The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-26
MISS FARRELL ON FARCICAL
 TARIFF DUTIES

The farcica1 duties of the Tariff is Miss Ida M. TarbelPs subject in the October Am erican Magazine. She pays particular attention to the inequali- ties of the wool schedule and points out it's amazing injusticeS. The card ed woolen manufacturers are among the principal sufferers under the pres ent tariff duties. Of their experiences inattempting to get a revision, Miss Tarbell writes:
 like many other innocent Americans, took the results of the presidential election of 1908 as evidence that the At last,' said they. we shall get re-. lief Soon after the election one of of Marcellus, New York. learning that there was to be a meeting of the National Association of Wool Manu- vision Of the wool schedule was to be discussed, presented himself at the gathering. To his surprise he election, about the time, indeed that E MT. Tafts promises of downward re- vision were most definite and vigor- ous, representatives of this associa- ton had met representatives of the wool-growers of the far West and the two had made what they called solemn compact to resist all changes in the wool schedule! The inequaN- ties were to stand. The carded wool en mills were to be fed carpet wool and cotton if they could get them, the man on small income was to con- ttnue to wear cotton worsteds and sleep under cotton blankets, the we'll for cloth they could buy in England for seventy-fve cents. When MT. Moir protested. he found he stood tional Association of Wool Manufac- turers apparently represented the worsted industry: A little later, when gan it's hearings, MT. Moir found that this same association was giving in- needed and that it did not include help for him. Outraged, he went to work to organize the carded woolen
 men. Over one hundred were soon in line, and this body carried it's griev- ance to the Ways and Means Com mitteee. No attention was paid to Wood, of the National Association (Mr. Wood is the president of the American Woolen Company, the com bination popularly called the Wool Trust'). took the carded wool men to task for objecttng to the duties. The new organization was not slow The carded wooIen mauufactur- CTS have appealed to the Ways and Means Committee for fair play in vafn,' MT. Dobson, the president of the Maine WooIen Manufacture ers' Assoetation, wrote in public answer to MT. Wood. If the House of Rep will appeal to the Senate. If justioe is refused there they will appeal to the President of the United States, who has proclaimed his belief in the theory of cost differences as the true principle of protection, who has an- nounced his devotion to the. square deal. and who. since his election, has declared that tariff revision must be honest and thorough, and intimated that a veto awaits a. dishonest bill.
 If he fails to give us the justice he can give if he will, then the card ed woolen manufacturers will carry their case to the court that makes and unmakes Presidents, Senators and House of Representatives, the Amer ican people, confident that they soon 1 CT or later will strip from the tariff l law the special privileges that are now giving the worsted spinners such 1 great advantages at the expense of | the wool-growers, the carded woolen manufacturers and the consum CTS of ! the country ''