The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 4, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 20, 1897 Page: 1 of 8
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By Wave Printing Co.
ENID, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1897.
VOL. 4 , No 20.
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THE TARIFF ON CUTLERY.
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CHAMP CLARK'S WIT.
Cleverly sl:mv« the Helntlon ot the
['(inr ftinn t< Htfth Untie*.
Cliump Clark, of Missouri, is not only
one of tlie wittiest men in the house of
representatives, but he is one of th£
best poste<l on the tariff question.
In ridiculing some of the rates of the
Dingley bill that to him seemed subject
to criticism, he recited how a man of
the name of Goodyear went before the
v. ays and means committee and secured
the tariff he wanted by some skillful
palaver about the great statesmen that
Maine had produced. Then he said:
"Mr. Chairman, that piece of 'soft
soap' made it harder for every poor
mau in the United States to build a
house. Gov. Dingley swallowed the
bait as quick as a trout would swallow
a fly (laughter), and next summer some
poor devil out west, living in a dugout
100 miles from a railroad station, who
void for McKimlcy under the deluded
idea that prosperity would come under
is administration ?lud who has not
hoard of this tariff bill, ciphers It out
that he can build him a two-room cot-
tage with lumber a.nd other building
materials at the old rate. lie goes to the
station to get the lumber and finds that
the price lias pone sky high, arid he goes
bach to liis home and says to his wife:
Wy dear, I am sorry that we must stay
;n the (! rgcut. We etui not build our lit-
tle hoi.; i'. A great man by the name of
<;ov. Dirgley has put the price of lum-
ber and other things so high that we
cannot, do it. but, thank God, lie has
left dragon's blood five.' (Laughter.)
Next year, when my handsome friend
from Iowa (Mr. Dolliver) returns to
that fine agricultural district which he
represents, some mail w ho has not been
nblc to buy a coat because of the high
price of woolen cloth will say to his
neighbor: 'There conns Dolliver, who
put up the price of woolen goods.' But
the sucee.-sfnl candidate for the post
i "ice ill that district says: 'Oh, but
Dolliver put divi-divi 01 the free list!'
A.ul in cliori..- they sing: *Dolli>erand
i vi-divi forever.'" (Laughter. Ap-
• a use on the democratic side.)
Why the Trust Can Dictate Such Out-
rnReouNly Hin'li OutieM.
One of the worst schedules in the
Dingley bill is that relating to cutlery
—especially pocket cutlery. The du-
ties on pocltetknivcs range from 100 per
cent, to 300 per cent, above present du-
ties and are nearly double those in the
McKinley bill. Why, you will ask. are
these duties so extraordinarily high?
And why are they allowed to remain
there? Both questions are easily an-
fcwefed.
It is unnecessary here to go into de-
tails. Before McKinley's nomination
one of the five or six large manufactur-
ers of pocket cutlery, who was prom-
inent in the trust, which raised prices
an average of about 3i per cent,
under the McKinley bill, began to hus-
tle for McKinley. Be is said to have
raised a large sum of money by passing
the hat among the 20 or 25 cutlery man-
ufacturers. Just how the money was
spent is notknown. It is possible, how-
ever, that several McKinley delegates
to St. Louis owed their presence there
to this fund. The hat passer himself j
was one of the very few delegates from
New York who was for McKinley first,
last and all t,he time. Be was one of
Banna's most trusted lieutenants. One
of the two favors which he is said to
have asked as compensation for his val-
uable services was the fixing of the cut-
lery schedule. This privilege, being an
ordinary and expected one under the
protection system, was readily granted
by the power behind the throne. This
is probably the whole story. It explains
fully why the duties are there and why
they will stay there.
Below is given" in detail some of the
effects of the proposed duties as applied
to importations for the last fiscal year, j
Of course but few knives will be im- j
ported under such exorbitant duties.
proposed SCHEDULE-
First—All poeketknives not costing morf
than 4(1 cents u dozc-n, 35 per cent, ad
valorem. ■ I
Second—Costing more than 40 cents n j
dozen, 1 blade. 20 per cent, ad valorem and
, 50 cents a dozen.
j Third—Costing more than 40 cents a j
| dozen. 2 blade. 20 per cent, ad valorem and j
$1 a dozen. i
(If peai-l or shell, 50 cents a dozen extra.)
