Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-07

Bone and ivory workers.
Boot and shoe makers.
Brewers and malsters.
Britannia ware makers.
Button factory operators.
Candle makers
Cigar makers.
Clock and watch makers and repairers.
COopers.
Copper workers.
Corset makers.
Cutlery makers.
Distillers and rechfers.
Fishermen.
Flax dressers.
Fur workers.
Gloves, cotton and wooden, cotton gibson,
limp and tassel makers.
Gold and silver workers and jewelers.,
Gunsmiths and locksmiths.
Harness and saddle makers.
Hat and cap makers.
Hosiery and knitting mill operators.
Lace makers.
Leather case and pock ketbook makers.
Leather curriers' dressers, fnishers and tan
ners
Miners.
Mirror and picture frame makers.
Organ makers.
Paper mill operators.
Pianoforte makers and tuners.
Preserved meats.
Rubber goods makers.
Scale and rule makers.
Screw makers.
Shirt, cuffs and collar makers.
Shocks.
Silk mill oper ators
Tiles, common and fire brick makers.
Trunk, valise and carpetbag makers.
Tobacco factory operators.
Umbrella and parasol makers
Stove, furnace and CRATE makers.
Various farm products, hay, hops barley,
cattle, sheep and hogs, &c.
When a workman in any of these in
dustries is told by Republican orator
that the Mills bill is free trade measure
he has right to reply and may conf.
IDENTIFY answer that it is not true, be-
cause the duty is unchanged so far as he
and all in the above list are concerned
and they make up not only very large
proportion of the protected" industries,
but compose to great extent those ifi
which the labor cost bears the largest
proportion to the cost of the finished
product, and in which, therefore, the
workman has the greatest interest.
The list below gives those employ
ments in which the Mills bill does slight
ly lower the duties, but in almost every
one of these cases it will be seen that the
raw material is on the free list, while the
duty on the product is lowered much less
than the equivalent of the raw material
made free.
On oil manufactures of wood
blinds, doors, sashes, cars, wagons, car
riages, boats, pumps, slaves, wooden
ware and wooden turnings-there is a
reduction of five per cent, and the twen-
ty per cent lumber duty is abolished,
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made free.
Brass work, with free copper ore. is
reduced five per cent; carpets, with free
wool, five per cent; confectionery, with
twenty per cent reduction on sugar, is
reduced ten per cent; woolen galloons,
gimps and tassels, with free wool, six
teen per cent; woolen hosiery and knit
ting. with free wool, twenty-three per
cent; cotton umbrellas and parasols,
with frames duty free, ten per cent; cot
ton goods Important dyestuffs free), five
per cent. Woolen goods in general,
with thirty-fve per cent wool duty
struck off, are reduced twenty-seven per
cent, leaving the workers in wool with a
larger protection than they have now;
leather gloves, ten per cent; brooms
and brushes, with free raw materials,
ten per cent.
There remain industries on which in
some cases considerable reductions have
been made, where the present duties
were very high, and where the articles
are of universal use and consumption.
In glass generally the reductions are
slight, except common window glass.
Curled hair for mattresses has been
made free-it bears now a duty of
twenty-five per cent.
The average reduction on steel and
iron manufactures is from fifty.two per
cent, the present rate, to forty-three per
cent, in the Mills bill-but this is only
for those included in the Mills bill, and
it leaves number, such as cutlery, un-
touched. Steel rails are cut down in
duty, as they ought to be.
Lead ores are reduced one.half. They
are raw material. Manufactures of lead
are reduced from the present rate, sixty
eight per cent, to forty -four per cent.
Dressed stone remains at twenty per
cent. Dressed marble is reduced from
fifty-two per cent, the present rate, to
forty per cent, but rough or block marble
is reduced from ffty.three to thirty-two
per cent.
Cotton cloths, which now bear an aver
age duty of forty-six per cent, are re-
duced to forty per cent, but the cotton
men have free dyestuffs and chemicals.
Agreat outcry has been made about the
pottery business. but the Mills bill makes
an average reduction on pottery from
per cent, the present rate, to
forty per cent, and the greater part of
this is on the higher grades and china.
Flaxseed and linseed oil, present duty
fifty five per cent, are reduced to
twenty-five per cent, at which hun
dred thousand house painters and several
million house owners and occupiers will
rejoice.
Horseshoe nails, present duty, seventy
six per cent, are reduced to forty-eight
per cent, whereat all the blacksmiths in
the country will rejoice.
Salt is made free. Shingles and laths
also.