The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-02-10

4 Professor Wilson Of West Virginia
! has been very determined, in framing
( his tariff measure, to secure cheap
wooden clothing for the masses of the
people. The only trouble with him is
| that he goes about it in a theoretical
/ instead of practical way. This was
/ to be expected from a college professor
who is not a business man.
! He first set TO work to ruin the farm
ers who produce wool, SO that
they would have little or no money
with which to buy wooden goods. He
next went to work to ruin our wooden
manufacturing industry, SO that the
/ -, 900 workers in wooden mills viii not
be able to bay WOODEN goods He has
also set TO work to ruin hundreds of
| thousands Of other operatives in other
mills, SO that they will have 10 money
with which to buy wooden goods.
| We remember the touching SOlIci-
tude with which Professor Wilson, in a
recent paper, referred to samples of
cheap English wooden goods, on his
desk, that afford warm and comfort
able 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 pay 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 Amer
lean Economist how the wooden manu-
facturers of Bradford, England, state
that they will, under the Wilson bill,
secure better control of our market of
0,000, 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 w1olens
from the standpoint of a New York
importing house, as quoted by MesSrs.
f. II. NanIngen 4 Co., who have al
ways been interested in securing Free
Trade for English goods. In a recent
circular this firm said:
We are HAVING many inouirin5 from
ON. costumcrs as tn the pffe,f mon
prices If the tariff bill now before Con
greSS shall become a law. Thai bill
/ proposes TO place wool upon the free
| list and to make the duty upon WOODEN
| goods 10 per cent al yalorem
With such rate Of duty fine grades
OF 1oreigh goods would be reduced III
ttl,I ,'"2,', - PEI CSii' ana iie,I',,.I
| WjIh free wool american GOOD, wnjIIJ
| probably be reduced about 10 per cent.
! possibly IN some cases - per cent,
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/ VIII not be affected in prices at all.
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! inpnrs when the change Of tariff does
/ come. II wages remain as now the re
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/ During the coming six months the
! tailor viii, no doubt, be able to modify
me expectations OF those cotumerS
/ H"o may pe LooAlil9 lor greater Ie-
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