Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-01-24
HIGH TARIFF BosH.

HIGH TARIFF BOSH.
The Wall Street Journal is authority
for the statement that "Some importers
are selling goods for next falls delivery
at European price plus whatever tariff
may be on delivery This is a state
ment of fact that does not gee" with
the theory OF Mckinney, who says tho
foreigner pays the taxes. 1t either is
not a fact or il is base conspiracy Of
the American importer to make the
American consumer pay a tax already
paid by the foreigner.
But the Val Street Journal is not In
politics. 1t is business paper and it's
clientele is composed entirely.of business
men, who understand their business
and seek only information from the
press regarding conditions affecting its
various branches. According to Nc
KINLEY's theory, however, they are not
business men but bunco steerers, who
buy goods on which the foreigner paws
the tariff tax and then charge the
American consumers also with the tariff
tax.
This is the reductio nd dbsurdlim of
McKinleyism.
n such a case, as the Chicago Herald
demonstrates, it is safest to pin our
faith to the practical business men, for
they are dealing with practical business
affairs and not with theories. 1t is safe
to assume that they would not engage
TO pay foreign prices plus tariff II they
did not know from experience that the
importer adds the duty TO the price
which they pay and that they in turn
can recoup themselves by adding the
duty to thdlPhces they exact from con-
sumers' II is altogether a practical
matter-a matter Of business, not theory.
POTTERY GLASS AND TIE TARIFF.
T9sother day. Mr. f. NJ. PEARSON,
of-she Wheeling Pottery Company, who
=, has just returned from England, said:
"All the English pottery manufacturer
wants is the passage of the Wilson bill,
and he will food the country with his
wares"
This assertion is strange in the light
of an article or THE American Tariff
Bill" in The Pottery gazette OF London,
which we have before us. II says;
The Staffordshire manufacturers have
been Interested during the past weeks ia
the proposed reductions In the tariff rates
on pottery and glass 20 America In the
pottery schedule reductions are made on
plain white ware, which is decreased from
the high schedule IN which 30 was placed.
Decorated ware is reduced from 90 20 -
per cent, and undecOratcd ware from 50 10
40 per cent The reductions in the glass
would affect the window and plate glass
manufacturers more particularly. When
Mr. Weldon G.. Warner the United States
Consul, was speaking az the memorial
luncheon, Tunstal, in the early part Of
Decem Der, he referred hopefully % the
prospects Of this measure passing into law.
10 might, he said, take a few months
20 pass IL through Congress,
and receive its final signatures.
and ~ was not probable that tho bin youId
pass exactly As now drafted. but all the
same, he advised the Staffordshirc manu-
facturers, % whom he was speaking. 10
watch carefully the progress Of events
That the measure IS am imu1rt nj oue be-
Of course admitted by all who nave watch.
ed the progress OF Americ can manufacture.
out there Is one aspect of the question
which has, we think, very largely been
overlooked. Immediately the cost of pro.
oucuou Us reduced in the United States.
botu ~ pressed glass and even of some
kinds of pottery. IN is not improbable that
we may have large $50 pmorfs Of pottery
IS well as glass 20 Tins country tgo on
this side have little conception bow rapidly
the american makers are adauttug then.
selves ~ tlC needs of tlDIr trade. and soon.
or or latcr mean t0 have very much
larger share of English trade than has
hitherto fallen TO their lot.
This is the English view ~ So. IT.
comes straight from an organ OF the
English potteries, and it is Gau7 con-
Trajectory OF Mr.. PEAH-oy'- statement.
The English pottsrs and glass makers
understand their business and they
know, Also that a lowering OF the tariff
barrier in the United States means
wider markets for our wares. and con-
queutly fewer markets Tor our foreign
competitors who cannot compete under
aca conditions with the hgstung
American.
To fact, we're politics and enc greedy
trusts eliminated from the matter there
would Dot be- sensible manufacturer in
The country who would not be- an ardent
advocate OF tariff reform
The BEGi-rEg has 10 from % promin-
cut glass manufacturor OF this neigh
borhood that meeting Of nine glass
manufacturer was held 30 Pittsburg tho
other day. a Republican was chosen
chairman. He presented resolution
condemning the Wilson bill Il was
discussed and ELK OF the nine we're fouud
% be- in favor oi the biirs passage The
fesoiutisn was voted down and one