Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-09-03

chases the adjoining land, giving a mort.
gage for the remaining payments. That
does not mean that he is distressed and In
poverty. 1t means that he is getting or
that he has faith in himself and the
future.
The Price of Wool
There was much said by Gov. Campbell
in his speech at Cleveland about the low
price of wool. He stated incorrectly, and
| have no doubt by inadvertence, that the
farmer of Ohio was only getting 20 cents g
pound for his wool. At the time he made
this statement the farmer was receiving
for his choice clips % and % cents. The
inference from his speech would Ue that
the increased duty on wool is the cause Of
depressed prices. If this be so then the
tariff is not tax. This was not the dem
ocratic doctrine in Ohio in 1888 and 1884
They then believed that the tariff did hep
the wool-grower, and that a greaG outrage
lad been committed upon him when the
duty was reduced II per cent. by the tariff
law Of 1883. They so declared in a docu-
ment issued by the democratic state com
mittee of that year and demanded of the
wool-gro wers of the state that the party
that committed tha' great outrage should
be defeated at the polls. And | may say
in passing that they were defeated. Thei.
statement was that the Ohio wool-growers
had been feeccd out of Sc 100000 by the
reduction of II per cent. of the duty. The
governor was one of those who believed it
then.
The wrong of 1888 was righted at the
first moment that herepubIican party Sc
cured control of congress, and was not
VIC oil 4ho Ioo l.,
in control. The new law gives the wool
grower better protection than he ever bad
before. The wool of the world has fallen
in price. American tariffs do not fix the
price of forei On wool, but they not stand as
a wall of defense to the American wool
grower against the wool produced on
cheaper lands and by cheaper labor in
other countries.
The Tariff Prophet a Failure.
The predictions made by the enemies of
the new law nine months ago have not
been verified but on the contrary have been
shown to be mere assumptions utterly
without foundation. They served a poll
teal purpose and worked positive injury
to the merchant and the manufacturer and
consumer.
There is contained in the new law re-
c1proc1ty provision by which the admins
tration has already made valuable treaties
with Brazil. San Domingo, and Spain
1t is a provision which in no way en-
croackes upon the protective principle,
nor can it in any way destroy or under
mine our defensive or protective tariff.
There is much criticism about the duty on
tin plate, and fully as much misrepresen-
tatior as there is CRITICISM 1t is said we
cannot make tin plate. How absurd! for
we are already making it, and it will not
be long until we shall make the larger
part of the consumption. We are making
tin plate to-day. It is to be made here in
Niles, democratic Encouragement cannot
stop it; foreign interference cannot check
American genius and resolution.
The tariff of 1890 will win its own way
1t will achieve its own victories and they
will be victories for American labor,
American enterprise, and American
genius. and for the whole American peo-
pie. We neither take our patriotism or
political economy from other nations-if
we had we would yet be in our swaddling
clothes, dependency and province of
Great Britain, instead of the first and best
government on the face of the earth, a
government of equal citizenship, equal op
portunities, and equal laws.