Show TARIFF ON WOOL AND LEAD The action of the in demanding a higher tariff th b wool is a mistake It is liable to call attention attention atten atten- tion to the present status of their business and result in a lowering rather than an increase of the tariff on their product for it is true that in this time of depression they are realizing twice a as much profit on their capital as men in any other ordinary business are realizing It is a mistake looking only to their own business and it is a hardship on men in other occupations occupations occupations oc oc- oc- oc who are helped a little by b the tariff for should bould a great scaling down be started there is no nn telling where the reductions would stop For instance instance instance in in- stance it is all that the ordinary lead miner can do doto doto o oto to make ends meet with the little tariff that is upon lead There will be a determined effort to have that tari tariff thrown off The men who from pig lead manu manufacture facture th the various forms of commercial lead have fought the tariff put on to help raw lead production for years because could it be eliminated any amount of cheap lead bars could be obtained from Mexico where labor is 50 cents per day They have always been helped in this by the farmers in the trans trans- trans sip sippi pi states state who export a good deal of stuff to Mex Mex- Mexico ico leo though Utah buys more of their supplies than all Mexico And no one believes that with the tariff from raw lead taken away the lead manufacturers would abate one penny in their prices The truth is the tariff should be increased for the so-called so raw material a and d reduced on the manufactured product f for r it requires more capital and more skilled labor to tomine mine and and smelt lead ores than to convert the lead lend pig into commercial lead We have reasons to believe belie that there will be no recommendation by the ways and means committee to reduce the tariff on lead Champ Clark of Missouri Mis Mis- on that committee who is intensely free trade ought to be held in check by the lead men of his own st state te and when it comes to a question of destroying the occupation of some some thousands of American miners in the interest of the men who work peon labor in Mexico even free trade Democrats will ill recoil before the proposition |