The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-04

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prohibit importation and competition
OF any kind
Under the Dingley tariff there was
practically no competition for the do
nestle manufacturer Of hosiery, and
the American output increased from
so. 000000 in 1900. To more than s50-
00O.oOo, ia 1905 An increase like that
does not indicate the need for any fur
Their protection. on the contrary. it
shows plainly that the manufacturers
have been able 10 charge immense
profits and have expanded their capa-
city 20 take advantage Of the situation.
II the Payne tax is adopted it will
mean higher prices for the consumer.
.,Ho is already being robbed: and the
burden viii fall not upon the man or
woman who uses high-pr.ced goods.
hut upon the one who has been buying
/ hosiery costing . cents OF slightly
more.
! Eighty per cent Of the hosiery made
I in this country IS sold through one
| commission house the strongest kind
/ Of evidence that the business has be-
/ come o trust monopolizing the trade.
| Which also may explain why the Re
publican ways and means committee
! was uiln to give Il an additional
= profit. through higher duty
The glove business affords another
/ interesting example of the way the
Payne bin "revises7 the tariff in the
interest Of specially favored industries.
Most OF the gloves in American are
made in Fulton county, New York The
chief figure in the business is one Lit
tauer former congressman and Repub-
licsn politician. who attained unenvia-
bic notoHety in connection with gov
eminent glove contracts Littauer was
called I'm to help Uncle Joe Cannon
line up the Republican congressman
fo~ the speaker before the special SEES
sion He is To receive his reward for
party services by du increase ia the
tariff on gloves. which viii give the
glove makers combination Of Fulton
county. New York. absolute control Of
the market in America. with power TO
fix its own prices and profits. Under
the old tariff the duty on gloves ranged
from $40 per dozen to $475 per dozen,
according to length and grade. Under
the Payne bill the duty is to be $500
to $3.50 per dozen. according 10 length.
That is to say. the duty is increased
12S per cent and 80 per cent on the
cheapest grades. so to ia per cent on
lamb suede. % TO lO2 per cent on kid
gloves. And. like the duty on hosiery.
the principal burden falls on the con-
sumner Of the cheaper grades.
of course. the fact that Payne. father
OF the new tariff bill. comes from New
York and that Littauer and his assoc
ciate glove makers are also from New
York is only coincidence. But TO the
man or woman who buys gloves L is 2
serious business this prospect of haV-
| ing one Of the uecessaries Of life boost
ed in price beyond the extortionate fig
ures already made possible by an un-
/ necessarily high tariff
/ With cheap hosiery and cheap gloves
raised to the sky limit through the
/ manipulation Of tariff favors. nearly
| every common citizen of the country
may know what TO expect in other
/ lines. The plan 10 revise" the tariff
I shows very clearly in its proper light
l as a plan TO rob the consumer Of the
little margin he has left nov from his
/ earnings and add enormously to the
/ cost Of living I'm order that the New
! England hosiery manufacturers and
/ the New York glove makers may rear
3 the reward Of loyalty to the Republican
party. Bad as the D'ngley tariff was
it was no such cold blooded scheme t.
bleed the producer of wealth as this
: PAYNE pretenSp