The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-11-23
TARIFF ON WOOL.
Timothy Hayseed Outlines the Weel
Growers Position.
Correspondence Of the Register.

Among the questions that present
themselves to the shepherd is the ev-
err present one Of the tariff and its
effects on the price of his clip.
Now that is the question on which
plead guilty to holding some very
decided opinions. The Democrat
ic party during the last Presidential
campaign took the ground that free
wool meant ipcreased manufactures,
thence iacreased demand for wool,
and thence increased prices, and l
have not so far noticed anything
written or spoken to Indicate q
change of opinion.
Now | am Democrat, boru and
bred in the bone, and lam also
sheep raiser, almost to the point Of
crank,ness, and it seems that the
majority of sheep raisers are Rcpub-
licans, so l appear little like
wolf in sleeps clothing when it
comes to discussing the tariff ON
wool But now candidly, and laying
aside all party prejudice, why it tho
fariff on iron makes Mr.. Carnegie,
of Pittsburgh, such bloatcd bond
holder as the anti-protcctionists rep.
resent him. why, repeat, will not
the tariff on wool make me a
b. b. alsop
A great point was scored y, Tho
free wool advocates when the wool
dealers began to make assignments
this past summer and the tariff was
blamed with it. But how was IL
with the iron men two or three years
ago? 1t appears to me that some Of
them went under about the time, but
| didn't hear that the tariff hud any
thing to do with it, and Mr. Carne.
gle went on ilourishing as before
May be bad management had some
thing to do with the failures in both
cases. Many men who undertake
sheep raising make failure OF il
under the same identical condition
that another one succeeds under,
and they can't blame the tariff for
either their failures or successes.
1t is generally the men that make
the difference as much as the tariff.
IL appears to be plain case,
though, that wooden manufacturers
are not likely to be injured by free
wool, but rather the reverse, though
just how his prosperity Is to lielr
the wool growers to any great extent
is point / cannot encompass. es.
pecialIy as the said manufacturer
would have the privilege and incIi
nation TO get his wool where he
pleased which would br whtfc it
was the cheapest every time. And
| would not blame him either.
1t is more likely that Australia
and South America with their mili
climate, free ranges and cheap labor,
would be able to deliver wool TO orr
manufacturers at less figure than
we are now getting. If it was mol inr
the tariff, and il such is the ease. is
not the tariff benefit to the wool
grower TO that extentg And is not
that benefit more marked to the man
with 500 sheep than the man with
25 sheep? There's the rub; it's the
few with the many against them.
The man with the 200 sheep don't
wear any more wooden clothes to
pay tariff on than does the man
with only 25 or no sheep. while he
can well afford to pay what to tho
other men may he burden.
You now begin to think ain d
high tariff advocate. We'll / am.
Under existing conditions. for wool
and wooden goods. And. why? Just
because Mr.. Carnegie is an advocate
of high iron tariff. and that is be-
cause he thinks II puts money into
his pockets. Its simply the old sto-
nv of every man for himself and the
devil to take the hindmost. or
course, the wooden manufactured. !.
wants free wool, because he is com
pelltQ 10 Import, W1lfc w L. OaE0cRlC
wants no free iron because he is not
compelled to import. and the wool
grower, naturally. wants tariff ON
wool to give him monopoly Ms great
as the one enioved by Mr.. Carnegie
-selfishness, selfishness.
But to come right down to the
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