The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-11-02

( >. Price abroad than at home
$500, goo. cannot ind that the
sd. -Antial correctness of this estimate
5 ever questioned by the opposition.
,ut in any event the amount is so
small az compared with the aggregate
output OF our factories as to be I'M
worthy of consideration"
Secretary Shaw is either q novice
with figures or he Is entirely willing |
to fool the voters with big statistics
which he knows are not true 1t is
hardly possible that our Secretary OF
the Treasury does not know that we
do not produce s13,000,000,00O worth
OF manufactured goods in year ready
for final consumers, or anything IKE
this amount. Our Census statistics OF
manufactures contain many duplica-
tons. Thus we have manufactures OF
cloth goods and of clothing; OF Iron
and steel, and Of foundry products.
machinery, ETC.; of lumber and OF
furniture; of leather and Of boots and
shoes. In these few Industries the
Implications amount to 100000, 900
or $4,000, 100000. Were it possible to
take out the duplications-that Is, the
products of one mill that are sold as
raw materials to another mill-it Is
, probable that the total value Of finished
+, manufactured products would not be
more than half OF $4,000, 0o0,O 900.
Whether or not our census figures have
been stuffed In order to make a great
: showing for protection can only be
Q surmised.
j. The statement that only $4,OoO,O0l
l. worth of our manufactured goods an
|. sold abroad cheaper than they are sole
n ut home is ridiculous. Secretary Shaw
says that he got his statistics from tn
report of the Industrial Commission
y but he neglected to cite the page o
= volume. As matter Of fact no sucl
" statistics appear in any Of the nineteel
volumes. Neither are there any state
o ments from which he could REASONABLE
= draw such a conclusion.
Secretary Shaw well knows, as doe
n every one Of the Commission, that tn
Oh pretended investigation which ths
cd partisan body made Of export price
tie was farce and that it is absurd
IT, attempt to draw conclusions as dot
,ly Secretary Shaw, from data obtained
II. answer to the scattering letter OF l.
ouirv sent out by the Commission.
In the first place schedules OF l
~ ouiry were sent out to only z'ooo
lss the 100000 manufacturing establis
~ ments of this country-that Is, only OF
'oe of every 800. In the next place on
~ as replies were received OF courf
f. The answers we're mainly from tho
who were not guilty. The guilty on
ity did not volunteer information Will
Isit would incriminate them before I
: is American public. Moreover ID
ill doubtless understood the makeup
ill the commission and knew that II
ri not want evidence of the great exte
~ this business. Hence, nearly all
the guilty manufacturers either
VA trained from answering at all or
'"n I'M ridiculous and absurd answers, 81
ise' as they supposed would please a Z
OOH ,ority of the members OF the CONN
rem s,on Under the circumstances II
a. remarkable that even rs manufactur
vel admitted that they were discr'mil
ing IN favor Of foreign customers
The this rate more than 10000 OF
Don manufacturers are fayoring forelgn'
ella n could with far better Logic
air. reason, b concluded from these
Dr. dustriaI Commission figures that'
alb qs out q 40 manufacturers 500
,eep 100000 worth o. products chss
abroad dian - home that out q
10000 manufacturers ~ ti1s eeuD
'p'y l0s 900 would sell tt3es'VVg,vpy ~
's -. of sooas caeapsy abroad ihep ~ ~
49, ana result u obtained W simple
" eo,tlon ape n p'etbenptleeliy epf'