The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-08

erect to AZ cents, and has been falling
ever since. Meantime the price of most
OF the foreign wool has been higher than
ours, and English, French and German
merchants every year invade our markets
and buy up large quantities of our ''pro-
tected" wool for the simple reason that it
Is usually the cheapest wool in the world.
we can readily understand therefore,
why the Sheep Breeders and Wool Grow
ers association of two counties in New
YORK state should have passed the follow
ing resolutions last month:
I've recognize that the wool duty is a de-
fusion and snare to the wool grower and that
IL mas largely been instrumental in driving to
Inc wall an industry it was calculated to benfit.
S-Prlor to 1867, under the various changes OF
'ne WOOL duties, the price of wool fuctuated,
not In sympathy with the tariff, but by reason
Oh inc ever controlling law of demand and sup
ply tne grower having received high prices and
low prices under high tariffs, and, conversely.
low prices and high prices under low tariffs,
S-The success of the wool grower depends on
the success of the woo1len manufacturer. while
lhe American manufacturer is seriously handi-
capped Dy reason of being compelled to pay ex
orpitant tariff taxes on every pound of clothing
WOOL imported for necessary admixture, while
all foreign countries of any consequence have
the benefit of free wool, and are thus enabled to
undersell our manufacturers
4-Ihe great wool tariff of 1857 resulted in
driving. from the eight chief wool-producing
states-for whose special benefit said tariff was
conceived and passed-more than SO per cent.
OF their sheep in a single decade, while the
prlce OF wool declined in nearly corresponding
ratio.
o-The importation of foreign wool increased
from ABOUT tWenty-siX million pounds in 1867 to
more than one hundred and twenty six million
POUNDS IN 1871, just four years succeeding the
highest duty ever imposed on wool and woolens
o-During eight OF the past eighteen years the
foreign price of imported clothing woods at the
last port of export actually exceeded the price
OF our domestic fleece in the markets of Boston
New York or Philadelphia, while in no single
year did the domestic woods bring the foreign
price, plus the du y.
O7-England France and Germany are the only
three countries in the world that export wooden
manufactures in excess of the imports OF raw
WOOL; IN other words, these countries by admit
tlng WOOL free, have created demand for their
nome wool in excess of all woods required to
clotne their people, and after giving employ
ment TO labor, export more wool than they have
imported The United States, on the other
hand by imposing high duty On raw wool, has
not only destroyed our export trade, but so
thfottled our manufacturers as to rIin the mar
ket for domestic fleece and give to the English,
French and German manufacturers the cream
OF our markets for cloths.
S-The free importation of raw wool into the
United States would knock out the imports of
WOODEN goods and would revive the present de-
pressed state of our own manufacturers, thus
giving employment to labor here and create an
Increased demand for our strong woods for
necessary admixture
9-Recognizing the truth of the above facts.
therefore, we, the members of the Ontario and
Livingston Sheep Breeders and Wool Growers
association in convention assembled. most re-
spectfully petition Congress to Immediately
place wool and wooden manufactures on the free
list, in order that their industries may again
thrive and assume that magnitude commensur-
ate with nation of 63 600, 600 of people.