The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-10-10
a HOME MARKET FAILURE.

---u 1AAnufActurefS OF HooI-kfoH Ia
nigh Duties On Wool Have Faiisd to En-.
courage Wool drowning aud Wool Manu-
i.etaring at the Same Tims-The Interest.
OF the Grower and the manufacturer Ire
oonciiabie-Let the People Have Their
Inning.
The protectionists fancy that they
can make a kind of protection on wool
and on wooden goods which will recon-
CHE the conflicting interests of the
WOOL grower and the manufacturer. In
order to do this they put high duties on
WOOL to stimulate its protection; and
wnen they come to protect the wooden
manufacturer they not only impose q
high ad valorem duty on wooden goods,
but they give him also a so-called com
pensatory duty" of so much per pound
or per yard on the competing foreign
products in order to compensate him for
the high duties he paid on his foreign
wool, or for the tarif-increased price he
paid for his homegrown wool
In this way, by piiing up tariffs, the
protectionists vainly hope to make both
the grower of wool and the manufact-
urer of cloth prosperous, and to hear
them both calling down blessings upon
our henehcent system OF protection.
The protectionists make for themselves
very pretty pictures of the excellent
workings of their system. They take
especial delight in showing how it
brings the wooden mills near to the
wool growers And then just see what
an enormous saving of FIRE ght both
ways. A factory just at hand with
many operatives to be fed with garden
truck. Truly protection is Il good thing
it blesses him that gives and him
that takesf'
A beautiful dreami Let us see how il
is fulfilled Ohio is the State which.
more than all Others has moved heaven
and earth to get high duties on wool 1t
is there that the so-called political
shepherds" live and have their being-
viz, Delano, Harpater and Lawrence
In a State like this the protectionist
dream ought to be realized. Any wooden
mill there ought to have q smooth road
to prosperity.
What are the facts2 The Dry Goods
Economist prints the following piece of
news: THE wooden mill at Findlay,
o., has ceased to do business, and the
building is now used a glass factory"
The mill at Findlay was doubtless
among that largo number (James Do
Ian. the great protcctionist wool manu-
facturer. of Philadelphia, said in his.
letter to Senator Quay one-half of all
the mills in the country which were
shut down during the summer.
But why did this mill select the glass
Industry The reason is plain Foreign
window glass. last year paid an average
duty OF los per cent, and Mckinley has
been trying to make the duties still
higher. Does not this confirm the
statement quoted approvingly by Sena-
tor Plumb from friend of his
that "the American manufacturer
does not manufacture any thing
he can not make certain
and great profit on. and that he stands
out of the way of the foreign manufact-
urer as to other articles on which he
can not make satisfactory profits?" Did
the enormous protection ON window
glass tempt the Findlay wooden mill to
change itself into a glass factory? And
on the soil of Ohio, too. where it could
buy its wool right at its doors and prove
the truth of the home market theory!
But the home market theory has
worked no better for the Ohio wool
grower than it has for the manufacturer.
Pennsylvania affords a still more
striking illustration of the workings of
the home market theory when applied
to wool. Philadelphia is the greatest
manufacturing center in America in the
consumption of wool. Surely 'Pennsyl-
vania ought to be the State above all
others where wool growing should
thrive; for there the mills are brought
in large numbers very close to the
growers of wool-a very paradise in
which to gather the fruits of protection
and show how wise, and beautiful, and
good tho home market idea is But how
InISGS the State had 3. AZ. OOO sheep; in
ISsS it had lost 20 in every 100 and had
only 9SI 900 loft That's pretty
howdy-doi" The result of all this high
protection on wool is that sheep
raising has increased only in
the remote West and Northwest where
vast tracts of uncuitivated land can
still be rented or bought at very low
rates A further fact: Notwithstand-
ing the high duties on wool in prospect
when the National Wool Growers Asso-
citation met in Galveston, Tex, several
months ago, that body found it neces-
sary to pass resolution condemning
the sheep-raisers for killing their ewes
for mutton instead of keeping them for
more production.
The high wool tariff, then, has not
satisfied the grower-has it worked any
better with the manufacturer? Before
the Senate took up the Tariff bill
Philadelphia letter to the Dry Goods
Economist made this statement as to
the feeling prevailing among wooden
manufacturers in that city: 'Manu-
facturers are as much dispieased with
the Mckinley bill as are importers, and
their hope for relief is that the Senate
amendments will insist upon free wool
or much reduced duties"
This same paper, which Is the leading
authority in the dry goods trade in this
,
about the middle of August: THE
wool manufacturing interest in this
country is in very unsatisfactory con-
| dition. - At no time since June
has the demand displayed any activity.
For low grades of wooiens made chiefly
from WOODEN substitutes. the demand
has been fairly satisfactory. e. -
There has been larger request for low
! grades of goods than in some years."
In other words, under our high wool
tariff we are getting down to shoddy
basis Hence the shoddy men backed
up the Mckinley bill strongly. The
! editorial goes on: ''Mr. Dolan's free
trade views reflects the opinions and
preferences of the large majority of the
manufacturers OF wool, and is heartily
opposed only by those who use
wool substitutes" This Mr.. Dolan,
whom the Dry Goods Economist
refers to as High Priest Dolan, of the
| inner temple of protection, had just
/ been uuoted Sayin0- ss(.fva ms the