The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-06-05
NO. AZ.
Agricultural.

Convention Of Wool Growers at st. Louis.
The National Wool-Growers Asso-
citation met at st. Louis on the 9th
of May. The attendance ofdelegates
from all oyer the United States WI
large, and the deliberations of the
body were full. Addresses we're de-
livered by Senator Sherman, Jerome
Hill, Esq George Allen, Esq, and
others. The association was ban
quetted in royal style by the members
Of the Cotton Exchange
The following is the platform
adopted by the Wool>Growers Asso-
citation.
Resolved, That the present depres-
sed condition Of sheep husbandry ls
entirely owing to the unfortunate and
unwise changes in the tariff laws by
the act of March 3, 1888, and nothing
short of their substantial restoration
will remedy the evil and prevent the
final destruction of this industry in the
United States,
To establish the truth of the fore
gong resolution, we submit to can
did public the following facts.
The wool clip of 1882, amounting
to SOC, 100000 pounds, was sold for
an average ofabout 40 cents per pound,
yielding to the produc ers S120, 100000.
The clip Of 1888 did not yield to the
producers over 35 cents per pound
and supposing the same quantity
= loss in that year was sustained to
the producers OF S15, 100000. The
clip of 1884 did not yield to the pro-
ducers above 30 cents per pound.
Eslimatir & the clip Of 1884 al 100000
OOO pounds, the loss to the producers
that year as compared with 1882
was $50, 100000. At the prices offer
ed TOR the present clip Of 1885 tho
average TO the producers Will not ex~
ceed 25 cents per pound, and the loss
to the producers compared with the
price Of 1899 Will be $15, 900, 900,
making a loss of $50 900, 600 in the
three years, not mentioning the depre-
citation in the value of their focks.
We venture therefore. earnestly and
sOlemnly, to announce to our fellow
citizens that unless the protection at
forded our industry by the laws In
1867 be restored sheep husbandrY as
a common pursuit will be abandoned.
and the business of furnishing mate
ria, for WOODEN clothing for the Ameri-
can people will be remitted to foreign
nations.
3. Therefore, this association favors
wise and comprehensive system of
economic legislation circulation calcu-
lated to foster and develop all AmerI-
can industries that can be profitably
pursued by our people, whereby en-
ployment may be secured to all the
labOring classes at remuneratlve
wages; and also enabling the laboring
man Of the United States to thus sue
cessfully compete with the cheap la
Dor of foreign countries.
A. In adjusting duties under such
system of economic legislation, we are
in favor Of placing on the free list
such articles Of necessity and common
use among our people as are not and
can not be produced at home, and, in
regard to everything that can be
proftably produced by American in
dustries, we favor the application of
such duties as will secure to American
producers the control of American
markets,
5. We recognize with feelings of
and alarm the influence
in this country Of a powerful foreign
organization, whose purpose is to des-
troy American industries and to give
control of American markets to for
e;gn producers, and we earnestly ap-
peal to the patriotism of the Ameri
can people, and to the personal and
family interest Of all those interested
in any industrial pursuit, to unite with
us in an earnest and common effort to
sustain the prosperity of American
labor and American production
against foreign and dc mestic influence
designed for their overthrow and de-
6. To this end we recomend a con-
federation among American producers
for the purpose of securing cO-opera-
ton and united efforts TO educate
public sentiment and arouse the
public mud TO the dangers Of our sit
uation and the necessity of preserving
by suitable protective legislation, the
general welfare and prosperity Of the
American people, and without refer
ence to former political affiliations.
We will recognize our friends where
ever and whenever we find them, and
at such party organizations as are IN
favor Of protecting, encouraging and
sustaining sheen husbandrV i'm these
United States by restoring the wool
tariff Of 1867, or its equivalents.