The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-20
MAROTT SEES
ruin in TARIFF
BILL PASSAGE
Independent Dealer Would
Be Forced to Wall,
Shoe Man Asserts.
DANGEROUS TO NATION
Opportunities for Energy
and Brains viii Pass,
He Declares.

The proposed Grundy tariff law
will Danish. the boosted "opportu-
mites" of America for brains and
energy, George j. Marott, president
Of the Marott Shoe Shop and presi-
dent OF the Marott Apartment Hotel
Company, declared today.
Independent merchants will be
forced out of business and, the way
will be paved for foisting of giant
monopolieS on to the consumers of
the nation, he declared.
Marott, who worked in his fathers
store as a clerk and who rose
through his own efforts to owner
ship of a store of his own, starting
with q capital of $167, which repre-
Sented his savings of nearly five
yeas, sees in the proposed tariff the
destruction of the system which
made his rise possible and which
makes for opportunities in the ma
ton today.
Leader in Business
Marott has figured in organization
and control of traction lines and
was an organizer of the Indiana
Railways and Light Company, which
was later sold to the Central Power
Company of Chicago.
He also organized the Citizens Gas
Company of Indianapolis, and has
figured in many other business pro-
motions and developments of the
city.
eff this tariff goes through. as it
applies to leather and shoes, the in
dependent merchant should quit
business while the quitting is good"
he declared today. This tariff
measure would eliminate all indie
pendent merchants within a few
years.
eff this measure passes, mems
shoes, made half of paper, will sell
for S. a pair. If this measure is
foisted upon the country, no poor
boy or man with good brains and
energy ever could become an indie
pendent business man. He could
become superintendent, a fore
man, boss, but never business
man for himself, in competition
with the octopus of the leather and
shoe manufacturers amalgamated
trust.
Writes to COngressmen
IT have advised our congressman
and senators that I believe the
measure disastrous for the country.
To-day the tariff is out of line.
I am opposed to the attempts by
government to upset the laws Of
supply and demand.
Il understand that the tariff bill
provides a IL per cent tariff on
leather and 20 per cent tariff on
shoes.
II have been in business In In
dianapolis f1fty-f1ve years, from shoe
clerk to ownership Of an independ-
ent business, which I have con-
Quoted for the last forty-six years.
Factory shoe stores have come to
compete with me, but good service
and values at my store has not
permitted their competition to sue
coed materially.
IF this tariff law passes we would
not have the broad markets now
available. Independent merchants
will not be able to go to all manu.
facturers and make selections based
on capacity buying and Judgment
of values.
Would Lead to Gouging
eff this tariff bill passes, it will
permit leather companies to merge
with shoe manufacturers and TO
throw their merged securities upon
Wall street and dispose of inflated
securities to the people over the
country.
"a tax of 20 per cent on shoes
and IL per cent On leather would
permit the leather industry to con-
solidate and become monopoly.
IF this tariff passes, the Ameri-
can public will pay approximately
so per cent more for shoes. Sound
government is maintained and
many business failures prevented
when supply and demand are a
basis in value, measured with the
gold dollar, which is held to be
standard"