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STORY OF COTTON
IS A THRILLER
A Narrative That Concerns the
Welfare of Millions,
SHOWS EVILS OF PROTECTION.
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Whole People Robbed by a Tariff That
Rich Manufacturer May Benefit.
Robert Kenneth MacLea, Consulting
Expert of the Tariff Board, Shows
That the American People Are
Mulcted of $88,000,000 a Year.
Now York, Aug. .Did you ever
hear (ho story of cotton?
It Is 11s thrilling as a narrative of
nrl vent tire. It Is as Interesting as a
novel -Interest inn particularly because
It concerns the welfare of millions of
pOOplw who wear cotton goods, ll is
interest ing because It is the dress of
the poor, the universal substitute for
wool and silk. It is Interesting, fur
thermore, because it Is true.
The story of cotton is the story of a
protective tariff for the lHneflt of rich
manufacturers at the expense of the
whole people who wear cotton goods.
It has been reasonably calculated
that because the cotton tariff is fixed
by the Payne-Aldrich law the Ameri
can people are paying $88,000,000 more
very year than they should pay for
their cotton goods and that a saving
of this amount could be accomplished
by a reasonable reduction in the pres
ent duties.
The story of cotton is told hy an ex
pert. Rol)ert Kenneth MacLea. consult
ing expert of the tariff board, in a se
ries of articles published in the New
York World. Mr. MaiT.ea's views are
the views of a lifelong Republican, a
friend of the protective policy of the
Republican parly, but at the same time
an opponent of tariff graft and favor
itism. To this work Mr. Macl.ea has
brought it varied experience, covering
more than twenty years, in the man
ufacture and marketing of textiles.
He first distinguished himself as an
advocate of honest tariff legislation by
finding the "Jokers" of the Pnyno-Al-dtich
act. when the agents of a few
New England mills were permitted to
write their own rates to stilt them
selves. He was chairman of the tar
iff Committee of the New York Dry
;oods Merchants' association and in
that capacity conducted a campaign
which attracted the attention of the
newly created tarifl' board. To accept
the position of consulting expert to the
board he gave up the management of
the domestic busiucss of the New York
firm if R It. MacLen A Co and Ton
verse A- Co
The story of cotton la a companion
piece to the story of Schedule K -the
woolen schedule declared by Presi
dent Tnfr to tie infamous and Indefen
sible The findings of the tariff board with
regnrd to the wiolen schedule a 'ere an
alyzd by Chairman I'ml-ef w,. of the
ways and means committee am) con
demned as Inaccurnte, Incomplete and
worthless as an aid to legislation
When the tariff lioard's findings on
the cotton schedule wore made public
the World decided to make Its own
Investigation concerning It. atd Mr.
Macl.ea was selected for that purpose.
The World had the findings of the
board on manufacturers of cotton dis
sected from the practical point of view
of business. a na I zed In their relation
to the interest of the consumer and
the facts translated Into the language
of the everyday man and woman?
One hundred cloth samples purchased
In representat ive domestic markets
were made the basis of the tariff
board's finding on the cost of cotton
Cloth produced la this country. Mr.
MmT.ea used the same cloth samples
as concrete illustrations of the ork
Ings of the) tariff and from these ex
posed the very generally perpetrated
fraud of selling American made goods
as "imported" and showed why the
excessive tariff permits and fosters
this imposition.
Recognizing that the tariff would be
a vital issue of the campaign and that
Controversy would center alnuit Presi
dent Taft's "nonpartisan" tariff board
and Its work, the World undertook the
Investigation of cotton and sought an
swers to the following questions:
Has the work of the tariff board jus
tified the delay in reducing the tariff
and giving relief from the high cost
of living ?
What have the people gained in the
three years under the Payne-Aldrich
tariff IN RETURN FOR MORE THAN
$5,000,000,000 TAXED OUT OF THEIR
POCKETS AND INTO THE POCK
ETS OF PROTECTED PRIVILEGE?
How honestly, impartially and thor
oughly did the "nonpartisan" tariff
board undertake its task?
