Show SAYS AyS SCOURED BASIS MERELY EXPERIMENT Wool Manufacturer However However However How How- ever Condemns Ad Valorem Valorem Valorem Va Va- lorem Tariff Plan BOSTON Dec WIlliam Wliam William M. M 1 Wood Woi president of the American merican Woolen company corn com cm- cm pany pay after reading reding the tb me message ge of ot PresIdent President Pes- Pes Pres Pres- ident Taft Tar on the woolen wolen s schedule heue sad said said- As As a review of or the tariff boards board's br's re re- re port It at once commands recognition as as por manifesting a remarkable knowledge of the Industry The condemnation of ad a valorem wool wol duties dutes by the board bar must convince any anyone anyone ay ayone one who read H. H I. I As to the recommendation recommendation rom rom- rea of the scoured und basis bis it I Is a a. novel expedient In the te United States State and andIa Its Ia practicability is yet to be b demon demon- demon I strate In comparison of ot Use the manufacturing I costs Ct here her nd nd abroad te the report bears ber out the contention of American manufacturers manu manu- lout that their costs coats made up principally prin prin- I than of labor are are much higher I In Europe those of or their thir competitors Erpe Moreover it also shows that the theor higher wages here r ar are not offset by superior or efficiency re-n re of f American er labor It Itis itis is II apparent l that the trW tariff board br has hs hsu of Individual i found that t the efficiency efficiency- operatives u In American ee mills ls Is 13 no flO great great- er en U ii 1 so 50 I great gt as a in the te mil sable of ot Eu Eu- E- E rope rp brought Perhaps out t tre the to in the most eOr report Important Is rt the et official point demonstration of the pl tariff tarN board b that the A American wool wl manufacturer has ba been grossly rc misrepresented b by those ben who have attacked him as a responsible for the high cost coat ct of clothing The Te re report ye- ye r- r port shows that only about abut 25 15 6 per p cent of pr the te price paid pid by the retail purchaser o of a ready made made rady-made suit goes to the manufacturer manufacturer manu menu of ot the cloth a This is not profit but represents the total cost st of the cloth clot and Includes th the manufacturers manufacturer's profit on the cloth coth which In a 10 20 0 suit Bt would approximate 30 per cent The report as pr a whole confirms the need of or substantially the te same rate rte of nee protection A. A as now embodied In schedule |