The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-09-18
THEY WANT a REVISION
Manufacturers prots-t Against Making
Wool the Fossth ssG Politics.


wool the Fesstisall or polisir-.
BOSTON. Sept. 1.-THE executive com
n,ittec of the national association of wool
en manufacturers is ina rs-sSioO herr. tspslay.
The question of FREE carpet wools is one
of the principle topics under discussion.
No action has yet fpcen taken. hut the
association's quarterly bulletin just pub
lisl,ed says eslitorilly: ut il admitted that
the lssi. duties upon carB1ct woods wcrs. not
designed to serve as protection duties b'it
were imposed for purify revenue purpose.
We cannot subscribe tn the claim now
made that conditions have 80 changed
In twenty years that protective duty il now
desirable and would t,e advantageous. The.
aggrcms.nt il that the condition then cx-
isting which renewed all necessity for
protective duty on carpet woois has been
Increased aud intensified by lapse
of time. Prohibitory or highly protective
duty on cheaper grades would not ieasi tai
product tion in this country Of wools simi-
lar to those now imported for this pur-
pose. Manufacturers would bs. Justified
in insisting that low grades of carpet
woods shall go upon the free list. These
low grades of rarips't woods are about the.
only raw material upon which a r,,vcni.
needed money from which il has not since
been removed, for il il not there tin the.
Argument i'm favor Of fr..c caripct woods
il vastly stronger than that which was
made. for fire." hides. The difficulty i'm ti,..
way of giving the manufacture the full
! benefit of the principal arises from the.
trouble. i'm securing at the custom houses
the classification necessary for the pre-
vcntiou Of frauds. We hold this difficulty
| to- bc the only valid argument that can bs'
urged against ,h" free admission Of car
| pet woods" The proceedings of the .N-
ecItivc committee are, private.
| During the afternoon resolutions wsr.
| adopted declaring that the Forty--eveuth h
| congress reduced the specitic duties upon
manufactured prosi,,ct bry"sd the rs'sl,ic-
ton ina duties on wool So a. to destroy
| their compensatory character, causing
| Increased importatious of certain goosi-
| and tioosling the market that the woolcn
| manufacturers OF the United States should
F, occupy: that WOODEN manufacturers ds~
! m;,n,l "a revision Of the tariff in which
there shall in every instance bc placed
| upon the manufactured product the f,Il
| amount ofS.pccitic duty necessary to com
| psnsstts. whatever rates of duty public pol
| icy may require to- bc imposed upon raw
| material: that. ls existing duties ufors
| nearly ~ per cent less protection
| than was siccnicd necessary for the sl.vel
! opnicut of the industry when the rates al
| iss1 wcr,. fixed. the association demands
am increase in tli.. AL valorrrn duties aus
| ask for the adoption of the singl. rule al
duty applicable to each paragraph o
the wooden schedule and for I'll. adoption
of the system of miuimuIn-. IL - hcl,
that no rate OF duty on wool can protcc'
tn. American manufacturers. which arr
accompanied 10y corresponding duties
compensatory and protective upon manu-
fact,irrsd articles sufficient to enable th'
American manufacturer tn hold the horn'
market. The resolutions soicmily am
emphatically protest against making :.th
wuol.n industry any longer the football -
politics. The resolutions will be- stit
| Iuitts-,l tai the annual meeting OF the Is,
tional association to Ia held in New lorl
October =.