Several months before the cotton re
port was completed Mr. Macl.ea de
clares that he discovered sinister in
tluences in the tariff board's working
to eliminate findings most damaging
to the favored few In the cotton mill
Industry. Such suppressed information
as Mr. Macl.ea considers to be of vital
Importance to the cotton industry and
the public has been presented In the
World. lie has also explained what
the mass of figures of the cotton report
signifies and presented tome Of the
most Important of the conclusions to
he drawn from that report, a work
which the board saw lit not to attempt.
The story of cotton, as written by
Mr. Macl.ea and published In the
Worid from time to time, forms one
of the most interesting and important
features of the preseut campaign.
"JOKERS" HID
REVISION UP
Actual Raising of Duties Effected
by Payne BilL
COTTON AND WOOL SCHEDULES
Facts Suppressed and Issues
Evaded by Taft Tariff Board
J3y '.70Bf KEJWJWETH MACLEA,
formerly Consulting Expert of the Tariff Board.
Under the pressure of promise to fight chicanery and fraud in tariff legisla
tion, I deem it a public duty not to withhold the facts in ray possession
relative to the Investigation of the cottou manufacturing Industry. Regretful
that my experience with the board warrants such conclusions, I am com
pelled to present the following Indictment:
SUPPRESSION
That the tariff board,
tn Its report on manufac
tures of cotton (Sched
ule 1.) has suppressed
findings of vital Impor
tance to the cotton In
dustry, to the public and
to the government, but Inimical to the
special privileges of a few New Kngland
manufacturers who were permitted by
Senator Aldrich to write the cotton sched
ule to suit themselves.
IL
That the tariff board
has perverted other
tacts, thereby avoiding
exposure of tariff injus
tices that have benefited
the few at the expense
of the many manutac-
PERVERSION
turera.
Let US
iRINT
SALE BILL
EVASION
INEXACT
IIL
That the tariff board has not. aa stated
by President Taft to congress, drawn any
conclusions that would "he valuable In
advising ths congress and the people
of the changes that ought to be made to
make more equitable
their (the wool and cot
ton schedules) effects"
The board did not at
tempt to draw conclu
sions, "scientific" or oth
erwise. Iron Us "scien
tifically" collected data, hut sidestepped
that responsibility by arguing that sin ti I
deductions aa Us data justified were Dot !
called for under the specifications of us!
employment.
IV.
That the tariff board's report was ar
ranged so as to be Incomprehensible to
either legislators or Uyni-n; that tables
were deliberately disas
sociated or emasculated
If not suppressed, and
that a congressman
would require the serv
ices of a statistician and
a clerk six months to
make nead or tail of the Jumble of data
presented as a basis for Intelligent tariff
revision
cost data on weaving necessary to enable
It to make an Intelligent
comparison with costs at
home; that the board
was offered opportuni
ties for obtaining such
data, but did not use
them; that such foreign
data as were obtained were In some cases
suppressed and In others were Inadequate
for honest comparison, although so util
ized. VII.
That the tariff board betrayed the con
fidence of American manufacturers by pub
lishing data that should
have been held for con
fidential Information of
legislators; that compet
itors were given thereby
valuable trade secrete,
while the foreign manu
facturers divulged nothing of similar
character or Importance.
VIII.
That the tariff board's
treatment of econoniio
questions vitally affect
ing the relation of the
tariff to the prices ex
acted from consumers
was disingenuous and
I'M AIR
DISINGENUOUS
misleading.
IX
EMASCU-LATION
EAV0RII-ISM
Thst the tariff board
avoided altogether inves
tigating certain phases
of tariff graft hidden in
"Jokers" of the Payne
Aldrich law.
VI.
I'ARIISAN
CONVICTING
That the tariff board falsely reported
that It was Impossible to obtain abroad American stjnlnd f living"
Both Indefensible, and President Taft
Knew It Suppression of Facts by
the Tariff Board Statistics Employ
ed to Mislead the Public.
By ROBERT KENNETH MACLEA.
Formerly consult lug expert of the tariff
board. J
New York. Aug. .-On not n single
one of the ninety five all cotton sain
pies of fabric taken as the basis of the
tarill board'! inxosilgalions of the cot
ton schedule was there an actual re
duction of the tariff by the Payne
A Id rich law.
