Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-16
action o, tho Woo, oonfsrenos.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15-Tne following
] solutions were adopted By the WOO
conference yesterday:
The representatives OF the National
Association of Wool Man ufsctuers
and of the woolgrowers National
Association speaking as they believe
for all persons engaged in both
thess occupations in the UaIted States
with emily individual exceptions proclaim
anew their conviction thst protection By
tariff of the production of wool and OF
the manuf ,cture of wool Is demanded oy
the best interests of all the American
people. The Increase in he clip in
American wool from 62 264.9 pounds
IN 1859 II 3G2, 900, 900 pounds in 1855,
while the imports of foreign wool ad-
vsnced only from 26.2s2, $50 pounds to
1886, 40 pounds within The same period
demonstrates the effect of protective du-
ties IN promoting sheep husbsndry ia this
country Snd in thus adding to the sources
OF prosperity and wealth. The fact 1hst
the reduction Ia the tsriff on wool in 1888
was Immediately followed by s decrease
In the number OF sheep in the country
from 90, 626, 626 In 1884 10 Al 59 314 in
1887 gives warning that the abolition of
duties on wool would seriously cripple
the raising of sheep in this country, which
is the third product in quantity in the
country, and would thus increase the
prices Of wool oil over the world while
the consequent destructio IN of sheep would
materially affect the supply and price of
meat, and TO considerable de-
gree of all provisions. mas
much as American manufacturers
furnished IN 1850 81 9 per cent. of the
wooden goods consumed in the United
States, although In 1886 only 62 per
cont. Of such goods were produced in this
country, no reduction in the tariff can be
necessary to afford the American people
full supply sud abundant competition in
the fabrics which enter into use in every
family and for which prices for like quail
tiles compare favorably with those In for
eign countr es. TIE advance IN the con-
sumption OF wool in the United
States from 65 TAT 6S5 pounds
10 1859 10 424 4O4, lQ9 pounds
in 1856 under protective tar q is to be
attributed to the impetus given 10 manu.
lecturers by the raising Of sheep IN this
country which In 1884 furnished 81 per
cent. of all the wool consumed b, re. As
a means TO the development OF. manufsc- !
tories, Tue eUScp t0uuSJIy WHICH u6o 50 /
largely aided in the development nd civ |
ilization OF our vast western country de- |
serves consistent and adequate encour-
agement in the adjustment of the |
national revenue. Uaoer the protective |
policy the United States has become |
the foremost manufacturing nstion |
Ia the world, while its agriculture |
tss been extended and diversified by in
centives of the most profitable methods
known 10 Uen. Prudence forbids the |
overthrow OF q system OF revenue under
which successful results have obtained,
While the wages OF labor and the shares |
Il productions psid 10 American artisans
IRE far grester than IN auy other country.
The committee here assembled ask for
continuance Of protection to their own
industries, Only IS they ask for consider
.tion 10 every other branch OF American
reductions. They plead for no favorit-
sm TO particular interests, but for broad
lstionsI policy, esseniisl TO the well
,eipg of sll cur people and contrloussesl
O the prosperity and progress and pesNer {
4 the republic. They know that VIC 80.
lition of duties On wool to be<Aln ostt
.,slt our sheep iaddssrV, sud 1t " Gu iSJ
q very damaging to manufacturers R
DOL. This committee urge thst
sason csn be shown why subsidies saeeio
E offered for foreign cOmpetitionW
,pes! or reduction of the tariffs, ana they