Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1892-11-02
DEMOCRATIC WOOL DUTIES.
Speaker Crisp on the Effect of the Springer
Free Wool Bin.


Free Wool Bin.
We PASSED Till known as the Springer
wool bill. We put raw wool on the free
list-made it absolutely free. We did
not intend to hurt the farmer when we
did 1t, because, in a proper sense, the
Australian and other foreign wool
brought into this country is not in com
petition with American wool. 1t is IN
auxilary-an aid-necessary to mix and
mingle with it u make the various kinds
Of goods that we want
And then, again. the Democrats gcner-
tlly are in favor Of free raw materials
10 enable our manufacturing establish
ments TO obtain their materials moro
choaply. We put wool on the free list,
but we did not stop there. We reduced
the tariff on wooden goods from an av-
erage specific and al valorem rate equiv
alcnt 10 90 per cent, which is where the
Mckinley law puts 1t, TO an average Of
less than IS per cent. That is the reduc-
tion proposed in the bill which passed
the house. Now last year there were
brought into this country $35, 100000
worth of woolen goods, and upon those
goods there was paid into the federal
treasury tax Of S32 ,O00,0 That il
great deal more than this average OF 90
per cent. that | told you about The
tariff on some articles is much higher,
and on some articles it il lower. The
wooden schedule is among the highest.
Last year $35, 900, 600 worth Of woolen
goods came here from abroad TO be sold
in competition with the American
woolen products, and those goods paid
$3e 200 900 tax. Tho American consum-
ers Of those foreign goods paid sG7 ,000,-
0O0 for $35 600 600 worth of goods. They
got S35 100000 worth Of goods and
a32 100000 worth Of tariff when they
bought them. Now, if the American
people consume FIVE times as many goods
Of domestic manufacture as they do of
imported goods then the American peo-
pie paid five times S32 900 600 in the way
Of increased price on goods Of American
manufacture. and therefore they paid
$3.50, 1000, 600 in round numbers for goods,
and At the same time they paid about
$l45, ,000, 900 in round numbers for pro-
lection on woulcn goods.
Now the Democrats believe that for
the same amount ~ money you ought
to be able 10 buy more goods and less
protection. Soif the Springer wool bill
becomes a law, instead of that {3j, ,O0O,-
0OO worth Of imported goods paying $32
600 600 tax, it would have paid $ll ,000,.
600 tax, aui you would have saved
lut Ets. G
600. 600 on the home made article, which
would have been 800 1000, 600 more.
We are no. in favor Of free trade We
favor free trade in the raw materials.
but not free trade In the goods into
which skilled American labor enters.
There Is piyIty of prot aCuon left TO
more than compensate for any real or
supposed differences in The price of la
bor, and at the same time there are
moro chea> goods for the American
wOrkingmen.
Now let the American workingman
take it to himself when he goes 20 the
store and tnys n suit Of woolcn clothes
for $40. BE pays about s. FOR the clothes
and about "a for protection. Now, IL
you crt down that protection, as we
have proposed in the Springer bill when
tho workingnan buys $40 worth Of
clothes he will get about $3.50 worth Of
clothes and $3.50 worth OF protection,
and that is plenty. That is "a much as
the worlSingman needs in cold weather,
when money is scarce and he has clothes
g. buy.
Vow what else did that sama HI DO?
II reduced the tax on wool hats from ?
pr cent. to 25 per cent, and tho sa'ae
on blankets and woOlen IN lcrwcar, 20
that if the bill had become law ,he
woolen underwear for which you now
lay 8 you could buy for $685.. The
Democratic idea Is 20 benefit tho work,
ingnan in this way-by imposing Gus
toms duty for revenue purposes ard dis
tributing the incidental protection judi
ciously, because il has got 90 op,ra.e
somewhere, and by reducing - tie
workingman tho price Of what he has 20
lGy.-Spcaker Crisp's Speech ia Doroit