Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-06-12
WHOLESALE ROBBERY.
Importers Show Up the Iniqutles of
the VI klnIey Bill.


il hasbef II its fate to receive since it wa
reported to the House of Representa-
tives. There are a number of import
ers from the principal cities of th'
United States here, more especially from
New York, protesting against the bill
It is stated that those protesting
against the Mckinley bill represen
81 900 900, 900 in cash capital They
sneak for the mercantile interests, anc
for that matter for the consumers o
the United States as against special in
terests Of manufacturers. There are
about 75 or 50 of these gentlemen
present and the list includes sucn
men as Mr.. James Constable o.
| Arnold Constable C Co., d. Mckeever
john Gibb of Mills Il Glib. Peter B.
| Werrall, of Fred Butterfield & Co.
Earnest Werner of Ballin, Joseph 4
Co., Cnas. p. Mcclellan of Hess. Town
send & Co., Isaior Strauss of r. II
| Macy q Co. and other men of equal
| prominence in the business world.
| ItSc Iltu ~eIF given IL ~
| luctantly by the State Finance Com
mttee now in charge of the Mckinley
| bill to-day. They did some very en-
| phatIc talking and told "a great many
pslpab bic, plain truths. As each man
arouse to speak he announced bis bus
mess and his address.
SOME OF THE STATEMENTS.
Here are a few of the remarks made
| by way OF illus tration:
?. +. Werrail, textile fabrics, 4ol
Broadway: The bill would increase
the duty on oar goods from 50 to 100
per cent. and the lower class of goods
used 10y working people would be mcst
affected.
Ernest Werner, Worsteds, franklin
and Church streets: The bill would
prohibit the importation OF everything
but the finest grade of worsteds.
John Bernhemeimer, wOollens, Ital-
ian cloths; serges and Innings, IS Leon
ard street: The new tariff would be
prohibtory, especially on low grades Of
gooGs. The rate on them would be
| nearly double.
Isador Strauss of r. H. Macy & Co.
president Of the Association Of Import
ers Of Crockery, China and Glassware:
The Mckinley administrative bill
alone. W hi"h simply reinforces the du-
ty on packages and inland freight, adj
| vancts the rate on the goods from 10
to p per cent. The regular tariff bill,
plus the administrative bill, very large
ly advances the goods in our line.
z. f. Anderson, crockery, 80 Bar
clay street: The bill will increase the
duty on white ware from 55 to 664 per
cent. and on decorative ware from go to
II per cent.
THE WAY IT WORKS.
NJ. kirchberg, lamp goods, 1877
Duane street: / received an invoice of
small night lamp chimneys on Mon
day and paid S642 duty on them. I'm
der the Mckinley bill they would have
cost me S5,476. The invoice price of
the ch:mneys was $500. They are
sold now at Z cents a dozen. Under
the new rate they would have to be
sold at % cents.
Alphonse d. Reisthal, lamp goods,
80 Murray street: On cheap goods used
by poor people the specific duties
amount to from 200 to 400 per cent.
On staple goods the duty is practically
prohlbitory and gives domestic manu-
facturers an opportunity to double and
treble their prices if they complete
their organization.
ID. a. Nan Horn, window glass, 131
Franklin street: The bill advances
common window glass IA per cent,
and goes back TO an obsolete method of
collecting duty which was set aside
by the United States Court six years
ago. On common ground glass there
is an advance of from 45 to 165 per cent.
and on common enamel glass from 45
to 407 per cent.
l.. Lehman, fancy glassware, so and
50 Murray street: The bill would in
crease the duty on ordinary beer aud
wine glasses from 45 to 200 per cent.
1t would shut out all imported goods,
and manufacturers here could charge
any price they wished to. It would not
affect fancy glassware not used here at
AL 1t would make small decorative
articles, such as are now bought by
poor people for 10 aud Is cents, cost 81.
a HORRIBLE EXAMPLE.
Gustav Blumenthal, buttons, No.
334 Broadway: a small voice Of pearl
buttons ard a few others which arriv-
ed to-day for me paid duty of S400 20.
The same invoice would have to pay
duty Of S., 1880 under the Mckinley
bill. The market value Of these goods
was s. 500 so.
John x. hcCahe, wood pulp, II
Broad street: The bill would increase
the duty On mechanical ground wood
100 per cent. and on chemical pulps %
per cent.
Maximillian N. Ruttereau, wood
pulp, 81 Broadway: The bill would en-
able native dealers in pulp to make
their own prices, and as consequence
ail per used for new papers. cheap
books and the like would be greatly
increased in price