Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-08-27
The Wool Duty.

If it were true that forty per cent
of the cost of all woolens used IN
this country is due to the tariff, what
would necessarily follow? Just this
That if the tariff were abolished every
suit of wooden clothes sold for ten
dollars would sell for six. With
whole suits of all-wool clothes selling
for six dollars how much would the
farmer get for his wool, the mill en-
ploves for weaving it and the tailors
of both sexes for making the gar
ments? When whole suits of wooden
goods are sold for six dollars, which
is the object of the democratic raid
on this northern industry, God help
the wool-growers and the poor crea-
lures who maintain existence by
weaving cloth and making clothing.
Clothing is cheap enough now.
To make it cheaper means to reduce
labor to the European level.-CteCe-
land Leader.
Recently the national house of rep
resentatives struck one of the leading
agricultural interests Of this country
a staggering blow by voting to remove
the duty on foreign wool and thus
place the American farmer in direct
competition with the wool-growers OF
Australia, South America and In
dia. Why this branch of congress
should desire to make American
sheep-farming Improbable, to reduce
the value of all the sheep in the coun-
try by one-half. to cripple millions OF
farmers all over the land, is difficult
to see. Why wool should be made
free. while foreign sugar and iron
and coal are to be taxed, or why the
farmer should bear this additional
burden, common mortals cannot dis
Germ. The only argument seems tc
be: "Europe has free wool" Wool
growers needn't be wholly dishearten'
ed. however, for the uncertainty Of
the fate of the free-wool clause IL
the senate will prevent the vote o.
the house from having any presen
effect other than stagnation and un
certainty in the wool rade.-Anaeri
can CultiUdtOr.
We are glad that the issue is thu
audaciously made. The northern
wool-orowers and manufacturers will
take in the full significance of Cleve
; landism. as revealed in the action o
the house that merely registers hi
DEGREES, when they compare the dem
ocratic vote in the house on the ques
tion of free wool with the same vot
AGAINST the reduction of the duties o
sugar. Between the threats and III
fiuence of the sugar trust and the Gle
mands of the Louisiana sugar-plant
ers. the democratic majority Oppose
the republican proposition for larg
reduction of the $50, 100000 of dr
ties that are paid solely to encourag
: these planters to raise crop amount
= ing to between 100000 and 81
: OOO, 900 a year The cane sugar
growing industry is confined to I'll
"solid South" and the ''sugar trust
e has command of unlimited means tn;
10 might be useful in a presidents
q campaign. SO the discrimination p'
in tween the Louisiana sugar-plantel
K and the northern wool-growers
$ made so emphatic that it seems
9. though any man with a teaspoonf'
of brains must recognize the natu
= of the influences and of the polite
s power which control Mr.. Clevelar
and his policy. We predict that Il
democratic record on free WOOL
r made in the house yesterday, VIII
n more to insure the election OF liza
rs y, rison and Morton than all the repu
"a lican campaign speeches that VIII
Is, IS made between now and November
all Neso York Nail and ETpress.
nd In five years of low duties and IL
IS prices combined the country has lc