Sharp County record., 1891-06-04

amounting in 1890 to $50, 1000, 900, and,
adding duties, sS5, ,OOO 900, represent Ss5,.
900, 900 American value laid down at the
ports, exclusive of freight and other
charges
For the replacing of this vast amount
our own wool supply would be entirely
insufficient, We raise the corresponding
woods in very limited quantities land,
what is more to the point, in receding
quantities) in the older states only.
Texas and California woods have good
felting properties. For combing pur-
poses they are unserviceable. Of comb
ing woods only a limited amount is
raised in the states lying east of the
Mississippi, But most Of the goods used
for outer wear are now made of combed
and not of carded wool.
The same differences we find in En-
glish woods. The Southdown wool is
different from the north country wool;
the Scotch wool different from the En-
glish wools; the Welsh wool different
from the English and Scotch. Even in
Scotland certain woods are grown in
certain parts, so that certain tweeds
can only be made from certain Scotch
woods. Irish wool is different again.
Welsh, Irish and Scotch woods shrink
but very little when manufactured into
fiannels, knit goods, ETC., in the wash
ing; German and American woods very
much NOR so. Australian, Cape and
Plate woods differ again. But these
differences can be made very valuable
by adapting the varying qualities to
the respective fabrics TO Which they
give their special character.
Mr.. Schoenhof says that our wool
manufacturers would have been bene-
fited more by the Mills bill than any
other class of manufacturers. The
Mills bill freed raw wool and gave
protection of 40 per cent. Now, it is
well known that the entire labor cost
in a pound of manufactured woolens,
such as are made in this country, does
in very few instances reach as high as
40 per cent. on the cost of foreign
made article, with which it has to COM
pete. The foreign article not alone
covers the cost of the wool, of labor and
of the incidental expenses of manufact-
ure, but also the interest of capital and
the profits of the manufacturers and
dealers handling the goods. The duty
of 40 per cent, therefore, covers not
alone the cost of foreign labor and the
cost of capital and management, but of
the freed wool itself consumed in the
manufacturing process.
Free wool would have vitalized the
whole range of wool manufacture, now
in a state Of permanent infancy in
constant need of sirups and props.
The only ones benefited by the wool
and war tariff, the shoddy manufacture
ers, quite naturally have been standing
in the breach in defense of the palla-
dium of protection against the enemies
Of the holy faith. 1t is not to be won
dered at that they put their hands deep
into their pockets for the creation of
fund which was to buy an election and
a tariff to their liking. But, strange to
say, many Of those were contributors
who could only be benefited by tariff
reform, as taken up by the democratic
party, downwardly, and injured only
by reforming upwardly, as represented
by the republican party. The present
tariff, the Mckinley act, is the outcome
of their well considered, deliberate de-
mands. They insisted on obtaining, and
they have obtained, a measure which
proceeds in a Numerically opposite di-
rection from what their interests actu'
ally command