The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-10-02

abroad. Take the subject Of paper.
a committee was appointed by ION
gress n year before the tariff sitting
began TO determine what the differ.
ence was between the cost Of produc.
ton In Canada Of print paper and
here, and they reported that they
thought n good bill would he imposing
two dollars u ton on paper rather than
six dollars, the Dingley rate, provided
that Canada could be induced to take
OF the export duties and remove the
other obstacles to the importation Of
spruce wood ont " which wood pulp
IN made. An examination Of the cvi
dence satisfied Mr.. Payne-I believ, II
satisfied some Of the republican dis
entcr--that two dollars, unless some
change was made In the Canadian re-.
strictions, was much too low and that
~ ~ only n fair measure of the diff
ference between the cost If production
here aud in Canada. In other words
the two dollars found by the special
committee was rather an invitation 10
Canada and the Canadian print paper
people to use their influence with their
government to remove the wood re.
s,ric'ions by reducing the duty on print
paper against Canadian print paper
mills. II was rather n suggestion Of
"a diplomatic nature than a positive
statement of the difference in actual
cost of production u under exist
iny conditions between Canada aud
the i'w'sd states.
Free Hides Section Explained
1.-The tarin on hides was taken OF
because IL was thought that IL was
necessary to the man who raised eat
tie aud that the profits Of the cattle
business were sufficient without i'm
posing n duty aud that the duty i'm.
posed was likely to throw the control
of the sale of hides IN to the hands Of
the meat packers in Chicago.
"ln order TO balance the reduction
on hides, however, there was Il great
reduction an shoes, from % TO ~ per
sent; on sole leather from 20 to )
per cent, on harness, 40 to ~ per rent.
There was also IA reduction in duty ON
coal Of 80 l.3 per cent All counter
Vailing duties were removed from oil,
naptha, gasoline and it, refined products.
Lumber reduced from ~ to si.25.
II IL said that there might have been
more. But there were 80 many business
interests in the south, in Maine, along
the border, and especially in the far
northwest which insisted that IL would
give great advantage to Canadian lum
Der IL the reduction were made more
than - cents. Mr.. Pinchot thought
that IL would Tend TO make better
lumber in this country If the duty were
retained. The lumber interests thought
two dollars was none too much, but
the reduction was made and the com
promise affected. Possibly, ! was In
favor Of free lumber, because / do
not think that IL the tariff was taken
of there would be such suffering
among the lumber interests. In thS
controversy the house and the senate
took a middle course, and who can say
they were not justified.
Wool Schedule a Mistake
"With respect Ia the wool schedule
! agree that 1t is too high, and ought
to have been reduced, and that 1t
probably represents considerably more
than the dincrance between the cost
OF production abroad and the cost Of
production here. The difficulty about
the wooden schedule is that there were
two ~contending factions early in the
history Of republican tariff; wool grow
ers and wooden manufacturers, and
that finally many years g they set
tied on n basis by which wool in the
grease should have II cents n pound
aud by which allowance should be made
in the %shrinkage in the diferential on
wool manufacturers. The percentage Of
duty was very heavy-quite beyond the
difference in the cost Of production
which was not then regarded AZ a nee
essary or proper limitation on protec.
tive duties.
When 1t came to the question Of re-.
ducing the duty on wool, Mr., Payne
aud Mr.. Aldricb found that in the
republican party the interests Of the
wool growers Of the far west and the
interests u the wooden manufacturers
in other states were sufficiently strong
to defeat any attempt to change the
woolen tarin and that, had it been at
tempted, II would have beaten the bill
reported from either committee. am
sorry this is 50, and ! could wish II had
been otherwise. II is the Que important
defect in the present Payne tariff bill
and the performance of the promise OF
the platform to reduce rates to n diff
ference in the cost Of production with
reasonable profit to the manufacturer,
That il will increase the price OF wool.
en- cloth, ! very much doubt.
"There has been an Increase, by the
natural law Of supply and demand In
the price of wool all over the world
as an agricultural product, but this wa
not due To the tariff because the tariff
wal not changed. The Increase would
therefore have taken place whether the