Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-07-22

duce tho cost q. Importation. Tvtryona
/ knows. and I think the senator agrees
with mo, that where we import quite
! heavily. and where We have not sum
| cient amount in our own country to sup
ply The demand. CTR price is fixed by the
! yrcc OF importntlons.
suppose you have thousand dollars
worth ~ hides In New York raised in
tlh. country. and YOU have n thousand
dollars worth Of imported hides thnt are
nj tho port Of entry. Those hide. will
COS, a thousand dollars with she dut,.
pn,i. ,nd that thousand dollars nxcs tho
,,rIco Of the other lot OF hides that Il pro-
/ duced hsre. II you drop of ~ that
/ thousand dollars worth Of American
! htdes there for sale has got TO gp down
$40, because no orc will pay $50 moro
for tho American product when they can
got Tie same amount Of imported hides
Of the same quality for $50 less. There
fore tho price 81 Tint thousand dollars
worth ~ American hides Is driven down
the a1tert Of $50. And who pays for
u. Somebody loses y. II Il not tho
farmer who loses II, And IA Il not un
,u.t. after the fP-lner has given to the
manutac turer Of shoes and leather tho
exclusive, trndn OF tho United States IN
0cr protcC'lpn, 10 TOW ask III" IhrlneT
that he shall not only give them tho
ntie Is per cent, duty that he has IA
protect his thousand dollars worth o.
hides thot lie IN q wnrchousc in Vow
York? Docs II not resolve Itself right
down to that proposition.
Nj Page I want To thank the sena-
tor aSsin for bringing that matter TO my
attention FOR shouii not otherwise
H. The trouble is that he start. from the
wrong premise, and consequently reach
e. wrong conclusion. WILL try to
show him why.
The senator from Wyoming started
! with N. premise TINT the packers were
not going into the hide business and were
not going into the leather business. II
that were true. would no, ne Fore dis
cusslrs this matter. But the trouble Is
that ne was wrong about that--no inten-
tionallv wrong. for give him credit for
anior.
they are going into the leather business.
Mt Peze. Yes; that Is right. The som
ator assumes that sonebodv is suffering.
II he will allow me. the "h,de Of com
merce." as II IL known IN this country
80 far as the East |. concerned. after
eliminating the hide under q pounds.
weighs on the average, az have stated
IS pounds IN the green; that is. with the
skull the horns. and the tail bone In; or,
as II Ia sold in the market. is pounds.
The shrinknge is about one-sixth It Is
possihle-and th'nk II is probable-that
the hides OF tho West would increa Sc
that weight somewhat
MI MrCunber. We have thicker hides
ont there.
Mr.. Page Yes. str; II Is true that the
western hide and the southwestern hide
IS thicker than the New England hide
The New England hide is called a
"spready" hide.
asked the senator from Wyoming
II he would tell me what the hide Of a
yearlinr NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Il would como
above or below . pounds, He said he
low. I am Eoing 10 give him credit IN
, this computation FOR the reverse OF that.
, think he Ia partially right; but ! will
he candid enough to say-and do not
want 70 make single statement here.
, even though Il I. against me-, that Is rot
exactly true-that the hide % n steer he
j. tween and years old will certainly
. weigh more than s5 pounds. The hide Of
. COW between and year. old VIII, in
nv Judgment to the extent OF Is or sr
yer cent, 10 above rather than below ,.
pounds.
We will suppose that the price Of hide
1. II Ia cents = pound. ] am going to
give the scnntor the benefit o. the doub,
In figuring. because the price for the las
ten years IL probably between and II
cents. but am talking now about the
, average country hide. which we will sup
pore brings Il !-e cents. You can see
that the price of the foreign hide mus,
he 10 cents hrcauec the difference Is Jus,
the difference OF the duty Ton cents
. with Is per cent. duty added, means III
cent. ner round duty paid. We will sup.
= pose TINT the year!ing steers. the year
ling COWS. and nil the other classes OF
. American hides taken together mako :
hide avern cling 30 pounds FIFTY pounds
NJ I-e cents A pound duty makes the
DUTY rs cents n hide. I believe TINT I.
s,I,v enough: hut We will call II Is cents
n hide The senator from Montana say,
. TINT Is pairs ~ shoes will supply thC
' average farmers family for o year
;, think he ha. been very liberal with m,
= about that. should say he hae proba b,
j, gotten a little above rather than a nttlt
below the facts. but I Should like 10 b.
liberal about that matter. The numhc
Of cattle IN tho United States, nftcr talk
in, ont the calves. |. 1885 5on. according
:, 70 the census report n may vary
. little from that, but We Will call II TINT
The senator from Wyoming snid to-da'
). that there were A million farmers wh,
=. raised hides.
Ycr; the senator from Montana. ! thin!
:. said Yesterday that II was 100000 I
:. ytr, viii figure TINT out and divide tn,
- number 81 hides by the number Of farm
ers, you VIII md that II means only l.
. hides to each farmer, And 40 You no
:, gee thnt the hencft tho average farne
, gets from the 1uty Is only $40, even /
" he has 4 h,hes'
- DO not know that II Is fair--I do no
n really think II IA. will saw 10 the sen
. ator from Hontana-to say Tint IN
N farmer gets the h-ncht Of every cen
- OF the advance In duty on hts hi1c- b1l
y does not pay any part o. the added eos
-, of the shoe because of the same duty
IA II were to be absolutely candid I SHOULD
IA say that no one could tell whether IN
Il packer paid the farmer the whole amour
n ~ the duty or not, and should gay, too
y that no one could unTuanedlv stat
u whether tho shoe consumer did O
n did not pny the whole of the added cos
=? OF the shoe because OF that duty. But
vera to ngrre upon any basis the con,
10 parntive losses and gains 10 the farm
u er. think, TO be absolutely candid an
- fair ehc,lIh say as tho repior senate