The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-08-30
REAL IRIsII DIVINITY. 4
70 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
jobber at 10 cents yard and that they
were made IN 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-
senting the highest efficiency In Amer
lean manufacturing. 1t is a class of
goods in which We can compete ad.
vantageously with .ahy country In the
world The tariff boards inyestiga.
tons discovered on sample No. Sc an
American cost of production of 1-3
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 a cent a 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
tobber at cents, taking only nom
inal manufacturing profit of two-thirds
cent yard. The ijobber sells to the
retailer at 10 cents. a % per cent mar
gin for the jobber.
In Canada, with % per cent tariff. a
cotton fabric costing 10 cents a yard
would be sold to the consumer at 1915
or sometimes at 10 cents IL the pat
tern happened to be in special de-
mand. In the United States. with It's
prohibitive tariff. the retail price is al
ways much higher. The standard price
retail is 10 cents for the fabric whole
sailed at 10. But when the tariff is ex-
cessive-it is "a per cent on this print
ed dimity-the dishonest retailer can
get away with" the deception and
| double or more than double his normal
! proft by selling the domestic article
az imported" The retailer knows
that be could not buy genuine i'm
ported dimity Of this quality from
foreign manufacturer agent in New
York for less than 1914 or 1914 cents.
and the trade would retail this at 70.
He compares 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 1t as foreign goods at e
price will make II attractive7"
The extent Of this deception is not
realized by the majority OF manufac-
turers. but some mills-usually those
that have cried loudest and worked
most insistently and quietly for exces-
sive duties-haye been and are parties
to this fraud by labelling their goods
or permitting them 70 be labeled by
their selling agents imported"
Mill Man Pockets IL.
| In some cases the manufa cturer
takes the tariff favor for his own
pocket. Tariff board sample No. "a
illustrates this. No. 81 IL a fancy
white goods used for dress wear. Its
manufacturer encountered a fair de
nnsnd for this material during the past
season. Table No. 169 OF the tariff
boards report shows a manufacturing
proft Of 80 per cent II costs to manu-
facture this cloth 1915 cents yard.
The mill refuses 10 sell to any one ex-
cepting the tobber. and through this
channel the cloth reaches the retailer
at 221k to 20 cents a yard. The retail
or charges the consumer S5 to SO
cents. " n
For comparison take the value Of the
fabric on weight At the nanufactur-
Ing cost OF 1915 cents a yard one
pound Of this goods IL worth 1923 as
IL leaves the Mill. When IL reaches
the consumer lat 80 cents yard the
price has been boosted to $40 4
pound.
The manufacturing cost OF this
cloth IN England is practically the
= same as here. yet the English manu-
facturer sells It for 1914 cents a yard
the jobber at 1926 cents and the re
taller at % cents
Bear IN mind that the difference II
cost OF production at homo anC
abroad" In this class of fabric repre-
sented by sample No "a amounts Il
nothing, but the Payne-Aldrich tariff
on II equals $3.50 Per cent, or 81
cents per running yard.
Fancy goods of, the type OF sampl
No. 80 are products Of the Lippitt- Nc
; Coll class OF mills. The Payne-Aldricl
bill raised the duty on this clou
from, Ok 70 bb so per cent Is II an
d wonder that Senator Lippitt and MI
3 MoColl were interested in amendin
II the Payne bill while II was In Senate
Aldrich's committee when sue
8 amendments would permit them I
r take a manufacturers profit OF 90 pc
" cent?-New York World.