The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1914-03-19
FREAKS OF THE TARIFF
UNEXPECTED RESULTS
CORN CROP OF KANSAS AND ITS
EFFECT UPON THE WHAL-
ING INDUSTRY.

! The democrats In congress are say
ing that reports from the country show
that the setback which business had
a while ago has been overcome and
that now things are progreaA.Is ~
ward the goal of increased prosperity,
says a Washington special to the ST.
Louis Globe Democrat.
The republicans and progressives
say there Is a revival Of business be-
lcause of the tame measures which the
democrats have introduced to regulate
the trusts. Men Of the two opposition
parties declare tho proposed legisla-
tion of the democrats does not fulfill
the promises made in their platform.
that the trusts should be overcome
and competition restored.
These are tho viewpoints of the three
parties, and 1t will take time to prove
who is right and who is wrong. TO n
considerable extent the recent tariff
legislation has been lost sight OF by
arguers on both sides of economic
questions who hold seats In congress.
However. the tariff law Is doing freak
things, and one of them perhaps is not
uninteresting as a human interest doc
ument.
A man has just come to Washington
from New Bedford, Mass, where he Is
largely interested In cotton goods man
ufacturing He was asked how busi-
ness was. His answer was this: BILL
Hard balls came within one of putting
us to the bad"
What in the name of solid ivory
have billiard balls to do with the maxi
ing Of cotton cloth?"
Billiard Balls and Cloth.
well, they came pretty near having
everything to do with 1t in our case"
and then this was the tale that he
told
| eve manufactured great quantities
Of cotton cloth which we sold to fac
tor In New York City, who shipped t.
to East Africa where 1t was exchanged
for tusk ivory Cotton cloth over In
that country was recognized as me-
dunn Of trade and In many cases as
more desirable than money.
''The New York people who took our
stuff and sold 1t for ivory started seven
factories. hired hundreds of workmen.
took the tusks which they brought
from Africa and turned them into bill
Hard balls and We're doing business
with a fair amount of profit
business, discharge their workmen.
stop buying our goods, and all be-
cause the democrats put a tariff on
raw ivory. Now you can see what
billiard balls. In this case at any rate,
have to do with cotton cloth making.
Billiard Ball Factory Put Out Of Bust.
ness.
'You see, the democrats wanted to
put duties on Injuries. There never
has been duty on raw ivory, but be-
cause billiard balls and some other
things which people with little mon
ey want to buy are made out Of ivory,
they tackled a duty on the raw MATER
ial. The New York concern which
bought our stuff and sold 1t for tusks
could not pay the duty and make bill
Hard balls to compete in the selling
market with the balls imported from
France. Germany and other countries
which have no duty on raw ivory. If
we had not succeeded in securing an
other output for our goods. we should
| t,a,, bo ut
AS it Is the New York concern makes
no more billiard balls. has closed down
It's factories and discharged Its men.
you say YOU think this is a sort OF
a freak condition? Well, so 1t Is per
haps; but there are many similar CAGES
of freakishness shown in the unex-
pected relations which things SEEM
ingly unrelated bear to one another
This next is not tariff story, but it
points up what mean.
Whale Oil and Kansas Corn.
Down in New Bedford the other
day met an old whaling captain who
goes to the Arctic and the Antarctic
and everywhere else on three year
voyages in search of whales. asked
him in a general way how he liked his
life as a whaler. He said 1t would be
fine II 1t were not for the constant I'M
certainty about the corn crops in Kan
sas
" asked him what in the name of
seven-year locusts the corn crop In
: Kansas had to do with the whaling
business and he replied. Everything
HE said that when the Kansas corr
crop was good and the crop in other
states was good, too, the farmers took
some Of their corn and fed 1t to their
hogs, fattening them and getting them
in condition to produce a lot Of lard
Lots of hogs were killed for home con-
: sumption and home lard making and
II there were lot of hogs and lot Of
lard the excess Of lard was used as a
lubricant which put whale oil out Of
business. Billiard balls came pretty
> near killing big cotton industry and
. bumper corn crops made a sad sea dog