| Show THE carpet INDUSTRY arthur T arria of t tho be ell calbet calpet CIo Aloy I B it is hardly worth chib to say bay that carpets in ill esgo were higher than they ire are now the tha fill in prices of all sorts of 9 goods oads carp carpets ebi hon cotton cloth etc has been wonderful in the p past aci twenty or thirty years but the fill fall his has h is come from nn nil iacre sed production per loom dooni or spindle or f furnace euniace from vastly improved ui machines and methods from froia the extension of railways arl and the enormous 1 ous reduction in cost of transportation etc and not from protective tal tai effs iffs this fall in prices his has been as marked in free trado england Eng lind as in the united unite I states slates and wages lave have ine meantime antinio gone golle up loth both here and in engled Engl md As 0 t carpets the bill increased heavily the duties on oil carpet wools nuil ami it his excluded somo kinds tha his queer result of giving foreigners sive re use of them at three or tour four per pound lie und less price than before lie forc it i is 3 perfectly eel cei tain that if tho the I 1 mckinley 7 bill hadnot had not passed in october 1800 tile prices of carf carpets oets would not have advanced ill val aceil it ii 13 equally certain that tho the prices did at wholesale those who hill wool ano i on oil hand liand got the benefit of this partial and temporary monopoly that liis has about passed iway away and the tha renn anent bad effects ire arc beginning 0 to tell as it wis was evident they would 11 retail e pi ices were I 1 think leally eally I 1 advanced in ill boston to colne extent but if not they would have been advanced sooner or liter later it if it had not been for the unsatisfactory condition of bialle unless the to ic tail dealers hill had remained content to talca fill advance which they were really prying paying to the manufacturer out of their own poe pockets bets in new york chicago arld and philadelphia I 1 understand that thui eUil price of carpets were advanced that thai the mckinley y bill increased on cost of carpets that tho the prices of car advanced in consequence of the mckinley bill that they would not have been advanced if tho the McKin fc Kinley lev bill hail had not been passed and that it wool hall been raide ra ide tree free the cost anti and prices of carpets would woul I have gone one down are facts that cannot be dispute disputed 1 I b by r any one who understands the carpet manufacture anti and trade rade and its condi lions in 10 and 1 |
