I know that you could present our case to the committee as well as though we all went, and put it in its true light, so that they can not help but see that the proposed taking off of the duty on curled hair would not only be an injury to us as manufacturers, but more so to our workmen, who now, as you know, earn good wages, and at the same time the proposed removal of the duty on curled hair would not benefit them in the least, for as a manufacturer of mattresses I would say that were the price of hair mattresses one-half what they now are, which of course is impossible, it would still be beyond their power and purse to indulge in such luxury even should they earn the same wages as now;