The Wilmingtonian., 1888-08-25
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SATURDAY, AUGUST II, 1888.
Lead, Wool and Opium.

in discussing the provisions Of the "Mills
Bll'' in its relation to lead, wool and opium
states that .the closer one examines the Free
Trade pill that the Democrats are trying to
induce the people to swallow, the more
plainly is seen that the hand of the Sara
naugh aided in its preparation.
England has ever been seeking market
for the sale of the products Of the home
country, as we'll as of its colonies.
The Mills bill, that was indorsed by the
St. Louis Democratic Convention, which
urged every Democratic in Congress to vote
for it, puts the duty on lead ore at of a
cent per pound and the duty on pig and bar
lead at II cents per pound.
When it is known that the proposed duty
on lead, combined with the cost for trans.
pcrtation from the England mines to the
Eastern manufacturing centers of America
is not much more than ha'f the cost of the
freight on lead from our mines to the same
manufacturing centers, 1t will be readily
perceived whas the proposed taliff reduction
will do for Colorado. The men engaged in
the mining industry in this State can easily
see shat they will be compelled to produce
lead cheaper than it is produced by the ill
paid miners of the black country in England
or else abandon their mines altogether.
What, then, will become of Colorado
Wool is to be admitted free of duty.
What will become of the wool industry of
our state9 Do the Democrats expect that
the nearly 200 900, 900 sheep on our 1lains
and in our valleys must be taken to the
slaughter at the behests of small syndicate
of English sheep-men who, when the indus
try is killed in this country, shall be at lib
erty to say how much the Americans manu-
facturor shall pay for wool?
Mr. Switzler, the Chef Of the United
States Bureau Of Statistics at Washington in
writing about sheep-raisng countries says:
Australia alone is as large in area as the
United States. In Australia the plains de-
voted to sheep raising are in the hands of
comparatively a few, who have perpetual
leases of immense tracts of government land
at low rates. Some of these tracts contain
as much as 100, 900 acres, SO the country bids
fair to continue sheep-raising section. It
is idle to talk about raising sheep in Europe
or in this country to complete with South
Africa, the Platte country or Australia.
Speaking of the conditions, he also says:
The conditions are entirely different in
South Africa, Australia and South America
where laborers are, at the best, semi bar
barians or poems, and the immense plains of
cheap lands and torrid climate seem better
adopted to sheep raising that others indus
tries.
Now the people of this country are asked
to kill the wool industry, SO as to give the
semi-hagbarians and the Austr, liza land.
grabbers chance.
Inc Republicans propose to reduce the
tax on liquors used for medicinal purposes
and in the arts. A cry of free whisky is i'm
mediately raised by the Democrats. The
millennium surely must be near at hand
when Democrats object to free whisky.
Mr. Mills informed us in last SATURDAYS
debate that opium was on the free list in his
bill. When the Chimes Government saw the
awfsl effects of that deadly drug upon its
people it prohibited the importation of f. into
the empire. England sent its men and guns
to China and forced it to open its ports for
the reception of opium, which was the pro.
duct Of one of its colonies. The terrible
evils resulting from the opium war in China
have been told so often that nearly all are
familiar with its history.
Now England seeks freer trade for this
product ana is trying to induce the Ameri-
can people, with the assistance Of the Demo-
cratic party, to open our ports for its recep-
tioa' Opium to be Admitted free, so that
our people who do not yet know of its awful
effects may coon become debauched by il
What secret rel icing there must be
among the Chimes and other opium fiends
at the prospect Of cheap opium, and what
an outrageous proposition it is to ask the
American people to approve Of it,