The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-09
DICK'S NOTION OF THE BEST
A. TARIFF

according to a careful analysis OF
Schedule K of the tariffs, that which
has to do with wool and woolens, it
was made for William Whitman and
the woolen's trust and nobody else
was considered. Here are more than
sO,o00000 Of ultimate consumers OF
woolens but they were never though,
Of Here are q great number OF WOO
growers, several thousand anyhow
en- TO them for their interests have
been endangered by a loop-hole in
class which loop-hole let's in worst
ed washed woods, which should be
tariffed at double the amount assessed
on wool in the grease az cents per
pound) at sthe same rate, that Is IL
manufacturers an enormous advan-
tage at the expense of the wool
growers. 1t really cuts down the tariff
on these woods to about cents per
pound instead of IL cents which is
the supposed basis of the wool
schedule.
But, worse and worse, this woolens
schedule is not a good thing for most
of the woolens' manufacturers. In fact
1t was originally made by S. N. d.
North for Whitman. Aldrich probably
being privy to the sxtortion, infamy,
and outrage. Anyhow, North was
sneaked into Aljrich's committee
when the Dingley law was formulat-
ed and wrote into it this scoundrelly
classification and levy of tariffs. Here
it is from the Payne Statute being
the same as in the Dingley law;
Sec. 1866. The duty on woods of the
first class which shall be imported
washed shall be twice the amount
Of the duty TO which they would be
subjected IL imported unwashed and
the duty on woods of the first and
second classes which shall be import
ed secured shall be three times the duty
to which they would be subjected IL
imported unwashed." Nothing is said
about washed woods of class 2 and
hence they are imported at the IL
cent rate. Class 1 are Merton woods
and class 2 are Cotswold, Leicesta and
other long woods. 1t will be seen that
a loop-hole is deliberately made here
in washed woods OF class as they
are allowed to be brought in at the
same price as wool in the grease Of
OF this class.
This seems to be its effect. the most
crooked. unfair. dishonest. unscrupu-
lous and unprincipled matter ever i'm
bedded in a statute. While fine
Marino woods are taxed II cents per
pound in the grease and 22 cents
washed these long woods are allow
ed to come in the same washed as
as unwashed and thus benefit Mr..
Whitman and the woolens' trust to
the disadvantage of the wool-grow-
ers and the other manufacturers OF
woolens. Thus a law has been made
for one firm or at most for the bene-
ut OF the woolens' trust as against
the interests of most OF the manu-
facturers of woolens, against the in
terests of wool growers and against
the interests Of eighty millions of con-
sumers.- Yet Senator Dick has the
nerve TO tell us this is the best
tariff law ever made. If 1t is then
what must the worst have been?
We haven't said anything about
some of its other provisions, for in
stance, levying 165 per cent tariffs
on cheap blankets and only 80 per
cent on high priced blankets; about
its ievying l43 per cent tariffs on
cheap flannels. 141 per cent on knit
fabricc. MS per cent ON women's dress
goods etc. all OF which Is. in our