Relation of customs tariff rates to production, wages, trade extension, and cost of living-Continued. Relation of customs tariff rates to production, wages, trade extension, and cost of living-Continued. 1 Courtesy Bureau of the Census, subject to final adjustment, essentially correct. The Payne law was operative only July 1-Oct. 3 of this fiscal year 1914. As there is no other census of production since 1909, we use the Payne rates to the 1914 census as indica- As the Fordney rates are higher than the Payne and the Senate is urged to enact rates equal to the Payne, this column indicates what this might cost in a prosperous year of These are mostly finished products like braids, pillow cases, thread, and belting. In 1919 they totaled in cottons only $12,033,412; in silks $13,721,087; and woolens, $2,144,333. |