Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-23
Tcll-Disguised Affection.

Democratic tariff destructionists profess to
be the friends Of the farmer and the wage
Garner IN what way is their profound love
of the toiers made manifest! Let us see.
The farmers of America Eaye $500, 900 900
invested in the wool-growing industry. In
Ohio alone the flock masters receive annually
for wool from $1,000 00J to ST, 000,0 coo. This
Is a very important item to them. The re-
turns from wool are highly important NIT
ter in the yearly incomes OF 100000 farmers
in this country and TWICE 500 coo more people
are directly concerned. Yet thor temperate
friends" propose TO put wool on the free list,
and thus throw open our markets to the wool
of Australia and South America raised by
cheap labor and without expense for grazing
the sheep being her,led upon public land
and shipped to our ports in sailing Veesels at
trif!ng cost. Imports Of wool have more
than doubled since the tariff reduction OF
1888 and there has been material d, cline in
prices. This shows the claim of FREQ traders
that we need foreign wool 10 mix" with the
domestic article and that the price will in
crease rather than decline Under such an
arrangement, 10 be simply idle chatter. Free
wool would destroy the great wool-growing In
terest representing an investment Of $780,
100000: it would be q ruthless and brutal
blow at the American farmer. What com
pensation is offercds Not cheaper clothing
for there is no such promise. The clothing
worn by farmers, and by three-fOurths OF the
people, is as cheap In this country today as
In England. Is free salt the woolgrowers
recompense2 Representative Johnston, of In
diana, in a speech in the house the other day,
said he could find nothing else; and the
enormous benefit to flow from this source Is
apparent when we consider the present exor.
bitant price Of salt-thirtv cents barrel, In
GLIDING the DARRELL Notwithstanding all ine
phrases the to contrary. the policy advocated
BY democratic 'friends" Of the farmer Is moth
Ing better than simple spoliation.
What OF the worhiDgmans In what man
ner do his democratic "friends" promote his
interests, In the Mills bill! Dir. c. A. Scott, the
iron roofing manufacturer OF this city, him
self democrat but not of the Mills Cleye.
land school, has shown what a boon free tin
plates would be 10 the wage-earner. He says
'Our sheet mills Of the country produce
about 800 900 tons annually. Fifty thousand
tons enter consumption as sheet iron roofing
and siding and $4,000 tons for galvanizinC
purposes. The wage.earners' distribution
from these combined industries aggregate:
100000. Free tin plates would destroy
these industries" He says further: PRO
perly protected, tin plates would add 2S0, 0OI
tons Of sheet IRON and steel TO our annual
production, and increase the benefits Of the
wage.earner S25, 000, 900 annually from the
pig to the finished product, not estimating
the additional enormous increase in work
men and wages from the coal and ore In the
hills" The democratic friends" of labor
| not only refused to properly adjust The
duties on Tin plateg end sheet iron, bu
| placed the former on the free list. The etfec
| Of this would be, II the Mills bill should be
come law, to not only paralyze the shee
| iron industries, which. as above shown, ar,
| Of vast importance to labor, but also stop TIT
| development of our tin mines. The demo
| cratic programme OF tariff revision ant
| demolition would seriously affect half hun
| dred other manufacturing and mining In
| dustries, employing an army OF workers.
The labor Of this country has quite as lit
| tie reason to be grateful to the democrats
party Ior i.s .ht interests I've s as nave N
full on the point OF a nusqito's eyelash. =
| Cincinnati Times.