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The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-12

ing whether the tariff had been raised
or lowered was that the market fuctu-
atoms made it of no value. This was
only q bubble. because the respective
tariff acts were so arranged that the
increase in duty on sliding scale kept
pace with the price fluctuations.
The tariff board chose to print tables
that would show only the assessment
of duty under the two acts and left 1t
to anybody who desires the lnforma-
ton to figure out for himself the sig
nificant facts above set forth.
Benefit Only to Privilege.
From every point OF view Of the
tariff CRATER 1t is no doubt highly de
sirabe that such facts. staggering as
they are to the dishonest pretensions
that the cotton tariff was really lower
ed, should be buried as deeply as pos
sible in mass Of unexplained Stats
tics But it is to the advantage of
every honest manufacturer and mer-
chant who is seeking stability In bust
ness and fair opportunity to make
reasonable profit that the truth should
be made known Just such policies of
official evasion and suppression have
made possible in the past the juggling
of tariff legislation by and in behalf of
the privileged few.
1t Is undisputed that the cotton
schedule as written In the house ways
and means committee by Representa-
tive Serene f. Payne of New York did
not provide the full measure of "revi-
sion downward that the Republican
party had promised. Still 1t was not
until after the Payne bill went to the
senate finance committee. of which
Mr.. Aldrich was chairman. that the
Interests" got in their most deadly
work. 1t Is well known that Senator
Aldrich freely consulted, If he did not
actually permit. the Lippitt- McColl in
terests to write into the amended bill
the duties affecting their own products
the fancy weaves made by only
few of the largest and richest New
England mills.-New York World.
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its particular weave or class. Ninety
FIVE all cotton and five silk and cotton
samples comprise the 100 that appear
in the tariff boards cotton report.
Forty-seven of the ninety five in the
all cotton class pay 1880 per cent high
err duties under the Payne Aldrich
than they did under the DingIey tariff.
Payne AIdrich "Jokers."
or these forty seven classes of ma
terial on which the tariff was in
creased nine are the fancy weaves
made in three or four New England
mills commonly grouped as the Lip
pittMcCOll interests" This is the
clique Of New England manufacturer
politicians who were permitted by Sen
ator Nelson w. Aldrich to write the
cotton schedule to suit themselves.
OF the nine Lippitt McColl fabrics
the Payne-Aldrich law lacked up the
average duty from 1861 to 60.33 per
cent. In other words. the promised
was really revision upwardamounting
to 64.97 per cent of the Dingley rates.
The remaining thirty-eight classes of
all cotton fabrics on which the duty
was increased were not generally the
product of the favored New England
ring Under the Dingley law these
thirty eight fabrics were assessed an
average duty of 1896 per cent. Under
the Payne-Aldrich law they pay 44.5s
per cent-a revision upward equal to
26.O7 per cent of the former rate us
compared with G4.9I per cent Increase
on manufactures of the favored few.
On just three among the 100 samples
was there a decrease In duty. These
were the silk and cotton fabrics (sik
mills) that pay more than 100 per cent
duty On these three samples the re
duction averaged 5.66 per cent on the
former duty-a reduction from 116.I0
per cent under the Dingley law to
11O.44 per cent under the Payne Al
drich law On one Of the silk and cot
ton samples there was an increase
amounting to 21.0S per cent. The fifth
of the silk and cotton samples was left
unchanged.
On the forty-five of the ninety-fve
all cotton samples there was no change
in duty
On the three remaining samples
completing the total of 1907 no com
parison is made because of apparent
lack of authentic foreign prices.
And still President Taft said in his
speech at Boston. April 20 last:
ut the Payne Aldrich bilD was Il
question; congress could make its own
computations The official explanation
for refusing to publish the table show.
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nrms OF H. Is. Macl1ea u 60. ana Cour

