The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-10-28
Resolutions Adopted by the Largest
Producers of the Article in
New York state.
Wool Duty u Delusion and II Snare
Which Has ParalyZed an I'm.
p0rtant Industry.
The Price of the Product Steadily De
clincd as Il Result of High
Tariff Measures,

puDucdil VIII accuse the American |
Wool and Cotton Reporter of being a
partisan publication. Editorially in the
current issue it has the following:
The action OF the Wool Growers and
Sheep Breeders association of Ontario
and Livingston counties, New York. in
adopting the resolution in favor OF fr1e
wool, which we print elsewhere, is deeply
significant. We believe It is the begin
ming of a movement which is to assume
large proportions among wool growers in
the near future. Ontario and Livingston
are among the most important wool
growing counties of New York state. and
they are also strongly republican: but
they realize that the success Of the wool
grower depends upon the success of the
wool manufacturers" and that the result
of the Mckinley bill has been to stimu-
late larger imports of wool in the raw
and manufactured form than heretofore.
and to reduce the price Of wool several
cents per pound.
Local sheep men will be interested in
the resolutions and they are reproduced,
They adopted numerous resolutions at
their last meeting. The TRIBUNE pub
fishes a few OF them and asks those OPP
posed to free wool to read them:
Whereas. 1t has been the policy in the
past for this association to annually pass
stereotyped resolutions praying congress
to restore the wool duty # 1861. or its
equivalent; and
Whereas, This association finally rec
ognizes the unsoundness Of its last posi-
ton on this question. and. ever ready to
correct any error into which it may have
fallen. we beg leave to submit the fol
lowing:
Flrst-We recognize that the wool
duty is a delusion and n snare to the
wool growers and that ii has been largely
instrumental in driving to the wall an
industry it was calculated Ia benefit.
second Prior to 1861. under the va
riOus changes Of the wool duties. the
price Of wool tluctuated not in sympathy
with the tariff. but by reason of the ever
controlling Law Of demand and supply.
the growers having received high prices
and low prices under high tariffs. and
conversely. low prices and high prices
under low tariffs.
Third The success of the wool grow
cr depends IN the success of the wooden
manufacturer. while the american man.
u%facturer is seriously handicapped by
reason of being compelled to pay eXorblt-
ant tariff taxes on every pound of cloth
ing wool imported for necessary admiX-
ture. while all foreign countries of any
consequence have the benefit Of free wool
and are thus enabled to underseli the
manufacturers.
Seventh-England. France and Ger
many are the only three countries in the
world that export wooden manufactures
in excess of raw wool: in other words.
these countries by admitting wool free
have created a demand for their home
wool in excess Of all wool required to
cloth their people, and after giving en-
ployment To- labor, export more wool
than they have imported. The United
States. on the other nand. by imposing a
high duty on raw wool has not only de-
strOyed u export trade. trade. but so
throttled our manufacturers as to ruin
the market for domestic fleece. and give
to the Englisn. French and German
manufacturers tn" cream of our market
for clothes.
Eighth-'fhc free importations Of raw
wool into the United States would
knock out the imports Of Wooicn goods,
and would revive the present depressed
! state of our OWN manufacturers. thus
giving employment to labor here and
thus create an increased demand for our
strong woods for necessary admiNture.
The closing resolution calls for the
placing on the free list Of wool and
WOODEN manufactures, IN order that
these industries may again thrive. On
tario and Livingston counties are repub
lican counties. and four years ago the!
gave large majorities for Harrison.
Sheep raising and wool growing is one
Of the principal Industries of that section.
and when the people were told demo
cratic success meant ruin for them they
believed it. But they differ from some
other people, and are willing to &c
knowledge their error. They have seen
prices Of their product decline instead Of
advance as the result Of IA high tariff,
and now they demand that wool shall be
placed upon the free list.
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