Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-03-26
TARIFF ON WOODEN co.,
Where the United States Collects 81
the Trust Collects sis.

the Collects 80.
There is no industry protected more
highly by the tariff than the woolen
manufacturer. The average rate on
all manufactured articles. Of which
wool is the chief constituent, IL $3.50
per cent, which when the freight and
other charges are added 20 the duty
about doubles the average cost on i'm
ported wooden articles. When the tar
if tax on some wooden articles is con-
sidered, it would seem that even cur
Republican protectionist friends have
overshot the mark. For instance, on
long blankets the purchaser has to pay
a tariff Of 1854 per cent; on dress
goods, 1854 per cent; On knit
fabrics. 1888 per cent; on cloth, 1888
per cent, and even on shoddy. which
is largely used here for cheap cloth
ing, the tariff a is 174,55 Ter cent,
| That is the actual tariff tax paid On
imports of the articles quoted for the
fiscal year ending June 81 1906
which is the last official report pub
lished,
The American Wooden Company,
known as the wooden trust, is the CHIEF
recipient of these tariff favors, for the
high duties on imported goods pre-
vent much from being purchased hut
allow the trust to add to its profits
the amount of what simils: imported
goods would pay. Thus, If a yard OF
cloth cost one dollar in England, the
tariff tax when Il is imported mere is
S1.S6, making the cost here S2.S6,
without reckoning the freight and
other expenses, or the profit to the In
porter, The English manufacturer
must have made a good Lrce> on that
yard OF cloth. 1t probably cost HIM
so cents, so his profit was 20 ceuts
and our importer paid 81 aid then bad
to pay the cost of importing and the
tariff tax, A similar yard of cloth
manufactured here would cost about
81 and the ordinary prost would be
25 per cent, the same as the English
manufacturer made, which should
bring the Wholesale selling price here
to $t.26 a yard. But as tle tariff tax
brings the cost Of the foreign yard
Of cloth to $2,S6, u manufacturer
can add q further profit Of Sill a yard
to the price as the extra profit he can
charge, before the imported goods can
compete with him, To prevent this
foreign competition our manufacturer
sells the homemade cloth just
> enough cheaper than the foreign made
cloth can be sold for, So the wGoien
trust can charge 81 q yaNd extra proft
and stiil beat the foreign manufactur'
er II cents o yard,
II does not require an expert on
4 tariff %plundering to discover that the
American onsume not only pays the
tariff on the imported goods, but also
1 pays the trusts the tariff they charge
In increased profit. But this is not
| the worst of the tariff robbery fol
+ where there ia one yard Of cloth, oN
=, any other article, impaired there are
hundreds Of such OF domestic manu-
Q facture consumed on which the trusts
I anu NulllDlntn uuNt wi 'NNhNh 'hNh "
Y III profit,
0 The tariff robbery ~ perhaps more
s fully shown when 1t Is considered tina
0 the total value of all the WOODEN good
imported for the fiscal year 1906 wa
0 $22, 1853, SOL on which y tariff tax wa
Q paid of $50, lS5,0iS, OF 90,S0 per cent
o The cost value of woolen and worste,
y goods manufactured in the Unite'
h States in 1905, is given in the uniteO
States Statistical Abstract as 1907,
U BALTIC and the price at which thes'
goods we're sold In consequence of tn,
+ tariff protection was approximate,
n doubled. So whereas The United state
collected a little over twenty milliol
I In tariff taxes the trust and othe
" wooden manufacturers collected abou
II s300, 00O, 900 extra profit in consC
n quence of tariff pro ection or $l5 TO
"a every dollar collected by the govern
y ment,
y Is not this woolel schedule of tn
!" tariff law q monument of plunderlnl
" and yet q Republican congress stand
pat and refuses to wen consider n
ylBlng such protection to the trusts.