The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-08-18

port quotes literally from The World
Of July 21, saying:
"a remarkable interview from Bos-
ton Mass, Is published in the papers
under date of July 80 1910, in which
Mr.. j. ID. Whitaker, manager of the
cotton yarn department of Fearing IL
Wilton, one of the best known COM
mission houses of New England, says:
And Cotton Didn't Need II.
"'why the tariff should have been
increased, as 1t certainly was, passes
my comprehension. Mr.. Aldrich, or
perhaps Senator Crane. may be able
to offer good reasons, but l am sure
the manufacturers cannot. AS a re-
suit of the changes from the previous
tariff the cotton business throughout
New England is today at a standstill
and the domestic manufacturers, the
foreign manufacturers and the i'm
porters have not been able to adjust
themselves to the new conditions.
$50 far as my knowledge goes
there was not even the suggestion for
an increased tariff among the manu-
facturers of cotton in New England.
All we wanted was to be let alone.
"'What happened? Instead of the
old tariff under which we knew ex-
actly what we had to pay for every
piece of yarn, we find ourselves sad
died with a mixture of ad valorem
and specific duties which have COM
pletely unbalanced the trade. l do
not believe there Is man In the cot
ton business today in New England
who can tell just where and how he
is going to get out Of this muddle.'
"Mr. Whitaker was hsked:
Have you any reason to believe
Senator Aldrch Is in any way con-
nected with the cotton Industry
"He replied: 4 know nothing of
Mr.. Aldrichs private affairs, but l do
know that somebody who had an AK
to grind must have got busy with the
committee
1T will end in the same old story.
The public will have to pay more for
its manufactured cotton goods to en-
able some mill companies to keep on
paying the eXtravagant dividends they
have been paying TOR the past few
years.
was supposed TO be the slogan; but
Instead 1t has gone up and up, not
to, protect any Industry, but to foster
some favored concerns that are not
equipped and never can be equipped
to properly compete wlIh certain for
eign goods, except at the expense OF
the people who have to purchase the
| finished MATERIAL"
Citizens Living Extravaganuy.
In commenting on extravaganza as
factor in the higher cost of living,
| the minority say:
I'VE are free to admit that many
of our citizens have been living ex-
trayagantly, but II does not lie in the
mouth of the minority to reproach
them. FOR they have set the example
by the most extrayagant and wasteful
expenditure OF the moneys collected
from the people by taxation.
| Ordinary common sense and pru-
dence would warn the> private citizen
not to increase his family expense
when prices were advancing; ordinary
common honesty should cause legis-
iators to reduce appropriations to the
necessities of government goes into
buying automobiles for the use of
weil-paid officials. the legislators vot-
Ing the appropriations should not
complain II citizens who cannot af-
ford this luxury follow their bad ex-
ample In ten years the annual bur-
dens OF federal taxation have In
creased more than s376,000, ,000-a
per capita now of more than 81. This
must be felt in the cost of living"