Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-06-25


perfectly and stop his competition.
The prices of woolen goods in this
country are not on an average 25 per
cent. higher than they are abroad,
grade for grade. But mark you, he
is entitled by law to an average of
100 per cent. in advance. He can
not take that which the law allows
him becauce he is to many in num-
bers to prevent by combination, the
natural competition in his business.
The woolen manufacturers in the
United States number only 1895.
1t 1895 men cannot combine and
prevent breaking rates, if they can
not with all their efforts prevent a
competition which renders their
protection counterfeit, can eight
million farmers combine on their
farm products? Can one million
wool-growers or one million cotton
planters?
1t is this inability of the woolen
manufacturers Of this country to
obtain more than one quarter of
the protection (higher prices)
given them by law and their ina
bility to supply the home market
for woolen goods because they can
not obtain the raw material that
has led SO many of them to enter
into revolt against the present
tariff. These men naturally say,
being business men, clear-headed,
who are able to figure little:
Give us one-quarter our present
protection on woolen goods-20 or
Is per cent Give us free raw ma
terial and lot us supply the whole
home market Of the United States,
and we will make more money than
we are making now.' This is
common sense.
Any Republican farmer can see
for himself that with the low duty
of 20 OF Is per cent. ON foreign
cloth. with free raw material, our
mills would import the 600,OOO,OOO
pounds of raw wool used to make
our imported cloth and manufac-
ture this cloth here in this country.
With the increase Of manufactur-
ing would come division Of the
mills into special classes, and the
number in each class being re-
duced each class by itself would
have special combinations and
keep the market price. Every re-
publican farmer who can read can
see that this is common sense and
good business.
The Home Market Club sees the
danger. Take off the duty on
wool and the protection bunco be-
comes apparent. The farmer will
Immediately knock off the protec-
tion on cloth. He will understand
that he has been swindled all these
years; that the tariff duty on raw
wool has been levied to decrease
the price of his wool, and he will
have his revenge on the men who
swindled him. Samson may sleep
in Delilah's lap for long time,
but when he is awakened at last
he will be very angry. If he ever
gets his strength again, woe to
those men who have fooled him.
And to prevent this revolt by
the manufacturers in their own
interests, what argument has the
Home Market Club to offer them !?
To those with brains to read be-
tween the lines the Home Market
Club says:
s'Gentlemen-Protection has
driven down the price of wool in
the United States from to 9 cents
lower than in any other market
anywhere else in the world. You
get the wool you manufacture
from l to 9 cents cheaper, and if
you would remove the duties on
wool, unless you pay that one to
nine cents more per pound you
will not be able to get any wool.
We have fooled the American far
NOR into hn1iavino that vo,, nov