range five ,(5) west, in White County, Indiana, to the mouth oif a tile ditch known as the Pugh ditch. To this point petitioners respectfully ask that said proposed ditch be constructed of drain tile of sufficient capacity; then from this last mentioned point, by a construction of an open ditch of sufficient capacity following tbs route of the said E. L. Dibell ditch to a general easterly direction through Sections nineteen (19), twenty (20), twenty-one (21, twenty-two (22) and to a point near the southeast corner of the north-west quarter of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-three (28), Town-

ship twenty-seven (27) north, Range five (5) west, in Wlhite County, Indiana, and there to terminate and empty in a large dredge ditch known as the Eli Hoagland et al (or Monon) ditch, into which said proposed ditch will empty and will have a good and sufficient outlet. 2nd. Also by the construction of Branch No. 1 to the main proposed ditch to be constructed of drain tile of sufficient capacity, beginning at a point twenty-five (25) feet south and sixty-three (63) rods and eleven (11) feet west of the north-east corner of the northeast quarter of Section twenty-seveu (27), Township twenty-seven (27) north, Range six (6) west, in White County, Indiana, thence following the course of Branch No. 1 of said E. L. Dibell ditch in a general northerly direction to a point about eighty (80) rods west and thirty (30) rods north of the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of Section tweny-two (22) in last mentioned Township and Range, thence in a general south-easterly direction to a point about thirty (30) rods east and about eighty (80) rods north of the south-west corner of Sectton twenty-four (24), Township twenty-seven (27) north, Range six (6) west, in White County, Indiana, and there to terminate in the main proposed ditch, where she same will have a good and sufficient outlet.

3d. Also by the construction oi' Branch No. 1 of Branch No. 1 to said main proposed ditch to be constructed of tile of sufficient capacity, beginning thirty (30) rode south and ten (10) rods east of the northwest corner of the north-west quarter of the north-east quarter of Section twenty-three (23), Township twenty-seven (27) north, Range six (6) west, in White County, Indiana, thence in a general south-easterly direction a distance of eleven hundred and ten (1,110) feet, and there to terminate in Branch No. 1 of said proposed ditch, where the same will have a good and sufficient outlet. 4th. Also by the construction of Branch No. 2 of said main proposed ditch, to be constructed of tile of sufficient capacity, beginning at a point about twenty (20) feet east and eighty (80) rods north of the south-west corner bt Section twen-ty-eight (28), Township twentyseven (27) north, Range five (5) west in White County, Indiana, thence In a general north-easterly direction following the best and moat practicable route, to a point about eighty (80) rode south and eighty (80) rods west of the northeast corner of Section twenty-one (21), Township twenty-seven (271 north, Range five (5) west, in White County, Indiana, and there terminate in the main proposed ditch, where the same will have a good and sufficient outlet. And it, is alleged in said petition

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that certain lands owned by you in Jasper County, Indiana, and In White County, Indiana, and fully described in said petition will be affected by the drainage prayed for in said petition. You are further notified that said petition is now pending in said White Circuit Court of Indiana, and that the same has been set for hearing and docketing, and will be heard and docketed in said Court on the 25th day of April 1910. Dated this 17th day of February, 1910. Christian Stoller, Joseph ETnond, August Emond, Victor Leßeau, Mary E. McDuffie, Frederick McDuffie, Grant Pollock, Hendrick Swygman, Petitioners. M. B. Beard, attorney for petitioners.

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