The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-04-01
OUR FINE WSOL.
At2S 1888 Cents II Pound this Season
That's The Threat.
A Letter that viii be Kead with IN
terest.
OFFICE U. S. ECONOMIST
New YORK, March l6.

terest.
OFFICE U. S. ECONOMIST |
New YORK, March l6. !
j. D. Whiiham, ES2r
As a representative OF the wool grow
Ing interest, l desire to say word or
two TO you. Why do the tarme"s go
much oppose the abolition Of duties on
wool and dyes so essential to the success
OF our wooden industries2 know that
you will state that this would ruin the
farming interests Of Ohio. But request
Of you TO read the articles in this days is-
sue of the Economist, and digest the same
without undue predjudice, and then see
how etiectual!y such 8 theory is exploded.
Oue Of those articles is under the sigma
lures of men of high standing, and above
reproacb. Mr.. Charles Ii. Merriam,
Treasurer OF the TIppett Wooden Com
pany, Woousocket, r. l., one of the most
successful mills IN the country, which
runs 20 sets of machinery on the finest
cassimeres and coatings. This gentle
man with August StursDurg, OF the Ger
mania Mills mill which has its pro-
dues almost engaged ahead, with Row.
land Hazard OF the Peacedale Mills, Of
Rhode Island, and others have made an
appeal to the Ways and Means Com.
mittee, and tbev state truts which cannot
be sansayed. How can our wooden
mills be run without fine wool. We are
now running them with cows hair, calf
hair, cotton, shoddy, noils, anything be.
cause your farmers OF OHIO have not, and
furthermore you never mean TO grow
half enough Of the fine woods, we need 10
mhiss fine cloth. This policy will event
uslly ruin all our wooden producers. The
condition Of this interest is worse to-day
than ever it was, and We can only
promise you % 20 90 cents for your fine
woods next clip. 1 suppose you will
raise terrible howl at ibis price, and
say that | am Influenced and interested.
But this. because you do not know me.
The Bark of England has not enough Of
money in is vaults to influence one
scroll of my pen, and when l tell
you that l have not and 90 not
intend 20 have one dollar at stake in the
wool and woollGn interest, you will at
once recognize what dIsinlerestei per-
son l am. / TOW tell you caDdjdly that
tho wcollon mills which fell into the
hands Of the late a. T. Stewart, at seven
and eleven cents on toe dollar, cannot
be run with much success u7der your
present high wool tariff, which places a
tariff of 10 20 100 per cent. on BUeDos
Ayres ard Mestizs woods Your tariff
Is q do,gariq&i faitp"c, rs every wool
house in New York can attest, being
made bankrupts almost through the
bankruptcy OF mills. Now | venture to
say, that with imported woods admitted
free, our mills would get a fresh star.
and a new lease of life, and they would
all start up again to consume wool and
not shoddy. Under this regime they
could export goods to England
and all other countries, and sell them at
q profit. This is q positive fact.
] have in my possession an article OF
American manufacture, superior to any
thing shown at the Centennial, and the
mill that made it had to 90 into bank
ruptcy. Your tariff has ruined a good
many fue mills. Your farmers are very
obstinate people. You think you know
so much and yet you know but very
little after al of the laws of trade and
commerce. You oppose free wool unless
you get free woolIens. But suppose we
give YOU bond IA good one) that will
ensure you better prices for your wool,
under free woods, than you now obtain
urdar yOur high tariff. what will YOU