Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-08-21

s6g pounds Of wool, or n pounds per
capita Fine wool then sold for a. cents
4 pound In 1850, after ten years OF a
revenue tariff, the production Of wool had
Increased only to 5o,3sf.si5 pounds,
which was II pounds per capita, being
ore pound less per capita than ten years
| before In Isgo fine wool sold for 80
cen,s a pound, or - cents pound more
than In 1880 That was what revenue
| tariff did for wool-decreased the prodae
tion one pound per capita and increased
the price by giving foreigners control OF
the market Now let as see what pro
| lection did for the same article.
The tariff on wool was greatly in
creased and in 1869 this country pro
duced i62. 000, 900 pounds, or ~ pounds
| per capita. In nine years il more than
doubled the production per capita, and
AZ the same time reduced the price ten
cents a pound. After the heavy increase
in the duty on wool in 1861, the prodac-
ton Increased RAPIDLY, and prices went
down. In 1879 the production OF wool
had increased To 232 800, 900 pounds, and
the price Of fine wool had declined
bal, nv m "A cents.
=, y.o, .,a ,ie,a WA increased
l. .,ou ooo noo noonds mr. sal
pounds per capita. This was the end OF
|. 49, h,,h ,a,,T =, wooI An nnwjse re-. |
tua,,o, {, IN. aptv which took effect
,ha, ra.r .rres,ed the production OF do
-. ,uol nd Z, ,slt ar from year 10
go ,,,l rho Mckinley Hill took effect. |
r. ,.n uoar. ,,asr the high tariff. with
increasing domestic production every
,,aa, N. nr,o. q, wool fell X cents a |
oor,d +, s,x vears under the modI
sod ,.rtg Nth domestic nroduction fall. |
|, ,, 81 ar.r, vs,r the nrice of wool de. |
Tired only q cents a mound.
Til. ircr.s.ed nro,ec.ion IN wool has
,owarod .h,ood the nr,ce of wool. But
| Pho a.cI,,e ar home has only been from
,,ou nor cont nm fine wool. while
| abroad tbare has been a decline of more
| than twice that amount on similar
| grades. This shows that, while the Nc
| Kinlev act has increased production at
home. Il has also helped to maintain
| rates against the heavy onslaughts of
foreign producers. The Australian mar
ket ia practically controlled by few
men. and 40 are other foreign markets.
"A regards the statement so often
made 10 the effect that carpet woods cam
not b. produced in this country, high
authorities estimate d 900, 600 pounds of
domestic wool are used for carpets
| The imports of foreign wool for the
year ending June 30 were u 0O0, 600
pounds less than for the previous year.
| The imports of manufactured wool were
nearly sl5 900 900 less in value. while
the exports of carpets trebled, and there
WAS nm increase in the exports OF other
wooden goods. THIS shows very large
increase in the consumption of domestic
| wool. and all this without increasing
prices to consumers.
rr ,,,.t i,,e limos, everv workingman
l., n. ,-osa Union has hoard of Brice,
| An. sar, .,o N.w yo,t press I. ia
,,o ,,i.oa &, Tor,esses vbere wretcbed
corv;e,s treated worse than the yIlest
l.; Ma, yorl, o;tv Ia trested have been
obi, norav ,or Rr;ca that millionaire
nomocrs, and SENATOR elect n, ohio and
NJ vt. ,ha man who "a cba,rms, of
,hs psmocr,tic national committee. man.
aged the campaign OF 1883 Driven by
the UPRISING of freemen 10 Eastern Ten.
| nessee. and hy public Indignation which
the exposures CONSEQUENT on that up
rising aroused. the Tennessee state
hoard OF prison inspectors have at last
ordered tn. eonyicts GU, OF the Brice.
willie mines This hard on moor Brice
Us and hi, feIlow owners of Briceyille
will actually have to emnloy free labor
and nay something 70 honest work
iromen for doing their work No won.
der Rr;ce ia gloomy. He had a picnic
In convict labor The couyicts did not
have anything Ike picnic. But what
did their groans and suiierings matter as
long as dividends rolled in from Briee'
vile And what did it matter that Tree
miners were going without the opportu
nifty to earn their bread rs long as the
conviets earned gold for Brice and com
pany. Free labor has won victory
over a rotten Democratic ring that TAT
tened on convict labor
| Neither Governor Tillman of South
| Carolina nor his private secretary can
he possessed of very ne feelings The
Governor gave his private secretary q re-
prieve for two people who were going to
be hung, with instructions TO use it as
he deemed best but II possible to get
them to confess. These two people,
man and woman, were influenced in
every way TO make confession and the
proceedings for the hanging went so far
that the moose was placed about the
necks of the prisoners, SAYS dispatch,
'ei''' '"' -- -er--e-- y Us $3.50
One effect Of the investigation of the
wage question in England which is now
being made by the Royal Labor COMMITS
sion is likely to be cor eetion OF the III
tisted ideas concerning the wages paid
in that country. The evidence already
gwen SHOWS that t''e hsures seherais
accepted DO h'' sg'ee win 'he "4"''
l given nv inc men IN lntir v,