The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1888-09-12

Nut4 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. -1sla - ZIG tloe-S-
ands upon thousands Of American work
ing men and woHen employed in this
1 great industry viii be ground up between
the upper and the neither miliztOnes Of
southern opposition to this great indus
F try operating upon Northern greed
The wool growing industry is at
tempted TO be overthrown by misrepre-
seniine the profits Of the wool manufae-
I turers-
Let NE take time only to advert to
one Of the statements made by the chair
man of the Committee Of Ways and
Means on the door Of Congress in advo-
cacy OF his bill Mr.. Mills claim on the
subject Of the tariff put upon imported
cloth Is more remarkable in what il does
not say than what il does, and both are
sufficiently striking. He says in his
speech in Congress "a yard Of cashmere
weighing sixteen ounces costs SI.s5; the
labor costs twenty-nine cents and theta
i'll 80 cents.
Now he permits every man in his
district, and every man in the United
States who shall be left 10 read his speech
To infer that 81 cents, minus the - cents,
Is the profit made By the manufacturer.
That Is, the President and Mr.. Mills
mean to say to Us thai the manufacturer
h2s Il profit Of 81 cents or every yard Of
cloth that coszs no less than sl.3S. -
Mr.. Mills saws, and the President adds to
that declaration in the following words,
These laws, as their primary and plain
effect, raise the price 10 consumers Of all
articles imported and subject TO duty by
precisely the sum paid for such duties.
Don't misunderstood NE don't
mean to say that it Is 50 know il Is
not but the President did mean to say
SO when he wrote his message, or he
would not have said %. - the Piesi-
dent declares, aided by NIr. Mills, that
every mau who buys yard Of cashmere
weighing 10 ounces (which the lighter
weight cassimeres do, whether imported
or made here, if made here pays a boun-
iy.to the manufacturer Of fity-one cents
a yard
From facts aseertained from Boston
merchants he learned that Cape Of Good
Hope wool sells for = cents pound in
Boston, and it loses 64-lO0 in weight in
working and securing. In making into
cloth one-fourth Of the clear wool is lost
50 that Of the cloth made from wool there
viii be but 4-32 ounces of the pound. thus
forcing the mannfactgrer TO buy 3 pounds
and II ounces Of wool 10 get a pound Of
finished cloth at 4 cost Of sl.47 per yard
for the fabric, while in England the same
goods can Be purchased for SIP. which,
with the duties added, makes = cost Of
IS cents a pound.
@Of that - cents difference between
the cost Of the English and American
manufacture, the American manufactur-
er has paid 55 cents 2na 4 IHills to ths
government, and has left to himself
profit Of s cents and 6 mills. This ex-
plains exactly where the 81 cents Of tariff
on such cloths, stated by Mr.. Mills. in
fact goes. And if the President is right
the consumer pays at least IN that ward
of cloth what the manufacture hiss paid
to the producer, except small gain Of S
cents and mills
II viii be observed that If the Eng
lishman makes as good goods as or own
manufacturer does out Of Cape wool he
must wash out the same number Of
pounds that We do. That is, to get yard
Of cloth he must use mp 5 pounds and II
Dances Of wool. But that wool has cost
him exactly 10 cents a pound less than It
has cost the American manufacturer. or,
the wool in the yard of English cloth has
COS; So cents and mills less than the
wool has cost the American manufictur-
er, and that must be added to the profit
Of the English manufacturer. besides the
lower wages Of the workingmen.
. If one viii think Of this statement.
to which l challenge every criticism, il
will be seen that If the specific duty be
taken of in favor of the Enelishman and
the tariff fixed al 20 per cent. al yalorem
only, and the 10 cents a pound be taken
away from the producer, it viii leave our
manufacturers at the mercy of the Eng
lishman with his cheap labor, the only
resource to meet which viii be for the
American manufacturer 70 cut down the
wages paid his E0rkmen. i may fatigue
the mind little 10 carry out these cal
culations, but they come 70 an inflllible
result. think ] can state the question
at issue shorter and effectively. because
j; Is beyond dispute. England wants the
Mills tariff on wooden, and she knows
why she wants it. Therefore / do not,
and know why Idon't. And every IN
p7eiudiced American who has examined
the subject knows that what England
wants in the commerce between the two
countries We don't want, and she doesn't
want what We do want. And % it has
Oeen from the time Of the revolution
10 this hour.
Isn't il wonderful that 10 allusioD to
the facts OF this great shrinkage Of wool
in the process Of manufacture. and on
which the adjustment Of the tariff on
wool and on wooden goods must be fixed,
Is nowhere discussed or spoken Of in the
message Of the President, or the elabo-
rate report Of the Committee Of Ways
nd Means ?"
He demonstrated that while the wool
grower has been cut down 100000 and
the manufacturer sl2.OOO.O00 the cotton
broker and Spectator had been protect
Ell several millions more by the Mills
bill He gave series Of statistics show
ing that ihe English have an advantage
of four per cent. on cotton.
He then took up the statements Of the
Democrats that there was a surplus Of
sl50OOOO00 in the Treasury, and CON-
mented thus.
TO show their absolute want Of knowl-
edge Of the subject upon which that
committee were reporting. give you the
figures from the Treasury statement Of
June 80 last, which reports the surplus at
Sl0s,OO0Oo0 only, 20 that the Committee
on Ways and Means, if they meant to
tell the fact, which We must assume, were
absolutely incapable Of grasping the sub