Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-09-25
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This border trade is picayune. Our
| imports from Canada are not enough to
supply the looms Of two American mills
| (average) if they use wool and not
shoddy, and we have 1890, and for
every pound an American border mill
takes from Canada a Canadian border
mill takes from us-reciprocity OF the
fairest kind. There is no ''competi-
tion." Canadian wool pays American
duty and American wool pays Canadian
duty, where local freights make in pro-
fitable. The exchange is outside of the
tariff of either country. and only bun
co-steerer trying to direct attention
from the main question would refer to
IL. 1t is like insisting upon discussing
the danger of pin scratch on the fin
ger of a man bleeding to death from a
dozen gunshot wounds.
Foreign wool is not graded as ours.
The average foreign price of grease
clothing wool imported in ordinary con-
.IiftiUh ranged year fT0rn- % TOO
cents. The washed wool imported cost
abroad SO to 46 cents. Good grease was
worth abroad more than poor secured;
and It was worth more at home. The
foreign price of grease wool ranges
from to 40 cents: of washed from 8 TO
90 cents; of secured from 90 cents to
81. so, according to, quality and kind
Where is there any price in the foreign
market to compare with ours, without
''fooling the farmer?" The only for
eign wool that enters into competition
with ours, that is the same grade
and kind as ours, is the wool
that Is imported-and the price
of that wool we know. 1t is sold
in the New York, Boston aud Philadel-
phia markets, and its quoted American
price is its foreign cost with the duty
and freight added. We may honestly
compare the American market price
of foreign and domestic wool in the
greasy washed and secured grades, or
we may honestly compare the invoice
(forelgn) price of the foreign imported,
which the Treasury Department fur
nished, with domestic market rates.
But to compare the lowest price Of
dirty grease wool abroad with the
highest price of clean grease wool
here, as Mr.. Mckinley does, IS to
bunco the listener. Mr.. Mckinley is
swindler, cheating people out OF
| their money, and while he may not
take his share Of the theft by dollars,
preferring that his pals should use his
share to purchase his political honors,
that will not save him when the farmers
once "collar on" his little bunco game.
Nothing he could say that should open
their eyes to his true character as con-
scienceless demagogue is more to the
purpose than his insistence upon dis
cussing the price Of wool in Canada,
Cape Town and Constantinople, and his
refusal to discuss the American price OF
the few pounds Of wool that are only
imported into this country to make up
II the deficiency in our own wool crop and
not in "competition"-for they cost
abroad more than the American farmer
gets here, as the Protectionists testify
and the Treasury Department will take
oath. There is no foreign over-valua.
ton.
The campaign in Ohio has begun
early enough to make GEAR to every
man this trick Of Mr.. Mckinley to de.
celve and delude the people who listen
to him. That il is "bunco-steer" Ii
plain to every one with any intelligence
who stops for q moment TO think II
over. You cannot show fool his error
or win the bunco steerer over to repen
lance In this campaign.
Why then should the Democratic edi
1 tor and worker pay attention to Mr..
5 McKinley's quotations, or wish to deny
5 that grease wool can be bought in Chi
4 nese Tsrtary for one cent per pound.
Why should they not point out tina
Mr.. Mckinley runs away from the
5 true issue-the comparative price il
' this country Of domestic and foreign
woodland endeavor to bunco the farmer
4 with fairy tales Of the prices of wool IL
foreign countries, which may be an!
kind Of wool and may be true or false
but In no case can have any interest Il
the American wool grower unless he ex
I ports his wool TO that market for sale
: Is is not wiser TO point out the bunci
. Mr.. Mckinley is playing than to fal
! into Mr.. McKinley's trap and waste tn
: time between now and election in get
, ting the proof to dispute what has nj
l point or application and will not max
r or unmake q voteP
. When the Philadelphia Press, whicl
: once had some reputation TO lose, in
vents the following fairy tale to delud
and deceive those who trust In it for &C
i curate information, the reader can Sc
to what depths Of utter depravity th
q hide-bonnd Republican organs, whic