The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-07-23
PRESIDENT PLAYS
INTO THE HANDS
OF MANUFACTURER
FREE RAW MATERIAL MEANS
BIGGER PROFITS FOR THE
TRUSTS.
SENATOR JCHASOA TALKS
Says That Taft's Fight is Pure Bun
combe; That the Consumer VIII
Not Be 5enefitted-Poor Mans
Clothes TO Go Higher.


Clothes to Go Higher.
WASHINGTON July 22.-The Pres
! idents recommendations for free raw
material will get little Endorsement
1 from Senate Democrts. They declare
the items he has picked out play into
| the hands of the New England manu-
facturers and the consumer gets moth
ing.
There would be little objection to
free raw material if there would be a
corresponding cut in the duties on the
finished product, but as matters stand
it looks to those Senators from pro-
ducing states as if it were a one-sided
affair, New England hogging every
thing.
OF course Senator Aidrich wants
free hides, as was stated at the time
he placed the Is per cent rate in
the bill for trading purposes. In dis
cussing the matter Senator Johnson
of Alabama, said:
THE Presidents fight for so-called
free raw material is perfect bun
combe. If iron ore comes free it will
not effect the bill as to manufactured
products of iron or steel II we have
free hides with highly protected shoes
the consumer gets not a cent benefit,
but the manufacturer will make large
profits. New England reaps all the
advantage in getting her coal free and
her textile factories that have been
paying 40 per cent. dividends will be
able to increase to 60 to 20 per cent.
with free coal. If the President would
fight to reduce the tariff on wooden
and cotton goods in common and gen
eral use and on the products of iron
and steel he would give some relief,
1ut free raw materials can only give
arger dividends to the manufacturer.
IF everything the President fights
or is conceded the exhorbitant rates
If the tariff bill will not be affected
n the slightest and there can be no
elief to the people. So far as it af.
ects the consumer, the Taft BILL as
will be if he has his way, will be
worse than the present law"
Representatives of clothing Con-
erns OF the country, controlling 95
er cent. of the read-made clothing in
he United States, left with the Pres
dent Wednesday a statement that
fter the new tariff bill passes there
ill be an increase of from 20 to rs
err cent. in the wool clothing of the
COR men of the country.
The trouble with both the Ding
" bill rates on wool and the rates
roposed in the new bill, the manu-
lcturers said, is that the customs du-
es on the wool from which the poor
ANS clothes are manufactured are
so much greater than
lie duties on the wool of the rich
ans clothes as to amount to serious
scrimination.
They told the President in the pa
er submitted to him that If a change
not made even at this late day
ere will be big storm all over the
,untry within a year as to the in
ease on the poor mans clothes.
hey intimated that it was probable
e poor man would not be able to
ear clothing with wool in it at all,
i'd that he will be compelled to wear
othing made of cotton and shoddy.
The clothing manufacturers said
at they would not be hurt by the in
eases, as they made more money on
higher market than on lower one,
t they thought the President ought
know the situation in advance The
favor an ad yalorem
ty on wool according to its grade,
itch would make the higher grades
Y more duties than the lower
aides, instead of the reverse, as it
claimed is true under the Dingley
|, and will be true under the new
|, which is practically the same.
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