The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-04-10
HEAVY TAX ON
WOMEN'S WEAR
Is Shown in Current
Tariff Schedule.
s4.87 IN EACH $1,000 WORTH
Of Wooden Dress Goods Repre-
SentS the Tax-NOt So
In England.
TAFT VETOED a RELIEF BILL
(By Clyde H. Tavenner. }

goods and the remaining $5.13 Of
the $40 the amount of the tariff
In other words, should the pur.
chase be made in England, where
there is no tariff on woolens, the
woman would receive the same
amount and quality OF dress goods
for $4.S7 that she pays $40 for in
this country.
This is because of the Payne
Aldrich ad valorem tariff rate OF
los per cent: When the Demo
Gratis came into power in the House
of Representatives they framed a
bill which would reduce the tax on
woolens nearly 40 per cent. The
Senate passed p similar bill. Pres
ident Taft vetoed the bill, which
prevented cheaper and better wool
ems to American consumers. The
Democratic majority of the House
now presents the bill again.
President Taft will have less ex-
cuse to veto the bill than before.
He declared on the first occasion
that a certain tariff board had not
made its report, and that to permit
reduction of the duties might
make. it impossible for the wooden
manufacturers to protect" their
workingmen.
The tariff board report .justifies a
downward revision of the wooden
schedule. Then since the Presi-
dent vetoed the wool bill, there has
been a strike of the textile workers
at Lawrence, Mass, which has re-
vealed beyond argument and be-
yond contradiction that the Wooden
Trust magnates have been fooling
and cheating the public all the time.
The strike of the Sc, 81, and So a
week men, women and children in
the gwoolen mills brought to light
the fact that while the mill owners
have been declaring they were pro
tecting' their workers with feir
wages and decent working condi-
tions, they have been paying them
starvation wages and treating them
almost like animals.
The last leg has been knocked
from under the wool tax argument,
and President Taft has no excuse
left to explain veto of the Demo-
cratic downward revision wool bill.
The President vetoed the first wool
bill not for the welfare of either
consumers or wooden mill workers,
but at the behest of the millionaire
wooden trust owners who contrib
uted to his campaign fund. If he
vetoes the newly introduced wool
BILL It will be for the same reason,
and the people will so understand
II.
Consumers Made the Goat Again!
Anyone who thinks those mil
lionaire wooden trust magnates at
Lawrence, Mass, are increasing the
salaries of their men, women and
children mill workers out of the
generosity OF their hearts-and out
of their own pocketbooks-is mis-
taken. They are making the Amer
lean people pay not only the
amount of the increased wages, but
every penny of the expense of the
long strike.
''The people sympathized with
the strikers" is the slogan of the
mill owners, now let them should
er the EXPENSE
Before any wages were increas-
ed, the Wooden Trust magnates,
who have been making profits of
from to rs per cent. on their in
vestment, decided to advance the
cost of clothing. And as a matter
of fact, the consumers began to ac-
tually pay increased prices for
woolens and cottons in anticipation
of the increased wages to be paid
by the Wooden Trust, before the
announcement of the increased
wages was made.
Cotton prints, calicoes and the
like have risen in price at whole
sale in New York City a quarter of
cent per yard in the last ten
days, and mill agents predict the
increase will reach two cents
yard.
This will make difference of
five cents in an apron. and 25 cents
in the housewives dress. Mems
clothing is going up, and women's
and children's dress goods are de-
clared to be the next in line. The
increases, 1t is estimated, will bring
approximately $12,O0U,OO0 into the
Golfers of the Woolan Trust within