The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-06-23
From the National AgricuituriSt.
Wool and Wooden Industry.

That the tariff act of 1867 was the
salvation of our wooden industry,
there can be no just doubt. The Op-
position the bill has ever met, before
and since its passage, from the friends
of British lOW-priced labor, lOw-priced
raw material, free trade anti-Ameri-
can advocates, is of itself a sufficient
evidence of its worth and justness to
every American citizen desiring the
prosperity of our own industries in
preference TO the foreign industries.
| The anti-Amcrican free tFade) elc-
ment of our country stands appalled,
| at the present unanimity of the Amer
| lean Industrial citizens i'll fayOring
| the continuance of the present mod
crate tariff on wool and wOOlens.
There is no branch of American in
dustry in the whole policy of our in
dustrial products, interfered with, that
would 50 naturally and thoroughly
arouse every industrial citizen, as the
one under consideration. AgricultuF
lists whose specialties are either dairy
ing, beef raising, hog raising, or other
efwise than wool growing, know very
well that it is morally impossible TO
destroy the WOODEN industry of our
! country without great detriment to
their specialty, interest," and for the
very obvious reason that the destruc-
ton of 81, 72i 2SD sheep, valued at SS2,-
139, so, lsee Department of Agricul-
iurel, Report 1868, at page 4G, or the
destruction of any considerable
part thereof, would naturally bring
their owners, and capital and land,
into other branches Of agriculture
and part intOall other special branch
es-and thus become competing pro-
ducers with themselves, and thereby
most naturally lessen the profits.
All farmers know it is quite neces-
sary to have diversity of employment
in (alD other industries for their pros
perity and that of our common cOun-
try. Otherwise, at no distant day, if
sheep industry is destroyed or materi-
ally lessened, that they, in common
with others, will have to pay higher
prices for their indispensable wooden
clothing. This latter fact has its just
influence in bringing to the support of
the wooden tariff all other industrial
citizens, many of whom have learned
that it is neither profitable nor agree
able to wear the low or medium pric-
ed English wOolens, largely COM
posed of shOddy-a manufacture from
old cast-Off clothing. By whom cast
off? Echo answers, by whom Eng
lish manufactures have consumed in
one year g., 900, 900 pounds of shoddy
more than our whole clip in 1861
1t is apparent to ever person that if
the wooden industry Of our country be
materially Iessened, the supply of
cheap meat (muttOn) must neeessari-
Iy rise in price, as most certainly
meats of all kind will materially rise
for some time. Mr.. Garland said, in
his address delivered AT Edwards
vile, January %, 1870: ''That New
York City consumes I,5OO, 600; Boston
100000, and Chicago about 270,0OO
sheep per annum, about one to each
inhabitantn All labOrers, mechanics,
in short our whole industrial pOpula-
ton, have Il direct sympathy and
comprehension of the very close inti- I
macy and oneness Of their own inter
est with the prosperity of the agricui-
turist! Destroy our wooden industry, F.
and the wooden mill operators must .
become competitors in other indus .
tries Many other reasons might be .
shown why not less than Iine-tenths .
of our industrial Inhabitants oppose
any change in our wOOlen tariff, not
demanded by the American wool
grower and American manufacturer .
in unison.