Show SHODDY AM GOOD CLOTHE short time ago an eastern paper made the statement that the duty on a suit of clothes weighing six pounds and worth I 10 in England is I 397 adding a 1 brief rare ra-re ark that people who cannot afford to pay such a tax had the option of wearing shoddy The Manufnctuicr charges that tai misrepresents tbo facts by leaving tho I I inference that the price Of > the suit in tho United States would be BSCT To this extent the Manufacturer rather has tho bulge on its contemporary for instead of i I the cost of tho suit being SIS 07 there has to be added about forty per cent more for I profits and commissions so that if imported im-ported through the custom houses the I prIce of the English suit would ba 26 G3 The protectionists point to a considerablo 1 decrease in the importation of shoddy as evidence of the good character of tho cloths 1 of which American clothing is made In point of fact this is no evidence at all This country can and easily sloes furnish its own rags rotten rope tattered blankets and all the stuff oi which shoddy is produced pro-duced The manufacture of paper out of I woodpulp has thrown these articles in i j immense quantities upon tho outsklu marts be mar-ts and there is no need to go abroad for them Only a short time ago Mr DAVID A W ELLS published an elaborate article exhibiting ex-hibiting the astonishing number of shoddy I mills in the United States which furnish the stuff with which American I cloth Is adulterated The statistics aro well calculated to show the amount of swindling done by tho I clothing manufactures of the east Indeed the buyers of all articles of mens and boys wearing apparel womens cloaks etc do not require elaborate tables of figures to illustrate il-lustrate the extent of the substitution of shoddy for the genuine material Com sp pare for Instance tho clothes manufactured manufac-tured in Utah whtre the necessitous of the cast do not require the use of extrinsic articles ar-ticles with the flimsy cheap goods of the mills of Now England l Hero with a restricted re-stricted supply of wool of the best quality and a confined market in comparison the manufactured article competes in quality with the average British products The j lesson of this is that neither the inanu j fl aura of good clothing nor the sucop rais I l ng industry requires a high protective tarIff tar-Iff i i on wool |