Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-08-06
MRS.,:.C0NSUMER &.
Will PAY.
IFS a Fine Tariff Law Until She
Gets to Figuring.
hen, Statistics Notwithstanding, She
I viii Find She Must Give the
Trusts Tribute on NeCeS.
stiles Of Life.
rom the Kansas City Times.


The country lis to be flooded
IRON this time on with elabo
rate columns of statistics t.
prove that the new Tariff Law
Is probably tn finest thing tina
ever happened to tine American
people and thai it contains al
tine downward revision that hear
could wish. The bewildering ar
ray of figures ;.:'c1uced today
Chairman Payne lis only an index
OF what is still to come wher
the campaign orators get busy.
Bnt suppose Mrs. Consumer
with a husband and family to
look after and with a small in.
come to do it with, sits down
with p al anti pa::er Suppose
she gets d'wn t lass tackH III
this same Tariff Bill and makes
q note of what her family gets
out of it. Whit Will she find?
So far as the family table is
concerned, she knows that the
tariff Oh u,nst t::t1gs makes -
tie difference. With the United
States exporting enormous guam
titles { .. ALL, Leafs, .sh: van
no reasonably expect any &C.
ton by Congress to help or hurt
the meat and bread bill. But
there is sugar. A family of five
uses on an average about four
hundred pounds aeyear. 1t costs
two cents a pound more. in time
United States than it does
abroad except in countries that
levy an internal revenue tax on.
it. That is So a year for THE fam
lily, AMID the Payne Law lets THE
tariff tax stand. Lemons 60 up
materially, for the duty S IN
creased so per cent. If Mrs. Con.
sumner will inquire of her grocer.
SHE may find the price already
has advanced.
Figs, dates and pineapples, too
are advanced, while the duty
is retained unchanged on the Spl,
ces of common use. The question
of clothing is serious to most
families and Mrs. Consumer will
discover t that in most respects
her household will be in a bad
way under the new, bill. Shoes will
be of a little better quality, but
stockings wall be decidedly more
expensive, Stockings retailing a
twenty five cents a pair will pay
a duty of about seven cents a
pair. By the time this is pass
ed along to, the purchaser, THE
cost probably will be thirty
five cents a pair, except THAT the
manufacturers may decide to fur
nish a cheaper grade for twenty, |
five cents. Mrs. Consumer, OF
course, buys quite a bit of cotton
cloth for dresses for herself and
her daughters in a year. But tht
New England friends of MIR. Al.
drich really needed money, and
while some of the mill owners
had thoughtlessly testified THAT ,
they were making good prOflts i
under the Dingley Law, the Sen
ate boosted THE rates and the
House has accepted the lncreas-
es.
On a piece of plain white mer
cerized cotton cloth selling al
wi ylesale at fifteen and One-halt
cents a yard, the duty is kind
", but firmly advanced 50 per-
cent. Seven cents is added to
the price instead of something
less than four cents under the
DingTay Law. The wholesale
price would be twenty-five AND.
onehalf cents instead OF name
teen. If Mrs. Consumer prices
pretty piece of checked cotton
cloth, mercerized, selling at flf'
teen cents abroad, to which a Gu
ty of five cents lis added under
the Dingley Law, she will lind
that eight CENTS Is to De auneu
under the downward revision oil
Mr.. Aldrich. A cOttOn dress re
failing at $40 will pay a trlb'
ute of $3.50 to the New Eng
land manufacturers.
1t will be with great Satlsfac-
ton that Mrs. Consumer will OBJ
serve that the wooden peO-
pie did not insist on further
advance in duties that now run
from 60 to 40 per cent. But
when she understands the sit
uation, she will not be so COM
placent. The DINGHY Law,
which is TO continue unchanged