Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-08-20
PRoTEcTIoNIsTs ALARMED.

Mr.. Blaine's Reciprocity Views Alarm the
Wool Men and They Write to Mckinley.
Mr.. Blaine's letter to the President in
favor of admitting South American
sugar and wool free of duty, provided
the nations of that continent will re-
move their entries against our farm
products, has stirred up the Ohio WOOL
growers to high pitch of excitement;
and even the wool dealers and the
woolen manufacturers have taken
alarm, for they remember the old threat
Of the wool-growers, that if we ever ges
free wool through the action of the
manufacturers they would take ven
geance upon the wicked manufacturers
by putting woolen cloth on the free list
Accordingly some of the manufactur-
ers and dealers themselves are alarmed
at Mr., Blaine's free trade break" and
a Philadelphia firm, which is one of the
largest wool houses in the country, has
written the following letter to Nc
Kinley:
"The wool market is likely to be thrown
into state OF panic by Senator Hale's free
wool amendment to the Tariff bill proposing
to admit free of duty South American wool in
exchange for the products Of the United
States The shipments, mainly merino wool
from the river Plate alone, amounts to about
100000 pounds, as against the clip of PSI
900 900 pounds in tn United States. The Agri-
cultural Depar -ment estimat sthe number OF
sheep in the United States for 1890 at A. 600 OOO
clipping an average of six pounds each
and making in round figures about ESQ, 900 900
pounds of American wool In addition to
the shipments from the River Plate 1t is
rstim tied that other Souh American sec.
tions producing mixed grades of wOol-tl al
is, carpet woods and clothing wools-pro-
duee about as much moro as is shipped
from the river Plate. The amount of wool
coming to the United states free of duty
tsrouf' the legislation of a Republican Ad-
mlnistration would be such an overwhelm.
ing disaster and disappointment to the
wool growing States that they would most
likely be carried by the Democrats at the
very first election. Such action would be
reg rded as breach of faith by the wool
growers who voted at the election in 1858
directly on the issue of free wool or pro
tected wool.
eff the Blaine Hale amendment is added
to the Tariff bill, admitting South American
wool free. the effect Will be to lower the
price of all American wool fully ten cents
per pound. In our opinion, this amend.
ment proposed by Secretary Blaine is a DO.
litical blunder that involves the Admins
tration. The President will be confronted
with the alternative of signing Tariff bill
which places wool on the free list on the one
hand, or, on the other, Of vetoing the Tariff
BILL to enact which the Administration and
a Republican House of Representatives
were elected mocratic Senators may be
counted on as sure to vote with Republicans
for this amendment for two reasons
THE first will be because 1t contains free
WOO which is Democratic principle. The
second reason, which is a more Important
one in Democratic estimation, is that it will
carry the wool growing Republican States
into the Democra' ranks. Unless this
amendment is nipped in the bud immedi-
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