The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-17
MANUFACTURERS
WANT REVISION Of
TARIFF DELAYED
At Least Six Months Grace Is
Asked for by Local In
dustrial Heads.
SUDDEN CHANGE WOULD
BE INJURIOUS, THEY SAY
Want to Have Ample Time to
Adjust Affairs to Meet
New Conditions.

Many manufacturers of Newark are
taking active part in the movement to
induce Congress to delay putting into
effect for al least six months any act
having in view revision of the tariff.
The reason given for making such d
request is that manufacturers and 9TH
ers Interested in tariff changes should
have ample opportunity of adjusting
their business to such changes, there
by minimizing the disturbance caused
by the agitation of the tariff question.
The subject was taken up by the
Board of Trade yesterday afternoon.
While the attendance was fairly large
it was not deemed advisable to take
any action on the matter until a great
majority of the members had expressed
their opinions, and for this reason a
resolution covering the subject was re-
ferred back to the committee on manu-
features and will again be taken up at
a meeting which is 60 be called in the
near future. Several communications
We're received from absentees, all Of
which, with one exception, were favor
able to the proposed resolution.
The latter, received from the HeadleY
e Farmer Company, was to the effect
that tariff changes were expected IN
the event OF MIR. Taft's election, and
that all who were interested in the
tariff nave had sufficient opportunity
since then to make whatever prepara-
tions were considered necessary.
Communications %favoring the resolu-
ton were received from J. S.. Mundy,
iP. Reilly e Son. Gould & Eberhardt.
the Barlow Foundry Company, the
Peters Harness and Saddlery Company
and the Driver Harris Wire Company.
A letter received from John Cawley.
president of the firm of Cawley. Clark
& Co., so appealed to the members of
the board thai it was accepted as a
model statement of the facts surround
ing the proposed tariff changes. The
letter reads In part as follows:
The Letter;
Admitting that the present tariff in
Wolves a number of inequalities (%atroci-
ties, if you like. and the same, by the
way, is sure to be true of the new
tariff. 1t is certain that any radical
change will have a very injurious effect
on the industries of the country gem
orally. In other words, any attempt
to abolish certain well-recognized in
equalities in the present tariff sc'led-
ules can easily do more harm h good.
Tho gigantic industrial combinations,
which | need not mention, are well
able to take care of themselves in any
tariff shuttle, but the vast majority OF
manufacturers are relatively helpless
and are likely to be ground between the
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therefore, particularly interested in
conservative action.
ut has never been considered a wise
thing to cut off ones nose TO spite ones
face One thing is very sure, namely,
that the United States will require a
very large revenue in the future. 1t
will not be many years, | think, when
this government will be eXpending an
nually a billion and a quarter to a bill
lion and a half of dollars. Consider GER
tain items, for instance big navies on
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, in
creased army cost, increased cost IN
every government department, the Pa
mama canal, costing possibly, when fin
ished, five hundred million dollars, and
when completed, an annual mainten-
ance cost of thirty to fifty million dol
ldI -, Gus. I
In view of the prohibition wave, APP
parently spreading over the country,
the income from internal revenue Will
probably be lessened, at least relative
Nv, so that the necessity for a large
revenue from duties on imports be-
comes apparent, unless we have re-
course to an income tax. This tax,
while theoretically ideal, is in It's actual
,,,,Jooao tho t1nCt nnppnng and nn1Ilr
of all possible taxes. In the form
proposed in his country, some years
ago, it involved inquisitorial features
of an extremely annoying, not to say
dangerous character It's advocates may
be roughly classed as follows: the
first and largest class, those who have
no incomes, or with incomes too small
to be affected by the tax; the second,
dishonest politicians, d~emagogues ana
those persons already too well prac-
tised in swearing off tax liabilities OF
every description: and, third, cranks
of all kinds, honest and otherwise.
Opinion of No Value.
at is a pity that public opinion
among the so-called intelligent classes
is so largely moulded by newspaper
editors and professors of economics.
Many of these persons are subject to