The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-06-18

tected sugar beet producer in Colorado.
UfIh. and other western States where
tn. sugar beet industry has grown to
immense proportions. 1t is fact, not
realized by thousands of people who use
sugar, that the sugar beet Industry has
come to be an important factor in the
sugar production of our country.
Then you take the wool question. We
import great deal of wool and woolen
goods into this country from other
countries. like Brazil, Argentine Re-
public. and other sheep raising coun.
tries I do not recall and I will not take
time to hunt up the exact duty on iu-
ported wool, but I think it is somewhere
between thirty-three and forty per cent.
Then suppose 1t takes eight dollars
worth of wool and actual work in man
ufacturipg suit Of clothes If the man
ufacturer in England or some other
foreign country can produce the fin
ished suit of clothes for IS then when
he sends it 10 this country the whole
saler who buys it from him has 10 pay
the cost of it, IS, and also the tariff
duty OF from So TO 81. running the cost
up to say, S12, put into this country.
Then when the wholesaler, or import
er, makes from s. to s. on the same
suit of clothes. and the retail merchant
makes his profit also, of from So 10 IS,
by the time the suit gets down to the
fellow in Manning or Clarendon county
who wears il, it costs him about S1S TO
$50. But now suppose the clothes we
wear are not imported goods, b u t
clothes altogether CT American produc-
tion, all the way from the sheep TO the
mau who wears the suit. Remember
that the fellow in Massachusetts who
spins the wool and makes the cloth, At
about the same OUTLAY that the spinner
in England has TO pay TO produce it, has
the advantage over the Englishman.
in that he. the Massachusetts manufac-
turer. does not have that tariff import
duty TO pay, amounting 10 about 81 on
the suit OF clothes He is protected. He
can make profit Of So on the suit. and
still undersell the fellow who buvs the
imported goods by fifty cents on the
suit. We fellows who wear the clothes
pay the 81 extra every time. II we wear
the imported suit from Eogland, then
we pay the import duty of 81 which
goes into the government treasury. II
we wear the American made suit, then
We pay the same price for the suit, but
instead OF the government getting any
of it. that protection, So 90 Or 81. as the
case may be, goes into the pocket OF the
fellow in Massachusetts who makes the
clothes.
I have not space to cite many illustra-
I,,, "a -
TO every hat that we wear. every manu-
factured plow stock, p'ow. saddle, har-
ness. pair Of shoes, pocket knife, pocket
handkerchief, all tinware, woodenware,
and 10 fact, everything that we use. SO
we see that the government does not
get the revenue from all the high prices
which we pay on the every day articles
which we use. The government gels
the revenue Oh the imported articles,
but on the articles which We Use that
are made in this country, the fellow
who manufacturers it is protected against
the importers, and while we consumers
pay the fiddler all the time, yet the
profit on these articles 90 into the
pockets of the manufacturers in oar
own country. That is how these mauu-
facturers grow so immensely rich, be-
cause the policy OF the government has
been 10 help them to drain noGe, out
Of the masses Of the CONSUMERS all The
time. And then for their own further
protection they 60 into trusts and com
bines, but [ have not space TO discuss
the trust question in this article.
We can then see what big thing
this tariff question is. and how hard il
is to regulate it. But have confidence
in Mr.. Underwood's 5 ability, and if the
senate does not slash up and modify his
bill too much. think he is going to
really revise the tariff question. and
that we wiIl see the effect Of it in the
cost of living Inside of twelve months.
| hope. Mr.. Editor, that these run
ming comments on the questions dis
cuss,.d will prove Interesting enough TO
be read by your readers. and il so |
will venture some more upoU this ard
other like subjects before long.
!. HARRY LESESNE.