Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-09-28
What is the reason u,ged for putting

wool on the free listp Is II because thers
is monopoly among the farmers to
cha ge extort onate prices for it, Is 1t
because our ella ate and country are not
adapted to sheep growing
ther Is true The only reason urged
Is that wool is a necessity and lie ause
The dark continents where school houses.
churches roads and civilization do not OK
ist can produce 1t cheaper than our farm
ers: therefore IL S Il shness and In for
gefulness OF our d ties t. each other we
either wipe out the industry entirely or
oblige OR WOO growers to compete with
the natives OF India, Australia and
Buenos Ayres
! rec wool means either that or farm
ers shall Qu; the bus ness or sell their
wool as cheap as foreign wool of the
same grades can be sold.
AMERICAN W. FOREIGN WOOL OF SAME
GRADES.
! In the Philadelphia market In Deem
Der, 1857. as given by Justice, Bateman N
CO., wool commission merchants of that
city, in table prep red by them, appears
the I, llowing facts
! About seventy-ave different grades of
Amert an WOO are named, covering all
ua tiles and varieties. The average
phi es of our woods are given in Philadel-
lhia for December. 1887. and of foreign
woos If same quality the average price is
given In | OndOn for same tine. The fol-
loving Michigan woods are named, with
prices:
Washed clothing woods Phila. Lon.
Mich ,an and New York fine
M.chigan and New York Y and
lIichigan and n. Y. Medium,
IS 10 ~ blood ........ 36c. CSC.
Michigan and n. Y, Coarse, u
| DIoOd ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 36c. nc.
! Tn, average price of all unsecured
woods If American raising, except he
coarse and territorial comprising twenty
nine different gra les, for the month IF
! December, was % 12--9 cents per h.,
while the average price of exactly similar
grades of fore On wool I'm London was at
tie same time but 10 IL 30 cents per h.,
4 difference of IL Lea cents per Ito.
The di erence in secured " ools would
Lyreage about cent, per lb.
III some free trader will explain how the
prices OF American woods are To he kept
ND or how our farmers can afford to grow
sheep and sell their woods for less than 20
rents per To-, with prices cons an.ly less
ening as foreign p, Oduction increa es, he
will plain problem that reason, expe
renee and common sense cannot solve.
Many of our territorial coarser and
cheaper grades of wool are now grown in
i The west almost as cheaply a abroad, the
! Dill erence in price ranging in some in
stances but two to four cents per Id. The
poorer and lower the grade the less is the
ui1eience in price.
tHEAP GOODS, UNITED STATES AND ENG
LAND CoMPAREp.
| -.
rs OF wool In price tn It to day the coars-
tr grades o WOO en clothing are as cheap
in The nted States as in England or any
bther nation.
j. hoenhof L. s consul TO England,
a democrat sent abroad to gather Tree
trads statistics, in his report fOuni on
page %. of consular report for April,
los7, uses this language:
80 far as clolhing and dry goo Is in
General are concerned, / find that cotton
goods are FULLY as cheap in the nted
tales as here. Sh rtings and sheetings
II anything are superior in quait, for the
same money with us /. :. J. so far as |
tan .udge from he ar ices exposed for
Sale in the retail stores. Articles of I'M
aerwear made of muslin for women are
Tar supe Tor in workmanship and finish,
ana chea er IN the United States. count
ing the di erence in price of Imported
materials. Nor can find that men S
shirts, when Chef OF cotton, are any
cheaper here OF boots and shoes, If fac
DRY made, the same may be said, tho Oh
tie lea her OF the better class Of really
. made goods seems 10 be superior here,
That Is, better tanned.
Lyerythin made TO order in the way of
cloth NJ. excep, ing shirts, perhaps, is
considerable cheaper here, while machine
tr factory II ade goods shoy disappearing
siferen es only"
The consul then goCs on to say that
woo.en go, ds tailor made are lower there
lIan here, owing 10 cheapncss of labor
but that in ready made clothing the differ
nee in price is not marked.
FRLE TRADE ARGUMENT ExPLopEp.
The reason and truth of the above are
apparent Wien the free traie a lvocate
FONTS to the coat u on his back and says
were il not fo- the tar II he could get hat
soat for one TN ri or a half less. he falsi-
Re or misrei resents. either ign0rantly or
willfully.
The same may have cost him SIS. which
would buy a good ready made coat In
that coat IN y be three pounds OF secured
wool or six pounds of ordinary washed
wool. The tar n has increased the cost of
the wool eleven cents per pound, which
would amount TO SIX y-siX cents.
Hence 1t will be seen that with free
wool there will not be any apparent DIFF
ference in the rice of the clothing; foI
the largest amount of wooden Gods con-
sumed by Americans are of the cheaper
aud coarser grad and in viii n the tar
liz does not form any inn ortant factOr.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND AND HIS FREE
wpOI. ARGIMENr.
President Cleveland mu have believed
the PEG lie over whom he rules to be great
" benghted, or he him &c did not know
letter than he talked.
In his last ann al message, in arguing
10 the farmer that he could afford TO sci
his wool for zen or twelve cents pc
pound less than he now does. he $ Us thu
: largest proportion of sheep are I'm flock o
, from twenty-five To fit lie then say
that the increased price for the wool from
twenty-five sheep is not to exceed $50
moIe than il would be under free trade
has