Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-21

1t having beer said that the farmers
free list bill, now OH it's way in Con-
gress, would save the American on
sumner $500, DOC, 200 a year in the prices
Of necessities of life, an Evening STAR
reporter interviewed a number of
prominent dealers in life's necessities
to discover how much of that 100000
600 the ultimate Newark consumer is
going to save If The bill becomes a law.
Good encouragement came at first
from B.. L. Wilkinson, of the
Wilkinson-Gaddi Company, wholesale
grocers. Mr.. Wilkinson was asked how
much the price would fall off groceries
of the farmers free list measure went
through, and Mr.. Wilkinson said:
ooh, quite a bit all around, I guess.
Probably a reduction in the price Of
bread and -four will come; probably
some more reduction might be looked
for in the preserved meat line. Other
groceries may go down a bit If the bill
passes, and / think the benefit will be
divided between the producer and the
consumer.
"Of COURSE added Mr.. Wilkinson,
that's in case there isn't any bugaboo
in the bill, and In case of that I'd say
you might look for a three or four per
cent. reduction on general groceries IL
the bill were to become a law"
No Difference in Shoes.
Then the reporter went over to
Waverly and said to L.. Schwartz, OF
the big NJ. Straus & Company leather
firm, there:
IF this farmers free list bill passed
aud I yUane IN hfxs a mats nf ahNoo IN
Newark. how much cheaper will / get
them If it passes than II it dcesn't?"
mot a cent cheaper said Mr.. Straus.
1--WE manufacture leather over here
cheaper than they a now. 1t won't
make a penny's difference in the price
you pay for your pair OF shoes, but the
Canadian hide men will reap the
profit"
Then the reporter went to a lumber
firm to find out IL the enactment of the
bill wouldn't save him money in the
building of a house. He asked Samuel
F. Bailey, Of the Bailey & Alling Co.,
that question and the answer came
shortly and directly:
No Reduction In Lumber
THE Canadian manufacturer of the
lumber will keep the price up" said
Mr.. Bailey. IF the United States
takes off its tariff Of a dollar and O.
quarter under this new bill he'll eat It
up in his profits. He can do It because
he's got the lumber there to throw in,
and we need more than he can throw
in and your house In Newark will cost
you just as much to build five years
from now under this act as II costs
you If you're building q house today,
and the difference will only be that
the Canuck will get the net profit out
OF the act we passed ourselves"
r. s. Coryeii. OF the Coryell Lum-
Der Company, said that the temporary
price of lumber to the house-builder in
Newark might go down on the passage
OF the bill. hut he declared that It
would not be for long.
That's because we are already cut
ting down timber in Canada and the
United States 800 per cent. faster than
IL grows. The American lumber dealer
Is already forced to dc the biggest
legitimate wholesale business In the
world to stay alive. But he will get no
profits from the duty OF lumber. The
Canadians will get IL and they will
charge him just as much, and he will
charge the consumer lust as much.
There won't be n profit any time to
anybody in the U. s. A., If that bill
goes through"