Show WOOL AND WOOLENS THE DILL IS ONLY NOT QUITE prohibitory A an oer oica oo 00 per ier cent in protective of shoddy Sli ohly seln Ip llly abo arlinton lr ir iii mitia ojill a of CO 00 ft 1 r fint in ISO isi I 1 now kow ilia the buican of su statistics libia hajt s tied its annual report on imported c entered ente reil for consumption ill hi 1891 1801 we liine haye tho the data required to deter mino flow id hiigli il 1 a I rate we are paying on imported wools and woolen goods tha taa mckinley ailiff raised tile tho duties on oil woolen goods so high that for a long i time ime they were supposed to be prohibitive cut but it was soon found that notwithstanding no t h tool tho the hio high li duties imposed w woolen 0 i goods continued continue tl to bo be imported though in diminished quantities in 1890 we imported of woolen goods and in 1691 1322 1 of tho the imports iu in 1891 entered under tho the old tariff and under the McKinley McKin lcy tariff allowing for tho the al abnormally large imports from july 1 to oct 4 1891 for the purpose of anticipating the lie higher duties the imports under ilia mckinley McKin loy tariff drobut anro but little less than before it became a law in short the duties levied by tile mckinley tariff are not high enough to accomplish the end intended prohibition now much lunch higher they are than the old rates is shown by the following table of tho the ad valorem valoree equia equiv equivalents of specific spec ilic and compound duties I 1 im mil bisoi wools 1 i per cent per cent clothing Cl r h ra J Coin bius 60 15 carpet 2141 aw S OU COUO lens barua yarua 00 K 1710 n k e i 1 1 1111 fa 7 4 bunting choo 33 carpets cloths claths L I 1 ba 7 endless belts all ta KIM aa Fl i anDels GUZ fr octo W Ilu cloila Ol oila Ls MH llata G lat az 0 kuit alt fabrics agus 0 Is 6 39 auja tuja clothing dilja 5 1 vebbell 64 etc 03 ibue W all other manufactures 87 KM 91 total faC tures of ool stil this is an increase of over 33 per cent under tile tariff of issa worsted claths cloths were not separated from all other manufactures and the item of claths cloths cl in ill the above table represents woolen claths cloths only fur for 1890 under cuder the mckinley tariff woolen antl worsted cloths claths bear the saine rates similarly plu blies were not separately enumerated in lyou 1890 on oil bunting as shown above thy the ad va valoree valorem lorein rate is less now than in asoo tile tho duties are however higher now than before but since they the aro are practically prohibitive this fact is of little importance A tariff per cent just suits tile the largo number of so called woolen manufacturers who are large users of shoddy extracts and cotton only anly a short timo ago one of the leading manufacturers declared that all wool goods are now the exception and not tho the rule no truer or briefer statement of the effect of high and prohibitive du duties ties has over ever been made the high duties on wool and woolens have made all wool goods so high that they are beyond the means of a large number of people As a consequence they must wear shoddy instead it has been asserted that woolen goods gooda have not risen in price in ill consequence of tho the McKi mckinley liley tariff how flow this can be reconciled with nn an increase in the duties of fully 33 per cent and but a slight blight decrease in the importations is beyond comprehension dut but the mckinley tariff has been b een a bonanza to the lie manufacturers for it enabled such mills haills as the allington lington Ai of which mr whitman is president to earn cam a profit of M jo per cent in 1891 1801 no wonder in view of this that mr whitman is in ili liis his opposition to any chango change in the alie thaties on his products the present wool tariff is nothing but a le legalize alibel il forai foi m of robbery there was ili an old Eng englich libit law which provided provid sd td that every person after death should bo be bunol in a woolen shroud in order that hat tile the manufacture of woolens might be encouraged more barbarous and unreason unreasonable alil 0 than t that h at ancient law the mckinley tariff by its merciless taxes on oil woolens discourages the wearing of them thein by the living |