The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-09-12

NIX. SHAlNAANb AM FELHSh- VI aA"SANS
OF BROOKE CoUNTY:-Your chairman
has said that am here to make o prac-
tical talk on wool. | choose this one
subject of very many which present
themselves in this campaign, because it
is IN intensely practical subject: be.
cause it relates in very marked and
striking way to very marked and
striking fact OF this business campaign.
am glad to talk on wool in the fourth
sheep-producing county in West Vir-
ginia. In the town in which l am
speaking, as well as the country that
surrounds it, you are deeply interested
in the wool question; and here, amad-
vised, you have heard recently q distin-
guished senator OF the United States,
Mr.. Faulkner representing a party to
which | do not belong, who dealt a
great deal with tho wool question and
the policy Of the government in rela-
ton to.that question. That gentlemen
and his party are going TO give the
men in tho manufacturing industries OF
Wellsburg cheaper clothing because it
is to be made OF free wool. They are
going to give to the wool.growers OF
Brooke county, of West Virginia, OF the
United States, higher prices for their
wool because there is to be no duty on
the wool. If these statements do not
reconcile themselves, the fault is with
those who advocate policy Of this
character.
select the wool question because it
represents the determined and fixed
hostile policy OF one of the great par
ties in this country; because we are not
left to speculate as to what that party
will do with wool when, If ever, it has
tho power, We arc not required TO in
terpret plank in political platform.
The Democratic economy with refer
ence to the wool question Is fixed. Wool
is going on the free list. 1t was on the
free list in the Mills bill. In the famous
tariff message Of President Cleveland in
1887 ii was recommended that wool du-
ties be removed, or reduced, because the
flocks OF wool are small. l have the
message here, and if it wero worth
while, would quote from II.
The congress Just adjourned had a
Democratic house. That Democratic
house in the Springer bill put wool on
the free list. II the senate had been
Democratic it would have passed the
free wool bill. II the President had
been a Democrat he would have
signed tho Springer free wool bill.
Thus far, l take It, no statement that l
have made will be questioned or dis
sented from by anybody who does me
the honor to listen to me. ! have
brought together some facts, and l do
not trust to my memory. have de-
rived them from the best sources, in al
most every case from official sources,
notably from Democratic official sourc-
es, and prefer to stick very closely to
them, SO that there may be no mistake.
COMPETITION FROM AUSTRALIA.
Here is something which you gentle
men may have seen, and may never
have seen. 1t is a fleece Of unwashed
Australian wool, and l trust that those
of you who understand wool will ex-
anime it. You doubtless knowthat the
inferior parts OF the wool arc not put
up for export as high grade wool. The
bellies and skirts are ommitted. What
/ show you is the most marketable
thing that grows on the sleeps back.
That fleece Of wool cost in London 10
pence halt penny. equivalent to q
cents a pound in Boston. Adding II
cents duty it cost SO cents BY test OF
pir.ilar fIeeces from the same lot, this
fleece will shrink in the securing 4S per
cent, and on this basis a secured pound
Of wool will cost Gil cents. Your
Brooke county wool, rated as "X& and
aboy0" has averaged this season about
2S cents a pound. Iii now quoted in
Boston at 2Sa20 cents. It will shrink
in securing not less than 81 per cent.
This brings the secured pound OF
Brooke county wool up TO COZ cents per
pound.
Here is fleece OF Australian secured
wool. 1t was brought into the county
as washed wool. 1t is in fact secured
wool about ready for the machine. Note
how slightly and how clean 1t is. II
costs in London 45 cents. AT 90 cents
per mound duty the cost is brought up
10 B7 cents a pound for secured wool
This wool in this condition should
pay under the law duty SO cents pei
pound, but by technically it eYade'
the law.
Here is Brooke county delaino fleece
and it will cos; in the Boston market
80 cents. II will shrink 81 per cent
and the secured pound will cost GO,
cents. You will observe, gentlmen
that the difference between the selling
pricein London on the basis OF u secured
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