The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-07-12


waste" at ten cents.
Maj Valentine informs us that ever!
salesman for wool houses has among hi
samples these so called wastes" ant
that only last Saturday he was offered {
" lot like the sample before US. This wa
e imported in the shape described
n ('waste'O and paid ten cents a pounC
u duty. The same wool in the grease, il
subject to ten cents, and when secured
j thirty cents per pound, and we found
: upon investigation that the sample Of
waste was cleaner than than the
secured stock paying the thirty cent
!, duty. No wonder our Vermont farmeri
p cannot compete with this thing, which
is Justly characterized as fraud.
Moreover, there is a shrinkage in
= securing these Australians of from 65 to
rs per cent. SO that il imported as
WASTE" clean and Of fine quality as
they are, the imposition becomes more
; marked. In connection with the amount
of these WASTES coming into the coun
try and the large number of pounds
used, it is pertinent to inquire how
comes it that foreign manufacturers
make so much waste" to sell for export
Does it not look as il waste" was made
abroad to import here at ten cents a
pound and virtually free? If this sup
position is fact the iniquity of the
present rulings of the Democratic ad-
ministration become more apparent.
The effect upon Vermont woods las well
as of all others grown in the United
States). is best illustrated when It is
stated that dealer offered a BennIng-
ton mill the ether day lot of wool for
twenty cents pound; just like the
stock bought of HIM few years ago for
forty-five cents a pound.
1t costs about forty cents to produce
wool in Vermont allowing fair living
wages and decent profit, so that when
Vermont farmers vote for the De-
mocracy and fair trade with the p 'esent
tariff rulings they can figure to cent
what their wool will sell for; and it
takes no son of prophet to tell them
that fifteen cents pound and less is all
they are likely to obtain with free trade
established. This is no scare. crow argu.
ment-fgurs it opt for yourselves.
The Democratic answer that "if there
is fraud those using the stock are par.
ties to it" is too silly for anything The
Tribute answers as well as states an
other Democratic argument in these
words!
But OF the wooden goods consumed in
this country, more than siE pounds out
OF seven by weight are made in this
country. The free trade theory is that
the cost of six pounds produced at home
is enhanced to consumers to the full ex.
tent Of the duties laid on the one pound
imported, 80 that the consumer pays So
to favored manufacturers for every 81
paid into the Treasury. Therefore the |
Free Trader puts the wooden duty at 40 |
per cent. and the sugar duty at 6S per |
cent.
The Republican Protectionist knows
that the duties on wooden goods do not
enhance their cost to consumers, be.
cause the people of this country get their
goods. all kinds of woolens included, as
cheaply as the consumers of any other
country, quality considered. They get
less shoddy and more wool than the PEG
pie Of England. and pay about as much
more per yard or per suit AZ the differ.
ence in qIality and wear actually JUST
flee. But the duty does develop home
manufacture, which employs several
hundred thousand men and women, and
which consun cd 90 900 900 pounds Of do
nestle wool IN 1860 and 5000, 900
pounds in 1887, In spite of the considera.
BILE decrease caused by the tariff of 1883
and the free trade rulings OF Demo-
cratic Treasury.
Another thing, wool, so the importers
say, was never cheaper than it is now.
Any reduction of the tariff whatever
would be disastrous to the growers, and
even a continuation of the administra-
tion's present policy of admitting
waste WOOL" is likely to keep the mar.
ket glutted. Anticipating a change in
the tariff millions of pounds of wool are
now imported into the country and re
tanned in bond. Should free trade
succeed the market would be flooded
with these stores of stock and the i'm
mediate effect would be to drive out Of
the business the American producer.
This accomplished, of course the price
would advance, but what of the AgricIl-
tural interests here killed. Is the /
United States ready to repeat the exr
perience of 1888 and its resultant panic
of 1887?
The tariff needs revision, but in the !
interests Of the American farmer and by
Americans friendly to our industries. :
We have a sample OF "thread waste" {
also the same when it has passed through /
the Garnet" machine. This "thread d
waste" is dutiable ten cents pound and
II should pay thirty cents. When passed a
through the machine the product is a
fine wool, and like the Australian
wastes" comes in direct competition
with our home grown wool. The Gar
nett machine does not Of course make L
The low duty or classification wrong, but :
Il does 30 alter the conditions that now L
The tariff on this class Of stock should be Z
revised making the duty at least the .
thirty cents per pound named. When 3
he classification of Thread wastes" o
was made this "Garnetting" was un. o
known, hence here IS a chance and ne a
,essity, for tariff reform and revision in 4
he interest Of protection to American n
The Republican Senate, like the party, I
always alive to the interests Of the 8
'lrmer, the mechanic and all classes, is G
bill to revise the tariff along II
he lines indicated.
After speaking Of the superb per-
,onnel Of the Senate sub. committee on a
ariff revision, the Mail and Express d
goes on to state: D
II is obvious that such a sub-commit- O.
Zee as this contains the special abilities a
and experience needed to frame tariff A.
bill that will embody all the reforms :,
hat can safely or profitably be made In =
our tariff system without antagonizing q
me American principles and interests d