The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-03-11
1t LAKE HERALD. SUNDAY MARCH H. 1ss6-sIXTEEN PAGES

ours? Certainly not. We will have to
sell for the same as the foreigners do.
It takes three pounds of our wool as it
comes off the sheep to make one pound
secured. That will thea leave US 10
cents pound for our wool in Boston.
The freight, commission, and storage
are cents q pound. That leaves US
cents a pound for it here. Now, wool
cannot be grown for that price. conse-
quently our wool industry will be de-
stroyed and that will financially ruin
thousands OF our people. But, says
Mr.. Paul, 1--WE must exchange our sheep
for cattle" Who will exchange cattle
for sheep when the latter become worth
less2 But suppose we could, what
would we do with them? They cannot
be taken on the desert as sheep can. as
they cannot winter on snow and brush
as the sheep do. Our winter range for
cattle is already overstocked. we
must grow wheat then" We are grow
ing all the wheat there can be grown
with the present supply of water.
The fact of the matter is this, Inc
wool industry does not materially IN
terfere with any other industry OF the
Territory; the range they occupy is al
most worthless for any other purpose,
consequently, the destruction of the
wool industry will be total loss, and
will be detrimental to all financial
circles in the Territory. Already our
merchants feel the effects of the Presi-
dents message-the advance guard of
free trade, Some of our sheep men
have their wool lying IN the east, where
it cannot be sold only at ruinous prices.
This is due to the uncertainty OF the
tariff, the manufacturers not making
cloth any faster than they can dispose
of it. These men are owing the stores,
the stores in turn are owing the Salt
Lake merchants, they perhaps are owing
the merchants in the east, thus show
ing plainly thai the sheep men are not
the only ones that will suffer If the
woolindustry is destroyed.
Mr.. Paul quotes lot of figures from
some of his standard works to show
| that the sheep decreased most when the
tariff was the highest. and then adds
However, attach no great importance
| to the above statistics. Exactly. The
professor does not any long believe his
own figures. and yet he has the etfront-
cry to ask others to believe them. And
| again he says: The cry of sheep men
shows that they lament the fact thai
our land is becoming valuable, and is
being occupied by industrious citizens
1t shows no such thing. The land
they occupy is not becoming valuable
only as the sheep make it so, nor is II
occupied by industrious citizens; on
the contrary, it is occupied by JACK
rabbits, wolves, bears, mountain lions
etc
Mr.. Paul thinks it curious assertion
that Utah horses and cows have de-
clined IN price, because the eastern
States have been growing COWS ano
horses of late instead of sheep. This Is
not curious at all. The last four years
show decrease of sheep in the Eastern
states of 1000 600 head, whereas, there
should have been in order to KEEP
pace with the population, an increase o.
nearly that amount. These sheep have
been replaced by cattle and horses
| Prices OF all products are governed by
the supply and demand. Now that the
supply of horses and cattle is greater
than the demand, it follows that the
price goes down; whereas, If they had
kept on growing sheep the supply o.
cattle would not have been more thar
the demand; therefore, the price woulC
have been the same; but how can this
affect Utah? On the same principle
that the dog wags the tail, ana not the
tail the dog. The Utah stock market is
governed by the eastern market, moi
the eastern market by Utah, as Mr.
| Paul would have it understood. We
have a letter here from friend IN
| Missouri, wherein he says, in speaking
of cattle, that it is not alone that the
cattle are cheap here, buy they cannot
be sold at all. The above shows plainly
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cause the sheep men are in few places
crowding out the cattle men, as that
cannot affect the market in the least.
The professor could surely spend his
time in a better cause than the destruo-
ton of the wool industry. Our postal
service is curtailed rather much. Take
Chester, for example. Years ago when
it contained some twenty families. it
had postoffice; now, when the pOpu-
lstion is the double of that, and the
terminus of railroad, our free rade
administration discontinued the Office,
in order that they may still hoard up a
little more money in the Treasury TO
help them along with their free trade
project. Muddy, Emery County, is in
the same fix. Here is surely something
wrong, that the professor might turn
his attention to and at the same time
have an opportunity to air his gram
mar.
Now that Mr.. Paul claims to be de-
scendaDt of Israel, and no doubt going
to the bosom of Abraham, aud as the
latter was a keeper of sheep. and may
be in the business yet, would it not be
better for the professor to feel little
more tolerable towards them, lest he
will not be able to endure their pres
ence? or has he got free ticket to the
other side of the gulch? If so, wish
him prosperous journey, and safe
arrival at his destination.
n THOMPSON.
EPHRAIM, March 9TH, 1888.