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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Or.) 1903-1931 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 30, 1912)
PACK 10. tiik tucxi) ni'M.KTiN, iu:xn, vkhni:siav, octouku, ao, una. - 1 UNMASKING THE i TARIFFDELUSION Ftaklli Fibres Shows That Li- lr Is No! Benefited fcy Unjust Tax. MANUFACTURER KEEPS PROFIT Proof of Dtmocrslle Platform' Sound n jCittd jn Reports of Wag n vtitlgatlens. ? I Dy FRANKLIN PIERCE. 'For n huudrctl year of our blstory the manufacturers, believing that the; received a benefit frotu the nrotecUve tariff have Ineenlouidy devised plausl b!c preteits or imooslug Increased price upon the necessaries of life. At tint thejr mid that Industry In our country wne In Its Infancy and needed Protection. When tho Industries had become strong and needed no aid the Manufacturers Invented the theory that the foreigner paid the duty. ThU theory was exploded, and they declar ed that cheap clothing meant cheap toon and waMtbt a blessing. Driven fromcrcry one of these IndeJ feasible positions, their final nnd only argument left today Is that tho tariff is Imposed upon foreign imports to eu able the manufacturer to Incrcaso hU proQts and pay higher wages. The Democratic platform declares that: f"In the most highly protected Indus tries, such as cotton and wool, steel and Iron, the wages of the laborers are the lowest paid In any of our, Indus- tries." Was In Cotton Industry. (tinder tbe existing Payne-Aldrich tariff law actual import of cotton cloth paid in 1010 overage duties ol CKL-t per cent in 1003. when work and wage condi tions in tbe cotton industry were ex ceptlonally good, tbe wages of S0Z211 cotton mill operatives In tbe United Biatca men, women and children av eroged onlyJO.47 a,weck. The arerag. wage for men was bnt $7.71 a week, for women &30 and for children, 121. fAs to the profits, serenteen leadlns cotton mills, with total capitalization of, $23.1 10.000 and total surplus of $21. .tG3X0irpald In cine years dividend averaging 22 per cent. The cotton manufacturer turned out In 1005 $442,151,218 worth of goods and paid In wages therefor ffl,337,Q3, ot 21lcr cchtiof .the value of the finished product. , Extortion of Wool Tariff. Outside of the dutlw on two or thrc commodities nf comparatively llttlu Im portance, tho duties on wooleii cloth are tbe blgheit of any In the tariff ftchedules. According to Senator Heed Snioot. owner of a woolen mill nt Pre vost. Utiih.nnd chairman of the finance committee In charge of tariff legisla tion lu the senate, wearing apparel val ued at 30 cents a pound cow pay 2QP 2-3 per cent duty. This and other correspondingly high duties on tbe manufactures of wool are made to enable the manufacturer to' ay his labor an 1ncYeated"wage over those of-.forelgn countries. Bnt me uuij on wooien goous is nearly nve time the entire labor cost, while tbe American manufacturers In 1003 paid In wages only 18 per cent of the total value, of.tbelr'productlou. At Lawrence In this most highly pro tected industry the laborers were oblig ed1 to strike even for a living wage. Thousands of adult males were receiv ing only from ftl to fO'a -week and many only $5 to SO a week. As a re sult of the" strike tbe American. Woolen, company gave its employees slight In creases in wage. (The wool tariff Mil vetoed by Presi dent Toft reduced the duties on raw wool from 42.20 to 20 per cent and on manufactures of wool from 87.03 to 48J30 per cent Mr. Taft mid be ve toed It because the propoHed rates did not comply with tbe fludlngs of tbe tariff board. Senator La Pollette con tradicted the president, saying tlint the proposed rates varied from 1 per cent lower .to i 11.0 'higher than the tariff board's findings Justified. rV Low Wages In 8tl. Manufacturers of Iron and steel in lOOS'.paid la wage only IS per cent of tbe total value