Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-03-18
MANUFACTURERS RESTRICTED

should read the following extract
from the speech delivered in the
House OF Representatives by the
Hon. Benton McMilliD, OF Tennessee,
in advocating the passage of the
Springer free wool bill:
The wool manufacturers have been
restricted as to the quality Of wool
they could afford to buy in the grease
by reason of the tariff; they have
been restricted in markets substan-
TALLY To their own country. They
have been forced to use shoddy as a
substitute for wool. The rags that
had already fallen FROM the backs of
beggars in other countries have been
used as a substitute for WOOL So
great was this that petition came up
from one city, Philadelphia, signed by
Mr.. Herwig and others, introduced
by Mr.. Harmer, Republican menu
bef and protectionist, claiming to
represent ,O00 laborers in taxtile in
dustries, demanding free wool for the
manufacturers of the United States.
The tax OF eleven cents pound on
wool, it must DO remembered. is not
o tax on pure wool, but is IL cents a
pound on oil the grease on the wool
and all the dirt in the grease, and is
estimated to amount to A cents on
every pound of finished cloth.
Let me read few words from that
petition:
Now, it can not be the difference in
the wages that is causing all this,
when the entire wage account in the
worsted and WOODEN industries is but
III per cent. OF the product and lit
the cotton industries 20.69 per cent,
Of the product, and it stands to reason
that this very small account can play
bnt trifling part in international
trade; and this aptly illustrated the
fclly Of the great bubbub about
wages that ID made IN most of the
discussions OF this question.
Bear in mind these are practical
workmen, not the owners of fiocks,
not the owners Of factories, but the
lnen who, after the commandment of
God, "ept their bread in the sweat of
their faces"
Then the whole labor cost in the
man ufacture Of woolens and OF wor-
steds is less than 20 per cent, and in
this bill tire lowest rate Of duty is
fixed at % per cent. Then if any
mao goes forth from this Hall who
moved and seduced by the wiles OF
SATIN and not having the fear OF the
Lord before his eyes, declares that
there is not sufficient amount Of tax
left on these things to cover the
labor that ia embraced in them, you
can denounce him az either too fool
ish TO know the truth or too knavisl
to declare it.
sHoDDY. ...
Mr.. Chairman, this high tax or
wool has forced the use Of vast Quan
titles OF substitutes for wool--shoddy
muugo, and other adulterauts used il
biS vi NtOISu QOO0G
This is strongly put 10 the report
from which extract tho following:
H'rom this stStemeut il viii apnea
that the number OF establish ment
haze Increased from % in 1881 to "a i,
1890; and tho value OF tho produc
has increased from S4,900,0O0 to 60
100000, the increase beng nearly s
per cent. Itappears from Mr. North
table that tue shoddy used ia manu-
fnctures Of WOODEN goods of all dt
scription5 IN the censuR year of 49,,
amounted to 6l,62G,2Gl pounds.
According to tho statement fu,
nished your committee by the Burea
OF Statistics OF the Treasury Depar
ment, printed In the appendix To thi
report (Appondix D. there were prt
duced Ia tho United States in In
yoar 1900 2T6,O0,0,0 pounds OF WOO
These figures represent the wool /
the grease, aud in reducing it 1
secured wool there will he "a loss ,
66ss per cont, which shows that Il,
secured wool produced in that yea