Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-04-05
VIEWS ABOUT THE TARIFF.
What Manufacturers Wrote to Secre
tary HanninS-Raw Materials On tia,
Free List.

The answers to Secretary Manning's tariff
circular, which make a printed volume OF
nearly seven hundred pages, will furnish most
any opinion sought after concerning the tariff
Every side of the question is given, but what
the House ways and means committee finds
the most use for in it is Stree raw material
propositions. John V. Farwell & Co., Chicago,
dry goods, say: "Would advise the entire re-
mova' of the duties on raw materials and dye
stuffS."
Mr.. Walrath, president of the Little Falls On.
" knitting mills-"But in the opinion of the
writer, what is most needed to put our manu-
featuring industries engaged in the manu-
featuring OF wooden goods, &c, upon solid
grounds in this and in foreign markets is free
raw Materials He recommends also that the
duties on manufactured goods be regulated by
the amount OF labor in the various articles;
those taking most labor to have the highest
duty.
D. j. Johnson, cotton manufacturer, says:
"Raw material should be tree possible"
and he says further: Our tariff has done this
good TO n certain extent, but when continued
too far will prove an injury more than a bene-
fit. We now meet with the other problems
how to dispose of our surplus manufactures
which we now have, as We always have had in
cotton, and OF late years in cereals, without a
foreign market for which would almost bank
rupt the farming interests.
On the next page Mr.. Samuel Campbell. a
cotton manufacturer of Oneida county, New
York, takes just the opposite grounds-asking
James Goats, president of the COnant Thread
company, says that he has mills both in this
country and Scotland, can judge of the
difference OF wages, which he places at 50. DOL,
per week in Scotland, and Sc. 59a; in this coun-
try, and takes strong grounds for protection.
The Eureka Fire Hose company Go not wan:
to advocate either free trade or protection, but
favor free raw material.
The Lowell (Mass) Manufacturing company
think there should be no duty at all on carpet
woods, and say the necessity for such high
duty on manufactured articles is due to the
enormous duties on IA W material.
Il. Cramer, of the dry plate works, st. Louis
says: 1--WE wish in this letter TO simply place
ourselves on record as recommending the aboii-
ton of import duties on raw material or such
as is used by US and Others
GantZ Jones Il Co., drugs and chemicals, eX-
press the opinion that chemicals, oils and dyes
should be on the free list raw material in
many other kinds OF manufactures.
Cutter Bros. d Co., drugs and dyes, say that
and the arts should be free. The Spring Valley
(Ohio) WOODEN mills want free wool-the raw
material. Walton and Leland, WOODEN manu-
tacturers in Massachusetts, hint at Tree wool.
Ben. {. Potts, wooden manufacturer OF Phila-
delphia, says: 81 think raw material should be
free
The volume is full of opposing views, many
OF the answers being str ong protectionist docu-
ments, but these recommendations OF free
raw material and many like them are
what interest the ways and means committee
just now, and are the hints they Will follow in
making up the tariff bill they expect to get
through the House.
Upon the question of differentiation most of
the letters from importers take the ground that
there Is apt to be more evasion OF the law when
the tariff is excessively high,