The samples were selected wlthgie.it
care by tba Combined Judgment of the
board' experts. Indorsed by the lead
ing jobbers of the Dotted Slates as
being representative of all classes of
fabric In use In this country, each
sample being chosen because It was
typical of the most used material of
ley bill with higher rales than 'th
Payne bill."
When Mr. Tuft made this statement
he must have known that It was tin
true As for the wool schedule. In
knew flint the rates were not hlghct
in 1 he Dlngley law than In the Payne
A Idrlcta law. for right after signing th
latter bill did he not denounce lis woo
rates ns "Indefensible V" And. as fot
the cotton rates of the Payne bill. Ik
knew I hey were Just as "Indefensible'
as the wool rales, for at the time In
made this statement in Host ,01 ho bail
the tariff board's rUfJOTt on cotton be
fore him
ll Is true that the cotton report of
the tariff board did not make this In
formation available at a glance to Mr
Tafi or to congress or to the public
The tariff board carefully avoided glv
lug this Information In a getatable, 1111
derslaiidable form
Suppre. sd the Answer.
"Was the tariff raised Of lowered''
has been an Insistent question cvef
since the Pay tie A hlrh h law was en
iCted three yens ago The tarifl
board avoided imsw cring It
In making my official report to the
board I submit led a table Hint did
answer Ibis question in respe t to each
one. excepting three, of the 100 cloth
samples arouml which our months of
Invest Igal ion centered. After much side
stepping and discussion this table was
expurgated and published In its etnas
dilated form, The board's excuse was
that It was not Us duty to answer the
question; congress COO I d make its own
computations. The official explanation
for refusing to publish the table show
tfSvMstiaaaBBbtok
jttr f i Wnaii3i'fr BseasBsr
ifsBafflKftl liaffiaa
From p. nut trig by Seymour Thomas
That the tariff board has proved not to
be me 'nonpartisan" and scientific Instru
ment promised by President Tafe. that Its
members displayed lnexierleuce In bust
ncss. in competence and extravagance. I
have been forced reluctantly after a ystr s
Intimate association to accept tiie opinion
that the tariff board has been nothing
more than an effective
cog in a "stand pat"
political machine, ihit
some of the men wlio
clar.ored most loudly for
a tai iff board and some
of the men appointed
thereto worked all the time complacently
In the Knowledge that the creation of ttie
board was a scheme to prevent genuine
tariff lefoim as long as possible by "gum
ming the cards and delaying the game." a
charge frequently made, but which I for
a long time discredited
That auch facts as the tariff board has
reported sustain the charge, aa tu bnth
ire wool ana the cotton
schedules, that the con
sumer has been robbsd
outrageoualy aa a conse
quence of excessive du
tle and that the pronts
hive nut mnnm int.. ,
pockets of the laborei to 'SMUIlait! an
-From New Yrg WortO.
!
Its particular weave or class. Ninety
five all cotton and live silk and cotton
samples comprise the 100 that appear
In the tariff board's cotton reKrt.
Forty seven of the ninety Bra In the
all cotton class pay 33. ISO per cent high
er duties under the Payne Aldrich
than they did under the hitiglev tariff.
Payne-Aldrich "Jokers."
Of these foiiy-seven classes of inn
ferial on which the tariff was In
creased nine are the funcy weaves
made In three or four New Kngland
mills commonly grouped as the "I.lp-pitt-McColl
interests." This Is the
clique of New Kngland manufacturer
polltlciuus who were permitted by Sen
ator Nelson V. Aldrich to write the
cotton schedule to suit themselves.
Of the nine Lippltt McColl fabrics
the Payne Aldrich law Jacked up the
average duty from 30.57 to (50.33 per
cent. In other words, the premised
"revision downward" on these goods
was really a revision upwardatnounting
to 04.97 per cent of the Dlngley rates.
The remaining thirty-eight classes of
all cotton fabrics on which the duty
was increased wore not generally the
product of the favored New Kngland
ring. L'nder the Ldngley law these
thirty-eight fabrics were assessed an
average duty of 35.30 per cent, l'nder
the Payne Aldrich law they pay 4 IM
per cent a revision upward eipial to
-S.07 per cent of the former rate as
compared with iU.u7 per cent increase
on manufactures of the favonsl few.
