The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-01-10
WOOL MEN IN ARMS,
A Spirited Meeting at the
Court House Yesterday.
Spec les AND RESOLUTIONS.
The Association Uadergoes Re
organiEotiOn-Ths New OfRetals-
The Defense Fuhd.

The Defense Fuad.
The call for meeting Of the Wool
Growers Association of Utah, at the
Coanty Court House yesterday
brought cut q large number OF the Woo!
growers and dealers, the County Court
room being filed with representatives
from, all parts of UtahtS 4 81 = S~s
President Harker called the meeting
to order, stating that they had met to
take into consideration the interests OF
the wool groyers-efU Utah H7belis ved
the first thing in order was the reading
of the minutes Of the last meeting.
rhey were read and accepted, when MIR.
w. L. Pickard. one OF the COMMITTEE
appolntedsat the last ineeti gg to eaH on
Mr.. Howard, the former Secretary. anu
ascertain the whereabouts OF certain
books and papers OF the Association, re-
ported that Howard had informed hin
that the papers had boon Iost; 'conse-
!
| their previous meeting.
/ Mr.,,Pickard suggested that, inasmucl
as the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce
| had adopted resolutions PROTESTING
against the removal OF the tariff on wool
it might be well for them to be read al
this meeting; aud he further suggested
that Mr.. Fabian read them. They were
| read, and on melton a committee, con
sistisg of Charles Crane, A. j johnson
| Charles Andrews, Mr.. Ogden, J. E.
Clinton, Mr. Pattison and Nathan
Sears. was appointed to examine them
MAKE any alterations or amendments
they might deem proper, and report
later in the afternoon. -~-~f
T. / CHARLES CRANE, N.Y.
of Kanosh, being loudly called for
arose and de iEered speech, which wal
well received and loudly applauded. HI
said he had accepted the invitation to
meet aud discussths wool question. We
should, as wool growers, resent the pro-
posed reduction on wool. Our efforts
may be. futile, because we are not
| thoroughly organized, but let Us
demand Protection, demand a right to
live, demand that Au erica be KEEP fol
Americans, and no. for the panper
| LAT Dor of Europe. / know personally
| just what it costs to raise one sheep
aud produce one pound of wool; and
tell you to- dag that YOU wool growers
| of Utah cannot compete, without pro-
! lection, with the wool-growers of Aus
| tralia. the physical conditions and geo,
graphical position of our country being
against US; we must contend against
obstacles they know not of. Heavy
winters, deep snoEs pool feed and long
| drouth is U, iversal, and good feed and
favorable winters the exception.
doubt if there is wool grower in the
country that owns thousand acres of
land wherein he can feed his flock,
while in Australia and South America
Englishmen and Scotch men (who are
the great shepherds). own tens OF
thousands of acres in fee simple, and
their hocks are never off their own
domain; thousands of miles of fence
encloses their pastures. where grass is
perennial, where SHOWS are unknown.
and where wool grows so fast they
are breech-clouted natives earning,
perhaps, 20 cents day and whose only
food is q little corn, meal, ground
between two fat rocks. If you continue
in your present business you must
organize; you must come forth like you
do Today, and spread your grievances
befoge 1.-The people; make yourselves
felt; press upon your Representative ia
Congress the Importance Of this
great industry. and demand of
bin that he use his influenoe
to defeat the repeal of the tariff of 1883 /,
it is his duty to do it; and if he does
not. remember it at next election and
drop him.
The President in bis child like mes
sage says: when the number of fsrmA
ers engaged 10 wool-raising is COM,
pared with all the farmers in the
country and the small proportion they
bear to-our population is considered,
when it is made apparent that in the
case of q large part OF those who own
sheep the benefit of the presen mt, tariff
on wool is il4usory, and above all, when
it must be conceded that the increase
OF the cost of living caused by such
tariff becomes burden upon those with
pfoderatem means, and the poor, the en-
pioyed and the I'm mployed. the sick
and we'll, and the young and old, aud
that it constitutes tax which, with
relentless grasp. is fastened upon the
clothing of every man, woman and
child in the land, reasons are suggested
WHY the removal or reduction Of this
dutyR should be included in revision
of our tariff laws" Has ever
such a swallow-tailed' argument
enanated from the head Of our great
government before Never! And it is
to be hoped for the intelligence and
honor of the American people, never
will again. 81
If the farmers and their families and |
the wage earners of America. dressed in |
and silk, then there would |
be some semblance of truth in his line
of argument; but they do not1
The farmers. their wives ana their
anC the great mass of the
American W ar clothes spun
from their own and their neighbours |
docks; manufactured in Americana
mills, and made into clothing by Amer
can labor.
When We come to the costly fabrics