The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-12

Reasoning only from general prin-
ciples the Gil o b felt justified in warn
ing it's readers that the Dingley wool
schedule meant a stiff rise in the price
of all wool fabrics, and advised pur-
chases while these essential articles Of
health and comfort could be bought
now at lower cost than ever before
in our history. The general principle
is that increase of cost Of material
increases price Of product, and the
addition Of II cents a pound to the
cost Of imported wool in the grease.
amounting to three or four times that
on the wool when secured, would. with
its attendant increases Of profits on
capital invested, enhance the cost Of
the fabric. The foolish hope of the
shepherds that it will prohibit imports
will not be realized because foreign
woods are essential for mixing with
the domestic. Additional to this is the
evowed purpose of the bill to increase
domestic prices of both the raw mate
rial and the finished product for the
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g woolens makers.
The Investigations made by experts
confirm the prediction of the Glob Q
and emphasize it's warnings. Unhap-
PLY the class receiving the most and
needed benefit from the low prices of
woolens are the least able to anticipate
the effects of the tariff by present pur-
chases for future needs, and it Is upon
their class of woolens that the tax
will fall heaviest and the advance in
cost be the greatest. Let us hear from
the experts. One dealer submits an
invoice Of italian cloth containing S79
yards, weighing 437 pounds and in
voiced at $216, on which the present
duty is 40 per cent ad valorem, max
ing the duty $S6.40. Under the Ding
ley bill the tax, A cents a pound, plus
10 cents a pound additional, plus 20
per cent ad valorem, would make the
tax on this invoice $301, or nearly l4O
per cent An all-worsted beaver cloth.
costing now so cents, running sixteen
cents, will cost $1.2S9, making the
equivalent ad valorem tax 100 per cent.
A fifty four-inch black Italian Cotton
warp costing in England 27.25 cents.
our money, weighing 81 ounces TO the
running yard, costs, present tariff add
ed, 40.S7 cents a yard, and, under the
proposed rates, will cost 59.9 cents.
making the rate on invoice cost 100
per cent. A sample Of common dress
goods, a wool and cotton mixture that
costs abroad "a cents a yard in our
money, will cost, when the new duty
is added, 81 Sic cents a yard, a tax
of $50 per cent Another, a thirty-six-
inch black Orleans costing 9.75 cents
yard, and, present tariff added, 1853
cents will cost, under the Dfngley
tax, 2O.7 cents yard, or an ad valorem
rate of 112 per cent.
A thirty eight-inch pure black mo-
hair costing in England 1875 cents g
yard weighing under four ounces to
the yard, will cost, the new duty add
ed, 36.1S cents a yard, making an ad
valorem rate of 100 per cent The
present rate of 40 per cent makes it
cost 27.75 cents. A fifty-four-inch
black Sicilian cloth, cotton warp, cost
ing abroad 27.5 cents a yard, and, pres
ent duty added, 41.25 cents, will cost
1927 cents, making a tax equivalent to
ITO per cent. A forty f1ve-inch black
mohair. cotton warp, used for dress
goods, costing 22.5 cents, will cost,
with the new duty added, 46.O6 cents,
or 104 per cent advance on cost If
the women find all their dress
goods sharply marked up, the men
will find their cloths no less advanced
A twenty-eight-oun f1fty-four-inc
beaver, wool and cotton mixed, costing
80 cents abroad, will pay a duty of
33 cents a pound, amounting to 57.75
cents. an additional duty of cents a
pound, making 10.5 cents more, and an
ad valorem duty Of 20 per cent piled
on top of all this, adding cents more.
making a duty Of TAPS cents on cloth
that cost 80 cents, instead of the pres
ent Il cents, or an ad valorem rate Of
1475 per cent And so on through the
schedule AS one critic says: ''The