On Just tints- among the 10u samples
was there a decrease In duty. These
were the silk and cotton fabrics (silk
mlllsi that pay more than ino per cent
duty. On these three samples the re
duction averaged 5 .0(5 per cent on the
former duty-a reduction from 110.70
per cent under the Dlngley law to
110 H pei- cant under the Payne A I
drlch law On one of the silk and cot
ton samples there was an increuse
amounting to tlJi pat cent The fifth
of the silk and cotton samples was left
unchanged
Oo the forty five of the ninety Ave
all cottou samples there was uo chauge
In duty.
Ou the three remaining samples
(completing the total of 100) no com
parlson Is made Lsn-ause of apparent
lack of authentic foreign prices
And still President Taft said iu bis
speech at Boston. April 25 last:
"If ((he Pavne-Aldrlch hill) was a
vastly better bill than the Dingle)
bill. If I bad refused to algu the Paynt
bill It would have niaintitned tb- OIm
Ing whether the tariff bad been raised
or lowered was 1l1.1t the market fluctu
ations made it of no value. This wa 1
only a quibble. I.ccause the respective
tariff acts wee su arranged that tint
increase in duty on a sliding scale kept
puce with the price tlm i nations
The tariff hoard I'nOMe to print tables
that would show only the assessment
of duty illldel the two He'- an I left It
to anybody who desires the informa
tlon to figure oat for himself the sig
nllicant facia above set forth.
Benefit Only to Privilege.
From every point of view of the
tariff grafter it Is no doubt highly de
trabta that such facts, staggering as
they are to the dishonest pretensions
that the cotton tariff was really lower
ed, should le buried as deeply as pos
sible In a mass of unexplained statis
tics, tint it is to the advantage of
every honest manufacturer ar.d mer
chant who is seeking stability In busi-
ness and fair opportunity to make a
reasonable profit that the truth should
lie made known Just such poOciee of
official evasion and suppressant have
made sslbie iu the past the Juggling
of tariff legislation by and in ladialf of
the privileged few.
It is undisputed that the cotton
BCtiednle as written In the house ways
and means committee by Representa
tive Ben 0 K. Payne of New York did
not provide the full measure of "revi
sion dow nward ' that the Republican
party had promised Still It was not
until after the Payne bill went to the
senate finance committee, of which
Mr. Aldrh'h was chairman, that the
"Interests" got in their most deadly
work. It Is well known that Senator
Aldrich freely consulted, if tie did not
actually permit, the Lippltt McOoll In
terests to write into the amended bill
the duties affecting their own products
-the fancy weaves made hy only a
few of the largest and richest New
Kngl.cid mills New York World
Will Campaign In New York.
New York. Aug .-Oornor Wood
row Wilson will make his first Inva
sion of New Y'ork for campaign pur
poses when he will be the guest of
honor at the Worklngmeu's Woodrow
Wilson club of the lower east side at a
dinner to be held at the Cafe ilotile
vard on Sept. 4 (ioveruor Wilson will
deal, it Is expected, with the problems
of Immigration and the false impres
sions that have Itecii put fjun his
views hv the quotations of Isolated
entciicee from his different books
I CONDENSED NEWS
Nhaiaguan rebata attac ked and cap
tutrd the town of San Jorge.
Part of the $272,(mm loot robbers goC
."rom hc Hank of Montreal at New
Westminster, B. C, has been recov
ered b ChlcilRO police.
It Is almost certain that Nat C.
Ooodwlb, comedian, never again will
anpeai on the stage to play a part.
The ai tor is paralyzed In his lower
limbs
Colonel Ra Hiai Vasques and Cap
tain Theodora Rodriguez, held for cot
Inlraejr to violate the neutrality law,
tawad their way out or Jail at Dour
la Aria.
Opposition to the recall of Judges
and of to in 1. il (f-ci inn ; was expressed
at the annual convention of the N
llonal Association of Probate .fudgee
at Chicago.
