Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-20

| promote WOOL growing even where, In
great portion of the land, the conditions
are favorable, is manifest in this de-
crease. For the hereditary habits of the
south the shepherds life is too monoto-
nous, solitary and painstaking; one class
must retrogrsde and the other progress
there before the business can be popular.
But besides these states, in which this
long experience should prove that wool
culture cannot be stimulated by The pres
ent duty, we have vast ares on which
wool is grown as cbeaply IS in New Zes-
land. There the sheep range is bought
of the Maoris In the open market. Here
in the wide west it is had for the taking.
Alleged Mexican or Spanish grants COW
| eripg leagues, few, ere confirmed By the
efforts Of lobbyists or the facility of the
| bureau, are expanded with the elasticity
OF the claimants conscience to cover
more than the space of states. When
| these sre not discovered or invented the
| fraudulent pre-emptor assigns by hun
dreds to plaster with patents the sections
coveted by those our tariff on wool does
"protect," and wealth that is terminated
by fraud and bribery thrives upon its
villainy.
Where in 1860 but u, 900 sheep were
found, in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Mon
tana, Nevada, Nebraska and Wyoming,
were in 1880 already 1928, 900, ninefold
their number IN 1870. Kansas and Ore
gon show 1858 600, where in 1870 were
but 427 900, and in 1860 100000; and
Utah shows at the same dates 233, 600
9,C0G-57, 600 California and Tex
as 6,5eS. 900, against 9,5oo,O
in 1870 aud $4,000 il
Tr Of
OC0 sheep, 100000 were already be-
yond the Mississippi, psstuTilg on lands
that cost their owners not Oue-tenth the
price OF Nem esiand, aud we were pay
ing their grssping owners $40, 900, 600
annually 10 encourage wool growing
there. Ii is perfectly safe to say that we
are paying in 1888 full S20, 200, coo, for
there is unbounded room, and profits
uIequalled since the late Captain Kidd
invested in his bunting of "death's head
And cross bones"
Every sheep now there would have been
there ell the same had there been no pro-
lection. Both the promise Of profit and
OF security was as fair as Australia could
offer, and the wool is nearer its market,
expense of transport and speed of returns
slider it. By paying these $50, 900 900 we
have donated these "protects' $3.50, 000,-
coo, for that is q greater profit than they
draw from their land land on such protects
only can fsll the "untold distress" Mr..
Blaine predicts by the repeal of their wool
duty. II this fictitious capital should
vanish, when they fnd how much their
patriotism has been imposed upon, the
sheep will still be there; with the natural
profit on them, their increase will be as
rapid &c in New Zealand. Then, by re-
peGiing the duties on al WOODEN goods,
our manufacturers will be compelled TO
introduce modern machinery, snd two
bushels Of their wheat or corn will bring
home as much from the shop as five
bushels now do.
Il may seem inVidious 10 state 1t, but
the truth must be told in the Herald.
Among these protects are Mr.. Blsine's
warmeet friends, most ardent supporters,
Dorsey, f kins ct al, who inhahit these
ranches, whose fabulous values this mi
quitous lag taxes every mans pocket to
create. His claim that the tariff "encour-
ages sheep culture Throughout the Union"
is not we'll made. The "msuy lnterets
fsa repeal would work ipj Justice to" are
the mill In the dollar invested in the con !
sciences OF INSCRIPTIONS men to obtain |
t1bse ranches, and what Is bad for them |
isgood for all otfzsI men.