Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-03-19
Carpet WORCESTERSHIRE Testimony.

Carpet WDol-Deeisive Testimony.
Evidence on one disputed point ]
accommodating rapid y, and, a. usual
the facts when ascertained 20 sgaius
the Free Trader. For years it has heel
affirmed. and sspositively denied. tina
large part of the wool i'm ported a
carpet wool was In fact used in tn
manufacture of cloth. Free trade nd
vocates have denied IL, in order to b.
able to say that the duties on carre
wool were OF no use whatever, benefit,
ed no American wool growers, anC
could berepealed without hurting any
The Tribune has often submitted
evidence to show that wool thus i'm
ported WAS used in cloth manufacture,
but 1t hss met with insolent denial,
Ia the you. don't-know-anything'
tone. and once or twice with an array
of figures pur PORTING To prove i'refra
gablv that ~ imported carpet wool
couldb b so Used.
Two witnesses have just testified
from opposite sides of the tariff ques.
ton. .Mes.r>. Justice, Bsteman 4 Co..
wool merchants, of Philadelphia, sup.
port the protective tariff, while RIbt,
Bleakie & Co.. manufacturers, at
Hyde Park, Mass, openly declare
their desire that clothing "a well NJ
carpet wool should be made free. After
arguing sad occa.iouly threat aniog
for some months in favor of free wool,
"The American Wool reporter" of
September %, puolic!y asked Mr..
Robert Bleakie, as a manufacturer
especially competent and Trustworthy,
to testify "whe her any woods import
ed rs third-class or carpet wool are
used to displace first or second class
wool In the menufscture of clo'b
clothing purposes" His reply may
have been u surpl lie for he say:
Ip reply. ] will state thst ! am
satisfied that many millions of pounds
of t~hird-class or carpet woods are
used for making cloth for clothing
purposes. Three years ago The firm of
Robert Bleakie d Co, If which | am
= member, placed upon the market
o line Of Scptcb cheviot goods made
from domestic clothing wool. We
we're surprised to find goods similar
10 ours offered and sold by Philsdrl-
phia manufacturersat prices less than
the o Of our goods ut the mill.
Upon investigation, We discovered
that the PHilsdriphit goods were
made from the fine edge of carpet
wool, that Is to say. he finer sorts
had been taken from u e CARPET wool,
and the beautiful cheviot goods, for
making which Scotland isfamous had
been degraded by the substitution
of cheaper wool IT, reach a price salts
factory to the buyer OF cloth. We
we're obliged simply To withdraw the
goods which we had made from our
domestic wool. and follow the ex-
ample Of our enterprising competitors,
some of whom 1 know today are
making a business OF producing
clothing goods, using nothing but car
pet woods. Our firm has used of these
carpet wools, during our lest run on
chevoits, about 10000 mounds, equal
for cloth making purposes to over 300.
600 pounds II Georgia wool, owing to
it, lighter shrinkige.
TDls seems 70 be testimony not
easily co~ntroverted by closet theorists
OF frf e-trade organizers. and the state
ment that some competitors now
making a business of producing
clothing goods, using nothing but car-
pet wool" deserves their especial at
tention. Meanwhile Messrs. Justics,
Bateman q Co., in their latest circu-
lars to customers, remark:
One not engaged In the sales of low
grades Of American wOol-. such as ARE
known M one-quarter blood and
common, cannot r.alizs the extent TO
which carpet woods are being used for
clothing purposes, TO the exclusion Of
the low grades OF domestic. One-quar.
ter blood woods that brought from ~
70 81 cents In June, are now difficult
70 sell from 20 to q cents. In can
wasting the mills with samples Of
one-quarter blood wool, the
fact n revealed that In almost every
direction the better grades OF carpet
woods are being used for clothing pur-
poses. The descriptions most used are
Bagdad. East Indian, selected portions
Of Turkey, Syrian and Persian woods.
II ID the custom abroad b sort out the
grades of these carpet woods,
such % are being used for clothing
purposes, ship them TO America and
enter them at the carpet rate OF duty,
the corsest portion being left in Europe
and resold there. The large use NJ
these woods In clothing causes Amer-
can one-quarter blood woods to be neg
aud the decrease in the sheep
In the United States during the Last
few years has been almost exclusively
In those yielding coarse wool; they
are known M mutton sheep, aud the
decrease In these fiocks IL thus also
decreasing the food supply Of the
States.