of their production, wulle'tbe duty then wonld average about 43 to 47 per cent, and on all metals It now averages 31.21 per cent. American tcaycM are really the thtaput vagti In the world when you take into ae. cvunt-Jhe amount of. production per man Anlllustratlon of this appears in tbo Stanley report, investigating the steel trust, as follows: "The labor cost of producing pig Iron in Pennsylvania fell from $ 1.2ft n ton In 1002 to 82 cents n tun In 1009, yet tbe realized value of tbe pig Iron out put was $15.01 in 1002, wuerean It was $17.44 In 1000. In other words, wage worker In 1002 got $1.23 for producing only $15.0(. worth of pig iron and In 1000 only 82 cents for producing $17.44 worth." While thus treating lubor tbe Indus triaf combinations that bare grown up under the otcctiou of the tariff have fixed the prices of commodities at the bjgbest "point the. borne market would stand.' .When will tbe laboring men of tbe country casj offjjhis delusion that be tariff is for their benefit and with their -rotes strikedown tblsmonstrous Injns NOVEL HOTEL IN GLACIER NATIONAL PARK. s 'jf 4's- J?W,v-. ?'-. i8iH i ' Jam ' isssTsaritaamrsa'!ssSMTBWSrsMsasl'T "ii arHstesHflC St!awSK sssBWsssUff sjBHEBM rfHcr'iiifiiiMBMMypBpBiB mQB IcSt sBhIbS'ibHh isAMsHt HiBhBBIHBbbR iwaVB v? WrfaMMKEmM WBmr saBlE?,. 8aaaBKagMa8M rmmm ' "ft SMIBBBBBBBHrlsBBBBBBl nfifcfcjja v M l flrWrtlsari MET I mill I .lliHssMsl SBBslsf'WBBBBBBBBBBHsiaBBBH ' , MiS iaBaiXfliPw fJ'M.MBME!lv2flHB ''2'" ' feiSn!SBsBHBsjB The above plcturo showa the (Irent Northern Itallwoy's unlquo "Iinllni Knulpped" hostelry In Cllncltt National Park, lu Montana. This 100.000 log hotel has many novel features. Jt will bo opened next year to tho tourist public Chief amonR'tho interesting. thtflRs jiliout It Is tho open camprirc, built In the center of the lobby upon a hugq. stone, lCilS feet. A largo Jwad'whlch hangs down over the campP.ro will carry tho smoke up tho mammoth ctttmney. Tho glow from the burning logs will light tho lobby nt night. Indian tepees pitched In the corners, will to used as qard and tea rooms. The Interior drcorntlona will carry out tho picturesque Indian Idea, Two canos aro to be. suspended front tho high, timbered celling. Indian hoa wearing buckskin clothing, and mocssslus will glide nqlsolesly through tho building as "bell hoys," nnd In Ulan maidens will lie chamber male's Tbe iwrters also will bo Indians. . CAMPAIGN MUD. ANGERSVETERAN "CtMide" Editor's Effort to Distort DcMcrilks Position mPirsIms CKTCULAB TO a JL ft POSTS. Sought Man" and "Harsh'' Ex prion by Wilton Supporter but Finds Facts th Rvr. , Ignoring, tbe'facr that tbe Democrat ic honse passed tbo most liberal pen sion bill In tbo history of the United States and that It was the Itepubllcan senate that reduced the appropriation the editor of tho National Tribune--of Washington brts apjealed to graud Lnrtny' poU all over tho country to sup ply campaign material for use iigdlnst the Democratic party. Colonel (Sergeant) John McKlroy. the editor, has not met always with the co-operation ho desired. This Is evi denced by the fnct that indignant grand army men have forwarded his circular letters to Democratic national headquarter In New York with their protests against tbo playing of auth politics within the old soldiers' organ- I Izatfon. Quest For "Mtsn Thing. Editor .McEtroy's apieal was sent otfU 0)luet?grdpbrd. on the letterhead oil'the -National Tribune, with his own name at tbe top. The letter rvudi Bpt. a Hit Comrd sr snilous to art th -prvtiloq of editorial on rnlons from tho paper utiortln Wllion In your ntlstiborhood. Will you VlnJIr look over th fll of yotrr local pr and ind u anything particularly harsh a4 tnn which thy hv pabllthd.- V wnt to how eonchiilvtly tli attitude of th mvh who r iupportlne Wllion ami who will ndmlnlttrsilon ir tlreiru tlaJqurUr Cuthlns Poat.Na li a. A. It. Aalorla. Ore., Kept. . ISIS. National Tribune. Waalilnslun. 