New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-02-26

| output for 1858 was 2,036,7IS $40, and in 1902
amounted to 1888 lO7 100, increase Of over am
100000, and In this connection 1t should be no,sd
that instead OF one monopoly controlling the Who'll.
OF this trade there have started up within The
two years several others capitalize for large amouns
Nor do the benefits Of protection TO the cigarette in
dustry cease here. Hitherto. with the exception a.
the product OF single factory all the cigarettes mad
OF fine Imported Turkish tobacco had been impor,~I
with few exceptions. but now there Is the Ottoman
Cigarette Company. with - 100000 capital and sey.
eral smaller concerns which practically ofshos
OF foreign firms compelled to open plants here to NJ
tain their trade. II may not be generally known hs,
we now manufacture in this city Of New.Yort ','
cigarette that costs the trade wholesale SIS Do,
e Sa' Mck KIN s"G iars S' ,Ss e
featured tSmOking ana chewing tobacco 10 turn
out an increase from June TO December 81. 1850,
which amounted 10 twO-thlrds OF The increase for hs
entire year. the total product amounting 10 2204A.
G36 pounds, and the total for 500 being 2s.2le4ol
pounds, and no extra duty or cost. Even snun takes
hand. the output for 1888 being 7.196.OcO pounds
and for 1892 over lO.095.3oO pounds.
Another item Of domestic Industry Is that Of pipe.
making. The first effect Of the protective tariff was
20 stop the importation Of clay pipes almost CON.
pletey within three months, and 10 raise the price Of
labor nearly Is per cent In our domestic factories
The public smoke clay pipes AZ the old prices and the
workman Is II per cent per week better Of. Owing
the peculiar classification OF smokers articles and
pipes under the last Administrative act the statistics Of
imported pipe, cannot De obtained but IN lss9 whom
they were more definitely clasSed the i'm por,a,ion
Amounted 10 duty Of S2l .437 Tho principal pipe
manufacturing firms all state that within the last
pipes ~ brar and meerschaum has been most marked
and that the increase has been nearly sill the finer
grades. One Of these firms stated that lmportstiony
Of foreign pipes except In fancy specialiies.
down 10 a low notch. The senior member ~ one pipe
firm. who for obvious reasons does not wish 10 be
quoted. said The Mckinley tariff works many
needed changes In the pipe importing trade. and these
affected bv the closer supervision and Inspection
In this wav for Instance. there l. duty on the
articles and another the boxes cartons and II
was an easy matter for unscrnpuouS houses 10
manipulate the invoices Of the price OF the article and
the value OF the carton 10 the best advantage Of them
selves and 70 the disadvantage of reputable honses
whch they We're then enabled 10 undernuote. This
evil to a very great extent the Mckinley bill has
stopped. The duty on oar articles excepting pipes
IL unchanged but the high protective arif Is good
thing for rs. and proof % this statement i that
whom the Democrats reduced The tariff In l9r3 the
domestic pipe trade fell of 30 per cent and did not
lnom again until Protection restored. Putting
politics side and considering fhe matter from
a trade standpoint purc and simple. think the pipe
industry OF this country T. sbOut ripe for coed
stif protective tariff pipes FOR We can compete
with the world"
r. Will thus -. from the actual official report
that there has been great and S'pady Increase In al
departments Of great tobacco infuSirv during NE
last four years 81 EopublicanISm and M'Kinev-h'l
Protection. vi that the members ~ the trade ASK os
Grover Cleveland and tho Democratic marty Is that II
shall continue. and that II shall not 10 broken INTO
and thrown backward by any change In existing Pro-
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