Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-08-04

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Yours very truly,
INTERESTING TO FARMERs-THE PRICE OF WOOL.
There is nothing which initiates so
much against good reasoning as extrava-
CANT statements. Logic may be correct,
but if based upon false statements, the
conclusion will be as incorrect as the
statements are false
These remarks, we think, will apply
with force to much of the reasoning and
many of the statements respecting the
price of wool. Of one thing we are sat
isfed, that not all the agricultural pro-
ducts combined call forth one tithe of the
arguments, squibs, statements, pro. or
con-, about their value, as the single one
of wool; and. if everything was fair and
above board as to price and regular deal
ing, there would be no necessity for all
/ the nervous excitement manifested by
I both dealers, manufacturers and farmers.
! Is not all this talk, and all this writing,
and all these statements, simply an effort
to induce the farmer to rush his wool in
to the market, as in years past, at a price
far below its real value? In this matter
manufacturers are pursuing a very short
isighted policy in thus uniting with deal
ers, who wish to obtain the wool cheap
and sell it to the manufacturer at its true
value, ard thus the farmers will lose the
benefit of their enterprise.
i For the last four years we have been
laboring all we could toainduce farmers
I 4ta-inYest largely in sheep, in order that
our home Prg1'aetian of wool might soon
render us independent of foreign -eo,.4s-
tries The farmers have greatly increased
their production, stimulated by circum-
stances growing out of the Rebellion; and
lreciprocating the generous policy of the
} manufacturers, who were willing to allow
} them protective tariff, they allowed the
manufacturers a generous protection in
, return. And. now that the war is over,
the manufacturers ought to be willing to
continue generous policy toward the
farmers, lest they not only neglect the
great interest of sheep culture, but re-
peal that tariff upon manufactured goods,
(which is no doubt an advantage to both,
and will ultimately prove a great benefit
: to the country at large.
We notice that quite number of ar
] ticles in different papers discuss the price
: of wool down to so cents. Their argu-
ments, however, are so translucent that
t we think there are few farmers who are
so verdant as not to see the motives by
: which they are actuated
: We ought all to consider this fact-that
r the life of the country is longer than
? that of individuals. The parties that are
so anxious to-day to break down the
p price of wool. tomorrow may have pass
ed forever from this busy scene; another
year and the purchaser of to-day may be
r numbered with the silent dead but the
t great wants of the country will be the
Ill
e motive to serve our individual interest
T let us not engulf In narrow selfshnes'
the nobler sentiment of the patriot.
S Then is Soc fair price for good aver
Y age Ohio heeces? We honestly belieV'
e that it is not. We think there are few
persons who will not agree with US tina
the manufacturers have as good a pros
:, pect before them as they had in any on
;. of the six years preceding the Rebellion
q During that time the average price 0
d Ohio, including fine, coarse and medium
" was 47c p h. at the time wool under 20
d p fbat the port of expectation was ad
mitted duty free, all over that price "a
II cent ad valorem, Now all wool a
u lie U ID and under pays a duty of Sc
u ID, gold; override and not over 24c q II
lpays &c p fb duty; over 24c and not owe
32c, pays 10c 2 fb, and 10 p cent ad va
l. loren; over 32c, 12c u fb and 10 R cen
= ad valorem. Now we have this increased
if tariff upon wool, and 36 U cent premium
n on gold, and yet it is proposed to pay bu
Sc p fb more for wool than before thi
2 tariff was enacted. In 1860 we had upo
er woolens, worsteds, carpets, &C., a lo7
t. tariff, and manufacturers were maxim
" money, and sometimes paying from DOC t
re zoe p 1b for wool. Now the tariff ha
It. been largely increased upon all thes
W manufactured articles; and yet unde
le these circumstances we propose to pay n
,u more for wool than in 1860, and five yeal
e. previous to that time.
be But we are told that the productio
ou has been greatly increased since thi
time-dnd so has the consumption. ]
] 1860 we produced 60,511 ,343 TBS, we in
w ported 19, ,875, ,120 lbs, then we were d
to pendent upon the foreigner for one-fourt
our consumption. It is estimated that
ay 1864 our production was 00,000,O00 Il
ne an estimate which we have every reasC
ar to doubt for it is estima ted that Tor 18i
ng we shall have further increase of 20 p
cent this would make for the prese
h. year 120000,000 lbs, being twice Il
e amount of 1860, and as wool was We
ig. low in 1861, we do not think there was
er very large increase for either 1861 or lS6
no so that the great increase has been in ii
es! last three years. While we doubt t
d's correctness of the amount we accept T.
statement as part of our argument. ~
vi past year we imported 75,000,000 Il
lid which is AZ per cent of our consumptio
in 1860 we were dependent upon the fo
es- eigner for % per cent of our consum
on ton; now we are dependent upon him +
rge 42 per cent, and yet for all this we on
IN talk of paying the farmer &c q fb more
to his wool. We would ask the manufa
cry turers, In all candor, if they do well
prepare the saw to cut their own throat
led IF they are fully bent upon suicide,
recommend for the operation a razor
me being the much more exquisite Of
out two.
am But it is argued that the price of forei
our wool will regulate the price of domes
re- fleece; and to this we make no dissent
,ok There is every reason to suppose Il
lew foreign wool will be higher this year tn
,ri- it has been any of the six years previC
ON to the Rebellion. We shall require mu
n more fine and medium wool the com
t / year than we have used the past year
yho England, which is entirely dependent !
for on the foreign market for wool to mai
facture into broadcloth and all fine wo
am. en- goods, has consumed less than her
us customed amount during the last f
! to years, on account Of having been
no prived in great measure of our mari
ey's and her home market having been il
II, very precarious state during that til
to- on account of the almost total suspens
tial of her cotton works. On this aceOl
IN 4 L,- IL