Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-26

and the school of philosophers to which
he belongs call free trade-that is,
when there was free trade in wool.
The fifth period embraces the seven
teen wears when an unmolested pro-
tective tariff was
DOING ITS PERFECT WORK
In running up the price of wool. Dur
ing the first forty years as above, the
average price of wool was 57.5 per
pound. During the last seventeen
years it was 37.5, difference of twenty
cents a pound or more than 30 per
cent.
If the tariff of 1867 built up the wool
industry, as Mr.. DelanO claims, he
ought to produce the figures tc prove IT,.
In 1888 there was slight reduction
i'm the wool tariff, and it, as Mr.. DelanO
says, that reduction injured the wool
industry,
THE SELLING PRICE
In 1884 would show it. In 1888 the
average price of wool was 25 cents, in
1884 it was 26 cents, in 1885 q cents,
in 1856 SO cents, and it ranged at 80 in
1887.
Mr.. DelanO says that it destroyed the
wool clip to the extent of ID per cent. to
reduce the tariff in 1888. Why doesn't
he produce some figures to prove this?
Ohio is the great wool growing State
east of the Mississippi, and produces
about one-sixth ofall the wool in the
United States, and nearly one-half of
the fine wool produced in the country.
Compared with what year was the
wool clip in Ohio cut down. let us say,
in 1886? The statistics show that
IT WAS GREATER
That year than at any previous year in
the history of the State. 1t was %, $780,
824 pounds, and sold for better price
than during any year from 1878 down.
The smallest prices at which wool ever
sold was under the tariff of 1867.
The wOol-growers of Ohio, Michigan,
Indiana, West Virginia and Pennsylva-
MIA, who produce nearly all the finer
grades of wool, have suffered, not from
an increase nor a decrease Of tariff-not
from protection or free trade, but be-
cause of the cheap, coarse wool of the
ranchers of Texas, New Mexico, Ari-
zona, California and the Pacific Slope,
and this will be their only competitor
in the future. The
COARSE WOOL MILLIONARtES,
Of whom Mr.. Delano is one, want pro-
lection against the coarse wool growers
of Australia. For seventeen years
yes, for twenty-one years-they have
been having it, and the fine wool grow
ers of the Middle States have been the
sufferers. They have sold their fine
wool, under protective tariff, from
60c. pound down to 25c. With slight
reduction in tariff, followed by an in
crease of Sc. q pound on their product,
Mr.. DeIano appeals to them to besiege
Congress and have restored tariff un-
der which they sold their wool at 25c.
pound.
A year ago Delano's predecessor at
the lead of the National WoOl-Grow-
ers' Association placed the amount OF
wool annually produced in the United
States at 900 900, 900 pounds. In vain
was he appealed to tell the public where
it was raised and where it was sold, as
the worlds markets were dumb on the
subject.
Mr.. DelanO unostentatiOusly knock
off 100000, 900 pounds and places the
product at 300, 100000 Now, will Mr.
Delano tell us where it is raised and
what becomes of it? The census OF
1880, which is the only reliable au-
thority, places
THE PRODUCT IN THAT YEAR
At 155,000,000, or only about half as
much as Mr.. Delano claims. In addi-
tion to the 155 100000 pounds of wool
there were a few million pounds OF
tags and pullings from dead sheep, but
all told, it fell far short of SOC, 200, ,00O
pounds.
Ifit is true, as Mr.. Delano asserts, that
the reduction of the tariff in 1883 re-
duces the clip, Is per cent. annually
taking the basis of 1880, and deductine
As per cent, of losses from 155, 900, 900
pounds, the product for, 1887 could on
ly reach S5,000,00 pounds.
1t certainly can not be that intelligent
farmers can be deceived bv any such
appeals as Mr.. DelanO has issued. Let
them
DEMAND AT HIS HANDS.
The figures which will show how much
| the wool product in pounds increased
in Ohio and in the country from 1868 tt
| 1883 under the tariff of 1867, and how
much the price increased during the
same time, as compared with any pre-
vious year back to 1920. If he does no
do it, it will be because he can not.
~
| Congressman Ford, of Michigan, il
reply to the National Wool-GrOwers
question as to how he stands on tariff
reduction, says: "In 1857, 1858, 1851
aud 1860 foreign wool was admitted
practically free. How did that work
The result was that wool sold at ar
| average higher price during that tim'
than it has for fifty years, if we excep
the three years following 1870.
"In 1869 the tariff on wool was enor
mously increased. in that year it wa
raised so that it averaged from fifty tt
sixty per cent. and that high tariff con
tinued for sixteen years substantial.
the same, except there was a slight re
duction in 1872 What was the result
In 1867, at the time the high tariff wen
into effect, there were 4,02S, 767 sheep
the State of Michigan; and under tn
pernicious effects of a 60 per cent. tart
on wool on the first of January, 1885,
the number of those sheep had dwind
led to 2,l56,12I.
a "The reason for this is obvious. Ou
) wooden manufacturers are obliged