The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-03
Remove the Wool Tariff, and in Short Time
New South Wales Sheep Raisers
Would Rule the Market.
c. R. Fowler, a Prominent WOOl-GrOw-
er, Declares for Blaine and Logan.
Contradiction of a Campaign Lie Intended for
Use in Kansas-PrOgress of the Cam
paign Throughout Indiana.
HOW IT WOULD WORK.
We Cannot Afford Free Trade, Even with a
Little Australian Colony.

We Cannot Afford Free Trade, Even with a
Little Australian Colony.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.-Chares Kahlo, late Of
Logansport now the American consul at sgd
ney, Australia, has sent the Department Of State
some observations concerning the country there
which are of interest to his friends in Indiana
and Journal readers generally. The paper
contains vital tariff points 1t appears
that New South Wales is receiving quite an i'm
migration now and undergoing many improve
ments, although it is yet quite crude. The total
area of land under cultivation is but 733. .5S3
aeres-an increase last year, too, of upwards of
$4,000 acres. The principal productions and av-
erage yield are: Wheat, 4,O42, 395 bushels, last
year, or l6i bushels per acre; corn. 4. .O57, ,G35
bushels, or 349 bushels barley, 1873 $50 bushels,
or 20! bushels oats, 6l7 7445, or % BUSH
els; potatoes, 1861 tons, or tons per
acre Vines cover an area of 4,448 acres,
the produce last year in the aggregate being
DAB, 596 gallons of wine and l. $40 tons of grapes
as fruit for table use There were 4,97S, ,S29
dozen oranges produced last year. There are
81, I69, 3OS sheep in the dominion of New South
Wales alone-an increase last year of /, ,266 546
Australia, it will be remembered, is one of the
greatest competitors with American wool of
any country on the globe, and it is claimed that,
II there was not duty levied by the govern
ment on wool there would be no sheep raised
here within a hall decade as Australia would
supply our every market. They cannot manu-
facture to advantage but they can raise wool
for the whole world. There are only 5000 mills
and factories of every description in the whole
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wool.
Sugar is made in Australia in considerable
quantity yet the excess in the value of all their
imports last year over their exports amounted
in New South Wales to $22, 2ll, ,529. The
trade per head of estimated popula-
ton in 1882 was 1921. IS; import trade
$l2987 per head and export trade $l02 OIL
per head The United States sent them $43l2,-
500 worth of products and received in return
So, 202, 662. 1t can readily be seen by these fig
ures that it would not pay the United States to
open free trade with even the little colony Of
New South Wales, with her sugar, minerals and
wool.
Mr. Kahlo says trade with the United States
was greatly, last year, in excess of that of
former years, and that we occupy the leading
position among all foreign countries in fact are
equal almost to the combined trade of all I'm
ports have not only increased in quantity and
value he writes, but many articles hitherto
unknown in the colony have been successfully
introduced, ard am confident that the returns
of 1888 will show even more rapid advancement
in this particular. Since the reduction of tho
tariff on woods the shipments to the United
States of this staple product have been the Iarg-
est ever known"
There are in the colony of New South Wales
about 900 600 persons. This is one of the seven
colonies which form Australia proper and col
lectively they are known as Australasia. 1t
would be a loss of many millions of revenue an
nually, by importations We're free trade to be
opened even with these colonies and they would
completely crush the wool growing interests of
this country in less than five years, it is esti-
mated by customs officers. The first year of the
operation of the present tariff laws Austria liza
increased her export of wool 101, ,OSS bales bring
ing it up to 538, Cos bales in the year