Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-10-17

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In the larger cities the leading dealers
have been consulted.
Linsed Oils
The duty on inSeed oil is raised from 25
to - cents gallon. This means that the
llnSeed OH trust, one of the meanest nono,,-
olleS In tins country, will make its mil
lions. IhlS raise was put on for the oSten-
Slble reason that the Importation was so
| large. The fact is that the importation was
less than ST, 200 worth last year and the trust
manufactured millions of dollars worth
Seven cents gallon for every gallon OF oil
used In painting house and home
Is paid to the trust. Not dollar will b.
| added to American wages. Not a new man.
! ufdctory will be started, Not a particle
| OF COM mgetltlon will be caused The trust
will Strangie all that This is most in
| famous raise of tariff, already too high,
to burden all classes of people to enrich a
selfish, rapaciouS trust.
Hardware.
The New York Herald tells how the
tariff has affected the hardware trade.
The Francis I. Witte Hardware COM
rany, in Chambers street, are large
dealers in domestic hardware and cutlery.
in New York City. Mr.. Witte saws that
prices on his goods has been creeping up
for SIX months past in anticipation of the
new tariff. The manufacturers of Ameri-
can cutlery, he said, had already advanced
their prices from lOper cent. upward. and
manufacturers of general hardware were
doing the same. He showed number of
circulars from American manufacturers an
nouncng higher prices for their goods
OF course these manufacturers are not di-
reCtly affected by the tariff, only as its op-
Grafton increases the price of of foreign
goods, thus enabling them to command
so much greater profit on their wares 1t
Is all clear gain to then. said Mr. Wittc,
ut The expense of the consumer
Expect an Advance.
Patterson Bros, large retail dealers in
hardware and metals, on Park Row, say
they expect an advance in cutlery and edge
tools because of the tariff. In those lines
of goods which will be affected by the tar
iff the advance has eeen anticipated They
thought there had been a combine among
American cutlery manufacturers to put up
prices.
F. & W. Clatworthy, of Chambers street.
are the agents in this country of Joseph
Rodgers Il Sons, the famous Sheffield cut
lers. The elder MIR. Clatworthy told me
that the average increase of duty on their
goods was % per cent. This includes,
razors, eraSers, pocket knives. table
cutlery, caTveTs and scissors. As an
amusing and suggestive incident he noted
that the only goods of their make on
which the duty was not increased were
champagne nippers and nail nippers.
These, he said, were obviously not much
used by laboring men, while all the other
goods were.
It's effect upon retailers, Mr. Clatworthy
said, would be to increase the price of
goods so per cent A pocket knife which
is now sold by the street venders for twen-
ty-fve cents cannot hereafter be sold for
less than fifty cents.
No Benefit Here.
This tariff, said Mr. Clatworthy, "is
Iaimed to be for the protection of Amer
can labor against cheap foreign labor
ONE of Rodger' workmen came over here
some time ago to benefit themselves in
thi country of protected industries.
They have every one of them gone back.
The best grinders in this country earn but
$l5 week of six days labor. Rodgers
pays his grinders E5 week for five days
work. Thus you see that the tariff can
not be exclusively for the protection of
American labOrgrs. When you hear Of an
American manufacturer of cutlery Increas-
ing the wages of his men because of the
creased price he gets for his goods under
the operation of this tariff please come and
let me know of it. ."
J. Curley d Co., are well Known i'm
| porters and retail dealers in cutlery ex-
| clusively, of Nassau street. They handle
| both foreign and domestic goods Mr.
Curley said the domestic manufacturers
would increase their prices and some Of
| them have undoubtedly done so. Their
| goods cost them no more to make than for
merly, but they simply take advantage of
the enforced raise in the prices of for
| eign goods to make more money them
selves. The finest cutlery we have is
English manufacture. Similar qualities
| Of goods cannot now be produced in This
| country, no matter what protection may
he given the manufacturer.
| Mr.. Curley said there are large stocks of
| cutlery on hand, both of foreign aud
| domestic make, and until these stocks are
| disposed of the full effect of the tariff
would not be felt.
DOMESTIC MANUFACTURERS VIEWS.
The HumasOn q Beckley Manufacturing
company, OF New Britain, Conn -, have the
reputation IN the trade of making the
finest pocket cutlery produced in this
country. Mr.. V. p. Humason. the treas
urer and New York agent Of this concern,
said to me that the duty on English
| goods Of the same grade as they manu-
| facture, costing $3.50 a dozen will be
| Il specific and 80 per cent. ad valorem.
thus adding 81 25 to the cost Of the Eng
sh goods, exclusive Of freight. That
/ duty, Mr., Humason frankly said enables
| him to put an addition of 81 25 to the
| price 0f his goods and still undersell his
| English competitor. In other words, the
knives he now makes and sells at $3.50
| dozen, and at that pric. has built up
! lucrative business. will in future command
| for him g, rs, the additional 1926 given
him by reason of the duty on the foreign
| article being clear profit to him.
Dry Goods.
Denning & Co, successors to A. T. Stew
arts great business. say tine rates OF du-
| ties prescribed in the Mckinley bill will
affect all classes Of dry goods. and partic-
| uIarIy the lower grades OF cheaper quail
! ties such as the poorer classes require On
| such the increase of duties Is disprOpOr-
| tionately great, and thus the bill hits the
poor people more severely than 1t does the
rich. All woollen goods - iannels,
dress goods and whatever else may
be made Of wool and cost
ing the consumer say thirty cent.
a yard will in future cost forty cents. The
prices Of many classes Of goods of this
character have already been advanced and
all others soon viii be. On higher priced
| fabrics the duty is less onerous because
| levied on the weight Of the material. which
| is lighter in the finer grades. The finer
and more costly the fabric the less In pro-
| portion will be the duty.
Linens.
Linen goods will he increased In price
| from Is to % per cent. But not cent on
a dollar will find its way into the pockets
Of the laboring men. But it win take
money out Of the pockets Of all.