Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-07-31

per cent reduction on sugar, is reduced 10
per cent; wooden galloons. gimps and
tassels, with free wool, Is per cent:
wooden hosiery and knitting, with free
wool, % per cent; cotton umbrellas and
parasols, with frames. duty free, 10 per
cent; cotton goods Important dyestuffS
free) 8 per cent. Wooden goods in gen
ersl, with 35 per cent wool duty struck
off, are reduced 81 per cent, leaving the
workers in wool with larger protection
than they have now; leather gloves, 10
per cent; brooms and brushes. with free
raw materials, 10 per cent,
There remain industries on which in
some cases considerable reductions have
been made, where the present duties
We're 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 duty of 25
per cent.
The average reduction on steel and
iron manufactures is from % per cent,
the present rate. to 43 per cent in the
Mills bill but this is only for those in
cluded IN the Mills. and 1t leaves mum
Der, such as cutlery, untouched Steel
rails are cut down, As they ought to be.
Lead ores are reduced onr-half. They
are raw material Manufactures OF
lead ale reduced from the present rate
6S per cent, 10 A per cent.
| Dressed stone remains at 20 per cent
| Dressed marble is reduced from y per
cent the present rate, to 40 per cent. hut
rough OF block marble is reduced from
So to 30 per cent.
| Cotton cloths, which now bear an
average duty OF 46 per cent, are reduced
to 40 per cent. but the cotton men have
free dyestuffs and chemicals.
A great cutlery has been made about
the pottery business, but the Mills bill
from IS per cent. the present rate To fl
per cent, and the greater part of this Is
on the higher GRADES and china.
Fl4Xsred aud inSerd oil, present duty
50 per cent. are reduced 10 % per cent,
al which hundred thousand hnus,
painters aud several million house own
ers and occnpiers will rel nee.
Horseshoe nails present duty 76 pc
cent, are reduced to is per cent, whrres
all the blscksmllbs ia the country vii
rejoice.
Salt is made free. Shingles and 18th
also.
q Starch, which in the present tarit
z hears the mnnsrrous duty of % per cent
is righteousIy cut down to - per cent
, lust half. 10 the benefit of the poor wash
e erwomau of the country.
T Common tools in universal use are re-
duced. Hammers now at IL per cent, I
10 per cent. saws. now at A. per cent, {
80 per cent. qnyiis now At "a per cent. t
b - per cent
: Cotton thread, used by every woman j
. The land, is now IT 30 per cent. and
5 reduced to 81 aud 10 Linen thresC
, nov At 40 per cent, Is cut down to 2
p Cables and cnri4Ge. now at 30 per ceut
( are reduced 10 -
It Is impossible to % through tn
! whole tariff item by item, because til
4 profeCtiouIsts have made the high tart
, 50 extraordinarily complex that II is in
7 possible for common intelligence I
!, understand it. and no one expert eve
+ pretends to understand more than sin
fl gle schedule But It Is in the grner'
z plan Of the bin 10 reduce the very hig
duties on the common articles OF dali
s use, and thus relieve the great mass
!, the people from part of the hurde
G which they have been forced By the cA
/. | IRENE profectIouists to bear No on
d can examine the present tariff withol
= seeing that II is ingenlousty contrlved ;
e as 10 lay the highest duties on tho'
+ articles which are of universal use. AT
the lowest duties on articles which onl
l. the wealthier classes use
: But nowhere is any duty so cut do"
d as tn destroy" an established and iegit
It mate industry rs has been presented
Co. the opponents of the bill.
5 ANY workingmau who will read ov
Il the list above given of industries {
u which the duty has not been lowered
IT changed from the present and Of othe
e which have been reduced only hec4u
their raw material has been made IRE
will see how carefully the resi- interes
- Of wofkingmen have been guarded
e the Mills bill and how absurd and false
Is the cry Of free trade raised against
e by those who want to maintain needles
Y ly high duties
A stitch in ones side never seams goo