The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-06-22
THE OLD ARGUMENT
NOT MADE
INFANT INDUSTRY HAS NOT
BEEN MENTIONED IN PRES
EMIT TARIFF DEBATE.

| Washington June 21--Mention was
| made recently of the fact that the
present tariff debate is the first one
1 within. the memory Of the oldest CORE
| Spondents or member of congress in
| which the infant industry argument
| mas not figured. In this connection
| somebody made the remark that the
4 day of the infant industry had passed
| and that, while some kinds of business
are growing more rapidly than others
1 American manufactures as a whole
| have reached 4 settled basis where few
| new lines of industrial activity are in
| Uoduced and progress is confined
i chiefly to expansion in established en-
| terprses.
| This view seems to be widely held.
| but very little delving into the re-
| turns collected by the bureau of manu-
| features show that the people of the
| United States are spending at least
S1,0o0000, 900 every year on the products
of industries that have had almost
their entire growth since the time
when the schedules of the Dingley bill
We're under discussion, and that the
| progress Of the last 10 years in the
evolution of new activities has been
| greater than in any similar period of
| the countrys history. measured either
| by the amount of capital invested or
| by the widespread use of the new
| products. 1t so happens that most of
| these industries are the result of i'm
vention or of new developments in
popular taste so that they are not so
greatly affected by the tariff, although
in the shaping of the Aldrch- Payne
bill a large number of new schedules
had to be inserted to provide for arti-
cles that We're either unknown Or Of
no commercial Importance at the last
previous revision Of the tariff.
Head of List.
At the head of this list of industries
that has grown to vast proportions
within the past 10 or u years must be
placed the manufacture of automo-
biles This is genuine infant indus
try for it's development hardly runs
back before the beginning of the
twentieth century. How lusty an in
FAINT it is may be gathered from the
fact that more than s150,O00,OOO is in
vested. in automobile factories in the
United States, and that an expert esti-
mate of the value of their products
for the current year places it at up
ward of $25O,O00,oO0. These figures
alone do not measure the actual pro-
portions of the industry that have
reVnlntioniZGd traffic conditions in the
large cities and is largely revolutions
ling them in every part of the coun-
try. The automobile has given rise to
several new occupations. There are
between 10000 and % 900 chauffeurs in
New York alone. In the various
branches, of making, selling and OPP
Grating the motor cars not less than
100000 persons are employed, receiving
some 5000, 900 year in wages. Add |
this to the expenditures for cars and |
automobile supplies and it will be seen !
that the American people are expend-
ing half billion dollars or more each |
year in connection with an industry
so young that those who are still |
school boys can remember its begin
ming.
Moving Pictures.
Next to the automobile, gagged by
the expenditure which it draws from
the great American pocket, must be |
ranked, curiously enough, the moving
picture industry, The making and ex-I
hlbting Of moving pictures is pri-t
marlly an amusement enterprise al
though these views are utilized in in
dustrlal lines, in educational work and
in thousand ways that the inventors
of the various systems never dreamed
of. Motion pictures We're exhibited in
continuous performance theaters as
long ago as the middle nncties merely
as n novelty, but the exhibition of
these views as an independent busi-
ness, which has far outstripped all!
other forms of theatrical entertain
ment. has been almost wholly
growth of the past four or five years.
According to the latest statistics there
are at present over 1000 theaters de-
voted to the display of motion pictures
in United States territory, including
some in Alaska, the Philippines, Ha-
Wali and the Panama canal zone The
making of views to be displayed in
these establishments is a Worldwide
giving employment to thou
SANDS OF persons, and has even given
rise to a trust: at least, that is the
term applied to the association of lead
ns manufacturers of picture films
known as the Motion Picture Patents
by those dealers who are
outside the association. The organiZa-
ton Includes all the American manu-
Iacturers of films and the more inn
oortant ones of Europe. million
lollars is paid annually in admission
ices to motion picture establishments
oy he American public and the total
volume of the moving picture business
$ not less than 1000 900 yearly. The
business has assumed such proportions n
that it has been made the subject of
special regulations in many cities and
l board of censors representing var
Gus civic organizations has recently |
been organized in order to eliminate |
hose depicting drunkenness, crime |
md other improper or demoralizing |
subjects. |
Musical Apparatus.
Another business that has had it's
growth within the past de- |
,aup is the man1factIlra and cala of |