Fourth—Costing more than 40 cents u
j dozen, .1 blade, 20 per cent, ad valorem and |
$1.50 a dozen.
Fifth—Costing more than 40 cents a I
dozen, 4 blades or more, 20 per cent, ad
valorem and $2 a dozen.
(If pearl or shell, 75 cents a dozen extr.i
on 3 and 4 blades.)
Calculation showing result based on Im-
portations for fiscal year 1896; All knives
costing 40 cents per dozen and less:
290,000 dozen, average price, 2fi cents;
value, $70,960: 35 per cent.
Knives costing over 40 cents per dozen:
4S.OOO dozen, 1 blade, average price, GC
cents; value, $28,800; at 20 per cent, and 5C
cents a dozen; duty, $29,760.
S92.000 dozen, 2 blade, average price,
$1.03; value, $403,700; at 20 per cent, and $1 a
dozen; duty, $472,752.
277,000 doEen, 3 blade, average price, $1.27:
value, $851,790; at 20 per cent, and $1.50 a
dozen: duty, $485,858.
254,000 dozen, 4 blade, average price
$1.73; value, $139,420; at 20 per ce«t. and $2
per dozen: duty, $595,884.
Total value, $1,223,770; total duty, $1,584,-
251; 129V4 per cent.
Estimated that of 2, 8 and 4 blade 25 per
cent, are of pearl or shell, adding duty as
follows:
88,000 dozen, 2 blade, at
60c *49.000
G9.250 dozen, 3 blade, at
fee 59,438
62,500 dozen, 4 blade, at
75c 47,625
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Woolen Manufacturers Oypo
Duties oil Wool.
Some of the severest criticisms not
only of special duties and clauses, but
of the whole accursed protective sys-
tem, come from the protected manufac-
turers themselves in their struggle with
opposing interests. Mr. S. N. D. North,
secretary of the Woolen Manufacturers
association, is now and always has been
a standi protectionist. As such he be-
lieves that the 70,000,000 consumers of
this country are legitimate subjects for
plunder and that the manufacturers
are the proper persons to enjoy the pro-
tection plunder.
The free wool experiment which we
have been frying for three years, be-
sides being an object lesson in the way
of cheap woolens, has taught the
woolen manufacturers t.liat they can
make a.s much or more profit with free
wool and moderate protection, which
permits people of moderate means to
wear real woolen goods, than with high
duties on both wool and woolens which
restrict the use of woolens to peo-
ple in pood circumstances. The manu-
facturers therefore display more than
their usual modesty and patriotism in
the advice which ihej arc giving to
congress. Mr. North is in Washington
to voice the manufacturers' patriotism.
Bere is part of his advice as taken from
the Washington correspondence of the I
| Dry floods Economist:
! I am free to say the bill is fur from satis-
factory to 111.' woolen manufacturers. The '
chief fault is to be found with the raw j
1 wool duties, which are so high that our
manufacturers will find themselves sorely j
embarrassed. It is true the committee has
i provided compensatory duties which are j
probably sufficient to offsj-t the duties on
j raw wool, but the difficulty will be, in my
opinion, that the very considerable In-
crease In price which must be made to
| cover the additional cost of raw material
I will have the effect of cutting down con-
! sumption to an extent that will be disas-
trous to the manufacturers. I do not con-
i tend that the rates on woolen manufac-
tures In the bill are not sufficient to protect
us against too sever* foreign competition,
but the limit of the consumer's purchas-
ing power must control him in buying
woolen manufactures, and I fear the rates
of the new bill will very materially restrict
consumption.
This is practically saying to Dingley,
Aldrich and the other servants of the
protected manufacturers at Washing-
ton:
"Go slow with your high duties and
don't try to protect too many. If you
let everybody into the protection ring,
there will be nobody outside to prey
upon and we will have to prey upon
each other. Don't make the mistake
of taxing raw material too high. We
wouldn't mind it if we could sell our
goods and charge the tax over to the.
