Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1888-10-25

we find o market for our manufactured
goOna and sell our finished products to
those oountiies that have rhs crude mate
rial, and buy from them their raw material.
Iuthe third place, II we Will kaep up that ex.
| pertinent, as has been done, II increases In
exact proportion two things: First, the In
| oraassd eonsuaption OF the country, So
| that We may furnish the entire amount
nesded by that increased consumption; and
| Raeond, the increased exploration as rap
| idly IS our commercial reiations will allow
| It to be done. There Is some difference be-
tween leather and wool on both sides.
| We produce leather In America as incl
10 certain sense, do we produce wool.
The sheep % food Is as important as are
cattle; IL T. growing in valus Ia that aspect,
and one of tina largest profits derived from
sheAp raising u Ia the sale Of lambs In our
great markets. 1t is also important be.
cause the hide upon the sheep, the sheep
SKIN hefomes an article of commerce and
comes under this head OF leather; and in
the third place many OF the woolens which
we use In America are made In part OF for
egn woods. because as to these fabrics
American wool must have foreign wool
mixed with IL. We arc therefore In the con-
dttiou that We cannot produce ali the wool
we need. We produce, In round numbers
only go 100000 OF pounds. out Of about
600,00n,0 600 pounds that we need.
EsCoun,ing the finished product and the
wool that comes in In the raw state, and
counting the adul,eiants which the exec, .
siye protective duties require 70 be put Into
our clothing, We use about 800, 000, 600
pounds more than we raise.
Now, ! have used this leather illustration
because 1t illustrates what we claim will be-
the result OF the operation Of this bill In re.
lation to wool. II you Introduce free wool
there may be temporary depression In the
price or American wool, as there was In the
price OF raw hides, but Immediately the re-
action will begin. We shall hegin.to In
crease the amount of goods made BY tho
mixture OF our own woods with the chenp
woods brought from abroad. woods which
VIII come IN at tho price which they now
cost the English manufacturer, wool which
can Dc freely selected In all the markets OF
The world instead OF bslnR chosen as now
for reasons connected with the tarlfY.
Those w1pis will come Ia, 1 say, at prica
so eheep that thers will be an Increased de-
Inant for American woods, precisely al
there b now for American raw hides, We
Will continue to import wool some hat in
tue quantity we do nov. but In its raw state
instead OF the finished product. Instead Of
thousands on thousands ofyards OF woo!ens
S-NtNh d2pAO IA Ahbitln ANU DfOuRQt mere.
iabfies on which the English wage worker
has earned bis wage, the English .manu-
Iacturer his profif, the Eoglish ship owner
DIS fie ghtage, the material will come to
this country in tho shape OF free
raw wool, to be mixed with our own
woods, and In the manufacture Of
the fabric our own laborer will obtain the
Wage,and our own woloen factories instead
OF running only Elk or seven months in the
wear Will thu mi
Wool growers will be prosperous because
our woolen manufacturers will ba prosper-
GUS and Will give a stable market to our
wool growers. We ehall then drive from
tn9 American market the foreign mannfac-
turer, and some man shading here in Con.
gress as | stand now will present q ,ures
similar In nature to show that our wooden
Industry. under the stimulus Of frea wool,
demonstrated the value of that systenn
which furnishes to labor the material which
II turns to human use free from burden or
exaction.
mr. Butterworth--Ae my friend goes on I
want TO cay to him that the English mann.
lecturer does not adopt the view which he
presents here,
Mr.. Breckinridge-It may be possible that
he doee NOT; but II the gentlemen neana
that the English manufacturer wants our
market In the sense that 1t lie o his adyan.
thGe that we should have tree wool / utterly
deny It, and can produce the evidence Of
Sir Lyon PlAyiair, Mr.. Gladstone.
and other great thinkers TO the Ell.
rect that the reason the United States
does not successfully compete with
ENGLAND and the other European nations.
WIFE their enormous ornaments, their enor.
nous taxation and their great armies sub
iaeted from their productive population,
u because OF our unfortunate, upwlse,
foolish protective laws; that NJ lo5P II gs
abnAela = hand and rhaiE M 'ses +bev
Nv. - -...s&.. {! g. - &c great asU.,.;,.
sive industrial march; but that as soon ss
we unahacsie our own limbs, bring the
crude material In free and put the ma.
ehinery 1T work which will transform that
crude material into the flashed product.
we soall pe masters Of the sitnatlon.
We propose by this bill 10 do that; to do
10 relation 10 wool precisely as We have
done heretofore ia relation TO leather. Az
our population Increases Que manufactures
VIII increase; as we increase our man
ufaetures our exports will increase.
our chips will be eeen again IN
foreign ports; there will be- American
merchants with balances IA FOREIGN
commercial cittas: there will be- Ameriean
vessels c&ned by American capital carving
American cWgoes 10 fOrslsn nations and
otinelng back IN et1rn earg1es Of crude
materials to b. sold to the American MANN
ineturer, TO be mixed with American
materials. to be worked M into finished
fabrics by American NO kingnep. the
profits OF which will remain In American
pockets. That IS the Democratic doctrine,