The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-01-11

Every BranCG or Industry.
New YoRK. Jan. 1o.-The National
Association of Wool Manufacturer met
to-day at the Metropolitan Hotel, with
the Hon. Rufus S. Frost in the chair.
The following were elected officers for
the ensuing year:
Preaident-Rufua s. Frost.
Vice presidents-John L. Houston,
Dolan.
Treaaurer-Benjamin Phipps.
Socretary-S. N. D. North.
Several prominent men made speeches
denouncng the Wilson bill in 80 far as
it effects the business. at a conference
this afternoon to protest against the
Wilson bill the following protest was
prepared and adopted, With instruc-
tions that copies be sent to President
Cleveland and members of Congress.
'The allied industries represented at
meeting held at the Metropolitan
5 Hotel, New York, January 10, 1894, in
Guiding all branches of the manufacture
and sale OF woolen goods, carpets and
knit goods, and'the wholesale clothing
and cloak manufactures, speaking for
an investment of capital far exceeding
$780, OO0O,O 600, EN- barked in business un-
der the laws of the United States, on
the good faith of the government tina.
its citizens shall be duly guarded in
their invested property rights, as Amor
lean citizens have assembled to protest
against the enactment of law which
threatens to destroy large part of this
capital and to render it uncertain
whether the remainder shall be pro-
tected.
"The provisions of the wool and
woolen schedule OF the Wilson tariff
bill compel this protest which is made
in the belief that its trainers have no
adequate conception OF its practical de-
fects. It is SO drawn as to entail upon
the American manufacturer the maxi
mum of loans and embarrassment offer
OF foreign competitors for the possesr
sion of the American market at the
minimum risk and effort.
.'We base this protest upon a pledge
OF President Cleveland in his message
to Congress of Decem Der 6, 1887, that a
reimbursement of our tariff should be de-
vised with especial precaution against
imperiling the existence of our manu-
featuring interests.'
.'This bill, regardless of that pledge,
is framed ina manner that threatens
disaster to great group of industries,
located III noarly every state in The
union.
.We protest against this measure as
the sole cause of prolongation OF bus
mess depression which would at once
disappear but for the menace of its
future enactment. The Wilson bill has
dsorganized the business and com
merce of the country, and its enact
ment is opposed by every branch of in
dustry and the entire body OF american
producers. It is measure hat creates
deficit by reducing or removing duties
almost exclusively on articles OF foreign
manufacture or production that COM
pete with American products; and we
especially protest against the adjust
menr of the bill which creates nearly Az
per cent of this deficit, amounting to
S2S, ,O0O,0 annually, by removing or re-
ducing duties upon wool and woolens,
which enter into competition with
American farms and factories.
1--WE protest against these radical re-
ductions of duties ut q time OF indus
trial depression among the great manu-
featuring nations OF Europe, when their
markets are gluttcd with surplus goods
and the difficulties of American COM
s petition are greatly accentuated. w o
& particularly protest against the treat
G lnent accorded the wool growing indus
try and all branches of the wool manu-
3 facture in this bill, as harsh IN the eX-
treme and moro radical and proscrlptlVe
g than in any otner schedule. The pro-
posed rates OF duty ad valorem are insults
cient with accompanying specific duties,
to equaize the present differences be-
tween foreign and domestic cost OF pro-
duction.
1T is a demonstrated fact that labor
costs in this manufacturer are double
$ tho similar costs in Great Britain and
81 often three times as much as on the
continent OF Europe. All other manu-
featuring costs are edisproportlonate in
like degree-the cost of capital, plant,
maintenance, supplies, repairs, super.
intendents, taxation, etc, compelling
the employment of much larger capital
- to produce the same quantity OF goods.
a duty OF forty per cent upon the
foreign cost of wooden goods, equivalent
to q duty of but twenty-eight and one
.S.s half per cent upon the domestic cost
will not equal those differences in the
com parative Manufacture costs.
s:AVes protest against the maladj US t
ment of duties in this schedule, as it is
illogical, unscientihc and misftted.
American manufacturers OF hole
sale clothing, by transferring their pat
terms and methods to the continent o:
Europe and utilizing European cloths
Szs and labor, can supply American Gus.
toners with goods adapted to this mar
ket, pay the proposed duty OF $45 pei
cent and earn q profit beyond the reach
of those who cont the smanutacttsfe
in this. country. Is
glis.We WeEpart ticulerly protest against the
!glaring INJUSTICE done TO the carpet