The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-01-24
The Grange and the Wool Tariff.

last ten days of November, has pre-
sented the Vickshurg Post with n
copy of The Journal of the Nationa
orpanizarion,fr om which it publishes
the following extract of proceedings
had on the Sih day of the session:
WHEREAS, The net of the last Con
gress IN rem owing part OF the dut,
on foreign wool, is an unjust dis
elimination against American Agri
culture, therefore
Resolved, That the National
Grange nemorialize Congress to re
store the tariff on wool removed b.
tie last Congress.
Resolved, That we recommend The
several State Grange to urge then
Senators and Representatives IN Cen
pfess,to Hse their il tuence aud votes
to secuie the restoration of said
tariff.
We are glad to see the Grange
falling in line with this paper in de-
handing protection for the farming
interests of the country, for the
Examiner has steadily advocated the
maintaining OF such a duty upon
wool as would protect our sheep
growers against the competition on
those who clip the sheep that roam
the vast plains Of Australia and
South America where land is COM
paratively worthless, taxation almost
unknown, and sheep can be raised
and clipped for tythe of what il
costs in the South and West.
Here in Mississippi any farmer can
easily care for ten or Dc zen sheep,
and it is his own fault if they are not
good ones; and if Of good breed and
well cared for, their heeces will
clothe his family, illus relieving him
of all duties upon wooden goods; and
in addition to that, his flock can sup
ply his table with many an excellent
meal.
In advocating the restoration of
the tariff on wool-striken down by
last Congress-the Examiner is
maintaining the stand it has always
held in behalf of the advancement
and development of our resources
for stock, gr wing, for it is its fervent
belief that Mississippi should be and
will be the great sheep and cattle
State of the Union.
Last year we had occasion to chide
the National Grange and the subor-
dinate organizations for their mad
vertance in playing into the hands
of the manufacturers by petitioning
for the abolition of the Internal
Revenue taxes Oh matches, patent
medicines, cosmetics, bank checks,
and other triies thNt did not mate
rally concern the farming classes,
and we are quite as ready to COM
mend them for the decided stand
they have taken IN the interest of
American sheep husbandry, and
trust that the Changers of our State
will be solid" in their support of
the following bill introduced by Mr..
Converse, of Ohio, in the House of
Representatives on the 18th of last
month";
BILL TO RESTORE THE RATES OF DUTY
ON IMPORTED wool
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Con-
gross assembled, That the rates of
duty to he levied, collected, and
paid upon the three several classes of
wool, and the hair from the alpaca
goat, and other like animals, rs now
classified by law, which may be i'm
ported from foreign countries, shall
be restored and fixed at what thew
were on each of three classes, res
spectiyely, of said articles at the
time of the passage of the act of
March third, 1888, entitled San act
to reduce internal revenue taxation,
and for other purposes, any law to
the contrary notwithstanding.