The Detroit times., 1909-03-16
sother Shoe Laces
Cost q Cents When
They Should Cost II
Jhe Tarin on Hides 10 the Reason,
Although These Shoe Laces Are
Made from Domestic Hides-ls
y Free Trade . Deiuslon and a
Fraud TO Be Condemned
and Abhorred by the
American People?

Because why3
Because at present duty outrageousy high
Notwithstanding begin grow enough
WOOL in the United States the demand
high wool the excuse offered was
That growing of wool in this country
This has done for which we have the word OF prominent
buyers they talking about (There is less
Michigan today than there was before the hsh
riff
Now has wool grower like
price the wooden goods we have
<$o buy?
"a THE REAL EFFECT OF HIGH TARIFF ON THIS
PARTICLE WHICH MR. WHITMAN DEALS IN HAS BEEN
&rO PERMIT HIM TO CHARGE HIGHER PRICE FOR THE
hoods HE PUTS ON THE MARKET FROM WHAT WOOL
kTHERE is GROWN IN THIS COUNTRY.
price garments today exorbitan
what the who sheep gets tor his WOOL
price excused other ground than the existence
4 of high tariff.
has the introduction of shoddy clothing
because grades of wool have to be imported
would smash if there
commission because people would have wear clothing just
the same.
profits his business would be down
figure though and that is why HE wants
N he tariff
The people would get clothing money but what
does Mr.. Whitman for the people?
Whitman will be loudly applauded for his remarks from
headquarters American Hide and Leather Co., (he
leather trust).
independent tanners Payne tariff committee said
company together beef controlled the hide
and leather business of the country
undoubtedly would like this tree trade
overwhelmingly defeated that would have abandon
just protected wool maker would
The PAYNE committee it understood going recommend
congress that hides be the free list
Now what that would mean to the leather trust
manpuators of this charged with controlling the
X hide markets of Argentine and Uruguay
They ship hides America and IS per cent
finished leather exported and under
the tariff provisions the the cent drawback
In meantime the independent OF leather IN the
n United States is BUYING LEATHER FROM THE TRUST
kTANNERIES ON THE BASIS OF A IS PER CENT ADJ
kvALOREM TAX ON RAW HIDES.
z
EPENDENT CONSUMER OF LEATHER AND LATER TOT
THE BUYER SHOES OR HARNESS THE GOVERN
MENT DOES NOT GET 1T.
high tariff
Perhaps we can plain what mean
of leather shoe aces for example, as showing why
Mr. Whitman would the free silver party
put
"A pair of leather
OF this about is tariff
The chief charge independent as
sert, is the tariff on hides.
workngman THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT GET 1T IN
kTARIFF TAXES
Proof of this which show that 1907
r3s pairs laces imported They
Ss4s the government SI36o in duty
"A through foundry district and see
3s gross strings day. writer
New York Journal commenting this tariff outrage
Yet this tariff has been kept since 1897 and although the
worngmen gross Of the shoe aces the
enriched by just SI3e1o in the year OF 1907
That is the way your high
1t has built the criminal OF this country and made
them great powerful criminals that they
hghwaymans victim bigger than he but the billy
n hand S the odds against the victim.
The people bigger the tariff in the
punderers the public poketbook the
Il odds" in their
Shall Danish from the earth the party that would darm
bandits? is THE FREE TRADE PARTY THE
CHAMPION OF A CAUSE THAT is HOPELESS FRAUD
n AND A DELUSION WHEN HIGH TARIFF ENABLES THE
TRUSTS TO PUT THOUSANDS DOLLARS IN ITS
EPocKET TO ONE IN THE HANDS OF THE TREASURY AS
Y REvENUEa
If highwayrnan standing his victim with
billy hurry victim billy