M s J. Ogdeu Armour, after under
going a serious surgical operation fot
the removal of a fibroid tumor at a
Chicago hospital, was reported to be
rapidly re overlng
Because one man refused to Join
the union teveml thousand workmen
are idle at the collieries of the
high company In the Panther creek
allej . PanMJ i aula
Bitten by a pet cat suffering with
rabies. Hatty Hanson of Mountain
Iron, Minn., may he a vbtlm of hydro
phobia. The hoy was taken to 8t.
Paul fin' the Pasteur treatment.
The ' were HI mine workers killed
in the herd coal mines of Pennsylva
nia iu 1911. according, to the annual
report issued hy James E. Roderick,
chief pf the . late bureau of mines.
Mrs. Champ Clark was named aa
president of the Missouri Ham and
BacOfl show, which is to he held farm
ers week, In January, at the tTniver
sdty of Missouri agricultural college.
Progpsc, on the Panama canal is
-' i satisfactory to the chief engliie -r.
The Upper gpriroach wall of the Pedro
Miguel locks has been brought to the
full elevation throughout the entire
length.
Two Cormm military officers were
killed while flying near Fi"hurg. This
to ikes Hie third double fatality in Bu
mp, during September in which mem
bers of aim flying corps were the
victims.
The interstate commerce commis
sion suspended freight rates on grain,
proposed by the Northwestern and the
Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul rail
ways fiotn pottttS In Iowa to Chicago
and the cast.
Rebel movements to the east and
west of Agua Prleta WON reported,
leading to the conclusion that the
mobilisation of Mexican rebel band
with the view of attacking Agua Prl
eta had failed.
rsVangeOem in the United States
has "degenerated Into commercialism
and professionalism," according to Dr.
I M Hray, dean of the Moody instl
tue, who spoke before the National
Conference of Kvangelist at Chlcaga
The third annual convention of the
Ajnertcan Manufacturers' Export as
sociation ended In New York with a
banquet, t Its closing busnp ,s
slon the association e'ected Congress
man William C Eladfleld 01 Hrooklyn
president
Two witnesses were examined In
Hoi Sprlnss rk., before Special Com
missioner C. P- fluff in Hie hearing to
determine what Sam Scheppn said !n
Hot Springs at the time he was taken
into rus'.ody as a witness In the Ro
.1' nt luil niitrrf-M- case.
Jose RnissJnaa Of Inn Antonio, Tex.,
was shot and killed an. I Francisco
Rasquez w.-.s seriously wounded as t':e
rosult Of a rare quarrel among circus
; !oyeps at Rochelle, IU. Police are
: arching lor a negro who Is said to
have done the shooting.
The board of directors oi the Modern
Woodmen i tad a formal call for a
reii rendura vote of the membership to
determine whether the action of the
recent bead catup held in Chicago In
increasing th society's ln-urance
ratts shall be imiitnad
The Guatemalan government has re
jected proposals ot a syndbate headed
hy 1)-. F 8. Pearson, an American,
who Is pre ideal of the Mexico and
Northwest mm Railroad company, to Ir
rigate the e'ensve plains of the
Zacapn district In OuateniHla.
Mr- John Epps. who served twenty
three y ears in the Indiana woman S
! risen for the murder or her basbond
and Who sms paroled six years ago,
has keen vindicated b)' the deathbed
lonfession of Henry Epps, a brother,
who. before dying, said that he had
fjOilOnsI his h: other.
Hrad.M reef- s:is- All In all, busi
ness, despite this or that irregularity,
is certainly in exros of all but the
best 01' previous rears and the fact
that there Is no disposition to rush
things ladieati s hi&althv conservatism,
that tends to make the absence of
speculation enaspb noun,
A silvr service has been handedS
over by the Panama government to
the setretary of tie American lega
tion. W. W. Andrews, to be presented
to tlie 1'nlted Stall's guntioat York
town. In recognition of services ren
dered by that vessel In connection
with the foundering of the steamship
Tahoga
Helen (itay. an investigator, wbosa
work at the last session ot congress
for the (Jraham committee of the
touse, created a scene upon the floor,
in which she was charged with being
a "woman lobbyist," was arrested up
on a warrant sworn out by the Indian
bureau, charging concealment ot pub
lic records
