The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-02-01
Whson on Woolens.

masses q tht people. The only
trouble with him is that he goes
about it ia q thoretical instead of
practical Won't This was to be ex-
pected from 5ollege professor who
is not a bus1ess man.
He first let to work to ruin the
farmers WHIP produce wool, So that
they would'have little or no money
with which to buy wooden goods.
He next wqntto work to ruin our
wooden ma featuring industry, SO
that the 1000 workers IN the
wooden mil Mll not be able to buy
WOODEN goo He has also set to
WORK Js{ssShe 3 POS q { thousands
of other operAfries,in other mills,
so that they will have no money
with which to buy Eoolen goods.
We remember the touching solic-
itude with which Professor Wilson,
in a recent paper, referred to
samples of cheap English wooden
goods, on his desk, that would af-
ford warm and comfortable clothing
to the poor working girl. But if
Professor Wilson has closed down
the factory where the poor girl
worked and has taken from her the
opportunity of earning living,
how is she going to paw his 40 per
cent. tax on the cheap English
WOODEN goods, let alone the price of
the material and the profit Of the
importer.
We have already shown in the
american Economist how the WOODEN
manufacturers of Bradford, Eng
land, state that they will, under
the Wilson bill, secure better con-
troll of our market of 10000, 900
people than they have ever had,
and what boon to them the free
wool to us Will be. Let us now
look at the prospects for cheap
woolens from the standpoint Of a
New York importing house, as
quoted by Messrs. Z. II. Van In
gen & Co., who have always been
interested in securing Free Trade
for English goods. In a recent cir
cular this firm said:
"We are having many inquiries
from our customers as to the effect
upon prices if the Tariff bill now
before C9Itress shall become law
The bill Proposes to place WOO
upon the free list and to make tht
duty upon WOODEN goods 40 pei
cent. ad valorem.
"With such rate of duty fin,
grades of foreign goods would b,
t reduced In price about Is per cent
: and medium grade perhaps 20 tt
25 per cent. With free wool Amer
lean goods would probably b'
5 reduced about 10 per cent, possibl,
in some classes Is per cent. Blu
the new Tariff on woolens will Ger
tainlv not take effect before July l
and therefore spring and summe
goods will not be affected in price
, at all.
"Highly exaggerated ideas viii
: prevail among tailors' customers, W
: suspect, as to the reduced prices o
garments when the change of tarlt
does come. If wages remain a
! now the reduced cost of cloth vii
, warrant no more than 5 per cent
, reduction in the tailors' prices, o
S say 81 to 50 on SUIT.
"During the coming six month
, the tailor will, no doubt, be able t
: modify the expectations of thos
customers who may be looking TO
a greater reduction"
With reduction of from 30 t
T. 100 per cent. IN the cost of ra'
wool, and of rs to lao per cent. i
I the cost of WOODEN products, as tn
4 Free Traders have promised /
n their new Tariff, is it not astound
c ing to learn from such high trad
8 authority rs we have quoted tina
n If wages remain as now, the IT
;, duced cost OF cloth will warrant n
o more than ) per cent. reduction!
s What is to become of the rest {
: the reduction? The English mani
/ facturers have assured us that the
d will control our wooden trade. Wi
:. they take the other 40, so or 1C
n per cent. that the Wilson bill lol
J off the Tariff? Or will it 60 I'M
S the pockets Of the New York in
u porters Of the English goods, sue
It as Messrs. Van Ingcn & Co? III
IS matter has evidently been arrange
70 between these two parties or til
n firm would not be so positive tn
IL "the reduced cost will warrant
IS more than 5 per cent. reduction
70 But if wages so lower there m
ID be lower PRICE, though there is
g promise to this\ effect, nor is
v stated what proportion the decli
in cloth will bear to the decline
wages. How about the poor wor
: ing girl, Professor Wilson, who
!. you deprive \ work and to who
Won have Namised nice Engli