The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-01-05
|BARTLESVILlE SHELTER
PEOPLE WANT FREE ORE
While Miami County Lead and
Zinc Producers Arc Biz
ieTIy Opposed

Special to Daily Leader.
Washington, jim 5-The only con,
tentlon over the tariH revision that
has come up from Oklahoma Is be.
tween the lead and zinc ore produc.
ers Of Miami county and the smelter
interests al Bartlesyille. The produc-
era and mine owners al Miami are pit.
terly opposed to admitting Mexican
ores into the United States free OF
duty. The smelter people want zinc
orc made duty free.
The contention Of the mine owners
Il that II the ore from Mexico IL ad'
mlttod free Il Fan be sold cheaper
than they can produce Il, and In that
.eay will throttle their Industry, Tho
cheap labor and inexpensive mining
methods OF Mexico, they claim, en-
ables the Mcxicans 10 produce the
ore much cheaper than II can be done
In Oklahoma. They point TO the new
but growing Industry they have ere.
ated ana demand thar II be protected
Tho smelter people demand tree ore
on the ground that II Will enable them
10 turn out manufactured articles at
less cost and enlarge their business
10 the extent that they can compete
with similar manufacturing interests
anywhere IN The world.
Both mining and smelling arc ~.
FAINT industries IN the new state. The
question that the Oklahoma congress
men sge trying 20 determine Is wheth.
er the great mass Of consumers VIII
Get the benefit Of free Mexican ores.
or the smelter people whether the
mIno owners or the laborers IN the
mlnos VIII not the benefit Of q duty
on Mexican ore.
Tho Ways and Means committee
composed OF twelve Republicans ana
seven Democrats. has completed about
one.sixth OF The schedules for the new
tariff law-that Is the Republicans
have completed IL The Democrats
are permitted very little 10 So about
1t. This COMMITTEES Is going % have
a complete tarin bin ready 20 present
10 the next congress wnen Il assem-
bles. In special session March 4 The
new members. both Republicans AM
Democrats. Mill get to look at rae
Dfil before Il II presented. but thai
Is all, according to a Wen Informed
congressman.
Most clearly outlined Is the Repub
Ilean noIlcy OF benentting the ReDub
lean statea arl chastislne the Demo
cratic states In the issue between the
shoe manufacturers and the cattle IN
tafests d the south aud west the
Z shoe men are demanding free hides
and they agree to 4 proportianate re
auctlon in the tariff on shoes. rhe
nattlemen nfe fighting this bitterly
The records sa0w that the shoes i'm
ported amount to $4,000 annually
while nEdas imported from Soutl
America amount to millions 81 dollars
annually. And yet the reduction o.
shoes wonld not be sufficient 10 let i
European manufacturers
Oklahoma, more perhaps than an
other states, would be effected by thti
policy Of free raw materials. Okla
= homa l. A great producing state. Like
wlse It Is a great consuming state
Z To put raw materials on the free It's
and keen q tariff suiieient "a shut on
foreign competition on manufactures
articles would bum the candle Of bot
ends In oklahoma. But then tai
Would be a good lesson 10 teach OK
lahoma. according 70 the Republican
Idea, al Expressed BY M. Randell.