The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-11
A. KATZ.

/ cent on leather, and the boot and shoe
/ manufacturers have a duty OF 30 per cent.
| on boots and shoes, vet the men en-
! gagged in these industries are bitterly OPP
! posed 10 allowing the farmers and cattle
( raisers a duty of only half the amount, or
/ - percent. on hides, the raw material
/ out of which leather and boots and shoes
are manufactured. The NcKinly bill had
proposed 20 take the duties off from leath-
1 or and the duties off from boots and shoes
/ these men would have made a greater
howl against such a proposition than
they are now making against the one
that proposes to put duty of ID per
cent on hides.
Now. who is to be benefited by a duty
on hides? Is it not those who are on
gagged in the production Of hides: The
tanner Is the man who produces leather
and is protected and benefited bv q
duty on leather. The boot and shoe
manufacturers are the producers Of boots
and shoes; hence. they are benefited by
duties on boots and shoes. The farmers
and cattle raisers are the producers of
raw hides and are also the largest con
sumers Of boots and shoes, yet the men
who are interested IN tanning leather
and in manufacturing boots and shoes
are bitterly opposed to allowing the
farmers and cattle raisers that produce
the raw material out Of which their
manufactured goods are secured, to have
any duty whatever on their products.
i this Just: If we are going 20 establish
protection to American industries as a
principle, should it not be- applied 10 al
industries The manufacturers should
no more have protective duties on their
produce than should the producers Of
the raw material on the products which
they produce.
The Shoe and Leather Reporter SAYS
that this country produces about 10. 90.
600 hides annually and that there IS about
Z 900 900 hides imported. The value Of
our imported hides for the wear 1853.
as ascertained by the reports on com
merce aud navigation amounted to So
1315iI TIE leather imported amounted
20 81 POO 500. Our exports Of leather
We're SI0.74Z.110 j. VIII thus b. seen
that our imports Of leather exceeded our
exports % leather SJ6a 1876. In 144Z
there was a duty q pr cent placed ON
hides. This duty continued until ] 81.
when 10 was changed - Z per cent The
Tzsr cent duty continued until IS52
whom tie duty was raised ~ ~ pr cent
The 10 per cent duty wa= continued until
1872. WHEN hides were placed upon the
free list. Prom 1912 ~ i@12 PERIOD 4
thirty wears. We mad q duty ranging from
4 % 10 per cent on hides. Prom 1872 a.
1890. q ueriDd II eighteen year.. hides
have ben on the free lfet. Since hides
were placed on the free lIst the Argentine
Republic Ecuador and Brazil have placed
an export duty On hide
In 1872, the year that the duty va
taken Of. the pT1ce O greer and salted
hides ranged from - - f2E cents rs.r
pound Ia 1873 We imported 81. ~. 30
worth n hides. The prloe THAI year
ranged from e % 10 cents pr p4fr,d.
In tire wear ls<s wa imported s.. Ia .Ji1
worth 81 hIdas. The rrlce that year was
from Z 70 % cents per pound. II viii
thus - zen that the amount n hide.
imported has Gradually inrrsass-i slncs
i-IZ, The time the cut.s-- were taken OF. f.
while st the same time fhs 1sri-s.
81 hide IL oniv ahs8sIt ssr.a~half
What IL vas n IS7Z. The urice of
hides has gone down 80 loF that il hayd- I
Il pays the producers = hIriez % taEe he 4
skin o4 az animal that dses. and set. We
are paving foreign Esydsiaaers - hisje-s
oveF - 9ss},9ga q year far foreign hide. f
h8ies are T1Faoucsd BY alfnraf every s
farmer IN the Jdltot stats. r. asE.s.r 4
y-rsFzis. thare zre uzary FnIsiisrls ~ usrr .
csflzssns engaged ia tie production e 4
hides. and ttgoss thus empiqyt-l are tfss /