The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-11

do itp In Australia they hire govern
ment land for 2 cents an acre year. 1t
takes three acres to take care of one
sheen. Now mind you that sheep never
Goes under cover. He is never fed with
snvthino except that which he plucks
from the earth himself, and 6 cents
viii take care of the sheep. That sheep
shears on an average today pounds of
nnwashed wool. The herders do not
cost more than 25 cents dozen. An
Australian can raise wool and pay the in
surance and commission and get profit
and land it in New York at IL cents
mound. The same is true of Central and
South America and also of the Cape.
Can YOU farmers land your wool in New
York at - cents a pound? Why, there
is no intelligent farmer IN this country
who does not know that II the duty was
then off from wool and foreigners were
permitted to land it in New York for II
or 10 cents a pound, there would not be
a sheep in the United States in years
from now, and the enormous industry
would be entirely destroyed in this
country. In 1883 we reduced the duty a
little on wool, and only very little and
Cleveland was elected president The
reduction and the election of Cleveland
were regarded as
A Menace to the Best Interests of the
Country,
as they were. In the four years in which
Cleveland was president you lost in the
United States eight millions of sheep
shearing, forty-eight million pounds of
wool. The Republicans came into power
and the Mckinley bill was passed. Since
| that bill became law you have got back
| 1. 500. 900 sheep, Let it go on, as told
YOU a moment ago, and in time you will
raise all the wool used in this country.
| Is there a man in the United States who
| thinks it is better for us to raise all our
| own wool than to buy it abroad? Why,
| in the event of war wool is recognized as
an absolute necessity to every country.
| And vet the Democratic house passed a
bill putting it on to the free list. They
said it was in the interest of manufact-
urers. Did any wooden manufacturers
| demand that it should be put on the free
list? If they did let me tell them to be-
ware. Let the manufacturers of this
country Join in demand to put wool on
the free list and the farmers of the
/ country will demand that wooden goods
will go on the free list also. And why
not? III
Why Should the Farmer Be Punished
and the manufacturer not? That is hui
man nature. n Let the demand be made
and down would go your wooden manu-
featuring in the twinkling of an eye.
1 Now take another thing. They have
| punished the farmer. The duty ON wool
| is about on an average, IL cents a pound
so that if the Australian lands a pound
| of wool in New York, to get IL cents for
it he has got to step into the custom
house and pay u cents on his wool,
which makes "a cents, and there is a
chance for you to compete. The differ
ence in the price and the difference in
the wool sold abroad is just about the
difference in the duty. Now they want
ed to compensate the farmers, [ suppose,
on another industry. That was binding
| Irvine. What is binding Irvine? Why, it
is Irvine used to bind wheat with. We
| use an enormous amount of it, We
make it in the United States now. We
used to import the whole of it, but we
put on duty and now we make the
whole of it here. The Mckinley bill put
on duty but it is not much of a duty.
Irvine is made of manila, sissil grass
and iute. Those articles are all dutiable
under the old law. They were dutiable
under the Mills bill, called the free trade
bill. The Mckinley bill put all those az
ticles on the free list. Why? Because
we did not raise them here. | told yor
that the purpose of the Mckinley bill
was to put everything we dc
not raise here on the free
list to get it as cheaply as we could
They put that all on to the free list ano
thus reduced the duty on sbinding twine
to 40 or per cent a ton. Now this
4 courageous Democratic party, this
Tinkerer of the Tariff
| put binding Irvine on the free list to pro
| teet the farmer for the loss of his duty
on WOOL How much did the farmer
get9 Allow that the duty is a tax, az
Cleveland said it was and which 1 deny
if the duty is tax. the cost to the farmer
with the duty added would be one cen
an acre exactly. Binding Irvine, in the
whole history of the industry was nevel
SO low in the world anywhere sas it is il
the United States today.
Senator Frye then referred to cottor
bagging and batting Referring to ths
duty on tin, he said: ssWe have been buy
ing fora good many years from twenty
to
Thirty Million Dollars Worth of Tin
from England. suppose as a matter O.
fact we use more tin in the United States
than they do in all the rest of the world
put together. AS say we have beer
paying England and Wales from twenty
to thirty millions of dollars every year O.
our lives. What is tin? 1t is sheet iron
OF sheet steel, baptized in tin. That is
ali it is. Now, haven't we sheet iron il
the United States? AS told you a mo
men, ago, we have more than all the
rest Vi the world put together. Have WI
not sheet steel? Enough to supply thu
world. Haven't we tin? Why, the Lore
planted in this country everything that ;
man wants. The moment the necessity
comes for thing somebody will find it
There are tin mines scattered all over tn,
United States and all that is required ii
the magic touch of the hand of man tt
bring 1t forth. We make the sheet irol
and Steel. Why don't we get out the tin
Within my experience we have tried tt
do it three times, | believe. We hav'
started three or four mills in this countr,
to make tin plate. Tin was worth 81
box as we imported it. The,