The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-14
ticipate that very little, if any cleaned rice

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| prescribes a No. 10 brass wire sieve as
the test of graduated rice In lieu
| or the No. IA screen which was named as
| the test by Secretary Folgcr when broken
| rice, grade of cleaned rice, or granulated
rice, was originally claimed as a specially
| manufactured product not enumerated in
the tariff. and therefore subject TO duty
of 20 per cent. ad valorem. We concur
with Mr. Talmage that this claim for
| graduated rice is based entirely on fraudu-
| lont pretenses and if it is sustained by the
tariff law one-helf of the duties on cleaned
ri ce will be nullifed.
"Consul Looming, of Bremen, two years
ago made a special report upon the methods
| of pounding rice which was published by
the State Department, and accompanying
which we're fifteen samples of rice as fol-
| lows:
No. /. Raw rice as received from India, about
| Is per cent free Of shell.
No. . Rice after the grinding process of pre-
| liminary cleaning or Smelling.
| No. 3. Rice after the cleaning process (half
| poliShed).
No. d Polished n,ifteI Crniddle) table rice
| No. 5. Polished table rice.
No. g. Transparent" or oiled table rice finest
quality.
No. {; B,1lchreis broken rice or grannlated
| rice, classed here as Nos. and SMALLEST
No. s. Br1tchrcis (broken rice) or granulated
rice classed here as No. tSmalD.
No. g. Br1tciireis lbroken rice or graduated
rice, claSSed here as No (cOarSel.
No. 10. Bruchreis broken rice or graduated
rice, classed here as No. 90 very coarsel
No. II. Husks Shells, the result of Smelling
and sitting.
No. Il. Rice meal or -four obtained in clean
ing process, clGsSed here as No. ).
No. -. Rice meal or flour obtained in the
cleaning process ClasSed here as No. ,.
No. IL Rice meal or flour obtained in the
cleaning process. classed here as No. |.
No. IS. Rice meal our, a special manufac-
ture from the broken or graduated rice
An analysis OF the samples may not be
out Of place:
Ne. represents The uncleaned rice in contra
distinction u Paddy" or rough rice"
Nc Rice, aztec il has undergone the first
process q cleaning American millers have
long known that most Of the mills abroad are
now usaaE grinding or rubbing mill for this
p1rporse- oui Is the method employed in such
mills IS a carefully guarded secret they have
III been SHE 20 ascertain II the grinding is
l11s ty stone. Mood or cork The pestle and
12o.ss- are preferred here. and various forms Of
e8cA are n Use Some of these are protected
n F1Ee-ts- b.. 10 attempt is made by AmeTi-
cs1 ----ie-s 20 conceal and thereby monoplize
All ---qEcvellslt n their machinery
Sample M is probably cleaned rice after it
us tas7z s4ol7-tet 70 various processes, except
s Supplementary polishing.
Ms and are no doubt 'middng" and
-v1-.- TO-. Rice Is never oiled in this Coun-
IT We consider 10 2 dirty practice"
Nos 10 - inclusive are samples Of the diff
ts-sZt grades of broken rice and rice -four.
y
i-re3 article. i was formerly much used here
II making headcake. etc, but is seldom seen
now.
THE HOS CARGO.
Now, examine this sample of rice 1t
was passed through the custom house as
''uncieanedn rice aud was cleaned by one of
the mills here last week. 1t has yellow,
dirty look, but rub some of it in your hand
kerchief for minute and it becomes as
brio I, l.. -
after 1T has been brushed at a cost of Lice.
per pound. We claim that it is cleaned
rice that has been subjected to all the pro-
cesses of cleaning, polishing included, except
the final one to which all rice ~ subjected
before it is cooked, viz. i: a good washing in
cold water. Make the test yourself, and
you will find that you cannot distinguish
the unclaimed from the cleaned. This
process is about as expensive as the brush
ing done by the mill here.
THE position of Congressman Nelson of
Minnesota, as outlined in the MORNING
NEWS in which he said that 'oulY so high
a duty should be laid on imported articles
as would fairly cover the difference in the
cost of production here and abroad, 3" seems
to be fair one. The present duty on rice
would comply with these requirements as
fully as would the duty on any one of the
many dutiable articles enumerated in the
tariff bill, but the defining clause should be
retained, so that no injustice be done the
American planters millers and rice dealers
on the one hand and the government be not
defrauded on the other.
THE COST OF LABOR.
1.-THE price of lator in the Carolinas and
Georgia is from 40c to Coo per diem, and
expert labor 81, and in many instances fur
nishei lodgings and land for his crop are
added as part of the laborer's pay. Com
1a =, la1,D i,,t . o
rice fields abroad, and it will be seen that
the planters have good cause to insist upon
the defining clause and TO look upon Mr..
Talmage not as the friend of the Am ,rican
planter but his avowed enemy. l quote
below from the United States Consular re-
port, September, 1887, page 4S9, which is as
follows:
Coming now to the field hand whom the
farmer hires, we arrive at the substratum of
labor The average wages Of an able-bodied
young man is Sl2 per annum, food. straw shoes
and free shaving. Deductng 81 for his cloth
ing, he saves S. annually-or may do so. Ten
years savings will enable him to buy oue-third
OF an acre OF land value per acre $3.50 and
necessary implements by which he can attain
by his own labor subsistence. In twenty
years he can become posseSSor of two-thirds of
an acre and one-thlrd of a buffalo, and with six
years more saving he may purchase wife,
with whose assis. ance he can maintain himself
on his own land in his own hut aud rear chill
dren. Thus, in twenty-siX years from zero, a
Chinese farm abOrer may obtain what to him
is a competence Ascertain now the number of
years in which the same result might be accom-.
plished In all lands and we shall have, approx
mately, their relative wage rate This labor
gauge cannot, of course. embrace the important
factors of decency and comfort in living nor
the death rate, which, with other matters, per
tain TO full consideration of the subject.
'Other official reports show the wages in
Japan from s6 TO S12 90 per annum; in
British India, &c. per day; Kurnal, SOC. per
month; Borat, so to 100 pounds of grain,
ana from 44c. to 81 9S per annum; and in
Bombay and Madras, &c to l2c. per day,
and if furnished food, only from 221Sc. to
SOC. per month.
MR.. TALMAGE'S RICE MILL.
"Mr. Talmage when asked what was the
capacity OF his rice milf declined to give
it, and when it was suggested that it was
located in his Office on Wall street, and was
operated by a water motor, or one boy
power, made no reply. He did state, how
ever, that the milling cost him pc. hun
dred. which added 10 the cost OF such rice
abroad, with the freight, insurance, interest
and charges for barrels, etc, will fully |
equal 75c. per 100, the difference between
the duties on cleaned and uncleaned rice.
''To that we replied that the so-called |
milling was done here for less than &c. per |
hundred pounds, and that the incidental |
charges he enumerated were necessarily |
incurred by all rice, cleaned or uncleaned |