Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1911-10-05
BOARD ON
TARIFF
Interesting Work Being Done by
Tariff Board Figuring Out
New Schedule
NO GUESS WORK ABOUT IT
Mail is Carried in An Airship on
Long lsland---Parcels Post
Given Boost

Washington, d. c., October 2.-l
wish it We're possible to take the read
ers of the Saturday News on per-
sc nally conducted tour of the head
quarters of the tariff board, in order
that they might learn as did your cor
respondent that the universal belief
that the tariff is dry and uninter
esting question, and what is more i'm
portant-its tolution a hopeless prob
lem, is entirely a mistake, owing to
the method Of work being carried on
by the tariff board.
If this simple statement has served
to carry the reader beyond the Gus
tCmary point where having discoV-
cred that the subject pertains to the
tariff, and he is still willing to follow
Your correspondent, l will endeavor
tc give him something new" that
may modify his previous notions con-
Cerning this over-ripe subject.
The tariff board is applying simple
rules long recognized in private bus
mess, in the classification of indus
tries. y striking proof shown by
their work is that while it may be
that the members of the board are not
tariff experts, as has been claimed,
that their work absolutely demono1-
strates that the so-called authorities
OF congress, working with their prim.
tive methods, could never possibly
form an intelligent tariff schedule OF
any kind. Wool and worsted stats
tics are now being prepared, and a
corps OF representatives are in the
field covering every detail entering
into the question of cost regarding
the growth and manufacture of wool
en- gOous. b. the same principle Dy
which a farmer who keeps first
class set of books can tell at glance
the cost per bushel or acre of raising
any portion of his crops; or by the
methods employed by corporations
and manufacturing institutions, ena-
bling them to compute the price
which they must command to secure
a profit on their products, has our
industrial and commercial develop
ment been able to advance along safe
lines. Lagging far behind comes the
government of our country, now pro.
posing to substitute in place of guess
ing that washed, fieeced and unwash.
ed combings may be produced at a
given figure, method whereby the
actual prices governing the growth OF
wool, it's manufacture, ETC., may be
ascertained. An army of trained men
has been dispatched to every section
of the country, and working upon
carefully prepared schedules they
have analyzed the differences in con.
diuons existing in Wyoming, New
Mexico, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Col
orado, Arizona, Washington, and 9th.
er western states, where the growth
of wool is carried on as a great and
separate industry, independent of
other branches Of farming. An en-
tirely different condition exists in
states like OHIO, Pennsylvania, ILL
nois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa, Ne.
braska, South Dakota, and other
states, where wool growing is recog-
nized as only part of the general
scheme OF farm life-not constituting
a separate industry. The results Of
the tariff, as it affects the wool grow
er in each state, may be anticipated
when taken in connection with the
absolutely correct figures governing
every phase of the industry.
The agents of the tariff board, be-
sides their work in the United States,
have covered every country in the
world, where the wool and worsted
industry is of consequence.
The magnitude of the job seems
tremendous, but 1t has been demon
strated that with a sufficient force of
people, working along an intelligent,
systematic course, that the results
may be as accurately calculated as
! the annual statement of fifty thous-
and dollar corporation.
The simplicity Of the plan is admir-
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