nrm6 or H. Is MacLea ~ TO- anu OVs@
verse & Co.
The story Of cotton is a companion
piece to the story of Schedule kline
wooden schedule-declared by Presi-
dent Taft to be infamous and indefen-
sible.
The findings of the tariff board with
regard to the wooden schedule were an
alyzed by Chairman Underwood OF the
ways and means committee and con-
demned as inaccurate, incomplete ana
worthless as an aid to legislation.
When the tariff boards findings on
the cotton schedule were made public
the World decided to make its own
Investigation concerning 1t. and Mr..
MacLea was selected for that purpose
The World had the findings Of the
board on manufacturers Of cotton dis
sected from the practical point Of view
Of business, analysed In their relation
to the interest Of the consumer ana
the facts translated into the language
Of the everyday man and woman.
One hundred cloth samples purchased
in representative domestic markets
were made the basis of the tarin
boards findings on the cost Of cotton
cloth produced in this country. Mr..
MacLea used the same cloth samples
as concrete Illustrations Of the work
ings Of the tariff and from these ex-
posed the very generally perpetrated
fraud Of selling American made goods
as imported" and showed why the
excessive tariff permits and fosters
this imposition.
Recognizing that the tariff would be
q vital issue of the campaign and that
controversy would center about Presi-
dent Taft's ''nonpartisan" tariff board
and its work, the World undertook the
Investigation of cotton and sought an
swers to the following questions:
Has the work Of the tariff board jus.
titled the delay in reducing the tariff
and giving relief from the high cost
Of Iiving7
What have the people gained in the
three years under the Payne. Aldrich
tariff IN RETURN FOR MORE THAN
$4,000, 100000 TAXED OUT OF THEIR
POCKETS AND INTO THE POCK.
ETs OF PROTECTED PRIVILEGE?
How honestly, irnpartiaIIy and thor
oushiy did the "nonpartisan" tariff
board undertake its task?
Several months before the cotton re-
port was completed Mr.. MacLea de-
clares that he discovered sinister in
fuences in the tariff boards working
to eliminate findings most damaging
to the favored few in the cotton mill
industry. Such suppressed information
as Mr.. MacLea considers to he Of vital
Importance to the cotton industry and
the public has been presented in the
World. He has also explained what
the mass of figures of the cotton report
signifies and presented some Of the
most important OF the conclusions to
be drawn from that report. a work
which the board saw fit not to attempt.
The story of cotton. as written by
Mr.. MacLea and published in the
World from time to time. forms one
Of the most interesting and important
features Of the present campaign.
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STORY OF COTTON
IS A THRILLER
4 Narrative That Concerns the
Welfare OF Millions.
SHOWS EVILS OF PROTECTION

, Whole People Robbed by a Tariff That
Rich Manufacturer May Benefit.
Robert Kenneth MacLea, Consulting
Expert Of tho Tariff Board, Shows
That the American People Are
MuIcted Of sss.ooo.0oo a Year.
New York. Aug. Did you ever
hear the story of cotton?
| 1t is as thrilling as narrative Of
adventure. 1t Is as interesting as a
notwithstanding particularly because
1t concerns the welfare Of millions of
people who wear cotton goods. 1t Is
interesting because it Is the dress Of
the poor, the universal substitute for
wool and silk. 1t is interesting, fur
thermore. because 1t is true.
The story Of cotton is the story of
protective tariff for the benefit of rich
manufacturers at the expense Of the
whole people who wear cotton goods.
II has been reasonably calculated
that because the cotton tariff 10 fixed
by the Payne AIdrioh law the Amsri-
can people are paying $s8,0oo,0o0 more
every year than they should pay for
their cotton goods and that q saving
Of this amount could be accomplished
by q reasonable reduction in the pres
ent duties.
The story of cotton is told by an ex-
pert, Robert Kenneth MacLea. consult
ing expert Of the tariff board. in a Sc
ries Of articles published in the New
York World. Mr.. MacLea's views are
the views Of lifelong Republican, a
friend Of the protective policy Of the
Republican party. but at the same time
an opponent Of tariff graft and favor
itism. To this work Mr. MacLea has
brought varied experience. covering
more than twenty years. in the man.
ufacture and marketing Of textiles.
He first distinguished himself as an
advocate of honest tariff legislation by
finding the lockers" Of the Payne-Al-
drich act, when the agents of few
New England mills were permitted to
write their own rates to suit them
selves He was chairman Of the tar
if committee Of the New York Dry
Goods Merchants association and in
that capacity conducted a campaign
which attracted the attention Of the
newly created tariff board To accept
the position of consulting expert to the
board he gave up the management of
the domestic business Of the New York
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New York. Aug. .-Governor Wood
row Wilson will make his first inva-
sion of New York for campaign pur-
poses when he will be the guest of
honor at the Workingmen's Woodrow
Wilson club of the lower east side at a
dinner to be held at the Cafe Boule-
yard on Sept. 4. Governor Wilson will
deal. 1t is expected, with the problems
Of immigratio and the false impress
sions that have been put upon his
views by the quotations of Isolated
sentences from his different books.
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THE TARIFF IN SUMMER DRESS FOR HOT
WEATHER READING

