The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1867-06-26
The WOOL Growers and the Can
didate OF the Woody Heads


Asa member of Congress from Ohio,
Gen. Hayes was noted for his subseryiency
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 subser-
viency to the interest Of the New England
manufacturers than in his stern opposition
to an increase Of the duty on wool, in which
the Farmers of Ohio have an interest large
as that of the people Of any State in the
Union. Upon everything the lordly New
England manufacturer needed to produce
his shoddy and other cloth, dye stuffs, for
eign wool, ETC., General Hayes was always
ready to vote the lowest duty, while upon
imported cloth, his voice was for the high
| est.
Finding The woods of South America in
troduced in large quantities, with 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
competition ruinous to that OF the wool
growing interest of Ohio, the Ohio Wool
| Growers Association made an effort to cor
rect 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, vhere land is dear and labor
high, improbable. Hence they asked the
Ohio members of Congres IS to give their
interest some protection. The Resolution
then and there adopted, and the result, is
told in the following communication from
leading Republican wool grower of the
Western Reserve, which appeared som
days since in the leading Abolition organ
Of Northern Ohio:
GEN HAYES AND THE TARIFF.
so the Editor Of the Leader"
''Now that General r. B. Hayes is being
urged for nomination for the Office of Gov
ernor OF Ohio, it may be as well to state
that whatever may be his general qualifca-
tiOns for that Office, his Congressional rec
ord on the tariff question would be fatal to
his success 10 the canvas. At the meeting
of the Ohio Wool Growers Association, in
January last, the following resolutions were
adopted by that body:
%. Resolred, That our Senators and
Representatives in Congress are urgently
requested to exert their influence, by voice
and vote, to secure the passage of a law
which shall en- brace the provisions of he
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-
complishment Of the same.
"3. Resolce3, That we remember with
gratitude those members of Congress who
have proved themselves our friends in this
measure, ard hereby pledge our opposition
to such members of Congress as shall prove
recreant to the interests Of the people as
herein expressed.
"Similar resolutions have been adopted
by nearly all the State and local Wool
Growers Association throughout tie coun.
tIy. General r. B. Hayes was a member
OF. the last Congress, and with his colleague,
Mr.. Egglcston, Of the same District, failed
to meet the wishes of the people as express
cd III the above resolution, and therefore
becomes amenable to the ban therein pro-
nounced.
"Ih: wool growers Of Ohio are IL sobey
earnest IN this a,uftei, and, rs the Lord IT,
eth, the men a0ho haze dtreguded their
earnest appeal for protection, III the hour of
need, shall not bear rule over them, By their
o1ea consent.
CUYAuoGA,
The Cleveland Leader, from which paper
we copy the above, while still urging the
nomination Of Hayes, and protesting "that
General Hayes would have Intimately less to
do with the wool tariff question as Govern
or than as member of Congress" at the
same time is forced to admit that:
Still it is a fact, which the State Con-
vention cannot afford to overlook, that
there is IN the wool growing counties Of the
State very wide and deep feeling against
was one, who opposed the tariff on wool in
the Thirty. ninth Congress. +"
In the Congressional career of General
Hayes the woody heads" asked nothing
of him that he did not choerfully grant.
He voted to give negroes the right to vote
in the District of Columbia, against the
solemn protest Of the whites, and they are
now eligible to office and to sit on juries to
try white men fQr their lives, and at the re-
cent election were appointed Judges to pass
upon the qualifications of white men to the
elective franchise. But the wool on a
sleeps back, or sheared therefrom, is a
different article from the wool on negro's
head The latter receives all the protection
and the favors it asks, other belong
ing to white farmers, has no rights that
General Hayes feels bound to respect.
Ohio has too large an interest in the
growing of wool to suffer to pass without
merited rebuke the men who, when the de.
Tana was but for fair play for the Ohio
Farmer, that they be protected from the
immense quantities Of wool raised by Peon
labor on the plains of South America, where
the expense of winter feeding and care is
entirely unknown, and that rebuke will be
administered this fall.
In this matter, as the communication in
the Leader says, "the wool growers of Ohio
are in sober earnest" and we have their
pledge that ''as the Lord liveth, the men
who have disregarded their earnest appeal
for protection, in the hour Of need, shall
not bear rule over them, by their own con
sent" The ''woolly heads" have had their
day, the wool growers will DOW have theirs.
The prospects of the former look decidedly
Hazy
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