The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-02-27
At WHOSE EXPENSE
VINO Paid the Profit of Fifty Per C
Made by MIR. Whitman,s Mill in 100

Who Paid the Profit of Fifty Per Cent.
MADE hy MIR. Whitman's Mill in 1891?
Ihe American Wool Reporter shows
tnat the meeting of the National AS
soclatlon of Wool Manuf acturs," called
oy PRESIDENT Whitman, at which reso.
lu'lons were passed demanding that
congress should make no change in the
duties on wool and woolens. was but
poorly attended and that even many of
those present opposed the resolutions.
This exposure of Mr.: Whitman's little
plot has called forth from him long
letter IN which he declares that the
wool consumers association" and the
people who demand free wool and lower
oot1es on woolens are engaged in a
crusade at the expense of other peo-
ple.'
Concerning Mr. Whitman's letter and
his lite association, the Wool Reporter
has. this to say:
President Whitman of the 'sNational
Association of Wool Manufacturers"
did wrong in penning the following
sentences in the letter which he gave
to the press January 30 in reply to re-
ITO attempt radical tariff legislation
now is the maneuvering of politicians
for partisan purposes, who are think
ing least of all of the welfare and
prosperity of the wool manufacturer.
The persons most eager for free
wool are those who have nothing at
stake and who are always ready to en-
gage in crusades for tariff reform at
the expense of other people,
Under Mr. Whitman's administration
the large manufacturers have been
dropping out OF the National Associa-
ton one by one, until there are but few
remaining to dispute MIR. Whitman's
supremacy. The "Memorial'' upon
whose defense he is now engaged, was
not prepared even by the little meet
ing OF the National Association" at
which it was first presented. It was
brought in, cut and dried, by President
Whitman and the secretary of the as
ISOLATION at the opening of the meet
ing: And it cannot be true that legis-
lation proposed by a committee, of
which Hon. Moses T. Stevens is a
member, and Endorsed by such lead
ing manufacturers as Arthur T. Ly-
man, Jesse Metcalf, Galen C. Moses,
Charles M. Beach, William B. Weeden
and L. Quincy Browne, nearly every
one of whom has larger actual own
ership in wooden manufacturing than
Mr.. Whitman-it cannot be true, we
repeat, that the attempt to secure such
legislation as proposed by these men,
as the man9uvering of politicians for
partisan purposes"
Hon. Moses T. Stevens, of the ways
and means committee, is the largest in
dividual wooden manufacturer in the
United States. T. Quincy Browne is
treasurer of the largest corporation in
the United States making carded wool
goods. Jesse Metcalf is the principal
owner of very large mills making
combed wool goods or worsteds. Galen
C. Moses is treasurer and principal
owner of the largest wooden mills in
the state of Maine. Arthur T. Lyman
is treasurer of one of the largest car
pet mills in the United States
and director and heavily inter-
ested in other manufacturing es-
Establishments. Mr.. William B. Weed
en- is one of the foremost WOOL
en- and worsted manufacturers in
Rhode Island, and Mr.. Charles NJ.
Beach is equally concerned in manu-
featuring in Connecticut All these
men have large portion of their
fortunes invested in wooden manufac-
turing. On the other hand, Mr.. Will
liam Whitman is comparatively small
owner in the mills of which he is treas
urer.
That was singularly ill-considered
expression, also, in which Mr.. Whit
man refers to the vast army of con-
sumers of wool goods as 'engaging in
crusades for tariff reform at the ex-
pense of other people," At the expense
of whom, pray! Evidently at the ex-
pense of the Arlington mills in whose
especial and particular interest the
Mckinley bill was framed to enable
that corporation to earn fifty per cent.
upon its capital stock in 1891, "'at the
expense of other people. :: : ST. ....