Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-10-21
wHAT THE TARTT LAM DOES

published Is that by Congressman
Samuel Mccall of the ways ana
means committee who writes OF "Tne
Payne Tariff Law" in october Allan
tic. 1t is an article that every west
eern farmer ought to read. Here
are some facts he brings out;
III one takes the schedules In
their order, he will find In the iirst
schedule, which relates to chemicals
that the increases are a bare hait-
dozen in number, and include fancy
SOAPS and alkaloids of opium and
cocaine, while the decreases are more
than fifty, and include many OF the
articles which are in general con-
sumption, such as sulphur, various
forms Of soda, potash, lead and sui
phate Of ammonia, the last OF wnicn
| is put on the free list.
1.-THE second schedule shows a
slight increase upon the smaller
sizes of plate glass, and this increase
ia many times offset by decreases
upon fire and other brick, gypsum,
various kinds of window glass, near
| " all the grades OF marble and other
| important articles.
"In the metal schedule there is an
increase in fabricated structural
steel, zinc ore, and very few other
items. some of which relate to arti-
cles not manufactured when the
Dingley law was passed; but, on the
other hand, the basic article OF iron
ore is reduced from forty to fifteen
cents per ton, the lowest ad valorem
that 1t has had in the history OF the
country; pig iron is reduced from
four dollars to two dollars and a half
per ton, scrap iron and steel from
four dollars to one dollar per ton,
bar iron from six-tenths to three
tenths Of cent per pound, steel
rails from seven dollars and eighty
four cents to three dollars and ninety
two cents per ton. There are nearly
| a hundred other reductions in the
metal schedule; in fact, the reduct-
ions in this schedule are so general
and in some cases SO drastic, that 1t
may be said, practically, that these
duties have been cut In two.
"The lumber schedule shows but
two unimportant increases, while
the schedule generally is cut nearly
forty per cent. One grade of sawed
boards is reduced from one dollar
to fifty cents per thousand feet, and
all other sawed lumber from two
dollars to dollar and quarter
per thousand. Fence-posts are put
on the free list. Dressed lumber
telephone poles, railroad ties, and
other important products of wood
are very much reduced. 3
Notwithstanding the attempt that
is being made to create a sectional
feeling in the West, the only sched-
ule covering necessary articles In
which increases predominant is the
agricultural schedule. The duties
are also increased upon champagnef
and other wines, brandy, ale, beer,
tobacco, silks, high-priced laces, and
various other articles which, for
want of better term, are called
Injuries.
"Bituminous coal is reduced from
sixty-seven to forty-seven cents per
ton, which, with the exception of o
very brief period, is in value the
lowest duty we have ever imposed
up on it,
Agricultural implements are re-
duced, and a provision added admit
ting them free of duty from any
country which admits our agricultur-
al machinery free.
Works of art more than twenty
years old are put on the free list.
Hides of cattle are put on the
free list, and an enormous reduction
made, not merely on a., the pro-
ducts Of these hides, but on nearly
all articles Of leather. Sole leather
is cut from twenty to five per cent
ad valorem, upper leather from TWEEN
| ty to seven and half per cent, and
boots and shoes from twenty-five to
! fifteen per cent, and, on important
kinds to ten per cent.
ut is perhaps a matter Of indiffer-
ence at the present time what the
duty may be upon boots and shoes,
That industry has become so de-
veloped in the United States, ouI
machinery is 50 vastly superior to
that of any other nation, that under
present conditions our manufacturer
could easily compete with manufac-