Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-20

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Wool Growing and Manufacturing.
A very important convention of the
w~ool-growers and Northumberland of
the country was held in Syracuse, New
York, on "Wednesday of last week, Dec.
18th, resulting in the organization of a
National Wool Growers Association. The
convention was held at the call of the
NationaIWo 90 Manufacturer A association,
and included, beside some twenty delegates
from that body, a large number of mem
bers from the Growers Associations of
New York, Vermont, Ohio, Illinois and
New England. The delegates from this
State were A. Pope, S. D. Harris, William
t. Greer, and r. NJ. Montgomery. Hon.
Henry S, Randall, of New York, was
chosen chairman, and the necessary officers
and committees appointed The main
business before the convention was to take
measures to ask, from Congress an in
creased protection against paupesr labor
in Europe After addresses by its Presi-
dent by Hon. Erastus Bigelow, President
of the National Wool Manufacturing As
ISOLATION, and by George B. Loring, Esq,
President of the New England Wool
| Growing Association, resolutions were
passed recommending the wool inter
ests as combining and developing in the
highest degree the agricultural and
and manufacturing of the
nation declaring that the interests
of growers and manufacturers are identi-
cal demanding protection for both; ex-
pounding the benefits thai viii result from
protection and directing the proper of
dcers to lay these resolutions, backed up
by the necessary facts and statistics, before
the Revenue Commission and before Con-
gress. The resolutions were adopted with
great unanimity, and after an exceedingly
desultory debate the convention adjourned,
subject to the can Of the President.
The emphatic demand thus made by the
Representatives of the great woolgrowing
and wOOLmanufacturing interests of the
nation for a sufficient governmental pro-
lection against the cheap, starved labor
of Europe, deserves to be heard and heed
nm 6oT5an2wa.sllsl,l1aSssaEsis s4 go 600
20, eco, 900 pounds more, as stated by Mr..
Loring, and the other. fact hat we have
imported for the last, twenty years an
average oftwenty million dollars wortho of
manufactured woollen goods, shows how
shamefully dependent we still are upon
Europe. This ought not so to be. We
have within our own borders all the es- |
sentials of national existence. We ought
to raise our own wool and manufacture
our wi cloths as well as and more cheaply |
than any other nation can do it for US.
We have an the raw material, plenteOus
fields for agriculture, the coal and iron for
manufactures, the water-power, the energy
and skilled labor, and the food to support
a nation of workmen The only requisite
is that capital and labor shall both be pro-
tected at the start. Our manufactures.
still in their infancy. should not be made
to- compete With the monster establish
ments of the continent, whose labor is fur
nished BY underpaid, starved white slaves.
And to make this protection effective it
must be steady and
90 Mr.. Loring,in his address to the Con7en-
ton, referred to some very interesting his
tor;oS1 foo+s n -ola+;o,
-.
1n"' us mao a.
Po'n' anu 'nat
Oeeh protected
II h1a nouriSneo- England, the
s5ea' hIee nraae power Oh the globe, only
.eu r[ee iraae ai'er sne nads by
pro'ectlon, July estapilsnea her manufae-
turefs Inc PfotectlVe pohcy was mau-
suraAeu IN hngland unoer EDWARD ILL.,
VIM ODse'mg now Vne rlemlsn "eaFcrs
were drawing English goldto' tlanders-
Ouyihg Hngnsn Wool at SIX pence q pound
ie'uig II III ciO~nS at ten shlllngs
IimpOr'ea "eaFers ana looms. From
tlme the1nost arbitrary and stringent
protective law nave been enforced in
England and as consequence that coun-
ny produces annually two hundred n
'lxty mnlon pounds OF wool. In the same
way Napoleon maugurated' by arbitrary
Inc prooucNon OF frenen
nerinoeS winch now affords the
have elevated their
woolIan msnufactorie ~ +ba front-rank
80 Of Sweden. so of Russia. Mr. Lsoring
also traced the effects of our various tariffs
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