Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
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that are free of duty, and their number
amounts to many hundreds.
There was much said by Governor Camp
bell in his speech at Cleveland about the low
price of wool He suited incorrectly, and
have no doubt by inadvertence that the
farmer of Ohio was only getting 20 cents q
pound for his WOOL At the time he made
| this statement the farmer was receiving for
his choice clips 2S and 90 cents. The infer
ence from his speech would be that the in
creased duty on wool is the cause of de-
pressed prices.
AN ARGUMENT TURNED ON CAMPBELL.
If this be so, then the tariff is not a tax.
This was not the Democratic doctrine in.
Ohio in 1888 and 1ss44 They then believed
that the tariff did help the wool grower, and
that great outrage had been committed
upon him when the duty was reduced IL per
cent by the tariff law of 1888. They so de-
clared, in q document, issued by the Demo-
cratic State Committee of that year, and de-
manded of the wool growers of the State,
that the party that committed that great
And, may say, in passing, that they were
defeated. Their statement was that the
Ohio wool growers had been feeced. of ST, ,00O,-
010 by the reduction of IL per cent of the
duty. The Governor was one Of those who
believed it then. In 1884, when the Demo-
cratic party had the Legislature in Ohio, a
leading Democrat, Mr.. Bohl, introduced the
following resolution:
"H. j. r. No. l: WHEREAS The Forty
seventh Congress reduced the tariff on i'm
ported wool, against the protest of every
wool-grower of the State of Ohio and the
United States, and
"Whereas, The said reduction of tariff on
imported wool discriminates against the
wool-growers of the West in favor of the
manufacturers of: the East, thereby compell-
ing the wool-growers of the West to compete
with cheap wool of foreign countries to their
very great injury; and
"Whereas, That tariff was reasonable and
not too high. before the reduction, and
stands now at a rate so low as to injuriouSy
affect that large and respectable class of
people who have devoted themselves to
wool-growing; and
whereas, An Ohio Congressman has al
ready introduced a bill in the House Of Rep
resentatives of the Forty-eighth Congress, to
restore the tariff on wool as it stood prior to
the recent reduction which should be passed
at the earliest time possible; therefore be it
"Resolved by the General Assembly of the
State of OHIO, That our Senators in Congress
be, and are herebyinstructed, and our Rep
resentatives requested to use all honorable
means and vote for the bill to restore the
tariff on wool as it stood prior to the recent
reduction, and that the Governor b re-
quested to send copy of this resolution to
each of our Senators and Representatives at
Washington"
EVERY DEMOCRAT VOTED FOR IT.
The question recurring on the adoption Of
the resolution, the yeas and nays were
taken, and resulted-yeas "a, nays l. This
resolution received the support of every
Democrat in the Legislature. The wrong of
1883 was righted at the very first moment
that the Republican party secured control
of Congress, and was not righted in all the
years the Democrats were in control. The
new law gives the wool grower bettor pro-
lection than he ever had before. The wool
of the world has fallen in price. American
tariffs do not fix the price of foreign wool,
but they do stand as a wall of defense to the
American wool grower against the wool pro-
duced on cheaper lands and by cheaper
labor in other countries.