| Show WILL MILL PROTEST TARIff Retail Merchants of Salt Lake Up in Arms Against Near Near Near- Trust ON HOSIERY AND GLOVES Proposed Revision Would Give Manufacturers All the Best of It Retail merchants of ot Salt Lake arc discussing with Interest the proposed action of Con Congress In raising tho the duty on gloves and hORlen and aro preparIng pro pro- I paring a strong protest In behalf of or ortho tho merchants and consumers against any revision of ot the tariff upwards on these articles to bo be forwarded to the Utah senators and representatives at Washington Wl It Is contended that tho consumer should bo considered as well as tho the manufacturer and tho the tariff bill In Its present form according to Salt Lake merchants would result In tho the users users' of ot gloves and hosiery 11 paying greatly Increased ed prices with practically nothIng nothIng nothing noth noth- ing to bo gained In Jn the tue way of pro pro- A ot careful study of or tho the tariff bill presented ted to Congress March 16 16 dIscloses discloses discloses dis dIs- closes the tho fact that although the country country country coun coun- try at large lars desired an honest honeRt revision meaning that where wherever or necessary mry the tue schedules be lowered yet a few tew doI domestic domestic do do- I manufacturers havo have succeeded I In having many rates radically advanced advanced aliI ad ali- and others maintained at present present pres pres- I ent high figures said a local dry goods bU buyer er yesterday esterday I Hosiery Will Vill JU Go Up I Let et mo ne call your our attention to two to lines most seriously affected name namely I cotton hosiery and women's leather gloves A group of ot hosiery manufacturers have received a 20 O per per cent Increase e over the tho prevailing 60 per cent rate making ft C total of ot SO 80 per cent against foreign goods roods This would exclude all foreign ic c hosiery and would enable domestic manufacturers to raise their prices proportionately At and I tho the public would have the option of ot i accepting an Inferior InterIor foreign article to that sold heretofore or buying a domestic substitute which Is less de de- de That tho the present rate of ot duty ut Is high enough to pa pay liberal wages es to tho the operatives and a generous profit to the manufacturers is shown by the latest latet government census This shows the domestic output In 1900 was wa 2275 and In 1905 It had increased to or nearly per cent During 1908 the domestic manufacturers of ot hosiery estimated their output between and During this time the tho I amount of ot foreign hosiery hosler remains about tho the same samo at between I and a year jear while tho the American Amen Ameri can supremacy has Increased 60 per percent percent percent I cent In five years I The little competition American I manufacturers are getting s today is only a healthy stimulus and tends to keep I domestic prices within bounds Nearly SO 80 per cent cont of ot the tho fashioned hosiery made In this country Is sold sollI by one commission house which is mainly an I Interested party In securing an advance I of ot 25 5 per cent In tariff rates making I tho the Industry practically a hosiery trust I Maybe Maybo rabo you OU havo have wondered why hy whymen's whymen's mens men's gloves of or the same grade grado cost I more moro than You Tou surely have haveIt If It you are married Well Its It's all the I duty and instead of reducing the tho thrift tariff thrifton on mens men's gloves the men who made up the he new tariff bill raised the duty on women's gloves an toOk I Cont oft off the tho duty on I ins gins tins tins' u ed for 4 T ca th the e t I United States and this was done after aeter It had been beon suggested to the ways and moans means committee of ot the House by tho the Importers Importers importers Im Im- im- im porters that tho the duties on mens men's gloves being too high as compared with those on women's and almost prohibitory could be reduced with pro pro- It was suggested also that tho the duties on childrens children's gloves could be reduced for the reason that they were made of ot material Inferior to that used In women's gloves A fair tall comparison of at prices given by a n local buyer shows that under the proposed tariff women's gloves now costing coating will be 2 find and those now selling at In Salt Lake will willbe willbo willbo bo be at least lb |
