New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-02-26
TOBACCO AND THE TARIFF.
WHAT TIE Mckinley BILL HAS DONE tok
A GREAT INDUSTRY.

| rION NEW ONES-A Fohfi"' A"'DN
IL CIGARETTES HAS BEEN MADE
poMEsrIC-PIPE MANU-.
| With March begins the change OF government
from protective RcpublIcanism 10 lmofe VT "''' "''
trade Democratic principles.
l., ,his country to which the possible ana pfooaoie
| tariff changes Of raw and manufactured material are
moro important than to the tobacco inouSury' ""icn
Is tie greatest national tobacco Industry eA's''ns "
tho world to-day, and entitled 10 All cois'ue'',o
Tho tobacco men I'm all departments are for the time
! hoing putting party politics on enc s'oe' anu '''
looking into the matter impartial business men,
An, ,hie e. rhat they 500. When the Mckinney Dill
hoc,po q law and the terms OF schedule placed
duty OF 81 per pound all imported 'oo'eco " w
used RS wrappers for cigars grent CRY ""' "p '''
| our magnificent clear Havana cigar ihuu'"' ""'
r1ned: that the cigars made OF Cuban irai DV '"o''
| uorrmcn IN mis- city, Kcy West and Tampa etc.
conld no longer b. produced that the NO" 'ar'" u"
ho wranno,s meant an unavoidable Increase OF cost
| ~ MANUFACTURES amounting to no less than S'o %
per 900 cigars. and that thiS wo"iu 0ro"u o''
o, use all the smaller inferior sizes ana reduce Tue
ont put Of tho goods 10 q minimum "e""nNN
held at the three great clear Havana mah"iac'"'"S
ccntr.s and committees sent 10 washington
o sp,re no effort, for the repeal or modification OF
~ ',,,,,.h,o clause History tells ttat they
wore unsuccessful: that the tariff OF ~ per pouhi
duty remained, and the present shows tha'' III ''''
word, of Daniel Webster, we still live"
Good Republicans are now In position 10 assn
TIT, opposition to the new faT'h was 'ra'e h'''."''
Marty feeling, or ignorance due to raS'y instead OF
= ,r.f,I Investigation OF facts and equally carefui
forcc,stnr Into tn future TO the more probable
results Of .uch protection. Tic reason ior '''S w
lion IS that the record for The last four years SHOWS
no bankrupt or falling clear Havana cigar man"'ac'
nrers but a remarkably we'll satisfied lot OF cuzenS'
Err the official output figures slow heavy ci''r
Havana Increase. In the three great hec'ions we
find that the clear Havana district Of New-fork CIV
nhe second Internal Revenue district mad" III '"e
rae six months Of 1957 7j.222,lJo cigars whch was
&, nlun, off from tie corresponding period In 1850
~ about 100000. Now mark. IN Spt" Oh F"''"'
tariff the last six months Of l792 shows me 'o''i
Of cigars manufactured TO b" 77,jfl42o, or Il s"tl Vi
. 39go7O or nearly 100000 cigars year lurh
~, noges to Florida which includes the other TWO
cl.or Havana centres koy West aud Tampa. ana we
end that tie record for IN" lns' six months oi So
was 5i.O2I .2j5 cigars. Will" "a" SIX mohhS 'hui"s
December 81. I7D2, shows total OF ''o-'''"' "
magnificent Increase Of product In four wears amount
Ing to c3oOs G-5 How IA this for ruin and desols,
,,,, Whore l. the great falling on I'm product tha'
vos expected Republicans can pause for repN' OUT
II ill M, come Add the above tie figures lot tne
inpora,ion % cigars and tho argument Is complete.
I, lass w. imported gG.77O.OO0 cigars. and IN lev.