fancy wash fabric manufactured IN I've"
England for 2-3 cents yard Is soln os tne
ma nufactureI at l4i. cents n uianuIact"''"s
profit of AIN per cent less selling EXPENSES "
8 or at most per cent The joboe' 'wnoe
sale distributor adds 3A cents u pront OF <<A
per cent less selling expenses me retH"e'
adds another 42.s per cent and the American
housewife gets the cloth at 25 cents -rioth 1ha'
In England can be bought retail rot II cenIS
Identical In weave and quality WHYf
Cotton curtain scrtm. found In minohs Oh
homes is made In America at cost tnat gives
the manufacturer ample profit selling II 10 Tue
print works at 6 cents a yard The print "orks
sells to the jobber ut 10 i-3 cents although
finishes the goods at a cost OF 81 cents i"e
jobber adds 20 per cent. laying down the cur
tain scrim to the department store at TN Genus
The retailer charges the American nousew"e 10
to 20 cents More than likely ne adveriises
as IMPORTED" and sells 1t for the top price,
because the tariff is 50 high that the genuine
imported goods cannot be sold for less II costs
just as much in England to make this curtAin
material, yet the English retailer sells II toa
IS % cents (71s pence, a yard. against ID 70 %
cents under the American tariff WHY%brom
N Y. World
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An article that has real merit
should in time become popular. That
such is the case with Chamberlain g
Cough remedy has been attested by
many dealers. Here is one of them.
H. w. Hendrickson, Ohio Falls. Ind,
writes "Chamberlain's cough remedy
is the best for coughs, colds and
Group. and is my best seller."s For
sale by Model Pharmacy. o. w. Ball,
prop.
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CLEAN UP YOUR LACE.

What John Burroughs says
about western farm buildings
and their surroundings has
enough point to NIT it stick
and enough Importance TO justi-
fy wider circulation When for
the first time he recently crossed
the prairies of the Mississippi
valley he wrote: LAS Il farmer
rejoicpd ut the endless vistns OF
beautiful fertile farms. =" - AS
IL home body and lover OF the
coy and picturesque re'"iled
from the bald native farmhoiISe>
with their unkempt surround
ings. their rude sheds and black
muddy barnyards .
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lockers" Kid
REVISION Up
Actual Raising Of Dulles Effected
by Payne Bill
COTTON AND WOOL SCHEDULES
Both IndefensibIe, and President Taft
Knew It-Suppression of Facts by
the Tariff Board-Statistics Employ
cd to Mislead the Public.
BY ROBERT KENNETH MAC LEA.

BY ROBERT KENNETH MAC LEA.
Formerly consulting expert OF the tariff
board
New York. Aug. On not single
one of the ninety-tive all cotton sam.
pies of fabric taken as the basis of the
tariff boards investigations of the cot
ton schedule was there an actual re-
duction of the tariff by the Payne
Aldrich law.
The samples were selected with great
care by the combined judgment of the
boards experts. indorsed by the lead
Ing jobbers of the United States as
being representative of all classes of
fabric In use in this country. each
sample being chosen because 1t was
typical of the most used material Of
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PRESENT TARIFF
| FOSTERS FRAUDS
Domestic Cotton Fabrics Sold
Americans as imported"


