Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-05
COME HOME TO RoosT.

CHICKENS COME HOME TO BOOST.
The HtelhgeReer is excellent at hedging.
Il is excellent even at q double sOmer-
sault. 1t executes one on the wool ques-
ton. Things had become too hot for COM
fort. Yesterday il acknowledged that the
wool market is booming. After some
months of the most frantic and disgrace
ful efforts to scare the wool growers into
selling their wool at q sacrifice, the In
telligencer is finally forced to acknowledge
that the prizes is higher than it was this
time last year, and still on the rise.
The course the Republican leaders have
pursued with regard to the wool growers
cannot be too severely condemned and can
only he characterized as in
famous. With the publication OF
the Presidents message, calling upon
Congress to reduce the surplus by reduc-
ton of taxation, every Republican organ
10 the land jumped onto the wool market.
The widest tales were set aflost to knock
the bottom out of it and cause q panic
among the wool-raisers. The wooden man
ufacturers and the middle men, who lent
themselves to this bear movement, are not
81 much tohlame, as il is mat
ter of business with them
to buy as cheaply as possible. But for a
political party, that has in view the con-
troll of the government, to enter boldly in
to a conspiracy to rob the wool-raiser OF
his profits, which are small enough at best,
10 the hope of gaining a few votes, is a
piece of political villsiny that is only par
a!leled in the past record of the Republi-
can party itself. 1t is meeting its Just re-
ward in the sudden and decided revulsion
OF feeling that has taken place and the in
diguation of the plundered wool-rsiser,
who believed their lies aud sold his wool at
q sacrifice.
Aud now these Republican leaders,
caught in their own trap, are making
desperate efforts to squeeze out. Here is
the Iatelligeneer which aided to the best of
its ability in relieving the wool growers
OF the half million dollars, which, in this
section, they have lost through selling ut
q sacrifice, has the audacity to lay the rise
10 the market to the fact that the wool
men have suddenly become aware that the
MILLS bill will not become law! In the
name of reason, did they ever think it
would become law with the partisan
Senate obstrueting the way to reduction
of taxation? That explanation of the rise
in wool is absurd, and in making il the
IatelIgeReer tsstifss to the truth of the
charge of conspiracy against it if any fur
Their testimony were needed. There never
was time when any sane man thought
the MILLS bills would pass the Rspubli-
can Senate-it is too honest q measure
aud would be of too much benefit to the
for the Senate to allow it to be-
come law under Democratic admins
tration.
But, Notwithstanding the warning it has
had the htelligeReer must have its spiteful
little ding at the wool-growsrs' market.
II said yesterday:
This much may be safely said, that If there
we're any prospect of wool being put on the free
list wool growers would do we'll 10 unload at 20
,ents per pound. Nothing but Protective
Tariff stands between them and this price or a
till lower one.
Now, IS q complete refutation of this
,onsense, and at the request of Q number
VI Short Greek farmers, we reproduce, from
he REaIsTER Of January %, the following !
etter from Short Creek wool raiser, who |
las been wool raiser for the last twenty |
i've or thirty years and who has always
lad on his farm from 600 to 600 head of
Iheep. The following is the letter; it
,ivss an Interesting array Of figures in re.
,ard to the prices Of wool prevailing in this
state from 1s49 upon to the present time.
rhe figures were collected by the gentle
nan in person and can be relied upon:
SHORT CREEK w. Va, January 26.
10 TIC Editor Of tie RtgiStr:
In view Of the interest which is felt in
be discussion Of the wool tariff, and the
cling prices of raw wool as affected there