The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-12-02
Wool ariffff as Seen
BY a Manufactured

cost OF production is at the lowest
point possible and in favor oil the
community at large. tho average profit
which We manufacturers secure on
! the cloth entering into suit ol
! clothes does not exceed 1hirty-eighl
| cents on an average suit oi clothing
read recently that the President Ui
the omitted states was wearing a suit
of clothes for which he paid fifty dol.
lars The American people may like
( TO know that II that cloth were pur,
J chased from our company, our share
a. the profit in that suit OF clothes
would be less than City cents. or less
than one per cent OF the entire suit
Does this sound as If schedule X was
So very lnIquitous?
Il have heard 1t stated and | am
willing 10 endorse Il, taat, as a matter
of fact, the tariff on wool md woolens
does not actually cost the American
people single cent The tariff on
wool vit0lly affects not only the raw
material of clothing. but the food sup
ply Of the United States Mr.. Theo.
Gore Justice OF Philadelphia, an able
and exact student of the wool uucS-
tiCn, reminds us that during the free
Wool period of the German Wilson
law, we lost oncfourth of all the
sheep in America In few years, and
thnt IL there had not been quick
change in the tariff. sheep before long
would have vanished from the coun-
try, We hear much complaint today
Of the high price of mutton and lamb,
but can you imagine what the price
u ,t1ll no ~ hp
were entirely destroyed and our lamb
and mutton supply had to be brought
in refrigerator ships from the other
side Of the equatorial line from South
America. South Africa ana Australia?
The United States Is by far the
greatest meat-caung and Woodworking
country in the world. Our own sheep
a,c. on the whole. increasing in mum
bers in this country. while in the
world as 4 whole. they are decreasing
Last year our farmers and ranchmen
furnished 32S, 100000 pounds of wool
and in addition, 263. 100000 pounds
were imported. Yet you Will read In
The newspapers and magazines. heat
ed assertions by men who do not
know or care what they ere talking
about, that the American protective
tariff Is 'pTohibltiye II is not pro-
hibitive in our industry on either wool
or goods.
I'm the last fiscal year ending June
30, 1910, covering eleven months of
the Aldrlch-Payne law, our gross i'm
ports OF manufactures OF wool were
S23.532 ,175-a large increase over the
SIS, ,102. $50 OF the year before These
figures, II should be borne in mind.
are the low foreign prices. made low
often for deliberate undervaluatlon.
The imports vi 1910 represent n total
actual duty-pald Aremican value not
far from the total average value OF the
entire output OF the American WoOlen
company a tariff which allows such
an import as this cannot rightfully
re denounced as either prohibiliye or
excessive.
Schedule X may have defects of
detail-no tariff law whether Con.
Eress-made or Commission made ever
has been or ever will be perfect But
the present schedule as II stood in the
Dinglcy law and stands now has wilt
messed the most marked nealthy and
vigorous growth OF wool manufactur-
ing in the history Of America Five
thousand people depend upon
this industry for sustenance, and
there are hundreds OF thousands of
others dependent on the growing OF
wool The wages in American woolen
ujlls are more than twice the wages
In England and three times the wages
in Germany or France, These Ameri-
can mills can supply the entire domes-
tic demand for clothing, III the pro
tcctive tariff is destroyed. we manu-
fncurers. with our command of capl-
tai. can go elsewhere and build our
factories wherever labor is cheapest.
but the American work-people cannot
do this. They cannot so TO England
or Germany or France or China or
Japan They have got u live here
and find their work here This queS'
ton OF the protection Of American in
dustry Is fundamentally a question OF
the protection OF American labor.
prosperous workingmen, able
to 1--we in decent comfort and send
their children 10 school, there can be
10 sel(-sovernmeDt here and no re-
public