ess Than Per Cent Comes From
Abroad, but Americans Pay Elk
orbitant Price For Home Goods Be-
cause Of Deception and Prohbitivs
| Tariff.
.ey ROBERT KENNETH MAC LEA,
Formerly consulting expert OF the tariff
board
New York. Aug. The prohibitive
&ariff, revised upward by the Payne
Aldrich law. permits and fosters
Wholesale frauds upon the American
consumer of cotton goods.
Less than 2 per cent of the cotton
Rabrics consumed in the United States
ZONES from abroad. because the pro
kective duties have been made so high
that importation is Improbable.
Yet fully one-thlrd OF the cotton
biece goods going over retail counters
Is sold as IMPORTED" or under
hames implying foreign origin.
This deception is generally perpe
pose Of obtaining exorbitant prices for
domestic goods.
The consumer, believing the goods
are imported and knowing that the
tariff adds excessively to their cost
pays so to 100 per cent more than a
fair price and does not suspect that he
% being cheated.
Drains the Pocketbook.
Let Us go straight to a specific ex-
ample of the operation OF this fraud
Take the tariff boards cloth sample
No. So. described rs printed dim
1ty." This is a medium priced cotton
fabric known to almost every Ameri
can housewife What woman or girl
hasn't possessed dimity dress within
the last few years: And II she went
to the cotton goods counter and
bought the material by the yard she
no doubt saw such signs as:
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REAL IRISH DIMITY,
10 cts.

*s-s.s.s..... s......:.
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 Boston
jobber at 10 cents yard and that they
were made in New England mill
Here was supposed bargain" In
q supposedly imported" fabric. on
which the retailer was taking profit
Of 30 per cent.
This happens to be fabric repre-
sentng the highest efficiency in Amer
lean manufacturing 1t is class of
goods In which we can compete ad-
vantageously with any country in the
world. The tariff boards investign-
lions discovered on sample No. So an
American cost Of production of 7 IL
cents yard. In all the mills inves-
dgated the boards representatives
found that the low and high costs uf
manufacture of this fabric did not
vary half a cent a yard
Who Gets the Profit?
The manufacturer of this American
dlmity. that is sold as imported" and
IRISH. does not get the excessive
pront. In some instances the manu-
tacturer does. but here he sells to the
1obber at 8 cents taking only Il nom
mai manufacturing profit Of two-thirtls
cent a yard. The jobber sells to the
retailer at 10 cents, ~ per cent mar
GIN for the jobber.
In Canada. with 25 per cent tariff. a
cotton fabric costing 10 cents IA yard
would be sold to the consumer at l2h
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If ITS JOB PRINTING

kEAT. STYLISH AND UP TO DATE
nOpK THAT is WANTED, BRING IT
TO THE DAWN OFFICE-THE HOME
bF ALL CORRECT PRINTIG AT LIVE
AND LET LIVE" PRICES. TRY US AT
NV r1A1E WHEN IN NEED OF OUR
SERVICE.
AIS NORTH PINE STR
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FAIR WARNING Mr.. MAN!

THE WISE MERCHANT is A MAN THAT
ADvERTIsES HIS GOODS AND SELLS AT
A REASONABLE PROFIT" IF YOU
WANT TO KEEP YOUR GOODS DON'T
ADVERTISE THEM IN THE DAWN,
FOR IF YOU DO, THEY WILL SURE
BE SOLD.
TRIAL WILL CONVINCE
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IRISH DIMITY.

444*4*4*4*4.s.3.s .f.s.s !. 49,.
The Worlds tariff editor visited with
me department store in a New Eng
land city of 100000 inhabitants and
found recently counter piled with
these goods. placarded:
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Tastly better bin than the Dingley
bill. If had refused to sign the Payne
bill 1t would have maintained the Ding
ley bill with higher rates than the
Payne bill"
When Mr. Taft made this statement
he must have known that ii was I'M
true. AS for the wool schedule, he
knew that the rates were not higher
in the Dingley law than III The Payne
Aldrch law, for right after signing the
latter bill did he not denounce its wool
rates as "indefeisible? And. rs for
the cotton rates OF the Payne bill lie
knew they were just as "indefensible"
us the wool rates. for at the time he
made this statement in Boston he had
the tariff boards report on cotton be
fore him.
1t is true that the cotton repori of
the tariff board did not make this in
formation available at II glance To Mr.
Taft or to congress or 10 the public.
The tariff board carefully avoided Civ
ing this infor nation in n Getalable. m
derstandable form
Suppressed the Answer
WAS the tariff raised or lowered?
has been an nSistent question ever
since the Payne Aldrich law was Ell
acted three years ago The tariff
board avoided answering II.
In making my oilicia! report 10 the
board | submitted Il table that did
answer this question in respect to each
one. excepting three. of HE 100 cloth
samples around which ouj' months of
investigation conferred. Mo much side
stepping ana discussion Ia, table was
eXpurgated and published in its cmas-
culated form The boards excuse was
that it was not its duty to answer the
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Facts Suppressed and Issues
Evaded by Taft Tariff Board
By ROBERT kENNETH MACLEA.
formerly Consulting Expert Tariff Board.


