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provide in the future for our constantly growing needs. The 

 explanation is simple: capital is not convinced that invest- 

 ment in such an industry, under present conditions, is pro- 

 stable or safe — and rightly not convinced, because the opin- 

 ions of experts, familiar with every phase of this industry 

 in Germany and in America, agree that under present 

 tariffs it would be unprofitable, and past experience with 

 German practice justifies the fear of inordinate dumping, 

 which will take place in the inevitable struggle to regain 

 markets, following the return of peace. 



The prime consideration, therefore, in the immediate 

 development of this industry in our midst, is congressional 

 action in the form of an effective anti-dumping clause and an 

 increase, for a reasonable period, of the present tariff on 

 dyestuffs. As a guide to what this increase should be, we 

 have the judgment of the committee of the N^ew York Sec- 

 tion of this Society, a committee representative of all in- 

 terests concerned, in the persons of: B. C. Hesse, chemical 

 expert in coal-tar dyes. Chairman; H. A. Metz, for the im- 

 porters ; J. B. F. Herreshoft", for the manufacturers of heavy 

 chemicals ; I. F. Stone, for the American coal-tar dye pro- 

 ducers ; J. Merritt Matthews, for the textile interests ; David 

 W. Jayne, for the producers of crude coal-tar products; and 

 Allen Bogers, Chairman of the New York Section. The 

 unanimous report of this committee, which was unanimously 

 adopted by the Section, says: ^'It has been conclusively 

 demonstrated during the past thirty years that the present 

 tariff rate of 30 per cent on dyestuffs is not sufficient to in- 

 duce the domestic dyestuft" industry to expand at a rate com- 

 parable with the consumption of dyestuffs in this country and 

 that, therefore, all dyestuffs made from coal tar, whether they 

 be aniline dyes or alizarin, or alizarin dyes, or anthracene 

 dyes or indigo, so long as they are made in whole or in part 

 from products of or obtainable from coal tar, should all be 

 assessed alike, namely, 30 per cent ad valorem plus 71/4 cents 

 per pound specific, and that all manufactured products of or 

 obtainable from coal tar, themselves not dves or colors and 



