Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-11-27
Excellent Reasons Urged Why
Farmers Should Favor the Re-
publican Protective Idea,
AS Well as Why LabOring Men
Should Take the Same View
of American Economics.
Humbug Exposed in Regard to the
Necessity Of the Importation
of Certain Kinds of Wool.

600, 900, 600 pounds of unwashed wool, OF
which we pr )duce about 240, 0O0, 900 and
import in the form of WOOL wastes, noils
camel's hair and in wooden goods the
equivalent of 800, 10000, 900 pounds.
We should have, and with sufficient
protection will have, 100000, 900 sheep
capable of producing all the wool of all
kinds needed in this country With this
number of sheep large proportion will
be found in the territories of the coarsest,
hardest varieties, and there always will
be larger number elsewhere of unskiltul
wool growers who will produce inferior
sheen of the coarser classes without proper
care, and the "breech" and hip lock-
wool of these will yield a suficiency of the
coarse, hairy and kenny woods.
1t will now show what our sheep should
be, and with adequate protection will be,
and how we can secure all the needed car
pet woods
With hundred million sheep, one-half
should be coarse wool sheep, the residue
should be merinos-the fine wool sheep.
liz 1884 about one-half of our then Do, 5OO,-
600 sheep were merlnos and one-haif
coarse wool sheep; but under the reduced
CARPET wool duties of the act of 1888 our
sheep of 1889 consists of only about %
per cent. of coarse wool sheep-l0, 375, 900
and Is per cent. of merinos-3l l25, 600;
the deficiency in coarse wool is furnished
by imports of so-called carpet woods. In
order to produce the required 600,000 900
pounds of wool we need $4,000, 600 coarse
wool sheep and 50,000,000 merinos, OF
the coarse wool class the Southdowns
Shropshires, Cotswolds, Lincolns, Leices-
tershires, Oxford DOWNS and other downs
would constitute one-half, say 25,000,00
sheep producing an average OF seven
pounds per head of unwashed woods, or
l75,000,000 pounds in all. Fully one
tenth of this being the hip locks " and
"breech" wool, would be 'strictly carpet
wool" not suitable for ordinary good
clothing purposes making in all l7,000,-
600 pour d..
Or secured Russian Donskoi carpet wool,
and secured American "breech and hip
lock" Cotswold wool, it is impossible for
any person butsa thorough expert to dis
tinguish the one from the other. In a
conference between wool growers ;and In
grain carpet manufacturers held In Wash
ington D. c., April D. 1890, Mr.. Alex
ander Grow, Jr., a prominent carpet manu-
facturer of Philadelphia, stated that
the Costwold wool is the best
carpet wool which can be used
for carpet worsted, that is. for the warps
of ingram carpets. Thus the Cotswod
and similar long wool sheep produce the
long combing wool required for the warp
t OF TnesG CdrpUts. Every man WHO OWLS Uf11
of these sheep is thus directly interested
in having market for the 'breech and
hip lock wool of these sheep for carpet
manufacture. de is interested in pro
tective tariff which will keep the foreign
competing product out
Another 25,000,000 coarse wool sheep
shouldconsist fithe coarsest breed OF sheep
called common sheep" with some quarter
blood and crosses with Cotswold sheep.
producing an average of five pounds un-
washed woo per fleece, or in all l25 Co.,
900 pounds, all of which would he good
carpet woods, unexcelled by any in the
world. The .'breech' and chip lock
woods would be exclusively carpet stock, or
about 100000 pounds. Much of the
residue would be suitable to manufacture
into good cloths, blankets and ladies dress
goods, braids as well as carpets, thus secur-
ing for all who may require it, cheap but
good, durable clothing goods.
Thus every laboring man in the country
is directly interested in such protection as
will encourage the raising of coarse wool
sheep. While making the best wearing
carpets, this wool also makes the best wear
ing clothing. This wool would also fur
nish the ''woof" or filling" for ingram
carpets, so far as new wool would be need
ed. The filing of the cheaper carpets
would be largely made and properly so of
redyed wool (shoddy) and cow and calf
hair.
Mr.. r. Lewis Rutter, of Philadelphia,
connected with one of the largest wool
houses in the city, in an article IN the
Philadelphia Press of April %, says:
The assumption that there is a true
carpet wool which is only used in making
carpets and cannot be used in cloth for
clothing purposes, is an error There Is no
line of division by which an expert can
distinguish between carpet and clothing
woods, because the latter are used for both
purposes. A few years ago the largest
firms in the city received large amounts OF
coarse wool from Colorado and Mexico
suitable for carpets as well as clothing.
Many of the 1eeces weighed from eight to
twelve pounds, the staple measuring SIX
to ten inches in length. This wool was
from Mexican sheep improved by coarse
wooded rams of English blood. A duty ON
low W oil will encourage our farmers
to raise class of sheep of large car
Cass
The coarse woods from semi-oarbarous
countries are not necessary for carpets. ano
nave not been extensively used in England
of late years, because English (longl wool
was better. English carpets have been
made of English woods c ssed by our tariff
as combings under 'clasi 2 (combing
woolsl. There is no duty on
merino wool in Canada. but there IS a
small duty @ cents per pound on coarse
wool, and that has developed class Of
coarse wooded mutton sheep which are
not exceled in the world, and which pro-
duce feeces of clean washed wool weigh
ing from eight to twelve pounds each,
good either for carpets or clothing This
makes an excellent carpet wool and IS
similar to the English and Scotch wool used
In England for. that purpose.
And this shows how every family IN the