Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-07-18
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Over the Eyes Of the Farmers whom
They Robbed Last Year.

i CldlIn tlldt the pfeeeuJ Price OF NOui -
due to the Republican administration
all, again, for their own political bene-
fit. They say that wool is now selling
for a higher price than 1t did last sea-
SOD aRd this. they assert, Is because u
Republican, instead of . Democrat, Is
President of the United States.
Never was an assertion more false and
fallacious and more designed to deceive
the people than that Cleveland's ad-
ministratioD had anything to do with
the price of wool last season, or that
Harrisonis administration hasanything
to do with the price of wool this season.
The price of wool, in both cases, was
determined by entirely different causes,
utterly independent of the accidental
fact of who happened to be President
at the two different times. 1t would be
just as reasonable. sensible aud Just, to
say that HarrisOn's administration was
responsible for the JOhnstown horror,
because it happened while Harrison
was President, as TO say, on the other
hand, that Harrison's administration
caused the present price Of wool. .
Every intelligent, candid man, wheth-
er he be Democrat or Republican,
knows perfectly well what caused the
depression in the price of wool last sea-
son. It was simply the result of f.
nancial and political conspiracy by
which the faces of the wool growers of
this country We're ground between the
upper and neither mill-stOnes of the
Republican demagogue and the eastern
wOOlen manufacturer. The eastern
woolen manufacturer wanted to buy
wool as cheap as possible. The Repub-
lican demagogue wanted to make all
the political capital he could out of the
tariff scare. So, they all Joined hands,
the Republican demagogle and the
eastern wool-buyer and wool manufae-
turer, and taking advantage of the star
iff scare" they had themselves made,
they forced the price of wool down to
twenty-five cents and tried to make it
go still lower. A meeting of eastern
woOl-buyers and manufacturers was
held at Philadelphia last season, where
the whole scheme was planned. They
found willing allies in Republican dem
agogues, both on the stump and in
their newspapers, in carrying out the
scheme. .....ra.. .s.a .. ... ,.-..
The modus operandi was very simple,
The eastern wool-buyer and the Repub-
lican editor and stumper told the WOOL
growers of the country that Democratic
free trade was going to ruin the wool
business. They told them that wool
was only worth twenty-five cents
pound then, and that if Cleveland was
elected, it would not be worth that, and
that they had better sell for twenty
five cents while they could get it. The
result was, as they intended, that they
got up sort of panic among the farm
ers, who were willing to take anything
they could get for their wool, being |
by the infamous lies of these |
financial and political tricksters. The
was that the wool sold and |
the eastern wool-buyer and wool-man-
ufacturer put into their own pockets |
the difference in price that should have
gone into the farmers pocket, while the
demagOgues made all the |
votes they could out of the infamous |
transaction. .f,s-.. .u.a
And yet, every pound of wool that
sold last season at deprecated price |
was sold, not under the Mills bill, nor
under "free trade" or ''free WOOL" But
every pound of that wool was sold un-
der the present existing tariff on wool.
That tariff that Republican demagogues
claim is for the protection" of wool,
but which did not keep the price of
wool from going down as it did last
It is another notable fact, too,
hat as soon as the wool was sold last
summer and the artificial depression
brought about by the above conspiracy
was removed, wool went up to its nor
NAL price and it sold as high last fall,
lnder Cleveland's administration, as it
nas this summer Every pound of
wool that sold for % cents last season
was worth 80 cents pound and would
nave brought that price, had it not been
ior the above infamous conspiracy and
A great many farmers were obliged
% sell last summer for what they were
offered, because they needed the money
light at that time. Some others were
more fortunate in that respect and were
lble to be Independent enough to hold
heir wool over till last fall. Those
who did thus hold their wool over sold
t last fall, under Cleveland, for the
anne price that it is bringing to-day.
Moreover, there has been another
pecial reason for the price of wool this
eason, and that is the scarcity of the
WOOL supply. The supply has fallen off
n the old world, and in this country
Ilso the production of wool has decreas-
ID, or at least has not kept up in ratio
With the demand for woolen products.
rhe natural consequence is, a scarcity
II wool, and that, again, increases the
,rice. The tariff, or Harrison's admin
has had NO more to do with
hat result than has the man, in the
noon, for we have exactly the same
ariff laws this year, under Harrison,
hat we had last year under Cleveland. /;
Nj this Republican clap-trap about the
ariff increasing, the price of wool
ounds very idiOtic to every well-in-
ormed man, who knowns that the price !
Il wool, both this season and last sea-
on, was determined, not by the tariff ,
tut by the free trade market of London.
Free trade England fixes the price of
American wool, no matter what the.
ariff is or Is not. And while the farm
r may be getting a few cents pound
more for his wool this year than at this
ime last year, it is simply becausehe
vas robbed last year. At the same time
lie probably las less wool to sell this
,ear than last, and he is certainly get
ing less for his wheat and other pro-
lucts, while he Is still paying the Re-
,ublican monopoly tariff tax Of $47 on
very 500 worth of the necessities of
life that he buys. Ne,Udrk AdUertiseq. II
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