The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-07-27
as woodsmen at wages lower than those
paid to Hungarians by the protected
industries of the Eastern States.

as woodsmen at wages lower than those
paid to Hungarians by the protected
industries of the Eastern States.
DUTIES NOT TOUCHED.
IL will be of interest during this
campaign TO remember the articles up.
on which the Mills bill allows ddty to
remain untouched. The unreasoning
yell against free trade is cry that has
no basis except in ignorance, mistaken
zeal or greed. The products of all the
foreign hasket-mskers, bookbinder sand
finisbers, bone and ivory workers, boot
and shoemakers, brewers and maltsters
britannia ware makers, button factory
operators, candle-makers, cigar makers,
clock and watchmakers and repairers,
coopers, cooper. workers, corset-makers,
cutlery-makers, distillers and recti6ers
fishermen, fax dressers, fur-workers
gloves, cotton and woolen, cotton gill
son, gimp and tassel-makers, gold and
silver. workers and jewellers, gunsmiths
and locksmiths, harness and saddle
makers, hat snd oapmakers, hosiery
and knitting mill operators, lace max.
ere, leather case and pocket book max.
ers, leather curriers', dressers, finishen
and tanners, miners, mirror and picture
frame makers, organ makers, paper
mill operators, pianoforte-makers ant
tuners, preserved meats, rubber goods
makers, scale and rule-makers, screw
makers, shirt, cuff and collar-mskers
shocks, silk mill operators, straw-work
ers, tiles, common and firebrick- makers
trunk, valice and carpetbag-m makers
tobacco factory operators. umbrella
and parasol-makers, stove, furnace and
CRATE. makers, various farm products
hay hoops, barley, cattle, sheep ant
hogs, etc, have, under the Mills bill
the same duty upon them as under the
tariff law of 1888.
The principal reductions are as fol
lows Brasswork, with free copper
ore, is reduced five per cent; carpets
with free wool, five per cent; confect
ionery, with twenty per cent. reduc
ton on sugar is reduced ten per cent
woolen galloons, gimps and tasselt
with free wool. sixteen per cent; wool
en- hosiery and knitting, with free wool
twenty-three per cent; cotton umbrel-
las and parasols, with frames duty free,
ten per cent; cotton goods (mportant
dyestuffs free), five per cent; leather
gloves, ten per cent; brooms and
brushes, with free raw materials, ten
per cent.
IRON, STEEL and LEAD.
The average reduction on steel and
iron manufactures is slight. Under
the present law they are subject to a
duty of fifty-two per cent. The Mills
bill lowers this to forty-three per cent.
Cutlery is untouched. Lead ores, a
raw material, are cut down fifty per
cent, the duty on the manufactured
metal being reduced from sixty.eight
per cent. to forty. four per cent.
Horseshoe nails, present duty seventy
ak per cent, reduced to forty eight.
Common tools, in universal use; Ham
mers, now sixteen per cent. TO teni
saws, now forty, to thirty; anvils,
now thirty four, to twenty-five. Dres.
sed stone remains at twenty per cent
Dressed marble is reduced from fifty.
two per cent, the present rate, to forty
per cent; rough or block marble from
fifty-three to thirty-two.
CoTToNs, OIL AND POTTERY.
Cotton cloths. which now bear ar
average duty of forty-six per cent, are
reduced to forty per cent, but the cot
ton men have free 'dyestuffs and che
micals. Cotton thread, used by every
woman in the land, now fifty per cent,
ia reduced to thirty-fve and forty
Linen thread, now forty, is cut down
to twenty-five. Gables and cordage
now thirty, are reduced to fifteen
Salt is made free; shingles and lathi
also. Starch, which is in the present
tariff bears the monstrous duty OF
eighty.two per cent.,is cut down tc
forty-one per cent. Flaxseed and Lin
seed oil, present duty ffty-five pei
cent, are reduced to twenty-five pei
cent. at which a hundred thousand
house painters and several million
house owners and occupiers will re
joice. On pottery, despite the how
that has come from the employers, the
bill makes an average reduction from
fifty eight TO forty per cent, thu
greater part of this being on the high
er grades and china. On many mino
articles, necessaries, the duties are re
duced also, but generally with th'
same careful hand and always with
view to tightening the burdens nov
resting upon those who are least abl
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