The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-10-04
REAL IRISH DIVINITY.
10 cts.

We procured samples of all of them.
There was not one piece Of imported
goods in the lot. Investigation proved
that the store buyer had purchased
these Irish" dimities from a Boston
sobber at 10 cents a yard and that
they were made in o New England
mill. Here was a supposed bargain"
in supposedly imported" fabric, on
which the retailer was taking a profit
of so per cent!
This happens to be fabric repre-
Benting the highest efficiency in Amer.
acan manufacturing. It is class Of
goods in which we can compete adj
vantageously with any country in the
world The tariff boards investiga-
tions discovered on sample No. Sc an
American cost Of production of 1-3
cents yard. In all the mills investi-
gated the boards representatives
found that the low and high costs of
manufacture of this fabric did not
vary half cent yard.
Who Gets the Profit?
The manufacturer of this American
dimity, that is sold as imported" and
.Irish," does not get the excessive
profit In some instances the manu-
facturer does, but here he sells to the
Jobber at & cents, taking only nom
dnal manufacturing profit of two-thirds
cent yard. The jobber sells to the
retailer at 10 cents, rs per cent.
margin for the jobber.
In Canada, with rs per cent. tariff, q
cotton fabric costing 10 cents yard
would be sold to the consumer at 1231z
or sometimes at Is cents If the pattern
happened to be in special demand. IN
the United States, with its prohibitive
tariff, the retail price is always much
higher. The standard price retail is
10 cents for the fabric wholesaled at
10. But when the tariff is excessive
At 10 "a per cent. ON this printed dim
1ty-the dishonest retailer can get
away with" his deception and double
or more than double his normal profit
by selling the domestic article as elm
ported" The retailer knows that he
could not buy genuine imported dim
1ty Of this quality from a foreign
manufacturers agent in New York for
less than 16h or 1914 cents, and the
trade would retail this at %. He COM
pares the domestic and foreign fabrics
and finds the American made is equal
in every respect to the fabric from
abroad. So he says to himself, why
not sell it as foreign goods at q price
that will make it attractive?"
The extent Of this deception Is not
realised by the majority of manufac-
turers. but some Enthusiastically those
that have oried loudest and worked
most insistently and quietly for ex-
cessive duties-have been and are par
ties to this fraud by labelling their
goods or permitting them to be labeled
by their selling agents imported"
Sometimes the dishonest middleman
Is the one who collects the excessive
Drodt from this deception.
MIN Man Pockets It.
1 IN some cases the manufacturer
takes the tariff favor for his own peck
ct. Tariff board sample No. 80 Illus
trates this. No. "a is fancy white
goods used for dress wear. It's manu-
facturer encountered fair demand
for this material during the past sea-
son. Table No. 1853 of the tariff
boards report shows q manufacturing
profit Of 80 per cent. 1t costs to manu-
facture this cloth 1916 cents q yard.
The mill refuses to sell to any one ex-
cepting the jobber. and through this
channel the cloth reaches the retailer
at 221k to 25 cents a yard. The retail
er charges the consumer 3b to 80
cents. according to location and local
competition.