The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-07-29
CLOTHIERS
RESENTING
OBJECT TO TARIFF SCHEME
Declare the Burden Would Fall
On the Consumer Who Must
Foot ali Bills in the End

are:-M Marcus NJ Marks, of David
Marks \ Sons, of New York. Pres
ident of the National Association
of ClothierS, Chairman; Ludwig
Stein: OF b kuppcnhNlmer * Co..
of Chicago; Siegmund b. Some
horn, of Henry Somehow x Co.
Of Baltimore; David Kirschblum
Of A. Kirschbaum x Co., of Phil
adelphla Louis KRISTEN, OF The
Stein, Bloch Co. of Rochester
Frank X. Chambers, of Rogers
Peet & Co., of New York William
Goldman. OF Cohen, Goldman *
Co.. of New York; and l. K
Smith & Co., of Boston.
The National Association Of
Clothiers is composed OF ninety
seven per cent OF the leading cloth
ing manufacturers OF the United
States. The industry is the third
largest in the country. The value
Of its output is SIX hundred millions
Of dollars annually The business
ramifes into every city and town
in the United States, and the re
tailers are the best type OF those
engaged in mercantile pursuits III
their respective communities The
clothing manufactured is an article
Of necessity, and supplies probably
ninety FIVE per cent of the clothing
worn by the masses OF the people
in the United States. This com
mittee is authorized to voice the
protest of the National Association
OF Clothiers against schedule X
covering wool wooilens and cloth
ing as adopted by the senate com
mittee OF the whole, which schedule
apparently does not show any
change from the Din2ley bill.
The result of the Dlngley tariff
wool schedule has been TO reduce
the quality and diminish the weight
per yard especially in the cloths
out of which popular priced cloth
ing is made, thereby making that
clothing less durable. This IS due
largely to two causes: The SPECIFIC
duties on raw WOODS without regard
for their hneness and shrinking
qualities, and the exaggerated So
called compensatory duties on
WOODEN cloths AS the lower grades
Of course greasy woods used Largely
bv the carded wool manufactures
lose great part Of their weight III
washing and securing, and are SOLD
frequently at prices considerably
below eleven cents pound, the
duty of eleven cents on unWaalled
woods, or twenty-five cents on
washed woods, or thirty three cents
on the same woods when secured
amounts at times to several nun
dred per cent. while the same duty
on high priced light woods, con
tanning but little grease, used large
ly by the worsted manufacturers
amounts to as little as twenty three
per cent. The duty on woojIeh
cloth, which consists Of compen
satory duty of forty-four cents a
pound, plus protective duty OF
nifty per cent. or fftyhve per cent
IS based on the assumption that II
takes four pounds of raw wool 70
"dke one pound OF Clolh' 40 d"
matter of fact, it takes a great deal
less, on the average not more than
one-half in the case of the inner
woolens, and as for the poorer
grade woolens used in manufacture
Of Cheaper clothing considerable
part thereof consists Of shoddy ana
cotton, on which no duty has been
PAID, and Therefore no compef9@-
Tory duty should be allowed, ana
'nereby results in the imposition OF
auties all the way from one nun
ared per cent. to two hundred per