Show WHAT IS THE WOOL It occurs to the editor of this paper that while those who were formerly misled by the argument about protection to home may now be saying very a good many of them are keeping up terrific amount of In the present woolen goods bear a compensatory duty of 33 or 44 cents a plus 50 or 55 per cent on the value of the which is supposed merely to compensate the manufacturer for the duty on raw wool this rate actually does much On last year's imports the duty averaged 91 per cent as usual throughout our lariff duties bear heaviest on the cheapest On those costing cents a it was per cent on those costing over 70 cents a it was 79 per Here is a cotton-warp cloth weighing over 4 ounces to the The total duty is per The manufacturer required only per cent to compensate him for the duty on the raw wool entering into that cloth hence his actual protection is per Here is a piece of cotton consisting chiefly of cotton yet brought into the wool schedule because it contains a little of that The total duty is per The manufacturer needed only per cent to compensate him for the duty on the raw wool used in the cloth so his protection is per On the cheapest wool blankets the duty is per We raise no carpet but import a hundred million pounds of it The new law taxes carpet wool 4 cents a pound if valued at 12 cents a pound or and 7 cents a pound if value over 12 This superfluous raising the price of all is put on simply because the wool men fear a little clothing or combing wool might be sneaked in as carpet although that shocking contingency is strictly provided against elsewhere in the To retain intact this part of the congress defeated Taft's plea for lower rates on wool and the Utah congressmen voting on each schedule with the branch of the party do Utah Republicans sustain in the matter of the wool |