The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-01-16
TnE WOOL ooNrEnENcE.
The Washington Session Adopts EarnS
Protective Resolutions,

The Washington session Adopts Earnest
Protective RESOLUTIONS.
WASHINGTON, D. O., Jan. 14,-The con-
ference OF wool men, which has been in
session here the past few days, to-day
adopted the following resolutions;
Representatives Of the National Associ.
alton Of Wool Manufacturers and the
Wool Growers' National Association,
speaking as they believe for all persons
engaged in both these occupations in the
United States, with only individual excep.
tons, proclaim anew their deep conviction
that the protection by tariff Of the produC:
ton Of wool and Of the manufacture OF
wool is demanded by the bsst interests Of
all the American people. The increase in
the clip OF American wool from 20, 264 ,9lS
pounds in 1859 to 302, 900 900 pounds in
1885, while the imports OF foreign wool
advanced only from 26, 2S2, ,935 pounds to
70,596, 10 pounds within the same period,
demonstrates the effect OF protective du.
tiea in promoting sheep hushandYy In this
country, and In thus adding 10 the sources
OF national prosperity and wealth.
The fact that the reduction OF the tariff
on wool in 1888 was Immediately followed
by decrease in the number OF sheep ia
the country from so, 628, 626 in 1884 to a.
759, 9,3l4 in 1887, gives warning that the
abolition of duties on wool would Beriously
cripple the raising Of sheep in this coun-
try, which is the third producer in guam
ti:y among the nations, and would thus
increase tbs price Of wool all over the
world, while the consequent destruction
OF sheep would materially affect the sup.
ply and the price OF mest, aud, to. con-
siderable degree, Of all provisiops.
Inaamuch as American manufacturers
furnished, in 1880, $40 per cent Of the
wooden goods consumed in the United
States, although in 1850 only G2.S per
cent Of euch goods were produced in this
country, no reduction in tho tariff can be
necessary to afford the American people 3
full supply and abundant competition in
fabrics which enter into nae In every fam
lily, and for which the prices for like quail
tiles compare lavorsbly with those in for
eign countrien. The advance In the con-
sumption Of wool In the United States
from 65, 749, ,635 pounds in 1859 to 425, ,404,-
100 pounds in 1885, under q protective
tariff, IL to be attributed to the impetus
given 10 manufacturers by toe raising OF
sheep in this country, which in 1884 fur
nished Sl3 per cent Of ell the wool con-
Humed here.
AS means to the development Of man
ufactoriss at home, the sheep industry,
which hss so largely aided in the develop
ment and civilization Of our wat western
country, deserves consistent and adequate
encouragement in the adjustment Of the
national revenue. Undor the protective
policy the United States hau become the
foremost manufacturing nation in the
world, while its agriculture has been ex-
tended and diversified by the incentive OF
the most profitable markets known to
men.
Prudence iorbids the overthrow OF a
system OF revenue under which such re-.
suits have been obtained, while the wages
OF labor and the share Of production paid
to the American artisan are greater than
in any other country.
The committee here assembled ask for
the continuance OF protection to their own
industries only as they AJAX for considers
ton to every other branch OF American
productions. They plead Tor mo faVorit-
A6uI W phAblbulhA AhtSAputot bAb ava HAOaN
national policy, esaentini to the well be-
ing OF all our people and contributing TO
the prosperity and progress aud power Of
the republic. They know that the abol-
ton oil the duties on wool, almost fatal to
their sheep industry, would bs very dam
aging to the manufacturers Of wool.
These committees urge that no reason
can be shoTn why Subsidies should be
offered for foreign competition by the re-
peal or reduction Of the tariff, and they
suggest that wisdom as well as patriotism
requires that sll American productions
shall have the fostering care Of the Gov
eminent, as the safeguard Of American
nationality. They also urgently request
Congress to Immediately pass joint Teso-
luton correcting the present erroneous
classification OF worste6s by directing that
they be classified as woolen cloths. and
that We favor the passage Of the Senate
bill known as the Aldrich bill to suppress
undervsluations OF imports.