withhold the facts
tina
pele to indictment:
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moro THAI an effective
COS IN . -stanApae"
political machine. that
some Of the men VIE
clamored most loudly Ter
. tarin eoer1 80 some
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eMASC.U.
lATlON

make mead or tail of the tumble Of data
presented ~ . basis for Intelligent tarin
revision.
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That the tariff board
avoided altogether inves-
tigating certain phases
OF tariff graft hidden in
''1okers" Of the Payne
Aldrich law.
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PtRvfR.
SION
surorR
Ill.

That the tariff board has not. a. stated
oy President Taft to congress. drawn any
conclusions that would be valuable IN
advising the congress and the people
of the changes that ought to BE- made to
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PARTISAN

thsreto worked all the time osmplsoentIy
IN the knowledge that the creation Of a.
board was . scheme to prsvent genuine
tArIn REFORM % long - possible ~ gun
ming the cards and delayins the rnme" .
charge frequently made, but I'M I t.
long time discreditea
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v !.

That the tsrin BOARD falsely reported
hat II vas impossible to obtain abroad
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OSINCfN.
UOUS
misleading.
Il

Tnat the tarfn board has proved net -
Do the ''nonpartisan" aad scientific instru.
msnt promised By President TATE; that IT.
members displayed inexperiencs In busa.
ness. Incompetence ana extravaganca I
have been forced reluctantly altar 4 veare
intimate association to accept The opinioo
that the tariff board has beon nothine
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That the tarif1 board
has perverted other
eacts. thereby avoiding
exposure Of tariff in1us-
tees that have benefited
the few at the expense
OF the many manufac.
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That the tartn board.
IN ITS report on manufac-
lures Of cotton tSched-
ule ID has suppressed
findings of vital impor-
lance to the cotton in
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SUPPRESS.
SION

to the government, but inimlcal 10 tho
special privileges OF few new Ensiaho
manufacturer who were permitted by
Senate, Aidrich to write the cotton sched-
ole to suit themselves
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maK6 mOr0 eQ uIt q UIO
their 1.-THE wool and cot
ton schedules, effects.
The BOARD did not At
tempt to draw conclu.
sions. scientific" or 9TH
.,x~&.a Pron tts .srtan.
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be incomprehenSib1e 70
or laymen: that tables
we're deliberately disas-
socia ted or emascu1ated
II not suppressed. and
that q congress m a q
would require the serv-
ices OF q statistician and
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CONVICT.
ING

pockets OF the laborer t. 'maintain Il,
American standard Of living"
From New York WoelA
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Il to ma ko a. Intelligent
comparison with Costs It
home: that the board
was offered opportuni.
ties Ter obtaining such
data. but did net U.s.
than: that nnl0h fmPnaRm
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EVASION

eincaIiy" collected data. but sidestepped
that responsibility oy arguing that such
deductions as its data justified were not
called for under the specifications OF III
employment
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That the tart6 boara'o
treatment Of economic
questions vitality Affect
Ing the rotation Of the
tart6 70 the prices q.
acted from consumers
vas disiagenuous and
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That such facts - the tari6 bearA -
roporto4 sustain the charm a - M
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1lbhtn8 data that 0hOul0
have been held Tor cen.
ddenttal Information a
legislators: that compet.
ttors were given thereby
valuable trade oocrota
while the foreign mAnu.
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That the tArin
ranged so ~ to
either legisla tors
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lNfAC1

data a. were obtained were In oomo case
suppressed and II others were inadequatl
for honest comparison. although - utal
ICED
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the chargA - - both
the wool ano the ootton
schedules. that the cen.
sumner has been rohbeA
outragseusly - . oonse.
qusncs Of excessive "a.
ties and that the pronts
nave net goae into IL
In hAFAp "a S-.a-a
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facturers divuiged nothing Ct q
character Or importance