The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-03-25

Tor goods manufactured in shis coun ~ thu
same price viii n you pay for gOr-igu-na /,
g rods of the same grade; that price being
greater than the fair prico by The amount Y.
the duty imposed.
With characteristic deception, my
opponent writes a number of express
siOns, and a attributes them to me, IN
sorupulously 1ncloslng them in Inverted
| commas. One of these makes me a +,
ave will buy this wool with gold and
| silver from our mines This Is exactly
the opposite of what did say. My
words were, the money is generally
not Sent at ALL" also, products are
bought with products NY proof that
some amount of money must be ex-
ported or our currency will deprecIats,
l. changed into the above sentence. He
quotes me again as saying, I'VE must
grow more wheat, and for tn extra
cash we get for it, buy wool" I said no
such thing. Wherever nay paper does
not say what he would like it to say he
. changes the words and the sense, and
| then makes a little argument against
each of these expressions, endeavoring,
not slw Us with success, however. TO
demolish scarecroWs of his own Gre
aCOn.
He also asserts that do not believe
my own figures after I proved that
the sheep decreased in several eastern
states at the rate o. over one million a
year during the years of highest pro
lection; because | said, attach no
great Importance to the above stats
TICS" since hey show merely THAT
sheep-raisIng as an Industry continuity
migrateS to places VIII. re la d is CD. ap.'
He found decrease In late years and
Immediately declared it to be due TO
the tariff revisit n; found a similar
decrea in former years and di not
attribute it to the high tariff but e.
the fact Gas claim) that the land Their.
is becoming too valuable to be used for
raising sheep; he says 1.-The land they
occupy is not b coming valuable only
as the sheep make it so" 1t therefore |
remains for him to explain wny the
sheep so rapidly decreased in numb |
during the very heyday of protection. |
He refuses my explanation in order to |
insinuate that am dishonest; hence |
insist that he shall explain the former |
decrease or acknowledge that the re-
cent decrease was moi occasjoned by the |
tariff reduction.
Mr.. Thompson's reasoning intended |
to prove that Amerlca n wool will bring
only 5cts a pound when the tariff is re-
applies also to foreign wool
He says We will have to sell for the
same as the foreigners do" Just so.
The foreigners sell to-day at the follow
ing rates:
"Buencs Ayres wool ID cents per
pound at the place If export; P ru,
quality, % cents; Cape of
food dop', "a cents; Australian Port
Philip average fleece, "a cents" This
8 the prizes of foreign raw wool wi .hout
any tariff; hence ''uniess some process ,
8 discovered by which foreigners car,
afford to sell wool at cents per pound
n the United States markets which ,
;Hev now sell at several times that price ,
n their owa COUNTY there is no danger ,
threatening wool growers in the tariff :
A former sch 4dule show d | ,
urther that during the last sc years /;
he price of American wool was ever
.reatest when the protection was least.
Finally nv opponent says, "the wool =
Industry does not interfere materially '
With any otser in iustry in the Terri
ory.' The facts overturu,ng this a
tatement have been so frequently sta I.
ed by cattle men and others, and ars ii
o generally known, that it need Tot il
ere be answered. {.