The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-06-10
A DEMAND FOR FREE WOOL.
Tho Wool Consumers Association Advo
Gates FREQ Raw Materials.

Tho Wool COnaumerS Association AoNO-
Gates FREQ Raw Materials.
Boston. Mass. June GA letter will be sent
this week to all the wool manufacturers and
merchants and wholesale dry goods merchants
OF the country by the recently organized Wool
Consumers Association. which ia composed
principally by manufacturers in the Eastern
and Middle States. The letter says:
Your cooperation with tho Wool Consumers AssociR-
ton respectfully invited This organization consists
chiefly OF persons engaged in manufacturing or dealing
in wool woollep goods II 10 tho outgrowth OF two
meetings hold in this city in March by manufacturers
and dealers who wished TO protest against the eXorb
tAut duties wool (which interfere so much with
proper selection Of MATERIAL and with successful com
petition with foreign manufactured and to urge re-
duction Of duties After full discussion It voted TO
advocate free wool and free materials as the essen
tial basis for successful and permanent competition
with foreign goods.
The ground upon which the Wool Consumers AsSo
citation stands is set forth briefly clearly in the petit
ton which sent to Congress last winter by over
500 American wool manufacturers aud merchants
That petition follows: AS the only civilized
country in the world, far Is informed which
leves duty wool, We ask that American in.
dustry may relieved OF this unnatural burden and
the same Whoesome hasis as the cotton mahnfactur.
lug industry win tree raw materiat rms Is also tns
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domestic wool growers and wooen manufacturers
alike. Under tho high tariffs Of the last tvenythrce
years the manufacturers OF clothing and combinE wool
have been heavily aud constantly handicapped, and
yet he wool growers have realized no higher prices
than before for their product On tho other hand they
have been injured BY tho duties: Foreign woos in the
form OF finished fabrics, have been introduced in im
ments OF tho tariff, which have prevented nanutac
from getting the varied supply Of wool required
for making tho goods demanded by the buyers thereby
displa cing American well foreign wool which
would otherwise have been consumed in American mills
H1he foreign manufacturer alone has Rrunteu by the
duties WOO. lie hss been enabled 10 det his mate
rial much cheaper than he could have done II American
competition It had not been almost impossible and
has thus enjoyed AL enormous advantage over manu
wool the domestic cturers are burdened by an
oppressive tax of - TO per cent their material
though practically no carpet wool is grown in the
United States The present. duties on manufactured
goods only in small part protective being largely
made necessary by tho excessive duties on wool and
with free wool the rates on goods which
high to invite odun might be greatly reduced with.
out injury to the manufacturers
1t 10 hoped 10 unite In tho Wool Consumers AssociR
who believe with US in the wisdom Of abolishng or re-
duoing tho taxes wool for the advantage alike OF
growers manufacturers and consumers. our aim 10
to bring together the advOcR of change of policy
this particular with RveW to such subsequent influence
upon public opinion and the course OF legislation
be found practicable. We desire to get into cOmmun
cation with every one in any way connected with the
wooen business who sYmpath!Zes with this movement
In the direction OF free raw materials and asAbe basis
for industrial prosperity II your riows are III sub.
stanAl with the foregoing an early response