The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-03-21
GEN. ROBINSON ON THE RoBBER
TARIFF ACT. ...


Republican organs are attempting to
justify the Republican Congress In its
robbery of the wool grower, and palliate
the great crime committed against
labor. They should read the remarks Of
Gen. Robinson, Republican member Of
Congress of Ohio, against the wrong.
He tells them plainly that the manufac-
turer5-the mOnOpOlists-WhOse every
whim has been gratified that the zone
eve lamb should be allowed the wool
grOweF-that in the passage of this law,
they have violated plighted faith. So
long as the votes of wool growing dis
tricts were needed to keep up system
which takes the wages OF labor and
renders no equivalent, so long would
the small boon which they asked be
granted; but as soon as another
combination can be made, by which
the profits of the manufacturers can be
Increased at the expense of the labor
which produces the raw material, the
wool grower, like Jonah, is thrown over
TO the whale. Gen. Jas. s. Robinson, in
q speech against the bill, said:
Now am a protective tariff man. /
have voted with the PrOtectiOnists Of
Pennsylvania and with the Protection
lists of New England, with the assurance
the most positive assuTance-tnat this
great interest / represent should be ia
ken care of. What has been the resultP
You have in this Conference Committee
increased the tariff on wooden goods.
But when we came to you and asked you
. - - . -,
about the only item the FARMERS are
protected in-yOu have stricken us down
you have disregarded our appeals
the appeals of 10000 wool growers Of
the United States, / am gratified to say
that the two cOnferees on the committee
from Ohio, Senator Sherman and REPRE-
sentative Mckinley, made a most gal
liant fight to keep the old rates, 80 satis.
factory to the wool growers, in force,
but were oyerridden by numbers, and
could only emphasize their protest by
refusing to concur in the Conference
"Whan the tariff of 1867 was enacted
wool was worth tfty one cents. per
pound. II Is by its finer eased pr0duc-
tiOn, through the encouragement you
have extended to the American farmer,
that the present price OK wool Is fixed.
Now want to call your attention toGhe
fact that wool to-day in the. Liverpool
market, or the London market, which
comes into competition with wool thai
Is raised by farmers of the United States,
Is worth twenty three eents in those
markets. Add to that the present tsriff
on that wool, about thirteen and one
half cents, and you have thiTty-six and
one-half cents. Add your commissions
and insurance and freiRhts. aud you
have the price of the wool produced In
my district In the Boston or New York
market 10 day. You take from the tar
ers of Ohio $1.000.OO0 per annum upon
their wool crop by the enactment Of.
this legislation. / say to. you 1t Is the
only interest that the farmers Of this
country are protected in, and you will
stand up here and refuse them this just
demand. / appeal to you, | appeal othe
protective Republicans from Pennsyl-
vania, appeal to the protective Republi.
cans from the New England States, and
ask il you will permit the adoption Of
slaIs rate, and thus fnjufe, As 4 believe
this most worthy industry "''D7H