We Imported only G1j90.oo0. or decrease VI
e-I-oOOO. This was protection
or the other branches OF the ciSlr inu'sr' u i
on, possible to gcnerlhze. no district IS specialN
devotol 10 any onc grade of cigars. Taking VI" entire
conutry the record shows that In 1887 the 'hited
state, made ssh .2if.G2o cigars ana 'hat III ~
f,.y ,nndo A75395j3to an lncr"a-" OF production
in four years 81 02l9lO7e 700 or nearly one 'hoSinu
million cigars In Wis phenomenal in'fei"' me on
K.ysiono state comes 10 the front Pennsylvania
fhn Il a
.o,al Of 3ca 900 ceurs and for the corresponding
elk months 81 l-g2 just closed she made no Jess ""n
-n5 600 600 cigars an increase Of 2O3,OOoOOo lmnh
e., H. for IN the history % 40 country Oh ''F'"
las such n product been turned ont before IH''
hoor, vas immediate after the passage Of the BILL tn"
fires, months of October. November ana De'"mD'r'
1850 over the record Of ID" corresponding months
OF l5so showed Il total Increase VI about 2oOOooo1o
cigars or - De exact, nm Increase 81 -u''7'''-'
Cigars during the first three months aftr tue b'il
became law and schedul" + went Into force. Yet
WIS declared by the manufacturers Of cigars covered
with sumatra wrapper las we'll MS ia" clear ilaVaha
tb,i It would cause Increase IN cos, 81 about
o., nor 900 FOR cigars made u Havana hller t'1
nor cont pr pound duty and Sumatra wrappers,
and - per 1000 domestic hl"rN cov"ri WIN
sum,,ra Committees on this polat also went TO
Washington and patiently heard. but t"c Ike
publican Government then IN oihce de'"inln'n - give
mis- matter practical test ana the figures of the
sonndnc,s OF their judgment
- much for The product. Now for the indvidua!
manufac ,urcrs. over fifty new factories We're "pn"l
np I'm various parts Of the country during the hrS'
three months Of the Mckinley hill and since then
N. columns Of The trade journals show Factories
At n. rate Of eight or ten week or 800 year.
ore OF the principal firms In tn" cigar Industry. In
addition - their Iarg, 800 hand factory h this city
has during the last two wears opened factory nj
pc.k,lln and another TO employ 400 hnnds at Phil-
,i,Inhia Another has large lew factory al New
Vrin,wict. another has three times enlarged Is
branch factory NJ Kingston y. V: another has moved
70 a nrgcr factory in Fir,tayc with capacity for
900 hands and has enlarged It's Key West factory
another las built wing 10 accommodate" 400 NOR"
hands. while out Of town. two Philadelphia firms
havc opened branch Factories. employing several
hundred hands and one I'm Chicago has don" the same"
Illinois has made an ncrels" Of over 30 per cent on
her output aud the tidal wave OF prosperity |
may Il. found on all .idcs rxcrp, In California. whore
the Chinese versus white labor has crippled tie
outpt for siA years past. 1t may be asked does |
the prosperity OF the firms authenticate the above
statements. and the best reply 10 that Is tic output
figures, which show an Increase Of 02i.oiO72o in the
cigar manufActurin. Industry during the last four !
years, Il, shown by Internal rcvenu" figures.
u hicn like George Was ing'on. cannot lie!
It must be- remembered that the actual increase In |
price made Icy the Manufacturer to the distributor ara
retailer has up to dat" been very small. merely |
nominal TO cover the increased cost OF labor occaSioned
hy the successful and concerted action OF the labor
unions, This Is especially significant when the meet
Ing Of the Combined Manufacturers Association sent
forth H., cdict a raise In price OF 20 per ZOO on
and after January !. 1891. and met with such an out
cry and I'm the public press OF all sections ol
. No tru,t-no combine" that the resolution came TO
nancht and the combine died IA natural death. II Is
also worthy OF not" that the absentee manufacturers
nj that meeting were the very firms who to-day show
mil mt nd
condition OF business. \ month after tho meeting
wo of the largest firms guaranteed their customers
that during 1891 there should De- no advance In III"
price Of seed and SumatIa" goods.
SO much for cigars, the Item most affected by the
schedule OF the Mckinley bill. Turn to the other