Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-05-28

industry when wool was free and how
the price of wool and the sheep-raising
industry have deteriorated since the
tariff has been put on. He adds:
Because, as my friend, Col. Aleck. Camp
/ bell and other Democrats up here, and
such Republicans as Joseph Medill, OF the
| Chicago Tribune, will tell you free foreign
wool means d higher price for domestic
/ wool by means of a greater consumption OF
the raw material and greater Worldwide
! market for our wooden goods. What non
/ sense, with all due respect to these gentle
/ men.
And again A. w. c. knocks his own
argument in the head by Immediately
adding:
Do we not already import the equivalent
/ of about 300, 600, coo pounds of foreign WOOL
in the shape of wooden goods!
OF course, we do, and there's the rub.
The tariff makes the raw material Of the
American wooden manufacturer so cost
/ ly that he is unable in many lines of
goods to compete with the foreign manu-
/ facturer who gets his wool free. ConSe-
quently, American wooden mills must
shut down or run on half time, and
what We are thus unable to manufacture
ourselves Europe supplies us with. And
4 as the American wooden manufacturer
is the Sole customer of the American
wool grower so must the American wool
growers industry decline in proportion
with the decline Of the American WOODEN
manufacturer industry. A. w. c. con-
tinueS;
Suppose foreign wool to be made duty
free, would we import less or more of 1t!
That is a question, but there is no
doubt that with free raw material
American wooden mills would boom,
and, since we do not raise the kWd of
wool we import, and which we must
have at any cost, child may see that
the American wool grower would re-
ceve corresponding benefit from free
wool, since by compelling the American
wooden manufacturer to pay more for
this foreign wool, which be must have,
the high tariff, also, compels him to cut
off his expenses in other directions and
instead of using the finer American
wool, Such as is grown in the Pan
handle, to mix with the foreign wool,
he uses the cheaper and coarSer wool
grown west of the Mississippi. SO, by
putting up the tariff on wool, it will
be seen that the Ohio wool growers have
tramped on their own toes. This is very
concluSively shown by the decrease in
the price of the wool grown in this sec
ton, the increased importation OF fine
foreign wool and the increased sale of
coarse American western wool. This is
pretty plain; but there are none so
blind as those who will not See,"
and our friend A. W. c. closes his
eyes TO this fact in Mckinley
hypnotic Slumber. A. w. c. ac-
kuowledgeS that "wool does not pay
east OF the Mississippi river, and is
now three or four cents less per pound
than ii was year ago, which decrease,
however, he Stubbornly contends is not
due to the increased tariff, which has
we'll nigh ruined the American wool
growers sole customer, the American
wooden manufacturer. He says 1.-The
price Of wool has always been mercuriar
and that he could show that lin this wool
growing county of Brooke that years
ago it bobbed up and down like dane
ing gig, as indeed did all other farm pro-
ducts" II anything, this is a confess
sion that the tariff at least does not
raise the price as It's advocates claimed
it would. Here is more specific con-
feSsion in the same line:
The tariff has never, except incidentally,
determined the domestic price of wool. 1t
/ is the question of feed for the sheep, more
than any and all other influences. That de-
termines it.
So, A. w. c. acknowledges that the
tariff does not benefit the wool grower
in the only way it could possibly benefit
him, namely by raising the price OF his
product. And we have practical DEM
onstration Of the fact that since the
tariff has been increased the price has
decreased. So far the facts as quoted
by A. w. c. himself in his own argu-
ment, are dead against him.
o-
THE Alliance Governor of South Car
olina and the Alliance Governor of Min