The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-07-31
ESPECIALLY TOBACCO MEN
RUINS THE BUSINESS OF SMALL
MANUFACTURERS.
BUT BENEFITS THE CIGARETTE TRUST
Section Written by Attorney Of the Ameri-
can Tobacco Company and Fathered,
it is Said, by Senator
Pritchard.

Tie most mammoth piece Of jobbery
the world has ever known is the present
tariff biu
1t NOT Only provides for the trusts and
the mouercd corporations. by direct
bounty, but it cuts of The smaller con-
Germ from competition with the larger.
Under its operation the day Of small
things has passed and the poor mans
condition has become more hopeless.
Practical Illustration Of the results Of
triumphant Dingleyism is given to the
people of North Carolina--and other to-
bacco raising and manufacturing States
by the section Of the new tariff bill
relative to the revenue charges on man
ufactured tobacco and the rules govern
ing its sale and shipment. This section
of the law was published in yesterdays
News and Observer.
After placing tax on cigars and Gig
arettes the law, it win lie remembered,
goes on to say:
None of the packages Of smoking
tobacco and fine-cut chewing tobacco
and cigarettes prescribed by law shall
be permitted TO have packed in, or
attached to, or connected with them,
any article or thing whatsoever 9th
err than the manufacturers wrappers
and labels. the internal revenue
stamp and the tobacco or cigar
cites, respectively, put up therein,
on which tax is required to be paid
under the internal revenue laws;
nor shall there be affixed to, or
branded, stamped, marked, written,
or printed upon said packages, or
their contents. any promise or offer
of, or any order or certificate for,
any gift, prize, premium, payment,
or reward.
No part of the whole tariff bill indi-
Gates more clearly the hand the trusts
had in the making of it than this. 1t
is, / am told by manufacturers, aimed
at antitrust concerns. 1t was dictated
by the American Tobacco Company and
inserted in the bill at the last moment.
There are great number of manu-
facturers of tobacco-several in Durham
who have been attaching to every bag
of smoking tobacco q little book of Gig
arctic paper. This enabled the purchaser
of the tobacco. if he so desired, to make
cigarettes for himself, whenever he want
ed them. But the trust owns all the
cigarette machines and has monopoly
Of the cigarette business. The sale of
tobacco with cigarette paper attached
was iniuring this business, so they decid-
ed to put stop to it, They did, and by
the above section of the tariff law.
Again the sale of smoking tobacco was
being greatly increased by putting cou-
pons, and others offers of prizes in each
package AS the sale of smoking tobac-
co increased the sale of cigarettes was
decreased. This they have stopped by
three lines in the tariff BILL
1t is q very stringent law, drawn, it
is said. by Mr.. Fuller, counsel for the
American Tobacco Company, and faith
cred. I am told, by Senator Pritchard.
1t can be seen at glance that this
feature of the Dingley bin is of little
Importance. in the fiscal system of the
uuence-the very greatest consequence
to the small manufacturer and to the
consumer And to the trust, it means
millions upon millions of dollars annual
1y.
To the consumer it says, you shall not
make your own cigarettes. buy them
from the American Tobacco Company"
To the small manufacturer it says, "You
shall not push your trade or build it up
by offering any sort of inducement to
purchasers; with your small capital you
must come in direct competition with the
millions of the trust.
A well known manufacturer of smok-
ing tobacco yesterday said the law prac-
tically destroys his business.
But he is not alone in his woe. The
retail merchants of the city are by no
means entranced with the new tariff
law. It's effect is general and sweep
ing, and it caps the old Mckinley bill,
which was regarded as excessive and
iniquitous, by per cent. The dry-goods
men say that the textile schedules OF
the new tariff law are in almost every
instance higher than they were under the
Wilson or Mckinley bills. In silks, par
ticularly, the advance has been very
great. The dealers in china and earth
enware say that there will be a consid-
cradle advance in all earthenware, china,
and cutlery. Clothing made of import
ed woolens will be 20 per cent higher.
In boots and shoes, the patent leather,
enamel, and French kid grades will be
increased in price Is per cent. There
will also be great difference in the
price Of imported jewelry, watches, and
clocks, and among the table luxuries in
French vegetables, wines, and cordials.
A prominent travelling man tells me
that many well-known wholesale houses
are seriously thinking of calling their
men off the road for the present. He
said that he did not believe that they
could accomplish anything until such
time as the retailer understood that more
money must be paid for imported goods.
A special from Winchester, Va, to
the Riqchmond Dispatch says: "The
Confederate Memorial Association of
North Carolina will come to Winchester
on the 18th of September, the anniver-
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