The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-01-03
TARIFF AND MANUFACTURE.

The proposition TO cutrust Smoot
with the framing of the wool schedule
of the proposed new tariff bill TO con.
form with the conclusions arrived nj
| by the Tariff Board, and TO meet the
recommendations made bv Prcsi-
dent Taft. does not seem to strike the
! Eastern newspapers with favor. They
do not concede that Smoot is tariff
! expert, much less a tariff rcformcr. The
Philadelphia Record treats the Smoot
| proposition ia scoliing tone, as is evi.
dcEt from the following editorial:
Senator smoot will prepare a bill in
which the rates Of duty imposed on
wool Will equal the difference In cost OF
production IN this and in foreign coun-
tries. Aud here is the way he figures
cents 10 produce a pound of medium 10
fine wool in the United States The ncr
pound cost of production in Australia
and New Zealand Is nothing for the
PROFITS from the 2ae Of mutton and of
| sheep for stocking new runs pay the
entirc station expenses. leaving the fleece
clear prohi. Consequently the duty on
Wool, 10 h" protective, cannot he less than
u or l. cents, which is the difference be-
tween The no cost at all IN Australia and
the cost to our struggling shepherds. In
y
willing 60 knock off two cents a pound
10 cover the losses the Australian grow
eIs may suffer in exceptionally calamit-
Gus years, OF course. every true Snnri
can VIII place full faith In tho insnuatiou
OF tho senator that the Rocky Mountain
shepherds give their surplus stock away
ana take nothing Tor their mutton. Amc!i-
cans Ike check
In this connection it viii be not
much Of surprise TO TIC country TO
learn that the Tariff Board criticises
the woolcn manufacturers Of this couu.
try very severely for not keeping up
with the progress of the times in new
machinery and facilities for cconomi.
cal and expert manufacture The Tariff
Board reports that it finds "iu uIications
Of iDeffcicpcY in our woocu mills
that had not been dreamed Of II
huds that the use of obsolete ma
chlnery and methods of orpa niZation
and operation is extensive, iusl as il
was IN the paper Industry The Board
finds tho prevalence Of "backward
conditions in both manufactures, and
traces thc cause of these backward con
Jltious to the same source. That is.
both the wooden manufacturers and tue
paper manufacturers. resting secure
IN prohibitlvc tariff, have allowed
their machinery and processes to be.
come autlduatcd and far behind those
OF similar manufactures in Eucla nd
France. aud Germany. The very TO,
verse 10 conditions which hal been cy.
pectcd ia our home manufactures is
found 10 exist in the manufactures
of paper and Of wool We do not have
the most efficient machiuery in the
world IN those as VIC have In other
lines OF manufacture; We do not have
the best and most economic processes;
nor Is the system of manufacturing
Kept up to the highest point of
efficiency. On the contrary. the efficiency
OF our processes is far behind that of
other countries
Here IS an evil that calls for a
remedy in and Of itself The people
of the United States cannot afford TO
Dut up tariff walls that will reduce tho
efficiency and effectiveness OF their
mechanical Processes II is the pritc