1. C.l UtntUmrn Your eonimiinlratlon a J itrviM.l to me adjutant ot Cuthlns Poit, No. II. ot th 17th Intl. 1 found to day on my return from th national ,n. campmenl at U AtiKtlra, Cul. Thua the delay In snwrln. You -with rue to look over th file of our local paper and etnd ynu "anything Pr llrularly harsh and mean" which they have publlehed resardlna penilon. A you hav epeeltle! that Ihee "hareh" and "mean" eommenta muet t from pa per upporttn Wlleen I mutt Inform you thai th paper upporllna Wllion throufhout Ih tt. o far as 1 hav been abl to lenni. ar friendly toward th Intereet of the civil war veteran and lmlor th action of lh I)micrallo houi ot lb United fitate ronsree In Ha paeiAKe of lh nalon Mil In th tpeclal and laet eeveUm of evnere and hav no fault to find with fWnator Kern for hie eloquent appeal In th eenat In behalf of lh civil war veteran. If you ar really lioln for "mean" and "harsh" edltvrUla aloft Ihl line. If your object In thl eearch I for th In terfile of th old eoldler. you will find enoush "mean" and "natali" thins In the paper that ar supporting Mr. Taft. And If you wtili to proepeet away out her In Oregon Ipolltlcally) fur other than control hi administration If 11... ami Ihr.a si vr.lir rartlvat run. '" '" "rri7n uhivii lur uiu inii J.l.ShVM.XrtMVS ly, THE NATIONAL THIUONH. ' ?,h'n ' "J- 1 ?,.d1r,?r,m,,, of 0n . eat I RUIL VI, . Ck.a 111 BVSI alilsa- One of the replies-soil t U the Trlb it. r. ALt.KN une was: ection Returns (( rf" Tr--S-E NEXT WEDNESDAY NIGHT at STAR. THEATRE J 5r5' :-i - (WALL STREETT) flWA cr HHI 1 S tk a irtr Psssf v;nfjJH uwm " MrJOh.mW,r : the results in the big political brbbaWy Svill' be .knownf:before ' tfj "fc V 5 23 - . -' :!V. While 3 races' prbb Wednesday night, nil iinnl returns will ' not be received until then or Inter. i Aw t . - .-- THE SirJjlk THEATRX has ar ranged for special telcgrajehic jpc- , jiort from' Portland, at eight P. M., u giving the filial standing of important national atld state candidates, and of be most ijnportant state measures. ' " 'This report and all final county returns A? j i(,'P t ' tl, ' . Ir i .mm r - '.' al.Ln.HMl.ln ...vJl l.f. ...... .. ftrl nr ... MA UUlUllHlUlt WJJ1 UC UlIIIUUIit.CU 4lV.fl.IIU Mr -V; .w-'t t- ".t'tl L "VI x. mi ' ' - ' r rirvv ' 4K ' "?'' rR ''' fc:i "., .r v. i . "" r yr V - -..' ':" t'AVTfllKS OUTLAW KTAM.ION. (Tcrrthonno Orcgonlnn) Joo ailcs, who tins liri'H iiPllUn Jnck lloltrloh. Rnlhor his liorics fur some time lnt, while uut Ttiomlny scared u tho bunch of wild horses that has boon rnnuluK'to tho west of Torrebtmno nnd win successful lu ronliiB tho rlinlvadir of tho honl, n 1100 iu u ml sornl Htnlllou. Jon intl t soinullitiiK of n strenuous tank sub. V ilti I lilt thV fliilmnl iiml.'wii.liniiKln! ( ImJ tluust'iint been iiullrd.orriit thj nruiin, It would linvo luu it ui. , winner. 'Tho horso tinifbeen mnm. !' Iiik Hit) rntiRn nt will for niltiiy yt-ns' . and innttu n vicious mid unreluiiillin i lirotest iiKHlnst captivity. -T '. We Have Taken Over the Entire Stock of LUMBER of the Pine Forest Lumber Co,, and arc In a position to fill orders ot any size. In addition we carry a full line of Building Material Lime, Cemeint, Plaster Brick and Fire Clay. Also COAL and LAND PLASTER. Overturf-Davis-Miller Go. ' Bend, Oregon. . i tHe6j FOR. County Judge G. A. McFarlane REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR CfcOOK COUNTY t . Stands for Progress, Honesty, Economy, Fair Dealing, and an Able Legal Administration of all business of the County Court ' (I'ald Advertisement.) ; c 11 STORAGE AND FORWARDING. GENERAL . COMMISSION MERCHANTS i t v. f t A TEe United Warehouse i ; Company .. .-..MaWi5 , : w. - Bend. Orecron &-.: 1, . i,;S.n'-e ' i !.- , I I . - ..r-Jis --- "i Irfc MLMlsW4 -TiTrf"'4" SaSMBS ft 4v e . ,, . .- r- ' . . .