The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-01-15
THE WILD WOOL MEN.
The Growers and Manufac-
turerS Protest Against
TnB ABOLITION OF THE DUTIES
They Ask for Protection, and Are in
Favor Of the Passage of the
Aidrioh DilI-Etc.
The Wool Men.

A WASHINGTON, J&nudry IL uO WOUi
conference has reached an agreement
4 whieh will be formulated at once. It
VII ADVOCATE the return to the tariff of
1857 and corresponding readjustment
4 Of wool and worsted rates. The COM
] mittee is at work embodylng tho deci-
sion Of the conference in : report and
the text of the bill to the 3sct stated,
n both tof which will be submitted to
n Congress at the first opportunity by 8
committee, consisting of Delano, OF the
Woolt Growers Association; ~ hitnan,
of thet Manufacturers Association, and
GreenA, of the Dealers Association.
WAaHINGToN, January 1.-THE fol-
lowing, resolutions were adopted by the
eonfs4tence of the representatives of the
NATIONAL Associations of Wool Manu-
factu{ rers and of the Wool Growers
National Association. Speaking as they
bsiieHre for all persons engaged in both
Bhesef occupations in the United States,
with only individual exceptions, they
proclaim anew their deep convictio that
A the Protection by tariff of the preduc-
4 ton ! of wool and of the manufacture
4 of, Wool, is demanded by the best
interest of all American p3o-
\ pie The increase in Clip of Ameri-
eani wool from 60.264 9l3 pounds
in 4 1859, to 302, 900 GOO pounds IN 1887
y while imports OF foreign wool adVan ed
b efnly from 26, 282 ,935 pounds to 1885,
a fl70 pounds within the same period, de-
monstrates the effect of prote tive
X duties in promoting sheep husbandry in
III this country, and thus adding to the
4 sources of national prosperity and
wealth. The fact that the redue ion in
8 tariff on wool in 1888 was Immediately
followed by decrease in the number of
sheep in the country, from 80 626, 626 in
1884, to A .759, 314 in 1887, gives warning
8 that the abolition CT duties on wool
would seriously cripple the rails
ling of sheep in this country.
(which is the third produc r
4 lin quantity among the nations and
.lAWouid thus increase the price of wool
- all over the world; while the conse-
Asnent destruction OF sheep would ma
4 zterially affect the supply and price of
! meat, and to a considerable degree of
&all provisions, inasmQch as American
manufacturers furnished il 1880, 8I.9
81 per cen. of wooden goods consumed in
4the United States, although in 1860,
4only 628 per cent. of such goods were
4rroduced in this couotry. No reduc.
n ON in the tariff can be necessary to
d 5GEord the American people a full
81 pply and abundant oOmDeti-
u IN in fabrics which enter
r. lto use in every family, and
& for which prices for like quality com
E pare favorably with those in forei-n
countries.
The advance in the con gunption of
+ wool in the Unired States from IS, 49,
( S35 pounds in 1859 T. 49t 404 l09 pounds
n 1885, under a protective tariff, is to
oe attributed to the impetus given 10
manufacturers by the raising of
sheep in this country, which, in
1884, furnished Sl-3 per cent. of
Ill wool consumed here A. means
lf development OF the manufacturers
~ I home sheep Industry, winch has so
NJ &gely aides ID the development and
Filtration of orr vast western country,
srves consistent ami adequate en-
tageinenr IL the sdiu7f u snG of the
lonai revenue UnGer the protective
lev. ths United STATES has become
4. foremost manufacturing nation in
~ world. while Its agriculture has
Il en- extended sud diversified by the
lcentive of the most profitable ma kets
known to men, Prudence for
q bids the overthrow OF the sys-
tenn of revenue under which such
RESULTS have been obtained, while
he wages OF labor and the share
En- # production paid 70 the American
81 .rtisan are far greater Ehan in any other
/ 4 country.
y The committee here oassembled ask
B or continuance OF protection to tdeir
~ 4 ,Wn industries only as they ask for con-
81 4 iderauo to every otn branch OF
american production. They plead .for
10 faYortism to particular interests,
81 Jutfor broad nat anal policy, essential
NND the weli-bsing of all our people, and
N 1ntributing TO the prosperity, pro-
y IL tess and power of the republic.
\ lhey know that the abolition
Nf duties on wool will be al
Host fatal to our sheep industry,
lid would be very damaging to the
Manufacturers of wool. These COM
dlittees urge that no reason can be
k6wn wf1y subsidies should be offered
FIN foreign compeujion by 'epeal or
aduc, ion of the tariff; and they sug
Sst that wisdom as well as patriotism
klnires that all OF American nation
ktyt should ar emily request Congress
te Immediately pass q JOINT resolution.
Directing the present erroneous CLASH
tstion OF worsted, oy directing that
lev be classified as wooden cloths.
hat we favor the passage by the SEN
E the bill known as the Aldrich bills to
EoTess under valuations of imports
Eiter the adoption of resolutions the
n tnmittee, consisting of Columbus
n aiano, of Ohio, president of the
Ational Wool CIR jwers' Association;
flliam Whitman, Of Boston, president
S the National Association of Wool
knutscurers, and Edward A. Greene,
a Philsdelphia. president of the Phiia=
Iphia Wool Merchants Association.
appointed to present to Congress- q
81 kedule Of the customs duties a opted
1.-THE conference, and the convention
lourned sine die.
The schedule adopted by the confer
Be is similar in many respects TO the
III of 1867 All of the classes remain
btical with the existing wool tariff.
= yates of duty, however, are increased
follows: On woods, first-0lass, where
value is 80 cents or less per
a. ind, an addition of II per cent. adj
rem, is added to tho existing duty
*Ocents per pound where the value
Aeeds 50 cents per poand, an addi-