The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-12-03

data at 11s mills in this country and
twenty-five mills In Canada We were
enabled to report the lowest cost per
ton of product IN the two countries
(s245o in the United States and S2479 In
Canada; the highest cost CSE3 IN the
United States and $30.1S in Canada; and
the average cost ($S2.SS in the United
States and $27.5S in Canada). / give you
these items in dollars and cents that
you may know, in the rough, how closely
we calculated the cost Of print paper
Indeed, we can get the practical cost OF
anything, unless 1t be some novelty in
manufacture, or eggs, which come from
every farm, or milk, which is produced
the world over and concerning which
there are no figures, except at large
dairieA"
Shoes and Metals Come Next.
Are you investigating the steel iron,
tin, and other metal INDUSTRIES
I'VE have done considerable office work
in that direction. but have made no in
quiries in the field as yet. After cotton
and wool are out Of the way We mean
to begin with metals and leather. II
the tariff board is continued by Con-
gress We expect to take up meat, -four,
and other articles Of food-butter, cheese,
''Win you extend your inquiries to
NChina and Japan"
China is a large market for cotton
and Japan is operating and building
cotton mills. We have had an agent In the
latter country and shall have some i'm
portant facts bearing on the japanese
cotton industry. When We begin with
metals we shall look into the state OF
the pig-iron business in China Iron
from China has been sold more than
once in the United States"
DO you purpose to describe "
workingmen in other countries Ii"
II dare say we shall. While a-
sential to tariff making, informant q
that character will be illuminate 70
the subject.'N
Are you supposed to refer tc Ger
many's savage battle for the trade os TIE
world?'
mo"
viii the facts you obtain sh9~ 9
there are trusts in Europe
Not necessarily, yet such know Is
may be useful as contributing to a. .f-
Outstanding of cost prices. Shou rhs
tariff board become an establish -
stitution, it will doubtless have 81, -
airy Of trade, as well as a gloss r-
the tariff to borrow a phrase L'.'1-
President Taft. and be competent a -.-.
time to give complete account of r-.-.-
ness conditions all over the world. t. g.
portation, of course, would be inc E-
The cost of getting to market Is al #.-
as anything else"
How are tariff bills written abb
Generally by the ministries
various countries-or the govern
as they are calledWafter conference ~.
business men and manufacturers.
ministers are supposed to represel ...
consumers. Here, as we all know,
bills originate in the House of ]
sentatives and sometimes are pre-
debated by 400 men and passed ms
five months. More time is taken +
rope. Only a few persons, compare p.
are brought into the work. and thu "a
the experts permanently employed Hr.
the ministers who write the bills.
a bill is put together piece by pi
goes, with all the influence Of tt
ministration, to the popular bran
the national Legislature - the Rel,
in Germany, the Chamber of De "a
in France, and the Lower House in .s-
tria-H Hungary.
THE United States is the one ! t71
IrryrIsseE commission ENGAGED er
with tariff research, nor is the
question so often and violently disc .-l
anywhere else on EARTH
Copyright. 1911. by James B. Morrow