The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-05-29

2O1 IDS. OF WOOL 70 oocn bnS6p, auo tno
highest, a yeariing ewes fleece, recording 10
lbs. and or, while the heaviest, the ram of
A. Mcwilliams mot registered 81
pounds.
The lunch baskets were opened and their
contents spread out at - o'clock in the din
ing hall, after which the annual election of
officers took place. resulting in the following
selection for the ensuing year: President,
James Bale; Vice President, .. p. Morton;
Treasurer, Robt. Morrison; Secretary, A. G.
Glidden; Executive committee, ID. X. Rix,
Texas, l.. r. Anderson. Decatur, S. @. Nc
Entee Antwerp, Rufus Allen, Ostemo, G. +.
Harrington. Paw Paw, K. p. Mills, Antwerp,
j. III. Ransom, Alamo. j. Nichols, Arlington,
A. /. Weldin, Porter, A. w. Hayden, Hamil-
ton. The place for holding the next meet
ing was left to be determined by the execu-
tive committee.
Several persons were called out to talk.
j. j. Woodman read the resolutions passed
by the national convention of wool growers
recently held in Chicago, and gave some of
the reasons why such convention became
necessary.
o. p. Morton said that the protection
farmers had received by the tariff on wool
was all the protection that Injured to their
benefit. We are told by buyers that the low
price of wool is caused by over production,
when the facts are that we are annually inn
porting 60,000,0 900 pounds.
o. w. Rowland knows nothing practically
about the industry of wool growing, but the
fact that importations of wool are coming to
this country goes to show that we do not
produce all that is needed. He would like
to see tariff SO great as to practically pro-
hibitory. Every pound of wool used in this
country should be grown by American farm
ers.
ID. Woodman thought farmers should have
some protection. After such year as last,
with its short crops and low prices, farmers
are doing nothing and low prices are still
talked up. He asked those farmers to show
their hands who could grow good washed
wool for 25 cents per pound. We have to
store fodder for six months winter feed
ing, while the Australian sheep farmer can
pasture his sheep the year round on sheep
lands. We cannot raise wheat to compete
with the great northwest nor cattle to COM
pete with the broad plains west of the Miss
issippi. Free wool will not lessen the price
of our clothing materially. We cannot raise
wool for less than 80 cents per pound, and
no one should grumble at the tariff of 1867.
VIM. Clark moved that the resolutions
passed by the national convention be adopt
ed as the sense of this meeting.
Il. II. Harrison favored the resolutions.
He was born protectionist and has lived
one, but this question is not confined within
party lines, nor can it be. All farmers want
wool to @ protected; we should broaden out
enough to cover the whole country. Pro-
tect the rice of North Carolina and tho sugar
of Louisiana A free breakfast table is all
nonsense. BY protecting these industries
we encourage their production, and that
makes market for our manufactured goods.
There is no middle ground. Tariff for rev.
enue is a tariff for protection. 1t makes no
difference whether we get ten cents pound
on wool for protection or for revenue. If
the expenses of the government are raised
by tax, each person must pay about 5000
and it will cost a family of six persons $50
to pay the running expenses. Commerce is
in favor OF free trade; they want the pay for
bringing the goods of foreign nations here.
Railroads are free traders for the same rea-
son. The cry of "the Chinaman must 90" is
the cry of protection to the labor of the ma
tive citizen. To stop immigration is pro-
tecting the miner of Pennsylvania. Where
had you rather men should become rich, in
your own country or abroad? Support no
man who is not identified with your interest
We have no use as farmers for no-tariff con-
gressmen, but those who vote for our inter-
ests we will support.
Prof. Jordan was called and SAID he real
lied that he was hardly at home in this CON-
pany. He was one Of the most rank and
radical tariff for revenue or free trade men.
When the tariff of 1883 was enacted wool
fell or cents per pound, but did not every
thing else fall also, even in Australia? All
here are interested in getting good prices
for wool, but there are other people-poor
people, who have none TO sell but their cloth
ing to buy, and ought they to be forgotten?
Do you claim everything for yourselves and
nothing for your neighbor? You are now
fighting for protection, and if you succeed
you will soon be fighting for something else.
Protection does not make moro or better
blood or sinew, nor better machinery, but it
does make machinery dearer. He does not
believe that all the decline in wool is due to
tariff legislation. Sheep have increased
largely in all the territories. Competition
with herdsInen on the large prairies is the
main cause of the decline. They who have
a business that don't pay, ask for bonus
of the public 10 make II pay, and they come
to our citizens and ask them to leave their
labor where they are making q living to
work in business that don't pay He chal-
ienged any one to show an industry where
the manufactured commodity was lowered
by protection, except as a war measure.
treasury full of gold will induce people to
favor corrupt jobs, and the tendency is to-
ward evil.
Mr.. Bale would like to have the poorest of
the poor of this country journey with him to
the countries of Europe. They will find that
the poorest of them who live in a country
where labor, is protected are clothed better
than the best abroad
A vote on the resolutions was called and
they passed almost unanimously