White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1869-09-30
A NUT FOR FREE TRADERS.
Striking a Balance between a Scotch
Tweed Suit i'm London and One In
Minneapolis, MINI. @ '-7'-'-'-


The following article from the New
York Sunday Times. has bs-n going the
rounds for the last month Of the free trade
papers Of the country, and this morning
appears couspicuously 10 your Paper, sud
l suppose is Endorsed by you:
"BEHTY OF THE HIGH TARIFF
A friend Of ours. just from Europe.
ssid to rs the other day: ~
~How much did yon pay for that snit
of summar tweeds you have on, for per-
,csive that,it ia made of Scotch goods,
like my own" -f@
81 paid 6fty-fvs dollars for it in New
York" was the reply. s
"And I paid fifteen dollars for nina 10
London" he responded.
The forty dollars difference is simply
taken from our pockets BY an act of Con
gress, to accommodate the high tariff no.
tons of certain politicians.-New York
Sunday Times.
IDENTIFY trump card. and has widely been
Published and commented upon rs fur
srishing proof amounting to demonstrs-
ton of the oppressive character of the ex
listing tariff laws.
Let us see how far facts within your
reach can Justify you in giving currency
to such an article. we think. protesting
against the ineiences to be drawn from
it. RS. 49,. Fs
The statement ia that snit Of clothes
can. be bonght in Europe for SIS Tor
which. II pnrchs,ed in this country. $50
would have to be pai3.. The infe'rncs
drawn is that the difference of $40 in
price is dne to the tariff. and that tbs t.
saved money to the benefit of the IN ana.
fscturers. .saa % E
In answer to the whole statement in
terpo.e the following facts:
Gibson & TYLER, of Minneapolis, are
now manufacturing an article of cloth
simil az tn Scotch tweed, but made Of fine
wool. for 81 per yard. aud kind OF
CASHMERE. hsrdly second to any made in
the world. for 81 so per y,rd: and
presume the same .msv he said of the
manufactures of Kept. GIapp& Co. 1t
Requires seven ysrds of cloth for . suit,
so that for 81 ynn can buy at Ninnesp-
oils. manufactured there from Minnesota
wool, all the cloth necessary to mske
suit equal to the ordinary Scotch tweed;
aud for $40 so. cloth far superior to
any Scotch tweed ever imported to this
country. How much it would cost to
make up this cloth it is unnecessary to
inquire, for do not understand that the
free-traders have dared ss vet to attack
the wages of the laborer. The inevitable
result of free-trsde is to bring our labor
down to that of the illfed and iIl-paid
labor Of Europe If that result were al
ready reached. you would obtain an en-
tire snit in Minneapolis. m manufactured in
all its stages there. for less sum than
",be friend from Europe" obtained his
The account would then stand thus:
Editor Minneapolis Tribune, DR..
tweed, 81 per yard $500
To making same at prices paid the III
paid labor of Europe, and which the
free-traders would force Oh the
Iaborer here $3.50
Total slo5O
Add if made of cloth far better than
a Scotch tweed $50
Total s14oO
The above cost is in currency. while
the ''friend from Europe" psid SIS in
gold. or equal to S2l in currency. For
the last named sum cloth m snufactnrers
here wouli gladly contract to deliver 600
suits made from q quality of cloth equal
to the usual Scotch tweed. One word
more, to show that if clothing in this
country is high. it is not the faslt OF the
cloth m manufacturers:
The cloth of the "friend Just returned
from Europe" cost, say Sll50l
Had he brought it home with him and
paid duty as cloth, instead of SNUG
Cling on his back, the duty would
have been SIS
Total Sl725
1t will readily be seen that under no
state of the case could the tariff laws be
charged with over 1878 of the cost OF
the suit. which cost $50 in this country.
The shove are facts. which cannot be
controverted by any hireling lecturer now
travelling this country in the interests and
pay OF the Free Trade League.
Suppose. again. th.t your. friend jus,
returned from Europe" had paid duty
on his suit at ffiy per cent. the highest
rate think on any wooden. his entire
snit could have cost him bni S22 so in
New York Was there anv nee ,s.ity tor
your other friends paying S55, aud if 40,
what?