The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1922-11-09


charges are re per dozen. The rate Of
duty being 35 per cent amounts TO gt.2s
per dozen. Total landed cost in the United
States. s4.s7 per dozen. These towels we're
purchased from james MeCutcheon, New
York City. at their regular retail price Of
tli per dozen. making the percentage Of
retail price TO the landed cost. 1913 per
cent.
Leather shoe laees made in England are
worth there 3.34e each. Transportation
charges are &c each. There is no duty on
shoe laees. which keeps out good friend the
eowman on a free trade basis the same as
certain selfish interests are now trying to
do with the wool 1--WE These shoe laces
being free Of duty. their total landed cost
in the United States is 3.64e each. These
shoe laees were purchased from Kirk
patrick. New York City, at the retail
price Of Csc, making the percentage Of
retail price TO landed cost, $50 per cent.
Amber beads are worth in Germany &c
per string. Transportation charges are Ice
and rate Of duty is only 20 per cent or
l2.4c. The total landed cost in the United
States is 76c. One Of these strings of
beads was purchased from Gimbel Bros,
New York City, at their regular retail
price Of $3.50. making the percentage
OF retail price to landed cost, l,544 per
cent.
/ could submit considerable over a nun
dred similar cases, showing the original
cost in country where made, ~transporta-
tion charges, the duty paid and the retail
price. but / have only selected a few from
various countries to show how very little
the tariff has to do. on any article, with
It's retail selling price. 1t is also worthy
of mention TO note that cod liver oil com
ing from Norway and paying no duty
whatever, produced for the retailer that
sold it in New York City the exorbitant
profit Of LIZA per cent. / suppose If there
had been an exorbitant duty say 100 per
cent ad valorem. which would amount to
2.5e per pint, this very firm would have
had propaganda all over the country
about the exorbitant duty on cod liver oil.
A duty Of 100 per cent would have been
a high duty but it would rave been very
small and insignificant compared to the
LIZA per cent that he took for his share
in handling it.
As wool growers we have fought
since 1911 for a protective tariff on
wool that would be fair to all parties
concerned-one that would give fair
protection to the wool growing inter
ests of this country, reasonable pro-
lection to all branches of manufact-
uring and still be fair to the consul
mer. Some Of our wool tariffs in the
past were not fair either to the wool
grower or to the consumer. We have
made this fight consistently for
eleven years in the intrests of both
We have no quarrel with the retail
clothing merchants and it was my
mission in New York to meet with
them and convince them. if possible,
that they have been misled by sell
fish intrests trying to destroy the
wool growing industry in this coun-
try and secure for themselves an I'M
fair advantage of the producer and
wool growers in this country The re-
tail merchants and the consuming
public are too closely united in social
and business affairs to permit those
frindly relations to be jeopardized by
propaganda originating from a source
that cares nothing for any Of US. !
believe that if the sugar man is given
a duty on sugar with an assurance
that it will remain there for several
years, you will see sugar beet factor
les in our Western country starting
to operate again and we will have
cheaper sugar than we have today
or have had for a long time. Give
the cattleman a duty on hides and
beef. Give the wool grower a duty
on wool and mutton, and SO on, in
GLIDING all producers and the retail
merchants in every line will have
a much better business than they
have today. The can not
purchase from the retailers any
articles except the bare necessities
of life unless he has money with
which to purchase. Protection for
the producers Of this country "a
more and a better bust
ness for the retail man in all lines.
Particularly do we urge retailers of
mems clothing not to believe the pro-
paganda that is now sent to them,
telling them that the retail price of
clothes must increase. l believe that
it is not so, Withhold your judg-
ment in the matter until after ii
has been positively demonstrated
yes" or "No."
We in California know a few years
ago when the 18th Amendment was
about to become a law all the wine
men in California thought it was all
over with them and many of them
destroyed their vineyards, but after
the 18th Amendment was enacted
grapes were about five times higher
than ever before, and if prohibition
ever becomes effective they will per-
haps be still higher; so it is, these
things often work out in a way OPP
posite to the predictions of some
supposedly wise men.
If we had double the amount of
duty on raw wool that We expect to
get or intend to ask for, wooden
clothes might be cheaper than you
ever saw them before, so my plea
to the retailer and to the consume
at the present time is to withhold
their judgment until after the new
tariff bill has been in operation long
enough to reveal its true effect.
Two important lessons are taught
by the facts | have presented: first
the tariff on any article has but
little to do with the cost to the con-
sumner; second, we should not go, or
send to New York and other big
cities for bargins, but spend u
money with our own retailers at
home. Stand with them and ask
them to stand with us.