The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-03-20
Unequal imposition of Duties
On Family Gloves Attacks
The Purses of the Gentler
Sex.
WORKMEN WILL HAVE
TO PAY THE HIGHEST
Cheap Grade of Necessities to
Be Raised 10 a Tax Which
Is Equal to the Most Ex-
penSive.

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.remes meet in the Payne tariff bill
,uite as much as they do elsewhere
IN the world.
The people are just beginning TO
realize that the women OF the country
have been singled out lot
attack by the tariff trainers. Not On
Iy have most of the things which
thew buy in the stores been left sew
erely alone, so that they must con-
tinue to pay the prevailing hieh
prices in the face of the reduction on
almost all other articles of personal
wear in which women are always
most particularly interested. which Tor
some mysterious reason not yet made
known by the dignitaries of the ways
and means committee. actually have
been subjected to an increased tarlH'
which. of course means. II tariH
means anything at all. a largely in
creased price.
Already it has been announced
about the extraordinary increase IN
the rates on cotton hosiery and this
naturally leads up to the fact that
without any rational explanation
whatsoever the tariff revision bill al
so has increased the rates on gloves
of all kinds. and the most astounding
advance made on the cheapest grades
chiefly worn by women and children
of the poorest class. 1t scarcely IS
believed that a majority of the mem
bers of the house will be willing to
vote in favor of these two increases
provided the women of the country
use their influence to prevent 1t.
Gloves Made at a Loss?
It may be that gloves have been
made in the United States for al
least twelve years under the Dingiey
tariff law at direct loss to the manu-
facturers. If this be true. the manu-
facturer ought to have more duty. II
does not seem right. however. that ne
should be given such an enormous ad
vantage as is handed out to him in the
Payne tariff bill literally on COLDER
plate. The rate of duty on some o.
the cheapest grades of gloves actuall!
have been more than doubled. while
there is an advance all along the lint
from the cheapest grade to the high
est. Not an item in the glove lint
was overlooked, and there are simple
and compound duties of a character u
stagger tariff student.
! The glove schedules of the Payne
tariff bill, if passed by the house ant
senate, and approved by the presiden
in their present form. will raise th'
price of gloves to every man, woman
and child in the United States, and il
many cases the rate of duty imposed
will become so absolutely prohibitor,
that importations will be stopped en-
tirely and the American manufactur
er will be enabled to dictate his owl
price.
All this is at the so-called mini
num- rate in the new tariff bill
When the maximum rate is in opel
alton 90 per cent is added to thes
increased figures. so that If ther
should happen to be tariff war wit
France. Germany and England, glove
really would be articles of luxury,
the ways and means committee no,
class them.
Theory to Increase luxuries.
/ The theory Of this committee on RI
vising the tariff was to increase tn
rates on articles Of luxury. 1t is nc
known that members of the ways an
means committee do without eithe
socks or gloves, but they will pa
more for those articles. whether the
be luxuries or necessities. unless tn
people take the matter into their ow
hands, put a stop TO the increase
tariff on those articles and then r
duce them as well as all manufacture
of cotton. wool, and silk, according I
1.-THE general principle of revision dow
ward which has been successfully al
1plied to steel. lumber and other art
lcles not speciality in New York an
1.-THE lower half of New England.
There are gloves and gloves, just
There are stockings and stocking
All kinds of cotton stockings. and a
kinds of gloves of any leather mate
lial. whether sheep or kid. are sa
iected to this radical increase
Iprice. The unfortunate thing seen
to be that the cheaper the article III
Ider normal conditions and the mol
likely il is to be necessary articl
of wear by the poorest classes. u
, more stupendous the unexpected q
vance in duty under the Payne bi
In the case of gloves the committt
seems to have reached the Climax
protective idolatry, because the du'
. lis made the same upon cheap glove
las uDon expensive ones
Under the present Law the duty