Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-22
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Republican Leaders Aroused
Over Tariff Plants.
CALL ON PRESIDENT TODAY
Concerned Over Statements Made by
Wholesale Clothiers.
LOCAL MERCHANTS WARNING
Say Prices Are Going Up and Duties
on Wool Should Be
CALL ON PRESIDENT TODAY
LOCAL MERCHANTS WARNING

/ representations made to the President
| yesterday by wholesale manufacturers OF
/ clothing that because of the high pro-
| tective rates on wool and the increas-
| ingly effective organization of the wool
| trust the price of clothing next year,
| especially the grades worn by poor men,
| will be immensely increased.
| The leaders declare that they see no
reason why this is true, as the new
tariff bill contains no increases over the
Dinsley bill.
The answer they receive, though, IS
that every retail clothing man in the
| country has been informed that he
must pay from % to 40 per cent in
crease on his orders from the wholesale
men for the next year, and the whole
| sale men do not give a tinkers bit
whether the retail men put in their or
! ders or not.
| The wholesale men, in explanation OF
| this admitted fact. declare that they
are compelled TO pay heavy increases
upon their goods from the WOODEN
trust, which, they say. has grown fat
and. feeling safe for some years to
| come under the rates of the new tariff
BILL is prepared to make the wholesale
men pay whatever prices they fix. >.
| may see fit to investigate through the De
| partment of Justice. comes out IN
statement and asserts that the slight ad-
| vances made by its members have peen
| so small as to add comparatively little 10
| the cost of suit of clothes.
View of Man Who Makes Cloth.
| The increased price is merely the recov-
| cry Of the wool market from the decline
of prices in 1907. according to the men
| who make the cloth to sell to the men
who make. the clothes.
| While the men who wear the clothes
must pay next year large increase IN
prices. each element having to do with
| this situation lays it on the other.
The republicans say it is not their fault.
| because there will be no increases In rate
| in the new bill. The wholesale men say 1t
| is not their fault. because they must pay
more for their goods from the trust.
| The trust says it has made no increases
except natural ones Both the wholesale
| and retail men say that the existing high
| tariff rates and those to come have made
| the wool trust arrogant and enabled it to
raise prices.
Retail Mans Defense.
| The retail man tells his customer that it
| is all due to the tariff bill. The customer
votes for representatives year from
next November. The democrats propose
!! to tell the customer that the republicans
did it all. And this is the outlook.
| The proposition of the wholesale men is
! to change the wool rates to ad valOrem
from specific. making the rates on the
lower grades of wool, from which the poor
mans clothes are cut. proportionately
| lower than the rates upon the rich man
wool AS the rates now stand 1t is
claimed that the rich mans wool pays
something like 800 per cent less. In pro-
portion. than the poor mans wool, and
| that he will pay little increase next year
for his clothes.
details of the tariff now it is difficult for
him to find time to try to correct stua-
| ton which would necessitate recommtting
| the tariff bill to the House and another
big fight over wool rates.
Local Clothiers' Ideas.
Leading clothiers Of this city are in
| favor of the proposition made to Presi-
dent Taft by the National Association
| OF Clothiers, which has requested the
President to veto the tariff bill should the
| wool schedule fail to provide the relief
| that Is necessary. The association In a
letter to Mr.. Taft said:
Eighty million Wearers of WOOens are
paying yearly much more than the total
| value of the domestic wool clip to af-
ford excess profits to comparatively
| small number of sheep raisers and
| worsted yarn spnners.
| d. J. Kaufman, 1O05-O7 Pennsylvania
| avenue. said with much earnestness.
| I'VE want the raw wool to come In free,
especially Australian long-skein staple
| wool. We have not enough OF 1t here.
| 1t should therefore come In free Of duty.
/ on manufactured wooens, and then at q
| low rate. The trouble is the people will
| have to pay the increase. We want to
/ give better fabrics at smaller cost, and
| we can only do so on lower tariff"
| T. Pliny Moran Of the Cherry Moran
/ Company declared the rates on the lower
grades of wool are higher than on the
best grades. and therefore operate against
| the poor man.
Prices Up Now.
at is the lower and medium fabrics
| that go into the ready-made clothing.
Certain classes Of WOODEN goods have
! been put on the market for next sea-
sons consumption at from 20 to 80 per
cent over the prices of last season on
certain grades of goods.
There should be an ad valorenl duty
Under proposed conditions it means that
suit of clothes you pay SIS for this
year will cost from 81 to SIS next sea-
son to give equal value in workmanship
and trimming. all of which the consumer
will have to pay. We would rather give
| a patron a better article for the same
| price than an inferior one.
This increase in prices Mr.. Moran
continued. was not made until the
wooden dealers felt sure there would be
no reduction in the tariff fSom the Ding
| ley schedule. The higher the tariff the
more the wooden men can control the
1 prices. The wool that is raised in this
| country is not drop in the bucket &c
| what Is needed here. The wooden men
are compelled to import so much wool
| anyhow.
Isidor Grosner Agrees.
II agree with the Wholesale Clothiers
Association in its views and points," was
| the comment of Isidor Grosner of lOl.
! Pennsylvania avenue. THE proposed
schedule will affect the poor and middle
classes more than the rich. The duty on
woods should certainly be ad valorem
That would equalze the matter. The
manufacturers are going from bad tc
worse. The more duty that is charged or
wool the thinner they make the cloth
This thinner material will not give salts.
the poor men they will put a good dea
of cotton in the fabric to give 1t its
| proper texture. II cotton is put into the
goods the cOlors will fade. Therefore the
| middle class and the Workingmen viii
be the sufferers by the proposed heavy
taxation.
Whitney's Horse Second.
| LIVERPOOL. July 22.-The all-aged
selling plate Of 100 sovereigns, for two
year-olds. distance. five furlongs. was
run here today and won by Take Care.