Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-08-28
Total loss to tho wool industry ss55, oOO, 600

If wool be placed on the free list, our
wooden manufacturers will obtain their
raw material $25, 10000 less than they
now do under protection. Will the people
of the United States get the full benefit
of this sum in the ch%eapening of their
wooden goods3 We think not; but ut
least one-half of this amount will go to
} the manufacturers and merchants in the
\ way of increased profits, and this small
sum of $25, 900, 900 is all the saving which
the manufacturers and people can pos
sibly make to offset the enormous shrink
age enumerated above.
We are now growing in the United
| States nearly q full supply of the finer
sorts of wool, and only require to import
on an average about Is, 100000 pounds to
give us q full supply. Continue protec-
tion for a few years end we shall raise all
the finer wool we require, and a large part
of our carpet woods.
The Importation of worsted goods at
the present low and unjust rate of duty
has inflicted o very serious loss on manu-
f~acturers of this class of goods, and
stopped their mills and increased the i'm
portation of these goods enormously
since 1883. This should be corrected, and
worsted should be made to pay the same
dnty as woolens.
The admission of ring, thread, rowing
and slubbing waste under q duty of 10
cents per pound has caused a most serious
loss to the owners of woods, for every
pound of this SO called waste takes the
place of a pound of fine secured wool
: and the extensive use of it IS the princi
, pal cause of the large quantity of terri
, tory, California and Texas wool now re
, naming unsold on the markets. l
should have q duty laid upon it the SAM
as secured wool (Which it virtually is) Q
30 cents per pound.
v These two great companion industries
the growing of wool and the manufactur
OF wooden goods, are inseparable an
should be protected equally; the MANI
!, fac3urer TO the extent of tie difference /
Z the cost of manufacturing in Europe
= compared with that of America, and th
!, wool growers to the extent of the ditfe.
= ence In the cost of raising wool in ha
y civilized countries and that Of raising it
= the United States, where land, labor an
!. living are so much higher.
!, Competent Judges claim that the est
20 mates of loss given above might be i
/, creased one hundred million dollars wit
out exaggerating the facts.
f. The production of American wool and
Of American wool manufactures, under pr
~ lection, has since 1859 increased fast
re than our population, and has been steadi
20 ~supplanting foreign woods and foreit
10 goods, the only exception-carpet woods
10 being chiefly woods not grown in Il
United States, and admitted under lc
,b duties.
The reports of the United States bure'
of statistics completely refute the clai
10 of Premier Mills that this country a u
N produce the wool required for its manuf:
lures, OF. manufacture the wooden goo
nd needed for it's people.
They also demonstrate beyond questi
the powerful influence of our protect
policy on the Developments OF our w
"a and wooden industries. and they indies
clearly the disasters which would foil
ha the overthrow of this policy.-Washil
~ ton Best.