Sharp County record., 1891-01-01
FOR FREE WOOL

High Protection Paper Wants Free Wool
Ut Warns the Wool irOwer to Stand
From Under-L Let the ManGf, cturer A so
Shell Out.
The Boston Journal OF Commerce is a
high protection paper which does not
believe in duty on WOOL In recent
number it comments on the westward
movement of population as shown by
the census, and finds in that movement
'an exemplification of the course of
settlement and development OF coun-
try.
That course of settlement and de-
Velopment it describes in words which
At quotes from somebody as follows:
After the hunter, trapper and prospect
or, the herdsman follows, and for a
time The raising of cattle is the chief
industry. AS settlement becomes less
spf.rse, this is followed by agriculture,
which, IN its turn, as the population be-
comes more dense, is succeeded bv
manufactures.
Tho Journal makes this the text
from which to read the wool grower
brief lesson Here is an expression of
fact, ," it says, that is entirely ignored
by the wool-grower in his struggle
against the inevitable course of natural
events. He is made to believe that
pioneer occupations can live and thrive
oy the side OF those that are fostered by
density of population and more civil
alzod order of surroundings. 1t is be.
cause of these false ideas that cause
MIN to be constantly clamoring for Gov
ernment protection against the inroads
OF natural forces that denote social and
industrial progress"
In other words, Massachusetts, wants
free wool for her m lis, for she is smart
enough to sec what great boon to her
industries free wool would be. The re-
cent election in that State, which re-.
suited in Democrat majority in the
Congressional delegation Of the State
1or the first time in more than thirty
years, is an emphatic expression of the
New England demand for free raw ma
terials, aboveNall for free wool.
twill be only a few years before
wool is entirely free, and then the 63,-
100000 people of this country will at
once have the advantage of cheaper and
better clothing-an advan ntage with
which the entire wool-growing industry
Of the country does not for moment de-
serve TO be compared. The wool product
of the country does not amount to more
than two per cent of our agricultural
products; and our native wool is con-
sderably less than half Of our yearly
consumption, In regard to our WOO.
growing industry the one question
which always hits the bulls eye is,
why should $4,000, 600 people be made to
pay high tariff tax on wool for the
benefit of the insignificant number who
grow wool?
The Benton Journal of Commerce is
right; the duty on wool must 60 But
the journal as protectionist paper and
on protection grounds can not make
out strong case against the wool
grower The latter has perfect right
to the same protection that the Journal
demands for the manufacturer, and
when the grower is put on basis oi
lSG5HHaSe titton with the whole world he
Will not be thought unreasonable if h,
asks that the manufacturer should sur
render some of his protection also.
When the journal cries out ara ns
.ne wool-grower for constantly clamor
ing Tor Government protection arains
Ihe inroads OF natural forces" il mus
remember that the wool-grower is no
alone in that clamor. The tend
ency OF the time is toward tbe
cheapenlng OF all manufactured
produces as the result of invention and
improved methods Of manurac ture and
transportation, When our manuract.
urcrs ask to be exempted from the plav
Oh TINS cheapening tendency they, too,
are 'clamor.n for Government protec.
t'on against the inroads of natural
iorcoS; and 1t is only a matter of.slmple
4 JusC'co that when tho emancipation of
lnuusuy commences tho good work
snou'd go forward along tho whole line.
LOU us have cheaper WOO; but let us
u'so nave cheaper coats-and no foar
mat these cheaper coats will "necessa.
,'ly involve cheaper man and woman
oeneath the coat" as our wise Prosi.
aent has expressed it.