Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-09-03
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" dinaities from Boston
tobber at 10,cent5 yard and that they
were made in New England mill,
Here was supposed bargain" In
a supposedly "impcE ed" fabric, on
which the retailer was taking a profit
Of so per cent?
This happens to be fabric repre-
senting the highestt efficiency in Amer
lean manufacturing. 1t Is class Of
goods In which we can compete adj
vantageousiy with any country in the
world. The tariff boards investiga-
tons discovered on sample No. 56 an
American cost Of production of 1-s
cents yard. In all the mills inves-
tigated the boards representatives
found that the low and high costs OF
manufacture Of this fabric did not
vary half cent a. yard.
Who Gets the Profit7
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
1obber at 8 cents, taking only q nom
inal manufacturing profit Of two-thiros
cent yard. The jobber sells to the
retailer at 10 cents, rs per cent mar
gin for the jobber.
In Canada, with 25 per cent tariff. a
cotton fabric costing 10 cents a YARD
would be soldsto thesconsumer at 1874
or sometimes at 10 cents II the pat
tern happened to be in special de-
mand. In the United States, with its
prohibitive tariff, the retail price Is al
ways muchi higher. The standard price
retail is 15tcents for the fabric whole
sailed at TO-. Butiwhen the tariff Is ex-
cessive-itsis 54lper cent on this print
ed dimity-the> dishonest retailer can
get away with" the deception and
double or'more than double his normal
profit by selling the domestic article
as imported" The retailer knows
that he could not buy a genuine i'm
ported dimity of this quality from
foreign manufacturers agent in New
York for less than 155aa or 1914 cents,
and the trade would retail this at 25.
He compares the domestic and foreign
fairies 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 a
price will make it attractive?"
The extent of this deception is not
realized by the majority OF manufac-
turers, but some Enthusiastically those
that have cried loudest and worked
most insistently and quietly for exces-
sive duties-have, been and are parties
to this fraud by labelling their goods
or permitting them to be labeled by
their selling agents imported"
MIL Man Pockets II.
In some cases the manufacturer
takes the tariff favor for his own
pocket Tariff board sample No. "a
illustrates this. No. "a is a fancy
white goods used for dress wear. Its
manufacturer encountered q fair de-
nand for this.material during the past
season Table No. 169 OF the tariff
boards report shows a manufacturing
profit Of 90 per cent II costs to manu-
facture this cloth 1916 cents yard.
The mil refuses to sell to any ore ex-
cepting the jobber, and through this
channel the cloth reaches the retailer
at 22Ik TO rs cents yard. The retail
er charges the coDsp-aer 35 to 80
cents.
For+conparison take thesvalu,s ~ the
fabric on weight At the ;snanlnactur-
Ing cost Of lars cents . yard one
pound of this goods 10 worth af23 az
Il leaves the rapt. When. II reaches
the consumer (at 80 cents.a ysrri) the
price has been booted 20 $40 q
pound.
The manufacturing cost Of this
cloth In England is practically the
sans as here, yet the English manu-
facturer sells It for.15.A4 cents O. yard.
the jobber at l7z6s cents and the 70
taller at % cents.
Bear In mind that the v'difterncs In
cost of production at home and
abroad" in this classkof fabric repre-
scented by sample Mo- "a amounts 70
nothing. aut> the -PsxrssA dr1sh tariff