The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-18

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The rate Of 500 per cent is obtained under
The Payne tDinGlcy) schedule * when un-
washed wool sells for > cents. washed
wool for cents or secured wool for 6
cents pound, These are about The low
est prices al which wool Is sold. hu,
such prices prevail AT nearly every wool
auction. The Payne rates not only run
up as high as $50 per cent on the low
priced wools, but they run as low as -
per cent on the high-priced wools. &c
possible graduation. The imports of wool
into The United states are confined to
thc llshtest shrinking lots. on which
the ad valorem equivalent or the specific
duty is low. MI the other lots being eX-
cludcd by the high ad valorem equiva-
lonts This is the burden that is inscp-
arabic from specific duty on a com.
modify varying as widely as wool does
In condition and value.
II was Senator Smooi's duty 10 inform
himself regarding the wool tariff before
tmatcly he hahtually relies on wild as
aertions and reckless denials TO estab
iish his position Those who have FOL.
lowed his discussion OF the tariff arc
you few examples.
On June s. 1909. the Senator Eave thc
Senate this definition of tor waste; Mr.
President. ton waste is carded wool with
ell the snhsisnce other than wool in IL.
taken out"
On June .. 1909. the Senate received
ms rsnforpstion from the Senator
the Senator from Iowa tMr. Dolliver)
that the carpet makers do NOT use combs
for making their yarns They ssimnir
use them as three set carded first break
er second breaker and fnisher.
On the same dav Senator Smoot made
this statement also 10 the Senate: Il want
10 call the attention OF the Senator MIR.
DolliveD 10 the fact that no importer
would ever import A noil unless 1t had
been carbonized."
T,,l., N
Smoot undertook to give the Senate
some instruction In warn numbering; II
know what No 1 warn means, No.
yarn means that pound OF wool Is
Two vcnra later. August 10. laI1. the
senator gave another instsllment of his
obstruction in warn numbering: What is
drawn 4 times $50 yards. What is
No SO? II is one pound Of wool drawn
$50 yards 50 times"
a practical knowledge OF wool maDufaC-
turing. know that top waste is comocd
stock; tiIat large quantities OF worsied
yarn arc used in the manufacture Of car
pets. that noils are commonly sold in the
state; and that Yan is not
numbered on q basis or $40 yards, nor Of
$50 wards per pound I call attention 10
these misstatements to illustrate the ic-
norance OF wool manufacturing displayed
hy man who now disputes the accuracy
OF my calculation of the real Dingley duty
sales and who on April %. 1909, made
this statement to the Senate: ~ have
been woolen manufacturer now for
nearly quarter OF a century"
We may laugh at Senator Smnots dis
cussion OF wool and wool manufacturing
In the Senate. but really IL Is no laugh
ing matter, for he has been taken Sc
riously there and placed in charge OF
vltally affecting the wool man
facturing industry. Is shown hv the
following extract from a letter written
April g. 1909, by a Republican Senator
10 a constituent who had appealed for
a fair revision OF schedule X:
everything in my power to secure changes
In the WOODEN schedule so far without
success, Senator Smoot OF Utah is
WOODEN manufacturer himself aud for
that reason the committee have put
this matter (the revision OF schedule ~
on him as subcommittee I have la
bored with him in season and out Of
tain"
The Senator who wrote those lines
voted for schedule X as il is now found
on the statute book. He apparently
thought lie had done his full duty by
appealing 10 Senator Smoot who repre-
sen'ed party sol idarlty. but who was
himself denscly ignorant OF the very
schedule on which he posed as an ex-
pert. Hero we find the source OF all
our tariff troubles: the neglect of our
lawmakers 10 investigate for themselves
and vote according TO convictions based
on knowledge; the blind unressoning
obedience to party discipline; the def
first Congress. These conditions in 1909
caused the ruinous agitation OF which
The end is not vet in sight. Yours very
truly. SAMUEL s DALE.