I consumer. But when the tax is so high
that we have to make our prices almost
| out of sight we have found that we can-
not sell so many goods because t lie peo-
ple can't afford to wear clothes—that
| is, woolen clothes, which are the only
i cnes worth considering, because they
| are the only ones which we manufac-
j ture. Our solicitude for the dear Amer-
■ ican consumer is such that we do not
wish to compel him to clothe himself in
For you to ponder over!
We have just received a big invoice of
summer goods. Here is some ot our prices.
America Indigo Blue Prints, 4 cts.
Best L. L. Muslin, 4 1-2 cts.
Hope Bleached Muslin in 30 yard
pieces, 7 cents.
■
the Latest Styles
in Dimmities, Organdies, etc,, at prices ti om
8 1-3 to 3C cents per yard. Yours
to serve.
u © n k i n s
KINDS
$1,740,317—142^1 p. c.
RESULT.
Knives to the value of 6 per cent, of Im-
portations, duty would be 35 per eent.
Knives to the value of 94 per cent, of Im-
portations, duty would be 142M per cent.
The duty 011 pocket cutlery for some
years prior to 1860 was 1!4 per cent, ad va-
lorem.
From 1S60 to 1890 it was 60 per cent, ad
valorem, with the exception of a short
time during that period when it was 45
per cent, ad valorem.
The McKinley tariff averaged about 91
per cent, ad valorem.
The Wilson tariff averaged about D1 per
cent ad valorem.
The proposed Dingley tariff will average, ,
based on the importations of 1896, 142^ per |
cent, ad valorem on 9-1 per cent, of all ,
knives Imported during that year.
The equivalent ad valorem duties on the 1
following popular description of knives, |
under the McKinley bill, Wilson bill and
proposed Dingley bill, are as follows:
McKin- Wilson Ding- .
ley bill. bill. Icy bill.
V. C. P. C. P. C.
blade Ja< 1. .Ives that
retail at t ents 112 56 145
1 blade pearl ladies'
knives that retail at
25 cents 112 56 195
2 blade pearl ladles*
knives that retail at
60 cents S3 51 120
3 blade penknives, not
p *arl or shell, that re-
tail at Ml cents 83 51 120
3 blade penknives,
pearl or shell, t hut ro-
tail at 50 cents S3 51 170
4 blade penknives, not
pearl or shell, that re-
tail at 50 cents S3 El 160
blade penknives,
DO YOU WANT
TAXES
INCREASED?
OR NOT!
ioneru
AT THE
Wave Office
pearl or shell, thati
tail ut Ml rents S3
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Why Wf Shlvrr.
It is true that voolen eloUiinp, un-
derwear and blankets will tie outof the
reach of the people of modotiite means
when Dingley lias I.is way. hut just
thi.nl; how sweet it is to suffer for one's
country :: nl t<i tlilvcr in order that the
roll hot- i •-1 H-- 11 .y conl 1.iii' to wax fat
the skins of beasts, which are neither
fashionable nor healthful. Let us
not t a\ him to death. I.et us
tie reasonable and enoournffe hltn
to live and wear clothes. By
so doing we can keep our mills run-
ning" and give employment-to American
workingmen at American wages, which,
after all, is the chief object aimed at
by us protected manufacturers."—l'y-
ron VV. llolt.
I'oolliitT the Farmer.
Sample taxes from the Dingley bill
with comparisons showing the over-
whelming foreign competition to which
ti;'? farmer is subjected and what pro-
tection the ways and means committee
' regards as indispensable:
Imports TOxporti
Dutv, to it.8. from it S
ninEic V hill. ISM '
>.;• cv, i0o per tm 837.304 T.twi.CT
rot a, he per bu 4,rs tji
Orf, IV' per I .ti 47,fiOi) 13,^1.,'%
I tv .11, ! r bu p
v -i . r t,, 2,lin.o:n fifl.ns
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Good Stock
Low Rates.
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Isenberg, J. L. & Isenberg, Edna. The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 4, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 20, 1897, newspaper, May 20, 1897; Enid, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc112015/m1/1/: accessed March 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.