Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-06-25
To BUNCO THE FARMER.
Tho Only object of the Tariff on
wool.

1t Keeps the Price from One TO Nine
Cents Higher than Abroad.
Last year Qseo) we imported
woolen goods which required to
make over 6oo,ooo,ooo pounds Of
grease wool. The total amount of
raw wool which our manufacturers
had was less than 3OO,OOO,OOO
pounds, counting both that which
was imported for cloth and that
which was produced in this country.
Our total wool clip has never amount
ed to more than one-half of that
which we impoated in the manufac-
turcd cloth.
1t is natural that our woolen man
ufacturers, who are barred from i'm
porting their raw material by a
tariff duty of Sc cents upon the raw
material entering into q pound of
cloth, should begin to see that their
interests lie in the direction of free
wool. Very many of the New Eng
land woollen manufacturers are
grumbling at the protection which
compels them to go without the raw
material and see the cloth market
supplied by the American farmer
through an exchange with foreign
manufacturers. They are asking
themselves why they should not
have the "home market" for woollen
cloth, and they cannot see any other
way of getting it than by removing
the tax on their raw material.
The Home Market Club, of Bos-
ton, the special union Of the pro-
tected manufacturers of New
England, has undertaken to convert
these recalcitrant manufacturers
from the errors of their ways. 1t
understands thoroughly that the tar
iff on raw wool has bought for them
the Republican farming vote of this
country. 1t understands thoroughly
that to put wool on the free list is
to kill the Republican party-even
in Vermont, where the sheep vote.
1t has issued a pamphlet Of thirty
two pages directed especially to the
wool manufacturers of the country,
entitled "Protection of Wool-From
the Standpoint Of the Manufacturer"
The first part is an address delivered
in February by David Hall Rice,
and to this is added the opinion of
experts in regard to the protection
Of wool, and the book closes by
proving to the manufacturer that
the price of American wool would
advance to him if the duty should be
removed. 1t tells him in so many
plain words that the present tariff
on wool is green-goods game
played upon the American farmer to
swindle him out of his vote in favor
of protection. 1t goes further than
this. It proves to these manufac-
turers-by giving them the figures
that the price of wool in this coun-
try for the past ten years has been
from one cent to nine cents per
pound lower than 1t has ever been
abroad, and that the American far
mer could have sold his wool from
one cent to nine cents higher in
Liverpool or London than he could
sell it ON his farm. Here are it's
words, which are printed in large
type, as the final argument and last
appeal to the wool manufacturer:
It's a maistakensdeo soitA nsany 7eaa1fac-
ts17ers that foreign prices Of aoooz are neces-
sa,szy zosoe, than home prices uader rrotec-
ton. They aoeragt hsghsr. They wcuzd
6emueh higher 6uttor a large and sertasr,
domestic supply The tosso,osug table Is IN
stractioe::
Foreign average Average Price
price Of all wools Of all Amer
atports ofexporta- ican woods
tion, without duty. at the farm.
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