The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-27
YOUR GUM BOOTS
So CENTS ABROAD
But in This Country You Pay
$500 a Pair for
Them.
--
METHOD OF ALDRlcH MEN
Since Passage Of Tariff Law
Prices Have Scared rs
Per Cent.
METHOD OF ALDRlCH MEN

New York. August 26.-Rubber boots
made in this country by the unlteu
States Rubber Company (the trusD,
and for which the American consumer
pays an average price of 81 a pair, are
sold by that corporation In the Engiish
wholesale markets at an average price
of 46 cents pair.
In other countries In the world the
American trust gets a little more for
its product, but an average for the en-
tire world shows price of about 90
cents u pair.
The Wholesale price for what are
known in tho trade as Rhode Island
mems shorts--that is, boots that come
to the knee--yesterday was 1927 a pair.
For Bay State mems shorts it was
1914 pair.
Since the passage Of the Payne-Ald-
rich tariff law, increasing the tariff on
manufactures of rubber about 16 per
cent, the price of rubber boots has
been advanced here by the trust about
rs per cent, local jobbers say.
Europe Gets Its Goods Cheap.
These are few of the facts that
tend to show the extent to which
United States Senator Aldrich and his
friends in the rubber business have
Aldrich helped to levy on the Amer
vancing the duty on foreign made rub
Der goods to point at which their
importation is practically preelnded.,
exports Of rubber boots and shoes con-
sisted of 2,396,435 pairs The invoice
value of these, by the statements fled
by the exporters, was s1.2o2,G7a. That
Is. the actual price at which the United
States manufacturers invoice their
goods to their agents or customers
abroad is about 80 cents a pair.
But those figures are for the whole
world The statistics for Great Britain
show that the exports to that country
IN the year ended June 80. 1909. were
742,o43 pairs of rubber boots and shoes,
for which the invoice price was $685.
los, or an average of 46 cents pair.
"Infnnt" Needed rarijt Aid.
Almost all the manufacturers are
subsidiary to the United States Rubber
Company, the "infan, inius,ry' with
It's assets of more the $l!a.G0t.op0 AM
actual surplus of almost $1G.0Oo.00o.
1t was to give additional urotection to
this struggling business tina. United
States Senator Aldrjch caused the tariff
On rubber to be increased from ~ per
cent. ad valcrem TO 80 per cent. or 10
10 per cent. more on the actual value.
The United States Rubber company
buys all the produc. of The lntcrconti-
rental Rubber COMPANY the $4,000 QUO
corporation virtually owned BY Aldrich,
Which produces the guayule rubber the
chief article that enters into the manu-
facture OF .ubber boo:s and shoes.
In one of the largese department
stores In this city yesterday IL was
learned that the prices OF rubber boots
Tor men ranged from $3.50 to 1860 4
Peir. or an. average price Of 81.
in regard TO the export trade of the
United States Rubber Company, Presi-
dent Colt. in his last annual report,
said:
THE expor. business of the COM
ipany was larger than in any previous
year. The several foreign agencies
for our standard brands are now es-
tablished on substantial basis, and
we look for steady growth or this
branch of our business"
With the company selling its pro-
ducts in Europe so low. 1t was believed
in Wall street that Colts optimistic
| prediction had good foundation The
| mere fact that the American consumer
| suffered did not enter into considera-