Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-06-20
The Wool Growers and the Cam
dldare of the Woody Heada.


The nomination Of General HAYES as, the
Negro Suffrage candidate of the Abolition
party on Negro Suffrage platform, is q
triumph of the woody heads over the great
wool growing interest of the State.
As member of Congress from Ohio
Gen. HAYES was noted for his subserviency
to New England interests, and in every
case where there was a conflict between
that and the interests OF the people of the
Great West. the latter went to the wall.
Upon no subject did the negro suffrage
nominee for Governor evince more sub.
serviency to the interest of the New Eng.
land manufacturers than In his stern oppo-
sition to an increase of the duty on wool
In which the Farmers of Ohio have an in
terest large as that of the people of any
State in the Union. Upon everything the
lordly New England manufacturer needed
toproduce his shoddy and other cloth, dye
stuffs, foreign wool, etc, General HAYES
was always ready to vote the lowest duty
while upon imported cloth, his voice was
for the highest. ~ r-t ~ .sFf4F
Finding the woods of South America in.
troduced in large quantities, with a
tariff duty merely nominal, thus enabling
the Peon labor of South America used in
the raising of sheep on the vast ranches OF
the South American States, to enter into q
competition ruinous to that of the, wool
growing interest of Ohio, the Ohio Wool
Growers Association made an effort to
correct the evil. They saw that while
New England manufacturers were making
their 20 to 40 per cent. per annum. on
their broadcloths and their shoddy,
they were enabled to import foreign
wool at price SO ruinously low as to make
the raising of wool in Ohio, where land is
dear and labor high, Improbable Hence
they asked the Ohio members of Congress
to give their interest some protection. The
Resolution then and there adopted, and the
result, is told in the following communica-
tion from leading Republican wool
grower of the Western Reserve, which ap-
peared some days since in the leading Abo-
lition organ of Northern Ohio:
GEN. HAYES AND THE TARIFF.
'To the Editor of the Leader:
"Now that General r. b. Hayes Is being
urged for nomination for the Office of Gov
ernor of Ohio, 1t may be as we'll to state
that whatever may be his general Qualifica-
tions for that Office, his Congressional rec
ord on the Tariff question would be fatal to
his success in the canvass. At the meeting
of the Ohio Wool Growers Association, in
January last. the following resolutions
were adopted by that body: a.,
2. Resolued. That our Senators and Rep
resentatives in Congress are urgently re-
Qucsted to exert their influence, by voice
and vote, to secure the passage of law
which shall embrace the provisions of the
bill aforesaid, in regard to wool and WOOL
ems, and we shall hold them responsible, to
the full extent of their ability, for the ac-
of the same.
3. Resolued, That we remember with
gratitude those members of Congress who
have proved themselves our friends in this
measure, and hereby pledge our opposi ion
to such members of Congress as shall prove
recreant to the interests of the people as
herein expressed TFF
''Similar resolutions have been adopted
by nearly all the State and local Wool
Growers Association throughout the coun-
try. General r. B. Hayes was member of
the last Congress, and with his colleague,
Mr.. Eggleston, of the same District. failed
tn meet the wishes of the people as express
ed in the above resolution, and therefore
becomes anenable to the ban therein pro-
The wnol growers of Ohio are in sober
earnest in this matter, and, as the Lord liueth,
he men toho hare disregdrded their earnest dp-
peal for protection, in the hour of need, shall
not bear rule ouer them, By their oaon consent.