The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1867-01-03
TERMS OF ADVERT SING
The Wool Interests in Peril.


Wool is selling for less money than
it has cost to grow it. 1t is driving,
surely and rapidly, wool growers to
slaughter their sheep and abandon. the
business. To day, wool sells for less
money! than before the war
What is the reason? One reason is,
that the present tariff on woods amounts
reason is, that the present tariff on
wooden goods does not prevent the
flooding of this country with foreign
manufactures, stopping our wooden
mills, and throwing out Unemployment
thousands of operatives. The same
cause affects not only these interests,
but others dependent upon them.
A joint committee OF wool growers
and manufacturers, last winter, prepar-
ed bill designed to protect their mu
tual interests This bill passed the low
er House Of Congress, and is now pend
| ing in the Senate. The recent meeting
of the National Wool Growers Asso-
citation at Cleveland Endorsed this bill,
and appointed committee to wait on
Congress to secure its passage. 1t has
received the Endorsement of some of
the best political economists in the
country, as likely not only to protect
the wool interests Of the country, but
to secure to the Government rev
enue from importers to evade paying.
While we 90 not regard it the most
efficient guard against fraud to the Gov
ernment that could have been made, it
is far better than the present law in this
respect indeed, compared with any
previous tar;tf on Nools fixed by Con-
grcss, this is the least Objectionable in
its provisions, except to INSCRIPTIONS
importers and vcnai custom house ap-
praisers.
The condition of the WOODEN interests
including both producers and manufac
turers, demands relief by the immediate
passage Of this pending bill. And yet
it is well for the wool growers of the
West to understand that this bill is in
peril. Our information is that the
Chairman of the Senate Finance Com
mittee refuses to permit the bill to be
considered until after thereport Rev
enue Commissioner Wells, who has
been instructed by Secretary NcCul-
loch to revise the present tariff laws,
and report a bill embodying such revis-
ion. From the character Of the instruc-
tions given Mr. Wells by the Secretary
of the Treasury, it is feared, by the
friends of the proposed tariff on woods
and woolens. that the present inefficient
and non-protectiye feature with res
pect to these staples will be retained.
This fear was expressed by ce-Presi-
dent Montgomery at the meeting of
wool growers at Cleveland. Mr..
Montgomry was one of the active mem
bers Of the joint Committee to prepare
the pending bill Recent information
from W ashington confirms this fear
The wool growers and WOODEN manu-
facturers Of the West, therefore, should
take immediate steps to make them
selves heard by this Finance Commit
tee, or, better still, perhaps, by Com
missioner " ellis and Secretary McCul-
loch. Their wants should be clearly
and emphatically stated at once. 1t
would be well for the Executive Com
mittees of " estern WoolGrowers' As
sociations to meet and send delegates
to Washington to look after their in
terests there. If done at all, it cannot
be done too soon.-U Chicago Republican.