The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-09
BY sAyOYkRD.

a y 4 fl SAA%A@t f.s The Dingley tariR is monstrosity en blanc: but it's supreme enormity Is the wool schedule. which is' the key note of this Devils Arch, and the caps stone Of this Devils charnel house. petuated in the name of the farmer, there are four million fewer sheep on American farms, ranches and ranges that. the wool mills are reported on the ragged edge Of business. Ill-got gains are dearly bought Retributton Here is how the wool spinners are in hard lines. The tariff conpels them to use heavily taxed machinery--card- CTS, looms and so on-located in q are heavily taxed from roof to foun- dation. Their wool. their raw mate- rial, is taxed 40.93 per cent. Dye stun Is taxed. and this wool spinner is a tfcular himself
 But here ia how he is made a tax gatherer. Woolen yarns are taxed Tor cheapest che fr pay a duty f of of i4s per cent. Let us see about blankets. The cheap est are taxed TOT per cent, and the average tax on tiIeni Is s2H per cent: cent; Brussels 75.S1 per cent; Axmin- ister so per cent; sdruggets l0.S1 per cent; felt 50 per cent; Dutch 5S.e3 per soesi seeks. mhSi From f' sS per t cent to ii4 per cent on cloths for clothing. If valued at tax is 1S4 per cent If valued at more than forty cents a pound and not more than seventy cents. the tax is us per a pound, then the tax is reduced to 94 per cent. The average for the cloths of which yarn clothes are made NnW hnpn fhaX nhAAt girls. Dress goods valued at not ex- and not above seventy cents per when the farmer sells wheat, does he get paid for the measured bushel and the weighed bushel, too? I doubt 1t. he buys his daughter dress in which to receive her sweetheart in parlor every article of furniture of which isi heavily taxed. and dress goods val ued above fifteen cents 6 square yard and not above seventy cents a pound --still taxing for weight and for meas ufe, toolis taxed but ee.87 per cent
 Dress goods weighing over four ounces a square yard and valued at more than forty cents and not more than seventy cents per pound ts taxed ils Ss per cent, And % so dssase t IS clsSs fSs goods the higher the rate of taxation. The average for dress goods Is 102.0T per cent. Put wool and woolens on
 
 this can have two dresses for what one now costs here, and there VIII be enough left oyer to buy her gloves
 when I contemplate the wool sched- ule of the American tariH always recall the words of Shakespeare, put into the mouth of ''the noblest Ro- man of them all': ''By Heavsnl would rather coin my And drop my blood for drschms. than From the hard hands of peasants their
 By an indiscretion."
 But we will go back to wool Elan nel for underwear valued at more than forty cents q pound is taxed l4S,67
 fifty cents Q pound the tax Is 105.4s per cent Valued above seventy cents pound flannels pay S6.39 per cent ward and are valued between fifty and seventy cents pound. the tax Is
 more than seventy cents a pound pay on fiannels Is 105 s4 per cent What | for grippe, croup and pneumonial
 poorest is taxed f4i per cent, and tAs cent. Worsted made. wholly or In
 part or WOOL sne nar oL tHe c@nnei;
 Valued at not over forty cents a pound. l is taxed at 141.TS per cent. and like
 all the others. the rates of taxation
 recedes as the value of the goods ad-
 vances. The average Is ss. s1 per cent. 1 The wool hats are taxed SC. 61 per cent. How many, do you suppose. were imported during the fiscal year is077 Why, S1b,900 worth for the S0.- Ooo. .000 people. on which the treas ury collected Sf3,771. The rest went to the hat manufactures, who would taxed to the hit on hta raw materials shawis are taxed 93 70 per cent.
 The tariff or wool as written by