The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-05-01
The infant Industries.

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The infant Industries.
The demand for protection for infant
industries continues. Three infant in
dustries appealed to the house CON-
mittee this year for consideration and
protection. One Of them got 1t. High
tariff was asked. to keep, willow
switches out of the country, in order
to build up the willow basket business.
A Tennessee man wanted a prohibit
I've duty on sweetbriar, which grows
wild in the woods, so ne could build
up business in cutting the wood for
smoking pipes. A duty Of thirty-five
per cent is to be put on Keane's ce-
ment. This is patented article, here
tofore made exclusively. In England
It is made Of gypsum, and used for
finishing imitation marble walls and
pillars: HeretofoEs and now it us
taxed at twenty per cent, the same as
other wall plaster. Recently a little
factory to. make an imitation known
as Bests Keane's Cement, has been
started in Medicine Hat, Kansas. The
Kansas manufacturers dig the gyp-
sum out of the ground, and use natur-
al gas. which costs nothing, for fuel,
but former Senator Long, of that
state, so impressed congress with the
needs and future Of the gypsum sement
business that he easily obtained a pro-
9,ibitive duty on the. product, intended
to keep the patented article out of the
country and give the imitation a mon
opoly.
The average duties levied under the
Dingley law are 44.16 per cent. In the
Payne bill, as reported to the house,
the proposed average duties were 45.72
per cent, which wasactually a revis-
ion upward to the tune Of 1.56 per
cent. The Aldrich bill, as reported,
proposed an average duty of 1886 per
cent, which seemed to be a revision
downwards. It only seemed to he,
though.
Taxes on coffee, tea, spices and pet
roleum, and big increase in duties
on stockings and woman's gloves were
included in the Payne bill average. AS
the bill passed the house, tea, coffee
hides and petroleum were on the free
list. The senate finance committee
has decided to put back the duty on
hides and petroleum, but they are not
included in the bill or the average.
with these included, the average du-
ties proposed in the Aldrich bill are
higher than those Of either the present
law or the original Payne bill. And
these average duties are only the min
tmum duties. The maximum duties
may be twenty per cent higher.
( Z. : ~~>. r. :: Estimates Of Revenues.
+: Chairman Payne presented an esti>
mate of the revenue his bill would
produce, when he reported that meas
ure to the house. The Payne bill also
proposed an inheritance tax, which
the house. passed, for the purpose Of
raising additional revenue. Senator
Aldrlch has submitted an estimate to
the senate, and left the inheritance
tax out Of: his bill. Aldrich told the
senate his y bill would raise enough
money to run the government, with
out income, inheritance or other addi-
tional taxes. ~sszssS.. 81
Payne took the Imports Of 1906 as
the basis Of his estimates Of revenue.
Aldrich based his estimates on the
imports of 1907. Payne explained
that he took 1906 because 1t was the
last year Of normal business condi-
tipns., Aldrich has offered no reason
for making 1907, the basis of his esti-
mates, but know the reason.
The A1drich bill estimates were first
made on the basis of the 1906 imports.
and Aldrich threw the maway. The
reason was that on the basis Of the
1906 business the A1drich schedules