The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-01-20

over here In summer and rent homes
us cheaper for them TO 90 TO work
! In Detroit and pay the ferry rate than
to stay into stay in Detroit and pay
Detroit prices"
How does the tariff come in on
that?"
Here, I'll show you See this plug
OF tobacco? It's made in England, and
this is a quarters worth. The leaf
In that plug was raised in the United
States. shipped to England, made into
plugs and shipped back here into
Canada and yet 1t is better than other
brands that sell for lots more money
In Detroit If Ut wasn't, why would
people from Detroit come to my store
and go out with their pockets full Of
Il?
The duty on the tobacco, II export
Ell 1861 feet across TO Detroit. would
be $l65 cents on each pound plug.
The retail price in Windsor is 81 4
pound. In Detroit II is SO a pound.
The brand is well-known world
standard
"Cherney is right" said J. c. Gang
nier the biggest real estate operator
jim Windsor House rents here are
as high as in Toronto-the highest IN
Canada. Yet | rent all the houses |
have on my list every summer TO peo-
pie from Detroit who say they save
money by living here. They save II
on what they eat and wear.
''Their house rents and food bills
here don't equal the rent OF good
fiat in Detroit
The D.. b. /. & w. Ferry Co. operat.
ing the boats over the 1861 feet OF
river. carries thousands OF uEorking-
me nevery morning from here 60 De
troit They pay the boat fare and
street car fare additional TO get 70
work in Detroit. They are Americans,
most OF them. SO great Is the work
ingmen's traffic on the ferry boats that
the company sells 100 "workingmen's
tickets" for $3.50. good only mornings
and evenings. The regular fare is .
cents.
Walter Bong. who owns Windsor !
biggest clothing store, is the man who
sells Christy's London hats for So here
They cost IS in Detroit, 1851 feet
away.
"Of course the duty is the only rea-
son why | can sell Christy hat for
81 less than they do In Detroit he
told me. They invoice to me $24 a
dozen. sell them for SO. The De
troit merchant would pay about $l.5U
duty neach hat.
There must be a lot OF money for
somebody in American-made So hats
It's the same way with clothes. The
duty on good Atwood clothes is Al
cents a pound and 60 per cent of their
value That would be $3.50 on that
$50 suit hanging there. It's as good
suit as you \can buy in Detroit for
$25 1t wouldEhave TO bse sold there
for me-" X9SS-srsaiEs 80
Butter. the best ana country
butter in ina, word tylds2of wes-
tern Ontario.st1 dastfes, Sells here
retail for 2SNeant afp0,uad The same
grade Of buttetAssfls ID DetrAit for Sc
cents, an Increase OF Just 2S per cent
called up Lawrence w. Smell, who
owns the most select creamery in De-
trcit. His products are on the tables
OF Pontchartrain and Cadillac hotels
there.
The whole trouble now" said Mr.
Smell, lis under-production
THAT same day the Western Dairy
mems associate nof Canada was meet
ing at St Thomas. Ont, 10 miles
from Detroit. clled up the secretary,
j. J. Parsons, OF Jarvis, Ont, to see
If the Payne-Aldrich tariff really pro
tected these under-producing Michigan
dairymen. He informed me that the
value OF cheese exported sine May /.
1909, was $17,633, 1853, and that the
value OF the 1909 butter exports from
Ontario to the United States was $685.
G25. Total value OF butter for year and
cheese since May l. 1909. $1S,14l, 9SS.
There was paid by the American
people as duty on this cheese and but
ter over S2000,000 Yet the farmers
OF southern Michigan get no more for
their butter and cheese than do the
formers OF western Ontario. Why.
then. the high prices only 1851 feet
away? And who gets the extra profit
on the Michigan-produced butter and
cheese?