Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-07-26
THE DRIVE At WOOL.
The Cleveland Party will Ruin It.
An IMPORTANT STATEMENT.
Wheeling InteIligeneer. 18th.

Yesterday afternoon an Intelligence
reporter called on Mr.. Morris HOrkheim
er. the senior member of the well known
firm of Horkheimer Bros, at No. AL
Main street, probably the largest dealer:
| in wool in this State, and, for that mat
ter, West of the Alleghenies. In the
years this firm has been in business il
has handled millions Of pounds of wool
Its name is favorably known to every
wool grower in this section of the coun
try, including Western Pennsylvania anC
Eastern Ohio, and nearly all of then
have had dealings with the firm. Among
| the wooden manufacturers of the East
Horkheimer Bros, enjoy the reputa
ton of having furnished some eff the
/ finest woods ever received at their mills
The reporters errand in calling or
Mr. Horkheimer was to ascertain the
truth of the report that he was one OF
the many Democrats who propose to
vote this year for Harrison, Morton and
Protection. In reply to questions asked
Mr.. HOrkheimer, he said:
sFor twenty-five years have always
voted the Democratic ticket, and never
had any love for the Republican party
| am still Democrat, but | am forced
this year to vote with the Republican
party.
"AIy reasons for this change? have
always been able to tell why 1 was a
Democrat, and can just as readily ex-
plain my present position. The Demo-
cratic party under the leadership of
Cleveland, Mills and the other sO-called
tariff reformers, has degenerated into a
party of Free Trade. For proof of this,
anyone understanding the English Ian
guage has but to read the st. Louis plat
form, the Mills bill or Cleveland's mes
sage.
"Free trade is not the thing that will
help the wool industry or any other in
dustry in this country, and if the policy
marked out by the Democratic party as
expressed in its Endorsement of the
Mills bill is to prevail, we may look for
the ultimate ruin of the industries of
this country, degraded condition of
life for our working people and the con-
sequent advancement of British power.
"The Republican platform stands for
and means just the opposite of this.
The Republican policy is the policy of
Protection, and how any fair-m minded
man having at heart the welfare of this
country can be for anything else than
the Protection demanded by the Repub-
lican party, is what l fail to understand.
With wool on the free list, as the Demo-
cratic House has ordered it, my business
is ruined, and the wool grower will find
himself in even worse condition than
we would be.
"Let me show you some letters from
some of our Eastern correspondents.
Here is one from Deering, Milliken &
Co., of No. 20 Leonard street, New York,
who control six of the largest woOlen
mills in the country, employing thOus-
ands of hands,"
The letter was as follows:
MesSTs Rorkheimer Bros, Wheeling:
GENTLEMEN:-We enclose you a cir
cular received this morning from Lon
don, showing that the woods coming into
this country to-day are woods in direct
competition with the free woods raised
in your part of the country. From this
you can Judge the result of fine wool
with the farmers in yours section. You
want to wake up your Representatives.
You would naturally suppose we were
in favor of free wool, from the fact that
we are large manufacturers, but we are
not in favor taking one brick from the
underpinning of the house which sup
ports us. Yours truly,
DEERING, MILLIKEN & Co.
p. S.-By 'us" we mean the working
people of this country.
"Now," continued Mr.. Horkheimer,
'.liSten to this" and he read the follow
ing extract from a letter from W. L.
Strong, of New York, one of the biggest
yarn manufacturers in the world:
"Weh have not ground up 10000 pounds
of fine Delaine wool in three months.
We took in stock July l, $4,000 pounds,
and we are quite content with that
If we cannot get any more Or
derS for that class of yarn than we have
so far in 'SS, it will last us until Harri-
son is inaugurated; then we will proba-
bly, be able to use it, but not until then.
If Cleveland is elected we go out of the
worSted business, not voluntarily, but
because of the administration favoring
English instead of American goods, and,
with our pay roll, we cannot make any
worsted yarns here within II to 25 per
cent as cheap as we can import them"
Mr.. Bernard Horkheimer, the other
of the firm, who had come in,
here remarked that these were but two
of many like letters received from CORE
spondents. 1t is understood that he
will also vote the Republican ticket this
fall.
'If any one doubts the authenticity of |
these letters, he has but to come to our
place here and see for himself" said Mr.. |
Morris HOrkheimer Continuing, he |
said: ''Take a look through our place
and see the wool we have on hand, and |
which Mr.. Strong does not dare buy |
with the industry threatened as it is at |
present by the Democratic party, and |
then wonder if you can why it is that l |
propose to vote for Harrison and Nor
ton and the policy they stand for. There
are many others who, like me, will do |
this fall what they have never done be-
fOre-vote for the Republican nominees
for the presidential offices. Go out in
the country and you will find many
the Democratic wool growers who
have seen their industries so injured by
the constant agitation that has been
kept up against it the past four years,
that many of them have abandoned wool
growing and endeavored to turn their
sheep pastures into wheat and corn
fields. Most of these sheep pastures
were on the sides of hills admirably
adapted to sheep raising. Go look at
many of them now. Turned into plowed
fields they have been washed by recent
heavy rains till scarcely anything but
-he stones are left. Where are the buy
ers that used to throng this section look
ng after its fine woods? We don't want
20 buy wool when we cannot dispose of