The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-26
A esAurlfuL oelEcr LESSON.
sIr. sowdcn's District and tho Profit and
Loss ON iss-cc wool

Loss on free Wool.
The argument having been made that
Bfr. Sowdcn, representing the district
consisting of Bcrlls and Lchigll counties,
Pa, could not vote for free wool because
his district contains fifteen thousand
sheap. Tho Philadelphia Times presents
the following conclusive GgurcA Accept.
ing the war tariff claim that the tariff in.
creascs their market and tho price for
their wool, though both claims nre false,
Tho Times says:
There are $1,000 sheep in his district,
With product of five pounds per sheep.
The gross value of the whole wool product
OF Berks nnd Lehigh. at present 4iriccs.
would be S22, 900, and the population of
the two counties is estimated ut 220. 600.
The average consumption of woolcns in
the iron working and mining region of
Berks and Lchigh is not less than Sla ncr
man, woman and child It Is probably as
high as sl4 but Mr.. Sowden Is entitled to
the benefit of all doubts on the question,
and We leave it at S12. Thus the actual
consumption of woolcn goods by the peo.
pie of Mr.. Sowdens 5 district is fully S2,-
$40. 600
by the woolen clause of the Mills bili
wool is made free, which removes tax Of
Al per cent. on tho raw materials Of tho
woolen manufactures. and 1t reduces tho
tariff tax OH wOolcn go9ds 20 per cent. IL
would thus cheaper woolcns 70 i'er cent.
TO consumers, Increase tbs protoctina 10
manufacturers. largely increase Labor In
the woOlen industries and give onr own
mills and labor our entire homo market.
BY free wool. the growers of the 1900
sheep in Mr.. Sowden's district would be
deprived of 10 cents per pound protection
on their wool, which ON the as, 900 pounds
clipped from their 1ocl5s, would be q loss
of $500. This would be tho total and
the largest possible loss to tho whole pee.
pie of AIr. SOwden's district by making
wool free.
What would the people of Mr.. Sowdena
district gain by FREQ wool2 They consume,
In round numbers, s., SOC, 600 of woolen
goods each year. On that amount of the
prime necessarics Of life, they would gain
a reduction of fully 90 per cent. and 20
per cent. of s., 500, coo would be $500, 600.
The balance sheet of profit and loss ON free
wool in tho district would be s., 300 loss
and $500.O0O gain, asany Bcrlss or Lehjgh
boy can figure ii in thirty seconds.
The people OF Leiligh nnd Bcrks ara
taxed $500.O00 n year to save the few
wool growers of the district 81. 800 d year,
and does 1t givc any protection 10 labOrg
Is therc one able bodied wnrlsingmau IN
Berlts on Lehigh counties wlIo gives his
time and labor to tho care of eileep? II
there is, we would be glad TO print his
nanc, residence, weight, color of hair and
nativity.
The tariff is purely an ccono1nic ques.
tion; question Of practical business; d
question of loss and gain to our varied
Industries. and each community logically
fnyors such tariff as promises the best re-
suits to its particular interests
"T'hat is why Massachusetts, once
wanted high taxed rum aud free 1nolasses,
when New England rum was her staple
product; that Is why Webster, as Icr
early representative In Congress. wanted
free trade before her manufacturing in
terests developed; that Is why She
demanded protection CT later daio when
her mills and factories grew up; and that
Is why her manufacturers now want free
coal and free raw materials
'tAnd that IS why the people of Lehich
and Eerks VIII not voto 10 tax themselves
in the neccssaries of life, the suta Of
100000 q year to give 1880 a year
the labor of single worIiugInan in the
entire district