Arizona republican., 1891-07-04
THE PARROTS CHATTER.
THE BIRD WHICH, CRIES 1.-THE TARIFF
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IS A TAy.r > He Is Now In the New York World Of- dce-The "Tax'' on S,cl;s. Shirts, Eye glasses and CIothes--Some Points About American Watches. .7--.r--..... Many of our Free-trade contemporaries pleased themselves and their Anglo maniac readers and owners by mention ing the duties imposed on articles used at the Tariff league dinner or worn by the guests, and asserting. either directly or by implication, that these duties were added to the cost of the articles used.
 The World in particular was very much exercised over the increased cost of clothing. end gave long list of gar ments and other accoutrements with the duty and what it calls the tax added. Some of these items arc reproduced, us:
 Duty. Tax. pair socks. cotton. Sl doz and 40p c. .2l Now man has either to buy some thing extremely fancy or go to the store of "reforiner" to pay more than 9 cents for pair of cotton socks.
 Duty. Tax. shirt. irt...................... hp.c. K These are sold ut any store off from Fifth avenue boiled aud starched for $l, or unlaundered for 80 cents,
 Duty. Tax. 1 suit clothing....,. +9Nc. 10. and co p. c. A.49 The stores are full of good suits of clothes for $l0, and more suits of clothes, coat, vest and trousers, are sold in this city for less than $l5 than at greater price.
 Duty. Tax. fpair eyeglasses. ......... cope. co | pair eyeglass frames..... cope. IS s Possibly The Worlds nose is SO con- structed that it is necessary for it on buying pair of eyeglasses to immedi- ately purchase pair of eyeglass frames, bat most people don't have to do it.
 2 Duty. Tax. 1 cord for eyegasses...... Dp.c. .06 This is snide" charge. Even the street vendors who peddle eyeglasses at 25 cents a pair throw in a cord.
 s. Duty. Tax. 1 watch. 25p.c. hU This is rather an unfortunate item, in view of the following which appeared in many newspapers just before the dinner, from paper read by Mir. Jere- miah Head. of Middlesborongh, Eng. land, on his visit to this country. @. "lf you think exaggerate, let me ask you to compare the manufacture of watches as it existed in England twenty years ago with the same as it exists in Waltham to-day. All materials, labor, prestige and experience were in our favor. and we ought to have retained the trade. Nevertheless English con. sumers are today buying American watches in largo quantities, and better ones for the money than can be made herr" .
 Mir. Head further says:
 All this is because they have per. fected their types and organized the manufacture in more thoroughly sci. entific and better manner than our habits and prejudices would admit of oui doing"
 But. as matter of fact. American watches Gre cheaper ana Detter than En' giish watches because this duty which The World calls a tax encouraged Amer ican watch makers to organize theii factories in more thoroughly scientific manner than their English and Swiss competitors are willing to, with theii determination to keep both their invest lnents in the machinery and wages low, The cheap production of watches, like the production of anything else te which machinery is applicable. is merely matter of the capital the producers can raise toput into machner, and the intelligence of the operatives. M The lifelong effort of The World has been to destroy confidence Tn the future of American manufacturing, both ir the cause of the English, whose indus trial and banking interests it champions and because the making and operating of the machinery necessitated by ouI high wages requires intelligent and well | paid operatives--men' as class who dc not support The World nor approve oi